Computer Modeling Lets Doctors Predict Heart Attacks Before They Happen

YankBastard · Nov 9, 2011

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Rybicki and his professional peers can’t see the future, but increasingly computers can. The same capacity for algorithmic prediction that allows Netflix to know what movies you want to watch or astronomers to model the complexity of the cosmos is helping an international team of researchers--including computer scientists and doctors from Harvard, medical doctors and imaging experts from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (including Rybicki), a team of computer scientists and physicists in Italy, and chip designers at NVIDIA--to mash up fluid dynamics, computer science, physics, and cardiac medicine via a computer custom-built from graphics processors.
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Nettle · Nov 12, 2011

Nice article, and would be nice if more people realized about and had CT heart scans. I think though the technology for CT heart scans have been around for 20 years, or so. They are not perfect, but are I believe the best predictor of cardiac arrests we have.

I had a scan around 5 years ago and to my surprise found I had plaque in an artery. My chances of having a heart attack were 5% per year - if I didn't follow a cardiac prevention program.

The prevention program that I follow can be seen at:

http://www.trackyourplaque.com/blog/

Basically I eat low carb, and take a few supplements like vitamin D3, fish oil, vitamin K2, iodine, plus others.

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