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brandonb
9,295karma·1,335submissions·January 17, 2011
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Data for good.
Co-Founder at Empirical Health (https://empirical.health). Don't die of heart disease.
Before: Co-Founder @ Cardiogram (ML for heart health)
CTO at Sift Science (YC S11, machine learning to fight fraud)
Data Science @ UCSF Cardiology
HealthCare.gov rescue team
Google (Android speech recognition, search ads ML)
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Previous studies have shown that heart health at 50 predicts brain health at 75. This study is interesting in that it quantifies the benefit as 12.5 extra dementia-free years. People with 0 risk facto…
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Blood pressure is a major input into the risk equations for heart attacks, strokes, kidney disease, and so on. For the most part we've used a one-time measurement, assuming it's an average. …
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We've known for a while that inflammation is an independent risk factor for heart disease, alongside LDL cholesterol (or ApoB), Lp(a), and so on. Inflammation is most commonly measured by by hs-C…