Heart disease

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Hit by daytime sleepiness? Your ‘food coma’ might be something more serious

An image from a heart scan at the  National Heart Centre Singapore. In the region, the factors contributing to heart disease are high blood pressure, dietary risks, air pollution, high levels of "bad" cholesterol and smoking.

South-east Asia sees near 150% rise in heart disease, study shows

Artificial intelligence can potentially drive the next major revolution in reducing cardiovascular mortality.
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The role of artificial intelligence in cardiology

Dr Michael Lim (right), Medical Director, Senior Consultant Physician/Cardiologist, Royal Healthcare Heart, Stroke & Cancer Centre. MBBS, MRCP (UK), M MED (Int Med), FAMS (Cardiology), FRCP (Edin)
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Preventing heart attacks – a peek into the future

Dr Michael Lim, Medical Director, Senior Consultant Physician/Cardiologist, Royal Healthcare Heart, Stroke & Cancer Centre. MBBS, MRCP (UK), M MED (Int Med), FAMS (Cardiology), FRCP (Edin)
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Reaching a utopia where heart attacks become a rarity

Dr Michael Lim, Medical Director, Senior Consultant Physician/Cardiologist, Royal Healthcare Heart, Stroke & Cancer Centre. MBBS, MRCP (UK), M MED (Int Med), FAMS (Cardiology), FRCP (Edin)
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Reducing bad cholesterol without medication

Dr Michael Lim, Medical Director, Senior Consultant Physician/Cardiologist, Royal Healthcare Heart, Stroke & Cancer Centre. MBBS, MRCP (UK), M MED (Int Med), FAMS (Cardiology), FRCP (Edin)
HEALTH

The latest truths about cholesterol

The overhaul of the US’ widely used cardiac-risk algorithm is an acknowledgment that, unlike sex or age, race identification in and of itself is not a biological risk factor.

Race cannot be used to predict heart disease, US scientists say

Modifying cloud infrastructure to behave like a supercomputer requires changes in the software, networking and physical design of the hardware, says Bill Magro, chief high performance computing technologist at Google Cloud.

Researchers use cloud to replicate supercomputer for heart disease study