This means two things, one is that we can’t rely on magical drugs to make us better meaning we have to take initiative and make changes in our lives if we hope to improve, the second is that early warning can often lead to prevention. If you catch something early it’s easier to treat and potentially cure, in the same light, if you know you’re at risk of something like heart disease you’re more likely to take life altering steps to lessen that risk. 2/3 of the biggest and nastiest of the western world’s diseases can be prevented by changes to diet, lifestyle and exercise routines and they’re all much easier to treat if they’re caught early.
These three conditions are of course cancer, heart disease and diabetes. It’s heart disease which we’re going to look at now. This condition raises the chance of heart attacks or cardiac arrest which can lead to death or all sorts of severe conditions. If people know they’re at risk of heart disease then there are all sorts of changes they can make in the way that they live their lives which will help to minimise if not eradicate that risk. Current prediction methods rely on a complex set of data with information pulled form all sorts of tests and surveys. It works as well as it can but scientists from the USA have found a comparably simpler way, with less data sources required, a quicker turn around and around the same level of accuracy.
This new technique could lead to more widespread awareness of the condition and hopefully less deaths.