by Matthew Chersich and Darshnika Pemi Lakhoo, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Climate change is one of the greatest public health threats humanity has ever faced. Global warming is part of this threat. Increasing temperatures are linked to deteriorating health, especially in vulnerable populations, including pregnant women and children. Scientists have previously shown that...
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Research team develops first model to predict lifetime risk of heart failure
by Northwestern University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Imagine visiting the doctor, answering a few basic questions and getting an on-the-spot estimate of whether you’ll experience heart failure in the next 30 years. Such a model now exists, thanks to a new Northwestern Medicine study, which derived and validated the first set of risk prediction models for lifetime risk of heart...