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Still, their actuarial chance of dying within a year is >5%, given their age and sex. Even with scans and checkups, at that age, a bad case of the flu can kill

by okaram 2y ago

Still, their actuarial chance of dying within a year is >5%, given their age and sex. Even with scans and checkups, at that age, a bad case of the flu can kill you, or start you on that path. And I don't think we have any reliable non-invasive ways of detecting heart attack risk, or aneurism risk, those kinds of things.

plonk 2y ago
> heart attack risk Not sure, but don't ECGs find cases of severe plaques or narrowed arteries? Or most cases of heart disease. > aneurism risk An angiography should find most cases, from some quick research. "The CTA sensitivity, specificity and accuracy was 80%, 43% and 73%, respectively. The CTA sensitivity for aneurysms < 3 mm and 3 mm – 5 mm in size was 30% and 81.5%, respectively (p = 0.024)." [1] Agree on the rest though. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10244944/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10244944/