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>> I'd like to see these things in every Hospital asap

>Yes sir, right away sir.

If I seem a bit emotionally invested in the topic, it's because I am. My dad died from a heart attack a little under two years ago. One of the side-effects for me has been noticing articles about advancements in the field and caring about them more than I used to. If he had died from it before anyone could potentially do anything, that'd be one thing. But that's not what happened. Medical staff was on-site within minutes. They even claimed he was still alive by the time they arrived at the hospital. But still, he died. He was a month shy of 60.

Of course if he had improved his diet and shed some pounds, he might not have found himself in that situation to begin with so early, but given that heart failure is the number one killer in the US, I don't think that answer is good enough by itself. We need to get to the point that we can save people more consistently.

Heart disease killed more than 10 times as many people in 2016 as any sort of gun death in the US. We should be a lot more concerned with solving this problem as a society.

It's not just big guys like my dad who are at risk. My six year old niece has a small heart defect that could be a problem at some point. You'd think that's pretty rare, but according to some studies, that makes her 1 out of 100 kids.

This stuff needs to be fixed.