Heart attack symptoms that are often ignored or overlooked
Lesser-known symptoms of a heart attack: shortness of breath, weakness, pressure in jaw or neck, sudden onset fatigue. You may not have any chest pain.
Health: Few people who’ve had heart attacks make meaningful changes post heart attack
Surprisingly, most people who have had a heart attack do not take known steps to reduce their risk of another heart attack.
Statistics: Absolute versus Relative Risk
Fun with statistics: Relative risk versus Absolute Risk. Most of the time, particularly with medical drugs, we only hear the relative risk values.
Health: Male height distribution in the United States
Males who are almost six feet tall, but not six feet, tend to tell others they are six feet tall.
Health: ACA subsidies likely to end
ObamaCare has failed and most individual market enrollees will no longer have health insurance. It seems unlikely Congress has a solution.
ACA’s Confusing Numbers – how many signed up for ACA insurance?
Official data on enrollees is inconsistent, contradictory and misleading. Also most people had pre-X condition protections before the ACA.
Health: The ACA and pre-existing conditions
Many incorrectly believe there were no pre-existing condition exclusioin protections before the ACA passed in 2010. This is not true, however.
Most people who have a heart attack have normal cholesterol levels
So why do we focus on cholesterol? I have no idea.
How pop media and cardiology might miss the forest for the trees
Pop media and cardiology too, focus on LDL, smoking, diabetes and heart disease - but seem to ignore other now documented causes of artery problems.
Health: Congress acknowledges the ACA failed
After years of saying the ACA would lower prices, Congress acknowledges the individual market is now so expensive, it cannot function without subsidies.