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Looks like Bernie's gonna

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 04:07:34 +0000

In reply to Bernie campaign asks for a

Looks like Bernie's gonna take it a bit easy now:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49982041

Bernie campaign asks for a

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 09:10:00 +0000

In reply to Bernie hospitalized, suspends campaign activity

Bernie campaign asks for a few days privacy - he's worked so hard, least we can do to give him 3 days absence and a week or 2 downtime. We'd do that with any candidate, right?

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/07/bernie-sanders-heart-attack-ele...

Median survival? 3.1 years.

About two-thirds of patients older than 65 who experience a myocardial infarction (MI) die within eight years, according to a new study—and nearly half die in that timeframe even if they receive percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery.

“From a healthcare perspective, these statistics are sobering,” lead author Ajar Kochar, MD, with Duke Clinical Research Institute, and colleagues wrote in the Journal of the American Heart Association. “These findings should lead to reflections on appropriate utilization and optimal dosing of secondary prevention therapies, along with revascularization when indicated for older patients with MI. Novel medication approaches to secondary prevention may be of particular interest to older patients with MI.”

The analysis contained almost 23,000 patients from the CRUSADE registry who were treated at 344 U.S. hospitals from 2004 to 2006. Patients were a median of 77 years old at baseline, 52.5 percent were male and 13.3 percent were nonwhite.

In the overall cohort, the median survival was 4.8 years, including 8.2 years for those aged 65 to 74 and 3.1 years for people over 75. Eight-year mortality rates were 65 percent overall, 49 percent for those undergoing PCI and 46 percent for CABG patients.

Indeed, data from the United States National Vital Statistics Reports shows the median life expectancy of non-MI individuals aged 65-69 is 18.7 years, while it’s just 8.3 years for those who have suffered a heart attack. At every age range above that, the life expectancy of people who haven’t had a heart attack is at least twice that of heart attack survivors—although the absolute difference in years decreases with older age as life expectancies in both groups shrink.

https://www.cardiovascularbusiness.com/topics/acute-coronary-syndrome/st...

Life expectance for a 78-year-old male is 9.43 years - halve that to get ~4.7 years. Except Bernie wouldn't enter office for 1 1/4 more years, so his life expectancy is just below 3.5 years into office.

Though some have noticed that the job of President seems to age men prematurely. Plus Bernie's father died at age 57 (didn't find a cause of death), mother at 46 from a second failed heart surgery.

So good luck.

PS - in case you wondered, "Coronary Stents Do Not Improve Long-Term Survival" - they just lower the chance of needing to open the patient up again. https://www.onhealth.com/content/1/stents_save_coronaries_not_lives

PPS - had McCain won, he would have died 1 1/2 years after his second term, though his tumor would have a half year after leaving office, and it's quite possible his health would have deteriorated faster due to stress.

It's good he's finally coming

ocean-kat — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 13:37:16 +0000

In reply to Harvard ER doc:

It's good he's finally coming clean about what happened but it's not enough. Was this his first heart attack? Why did he have to spend over two days in the hospital? When I got a stent put it I was in and out in less than a day. How much loss of heart function did he lose?

Message: Here I am just dandy

artappraiser — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 00:22:09 +0000

In reply to Bernie hospitalized, suspends campaign activity

Message: Here I am just dandy, the new and improved healthy vigorous Bernie, can even smile now, just like Tony the Tiger I feel grrrreat:

Hello everybody! We’re in Las Vegas. I’m feeling so much better.

Thank you for all of the love and warm wishes that you sent me.

See you soon on the campaign trail. pic.twitter.com/nk3wWIAuE7
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) October 5, 2019

Harvard ER doc:

artappraiser — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 22:34:09 +0000

In reply to Bernie hospitalized, suspends campaign activity

Harvard ER doc:

Two days ago I wrote @Slate that we had enough data from the Sanders campaign to say that he had either had a heart attack or unstable angina (which seemed less likely). The campaign has now confirmed that this was correct. I wish him a speedy recovery. https://t.co/X1SVjiCI0F
— Jeremy Faust MD MS (@jeremyfaust) October 4, 2019

You're literally encouraging

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 05:45:56 +0000

In reply to That seems pretty harsh. NCD

You're literally encouraging him to do the Manhattan Project he's always dreamed of.
Are you sure you're on board with this "new government" thing?

Employees will be required to

rmrd0000 — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 01:44:02 +0000

In reply to What if all the aged Dems

Employees will be required to do the Wakandan greeting.

That seems pretty harsh. NCD

ocean-kat — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 22:53:34 +0000

In reply to Sorry, security money's a bit

That seems pretty harsh. NCD needs some protection, there's children involved here. I think we can trust him. I'm unbiased since I've never met NCD nor do I know anything about him beyond his posts here at dagblog. How about we give him a blank check and admonish him to only use the amount that is truly necessary.

Sorry, security money's a bit

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 21:58:15 +0000

In reply to Thanks for the nomination.

Sorry, security money's a bit tight since we've diverted most of the budget to building the Moat moat (pretty sure you don't wanna be on the wrong end of his gators), but we can give you 2-factor authentication for your phone and some leftover chicken wire from the last Wall fiasco. Will that suffice? (please say yes)

Thanks for the nomination.

NCD — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 20:41:37 +0000

In reply to PP - Sec Defenestration

Thanks for the nomination. Accepted.

I would however need 90 days leave to prepare the Easter Egg ceremony.

Since I would be among children and students, a $26 million security detail will be of course absolutely essential to ensure my safety, similar to the one of Education Secretary DeVos.