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Biotech / Medical : IMAT - ultrafast tomography for coronary artery disease -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: robert scheb who wrote (2379)	4/14/1998 12:32:00 AM
From: Steven Durrington	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3725

Yes Scheb, you're correct. Asian countries typically have high vegetarian content, low fat diets, and the populations don't indulge in the many vices that we westerners do. Compare the risk factors in my previous post for your lifestyle and the average Sth East Asian citizen, and it's easy to see why heart disease is more prevalent in the western world. If you didn't already know, I located in Saudi Arabia, and I am the Supervisor of the Angiography area in the Kingdom's most prestigious hospital. We are seeing some interesting trends, both medically and socially. Although the locals have been traditionally heavy smokers, the other risk factors have been low until recently, and we do not see a lot of degenerative vascular disease like back home. However, since the gulf war, we now have Pizza Hut, McDonalds and Haagen Daz, etc, and the diet is changing considerably. Combined with a relatively inactive lifestyle, increasing obesity and diabetes, and other social factors which are changing, we are definitely going to see a marked degeneration of the population in terms of cardiac and other vascular diseases. I know I've put a lot of emphasis on preventative medicine, but the social structure here is not conducive for that. We can't even get a breast screening programme up and running, and universal vaccinations of children are only a recent development, with some areas still not universally covered. I don't like the chances of getting an IMAT machine here in the near future, unless it's for research purposes. But, you never know. I'll make some inquiries. Regards, Durro