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The Number You Need to Know to Understand Your Heart Disease Risk

HEART RATE IS A VITAL SIGN REFLECTING YOUR HEALTH.

Michael Hunter, MD
Published in
5 min readApr 20, 2024

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The beat of our hearts isn’t just our body’s rhythm; it’s a predictor of early mortality, offering insights into cardiovascular health that we should not ignore.

We will explore the number you need to know to better understand your heart disease risk.

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Borges on Numbers

First, I want to offer the words of another individual who thought about numbers:

“He told me that in 1886, he had invented an original system of numbering and that in a few days, he had gone beyond the twenty-four-thousand mark.

He had not written it down since anything he thought of once would never be lost to him.

I think his first stimulus was his discomfort at the fact that the famous thirty-three gauchos of Uruguayan history should have required two signs and two words instead of a single word and a single sign.

He then applied this absurd principle to the other numbers.

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Michael Hunter, MD
BeingWell

I have degrees from Harvard, Yale, and Penn. I am a radiation oncologist in the Seattle area. You may find me regularly posting at www.newcancerinfo.com