Eric Topol
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And this is not a good time, but hopefully it's just a transient one.
And that we'll get back on track eventually.
Well, you're already ahead of the curve on the Shingrix vaccine, right?
And that tells me you're over 50.
That's the good age to really get ahead of what you could be seeing when you're 70 plus, because that's how long these diseases take to incubate.
And of course, they start even before age 50.
So the question is about heart disease.
From that mammogram, why didn't you get the breast artery calcification defined to see if you're at high risk?
Why hasn't your doctor given you a polygenic risk score for
heart disease and all the common cancers and Alzheimer's disease.
And why don't you have an ApoE4 to know if you're at risk for Alzheimer's?
It used to be, Manoush, that you wouldn't want to know because nothing you could do.
That couldn't be further from the truth now because we know lifestyle has a big impact on at least deferring my years, the onset of mild cognitive impairment, no less Alzheimer's.
So this idea of the Cassandra, you know, I don't want to know, we're past that stuff.
Well, yeah.
The polygenic risk score, that set, basically it looks at every common disease, all the different cancers, atrial fibrillation, heart disease.
And I think you know women, their biggest killer is heart disease, and a lot of them don't know it.