Disease
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And indeed, today we are working with multiple doctors in different
disease
categories.
We have deployed the device with patients that have COPD, which is a pulmonary disease, patients that have Alzheimer's, patients that have depression and anxiety and people that have Parkinson's.
And we are working with the doctors on improving their life, understanding the
disease
better.
So I want you to imagine with me a future where in every home that has a chronic
disease
patient, there is a device like this device sitting in the background and just monitoring passively sleep, breathing, the health of this chronic
disease
patient, and before an emergency occurs, it would detect the degradation in the physiological signal and alert the doctor so that we can avoid hospitalization.
Each red pin depicts somebody who is blind from a
disease
that is curable and treatable, and they're locatable.
As a country, we have achieved longevity, investing billions of dollars in the diagnosis, treatment and management of
disease.
And the beginnings of the cure to the
disease
came from the most unlikely source, a dairy farmer who noticed that the milkmaids were not getting smallpox.
These information packets included colors, pixels, geometry and rendering of the
disease
on the medical image.
It can reduce our risks of cancer, heart
disease
and obesity.
In fact, for thousands of human traits, a molecular basis that's known for that, and for thousands of people, every day, there's information that they gain about the risk of going on to get this
disease
or that
disease.
What we're asking and looking for is, are there a very few set of individuals who are actually walking around with the risk that normally would cause a disease, but something in them, something hidden in them is actually protective and keeping them from exhibiting those symptoms?
They might have had individuals in their families who had had a childhood disease, but not necessarily.
Second example, more recent, is elegant work done by Helen Hobbs, who said, "I'm going to look at individuals who have very high lipid levels, and I'm going to try to find those people with high lipid levels who don't go on to get heart disease."
We've realized that we should do this in a systematic way, so we've said, let's take every single childhood inherited
disease.
Let's take them all, and let's pull them back a little bit by those that are known to have severe symptoms, where the parents, the child, those around them would know that they'd gotten sick, and let's go ahead and then frame them again by those parts of the genes where we know that there is a particular alteration that is known to be highly penetrant to cause that
disease.
Most of us spend our lives, when it comes to health and disease, acting as if we're voyeurs.
We delegate the responsibility for the understanding of our disease, for the treatment of our disease, to anointed experts.
Sick children were held up in crowds to try and touch the cloak of the king or the queen to cure them of some terrible
disease.
Rates of death from measles, malaria, diarrheal
disease
are down by over 70 percent.
By the one-year anniversary of quitting, heart
disease
risk plummets to half as blood vessel function improves.
Fifteen years in, the likelihood of developing coronary heart
disease
is essentially the same as that of a non-smoker.
We can call this place in Congo a death camp, because those who are not killed will die of
disease
or starvation.
Over nearly all of Earth's history, threats have come from nature — disease, earthquakes, asteroids and so forth — but from now on, the worst dangers come from us.
My sister's cancer story is a great example, and we could say the same of heart
disease.
It's going to lower your risk of death from heart disease."
A study in the U.K., a landmark study that reviewed the records of over 40 million residents in the U.K., looked at several variables, controlled for a lot of factors, and found that when trying to adjust the risk of heart disease, one's exposure to green space was a powerful influence.
The closer you were to green space, to parks and trees, the lower your chance of heart disease, and that stayed true for rich and for poor.
The effort to understand the human mind and brain is worthwhile even if it never led to the treatment of a single
disease.
It's a devastating
disease
that takes an enormous emotional toll.
Of those, 90 percent will succumb to the
disease
due to metastases.
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