Harvard Business Review : declared in How Machine Learning Is Helping Us Predict Heart Disease and Diabetes

Insight Center The Leading Edge of Health Care Sponsored by Optum How the most innovative providers are creating value. Ongoing U.S. reforms in health care that link payments with outcomes are forcing hospitals to assume more financial risks. This accomplishment is only one example of how analytics could transform health care. Using the Framingham Study 10-year cardiovascular risk score, one can predict hospitalizations with an accuracy of about 56%, which is substantially lower than the 82% rate we achieved. For example, by preventing hospitalizations in cases of just two widespread chronic illnesses — heart disease and diabetes — the United States could save billions of dollars a year.

Scientists Link a Gene Mutation to Rheumatic Heart Disease

Newsletter Sign Up Continue reading the main story Please verify you're not a robot by clicking the box. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyIt is even more common in Africans, Dr. Those getting it from both parents are almost twice as likely to wind up with damaged heart valves. But in poor countries where doctors and diagnostic kits are scarce and cardiac surgery is rare, more than 230,000 people die of rheumatic heart disease every year, mostly children and young adults. The mutation appears in the genes serving as blueprints for antibodies made by white blood cells.


(AP) — A skydiving instructor died of heart disease before hitting the ground in a tandem jump that injured his student. The Federal Aviation Administration is handling toxicology testing, as is standard procedure. The coroner in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, tells The Advocate (http://bit.ly/2sbcGr0 ) that 58-year-old Benjamin Leroy Crowell died in the air over Royal Golf Course near Slidell. Brenda Grafton, who owns Skydive Nawlins, says Crowell was a longtime instructor who had done more than 9,000 jumps. His student told authorities that Crowell lost consciousness after they left the plane Sunday.


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