Manifold | Betsy McKay on Trends in Heart Disease and How to Avoid It - #20 @ManifoldPodcast | Uploaded October 2019 | Updated October 2024, 15 hours ago.
Steve and Corey talk to Betsy McKay, senior writer on U.S. and global public health at The Wall Street Journal, about her recent articles on heart disease. Betsy describes how background reporting led to her article linking the recent drop in life expectancy in the United States, often attributed to the opioid crisis or increases in middle age suicides due to economic despair, to the increasing prevalence of heart disease, driven by the rise in obesity. The three also discuss current public health recommendations on how to reduce heart disease risk and on the use of calcium scans to assess arterial plaque buildup. Steve describes boutique medical programs available to the super-rich that include full body scans to search for early signs of disease. Betsy elaborates on how she approached reporting on a new study linking egg consumption to higher cholesterol and increased risk of death, a result at odds with other recent findings and national recommendations that two eggs a day eggs is safe and healthy. Finally, they consider whether people are wasting money on buying fish oil supplements.
Death Rates Rising for Young, Middle-Aged U.S. Adults
wsj.com/articles/death-rates-rising-for-young-middle-aged-u-s-adults-11563854580
How to Reduce Your Risk of Heart Disease
wsj.com/articles/how-to-fight-heart-disease-11561129177
New BP guidelines that set elevated BP as above 120mmHG/80 and Stage 1 hypertension is 120-130/80-90, Stage 2 140/90 or above.
heart.org/-/media/data-import/downloadables/hypertension-guideline-highlights-flyer-ucm_497841.pdf
New ACC/AHA High Blood Pressure Guidelines Lower Definition of Hypertension
acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/articles/2017/11/08/11/47/mon-5pm-bp-guideline-aha-2017
Heart Attack at 49—America’s Biggest Killer Makes a Deadly Comeback
wsj.com/articles/after-decades-of-progress-america-backslides-on-heart-disease-11561129106
Study Links Eggs to Higher Cholesterol and Risk of Heart Disease
wsj.com/articles/study-links-eggs-to-higher-cholesterol-and-risk-of-heart-disease-11552662001
Fish Oil: Hunting for Evidence to Tip the Scales
wsj.com/articles/fish-oil-hunting-for-evidence-to-tip-the-scales-11546448408
Don’t Use Bootleg or Street Vaping Products, C.D.C. Warns
nytimes.com/2019/08/30/health/vaping-e-cigarettes-marijuana-cdc.html
man·i·fold /ˈmanəˌfōld/ many and various.
In mathematics, a manifold is a topological space that locally resembles Euclidean space near each point.
Steve Hsu and Corey Washington have been friends for almost 30 years, and between them hold PhDs in Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Theoretical Physics. Join them for wide ranging and unfiltered conversations with leading writers, scientists, technologists, academics, entrepreneurs, investors, and more.
Steve and Corey talk to Betsy McKay, senior writer on U.S. and global public health at The Wall Street Journal, about her recent articles on heart disease. Betsy describes how background reporting led to her article linking the recent drop in life expectancy in the United States, often attributed to the opioid crisis or increases in middle age suicides due to economic despair, to the increasing prevalence of heart disease, driven by the rise in obesity. The three also discuss current public health recommendations on how to reduce heart disease risk and on the use of calcium scans to assess arterial plaque buildup. Steve describes boutique medical programs available to the super-rich that include full body scans to search for early signs of disease. Betsy elaborates on how she approached reporting on a new study linking egg consumption to higher cholesterol and increased risk of death, a result at odds with other recent findings and national recommendations that two eggs a day eggs is safe and healthy. Finally, they consider whether people are wasting money on buying fish oil supplements.
Death Rates Rising for Young, Middle-Aged U.S. Adults
wsj.com/articles/death-rates-rising-for-young-middle-aged-u-s-adults-11563854580
How to Reduce Your Risk of Heart Disease
wsj.com/articles/how-to-fight-heart-disease-11561129177
New BP guidelines that set elevated BP as above 120mmHG/80 and Stage 1 hypertension is 120-130/80-90, Stage 2 140/90 or above.
heart.org/-/media/data-import/downloadables/hypertension-guideline-highlights-flyer-ucm_497841.pdf
New ACC/AHA High Blood Pressure Guidelines Lower Definition of Hypertension
acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/articles/2017/11/08/11/47/mon-5pm-bp-guideline-aha-2017
Heart Attack at 49—America’s Biggest Killer Makes a Deadly Comeback
wsj.com/articles/after-decades-of-progress-america-backslides-on-heart-disease-11561129106
Study Links Eggs to Higher Cholesterol and Risk of Heart Disease
wsj.com/articles/study-links-eggs-to-higher-cholesterol-and-risk-of-heart-disease-11552662001
Fish Oil: Hunting for Evidence to Tip the Scales
wsj.com/articles/fish-oil-hunting-for-evidence-to-tip-the-scales-11546448408
Don’t Use Bootleg or Street Vaping Products, C.D.C. Warns
nytimes.com/2019/08/30/health/vaping-e-cigarettes-marijuana-cdc.html
man·i·fold /ˈmanəˌfōld/ many and various.
In mathematics, a manifold is a topological space that locally resembles Euclidean space near each point.
Steve Hsu and Corey Washington have been friends for almost 30 years, and between them hold PhDs in Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Theoretical Physics. Join them for wide ranging and unfiltered conversations with leading writers, scientists, technologists, academics, entrepreneurs, investors, and more.
