Cardiac Risk Assessment: When and Who?

MAX E. VALENTINUZZI; PEDRO D ARINI; ERIC LACIAR LEBER; MARÍA P. BONOMINI; RAÚL O CORREA

IEEE Pulse

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Lugar: New York, NY; Año: 2013 vol. 4 p. 38 - 48

2154-2287

There is no doubt that health and cardiac risk assessment and predictions have entered into a quantitative stage, but the error bands are still wide and the road ahead is quite hard. It becomes appropriate to repeat what Philip James Bailey (1816?1905), an English writer, said in Festus (scene V, A Country Town), quoted also by Lindstedt and Calder [33] in 1981: We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths. In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. Wise, deep words to think about, not much different than the quotation given in the section ?Allometric Model: An Old Concept Revisited in Cardiology.? Lindstedt and Calder had insight and human perception, indeed.