This is very interesting... I know it's not plastic surgery related but interesting none the less, can you imagine the dramatic reduction of cost these early signs can have on our health care system ?
Although I imagine people wouldn't be lining up to tell if they are going to have a heart attack anytime soon....interesting to see where the conversation on this goes
AFP: Blood test could predict heart attacks: US study
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hye8ZE44XERThJVIci0Tr_pb2I6Q?docId=CNG.52747391d01822f26d635ca87e46ff5f.251
WASHINGTON — US researchers have found oddly-shaped blood cells in heart attack patients, indicating that a blood test could help predict whether a patient is at risk of an imminent cardiac emergency.
The study by the Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI) found that the endothelial blood cells from heart attack patients are abnormally large and misshapen, sometimes appearing with multiple nuclei. That could make them reliable indicators of an impending heart attack, according to the study published this week in Science Translational Medicine.
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I thought this article was interesting considering I recently did a podcast on far grafting, so its a perfect compliment to this article about patient Lauren
Have a read and a listen or the other way around !
http://www.alexandersinclairmd.com/podcast/fatty-friend/
Speak Soon
Dr. Sinclair
Fat From Thighs, Butt Could Be Breast Implant Alternative - WCVB-TV
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/health/30659440/detail.html
Whether it’s because of cancer or for cosmetic reasons, nearly half a million American women will undergo breast augmentation this year. But for women who are opposed to implants, a new option is gaining ground: fat grafting.Boston plastic surgeon Dr. Dan Delveccio has been doing traditional breast augmentations for years and added fat grafting in 2006. He said a fat-grafted breast is as natural a breast as you can get.”Fat grafting is simply taking fat out of one part of the body with liposuction and like seeds, implanting them into other parts of the body,” he said.One of his recent patients is Lauren, a 26-year-old economics graduate student at Harvard University. She had lost a lot of weight in recent years, but there were some areas that she felt diet and exercise couldn’t touch. Lauren was concerned about putting something foreign in her body and knew that implants, whether saline or silicone, would have to be replaced periodically
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Shown photos of 60 people who had the procedures, the volunteers, composed of first-year medical students, estimated the patients to be an average of 8.9 years younger than their actual age, according to the study published online today in the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery. Before surgery, the medical students perceived the patients to be 1.7 years younger, yielding an age difference of 7.2 years after plastic surgery.
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