SINGAPORE – More than 10,000 Singaporeans aged 40 to 70 will be screened as part of an ambitious large-scale preventive health programme called Project Reset, to find ways of uncovering possible heart disease hidden in seemingly healthy people and help them arrest it.
“As we know, heart disease is a notorious silent killer. The arteries supplying blood to our heart can quietly clog up slowly, unbeknownst to us due to factors such as unhealthy food intake, lack of physical activity and genetic predisposition,” Mr Ong said. “We want to map the disease and uncover all the associations between the conditions that can put a person at high risk of heart attacks and stroke, including blocked arteries, hypertension, fatty liver and left ventricular fibrosis ,” he said.
Mr Mike Tan, 64, a retiree, who joined a smaller National University Health System study aimed at finding ways to detect early disease earlier this year, is a good example. Project Reset leverages artificial intelligence to develop effective preventive strategies and make preventive heart health more accessible and relevant to individuals. ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG
They include people with fatty liver and scarring of heart muscles – two conditions that are not in current risk calculators for heart disease, he said. Up to 40 per cent of adult Singaporeans have fatty liver disease.
Health Health Latest News, Health Health Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: straits_times - 🏆 5. / 69 Read more »