New research continues to affirm the prognostic utility of the coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA)-derived perivascular fat attenuation index (FAI) score in assessing cardiovascular risks for patients without common risk factors such as smoking history, obesity, hypertension and diabetes. What CCTA-Based AI Detection of Coronary Inflammation May Reveal About Patients with No Traditional CV Risk […]
Source: It’s Mostly the Hospital Prices, Stupid https://rickriley.substack.com/p/its-mostly-the-hospital-prices-stupid Yikes.
BD overall is associated with excess mortality from both natural and unnatural causes. Meta-analytic evidence suggests that all-cause mortality is approximately doubled, with particularly high relative risks for suicide (12-fold) and other unnatural causes (7-fold) alongside a substantial increase in natural-cause deaths (2-fold).9 However, most mortality studies have not separated BD-II from BD-I, leaving BD-II’s […]
Another quiet Saturday and thoughts turn to retirement (again). Today I thought about retirement income streams and how life would look once I stopped working. We need to find someplace affordable. In California, Hawaii, and Massachusetts, retirees often need between $1.5 million and $2.2 million to maintain their lifestyles, according to a 2026 study by […]
Until your city loses 3,000,000 gallons of water. Massive El Reno water leak traced to Bitcoin mining data center facility – https://kfor.com/news/local/massive-el-reno-water-leak-traced-to-bitcoin-mining-data-center-facility/ The culprit – https://athlonbt.com/about-us/ The website went down while I was reading about the company. Scheduled maintenance? I call bullshit.
I’m a little sad that my blog name got the boot, but I forgive you 😉
It was a difficult and emotional decision. Thank you for your forgiveness.