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Women are dying of heart disease, two, three, four times more than men.
Is it because women don't look like men, they don't look like that male-pattern heart
disease
that we've spent the last 50 years understanding and getting really good diagnostics and really good therapeutics, and therefore, they're not recognized for their heart
disease.
Why are more and more women dying of ischemic heart
disease?
And if you did that angiogram, which is the red, you can see the man's
disease.
So 50 years of honing and crafting these angiograms, we easily recognize male-pattern
disease.
Kind of hard to see that female-pattern
disease.
And again, 50 years of good non-invasive stress testing, we're pretty good at recognizing male-pattern
disease
with stress tests.
What are the downstream consequences then, when female-pattern heart
disease
is not recognized?
And it was just a pictogram to sort of show why more women are dying of heart disease, despite these good treatments that we know and we have work.
There's been wonderful news also about studying women, finally, in heart
disease.
And remember, paths crossed in 1984, and more and more women were dying of cardiovascular
disease.
And I've told you, we've been working on male-pattern heart
disease
for 50 years.
This is what we need to do with heart
disease
now.
Breast cancer, as we said, kills women, but heart
disease
kills a whole bunch more.
These soybeans are being shipped to Europe and to China as animal feed, especially after the mad cow
disease
scare about a decade ago, where we don't want to feed animals animal protein anymore, because that can transmit
disease.
I'm fascinated with the idea of what happens when you merge biology with technology, and I remember reading about this idea of being able to reprogram biology, in the future, away from
disease
and aging.
And what I want to lay out for you today is a different way of thinking about how to treat debilitating disease, why it's important, why without it perhaps our health care system will melt down if you think it already hasn't, and where we are clinically today, and where we might go tomorrow, and what some of the hurdles are.
If the average age of your population is 30, then the average kind of
disease
that you have to treat is maybe a broken ankle every now and again, maybe a little bit of asthma.
41 people who were basically outside of being really sick, paying for the one retiree who was experiencing debilitating
disease.
But perhaps most interesting, to me anyway, and most important, is the idea of diagnosing a
disease
much earlier on in the progression, and then treating the
disease
to cure the
disease
instead of treating a symptom.
We diagnose the
disease
eventually, once it becomes symptomatic, and then we treat the symptom for 10, 20, 30, 40 years.
But eventually it stops working, and diabetes leads to a predictable onset of debilitating
disease.
Why couldn't we just inject the pancreas with something to regenerate the pancreas early on in the disease, perhaps even before it was symptomatic?
The coolest thing would be is if you could diagnose the
disease
early, and prevent the onset of the
disease
to a bad state.
I talked before about the use of devices to dramatically change the way we treat
disease.
A number of governments, and a number of regions, have recognized that this is a new way to treat
disease.
There's evidence all around us: 40 percent of our coronary artery
disease
patients in our communities receive incomplete or inappropriate care.
These rabbits were bred at a government facility, Biosecurity Queensland, where they bred three bloodlines of rabbits and have infected them with a lethal
disease
and are monitoring their progress to see if it will effectively kill them.
I'm an archeological geneticist at the Center for Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich, and I study the origins and evolution of human health and
disease
by conducting genetic research on the skeletal and mummified remains of ancient humans.
You can learn a lot about ancient diet and intestinal disease, but they are very rare.
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