Cardiovascular disease: when the risk is already a disease
A project will help determine whether knowledge of the presence and extent of the disease can save lives.
REACT was born out of a contradiction in the approach to atherosclerosis. The condition develops silently over decades but medicine only addresses it when it manifests as a heart attack, stroke, or sudden death. This discrepancy led to the creation of REACT, which seeks to change the way the problem is formulated.
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