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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday August 16 2020, @03:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the chafing? dept.

This online calculator can predict your stroke risk:

The study found that stroke risk increased consistently with metabolic syndrome[*] severity even in patients without diabetes. Doctors can use this information -- and a scoring tool developed by a UVA Children's pediatrician and his collaborator at the University of Florida -- to identify patients at risk and help them reduce that risk.

"We had previously shown that the severity of metabolic syndrome was linked to future coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes," said UVA's Mark DeBoer, MD. "This study showed further links to future ischemic strokes."

DeBoer developed the scoring tool, an online calculator to assess the severity of metabolic syndrome, with Matthew J. Gurka, PhD, of the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Florida, Gainesville. The tool is available for free at https://metscalc.org/.

[...] The overall relationship between metabolic syndrome severity and stroke risk was clear, however. And this suggests people with metabolic syndrome can make lifestyle changes to reduce that risk. Losing weight, exercising more, choosing healthy foods -- all can help address metabolic syndrome and its harmful effects.

DeBoer hopes that the tool he and Gurka developed will help doctors guide patients as they seek to reduce their stroke risk and improve their health and well-being.

"In case there are still individuals out there debating whether to start exercising or eating a healthier diet," DeBoer said, "this study provides another wake-up call to motivate us all toward lifestyle changes."

[*] Metabolic syndrome on Wikipedia:

Metabolic syndrome is a clustering of at least three of the five following medical conditions: abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high serum triglycerides, and low serum high-density lipoprotein (HDL).

[...] In the U.S., about 25% of the adult population has metabolic syndrome, a proportion increasing with age

Journal Reference:
Risk of Ischemic Stroke Increases Over the Spectrum of Metabolic Syndrome Severity, Stroke (DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.120.028944)


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 16 2020, @05:34PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 16 2020, @05:34PM (#1037537)

    javascript for people who don't know any programming languages

    Why would anyone want to use their INTERNET BROWSER to access a calculator?

  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Sunday August 16 2020, @08:02PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 16 2020, @08:02PM (#1037588) Journal

    Well, it also provides a nice interface to HTML, is available almost everywhere, and make displaying graphics easy. In many languages doing the task is a lot easier than showing a nice graphic of the results.

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    Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 16 2020, @08:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 16 2020, @08:13PM (#1037591)

    Why would anyone want to use their INTERNET BROWSER to access a calculator?

    It might surprise you to know that there are now people who've never used a real calculator, never owned one, who do use browser based calculators, some running from local (non-network) pages.

    Browsers are ubiquitous, and there are speciality calculators of all sorts to be had one search term away...
    It's not a new thing, there used to be a fad back in the early days of the web for implementing all sorts of speciality calculators as web pages, I do remember back in the late 90's coming across one full of all sorts of specialist mechanical calculators, some useful, some quite obscure and niche (e.g. All sorts of steam engine related calculations) can't find it on a google search or in the wayback machine so It might have been a internal only university page.

    Even though I still have a couple of real scientific calculators, and both my android phones have various software scientific calculators (including HP emulators) I'll admit to still using online cable calculators on these phones for quick and dirty cable run calculations.