According to a national registry, half of Medicare patients who underwent a procedure for symptom relief as it relates to lower extremity peripheral vascular disease did not receive the recommended medical therapy for long-term cardiovascular risk management. First author Kim G. Smolderen, PhD, MSc, and senior author Carlos Mena-Hurtado, MD, co-directors of the vascular medicine outcomes group at Yale, evaluated the...
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Scientists use ‘sleep age’ to infer long-term health
by Emily Moskal, Stanford University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Numbers tell a story. From your credit score to your age, metrics predict a variety of outcomes, whether it’s your likelihood to get a loan or your risk for heart disease. Now, Stanford Medicine researchers have described another telling metric—one that can predict mortality. It’s called...