{"id":4610,"date":"2016-10-09T04:25:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T08:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4610"},"modified":"2016-10-09T08:25:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T12:25:01","slug":"scientist-using-big-data-against-heart-disease-wins-75-million-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4610","title":{"rendered":"Scientist using big data against heart disease wins $75 million award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sharon Begley for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">C<\/span>ancer research may be sucking up all the headlines lately, what with the White House launching its<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/01\/14\/is-cancer-moonshot-legit\/\" target=\"_blank\">cancer moonshot<\/a>\u00a0and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/04\/13\/sean-parker-cancer-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\">technology billionaires<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>sinking hundreds of millions of dollars into a hot new field of<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/25\/cancer-immunotherapy-caution\/\" target=\"_blank\">immunotherapy<\/a>. But heart disease still kills more people every year, both worldwide (7 million deaths per year) and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/leading-causes-of-death.htm\" target=\"_blank\">in the US<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>(614,000), and a<a href=\"http:\/\/cardiology.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?articleid=2530559\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>\u00a0published this summer found that the rate of decline in deaths from the\u00a0disease has stalled since 2011. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/10\/05\/one-brave-idea-heart-research\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"stat-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: 1px solid #eaeaea; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; font-family: 'Courier 10 Pitch', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; overflow: auto; white-space: pre-wrap; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. 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