Posts Tagged ‘EKG’
Life expectancy is a statistical phenomenon. You could still be hit by the proverbial bus tomorrow.”*…
Still…
Life expectancy has risen across the U.S. steadily over the last few decades; but the gains are not equally distributed. Flowing Data illustrates why one might prefer Minnesota to Mississippi: “Life expectancy by state, against the US average.”
* Ray Kurzweil
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As we muse on moving, we might send heart-felt birthday greetings to Willem Einthoven; he was born on this date in 1860. A physician and physiologist, he introduced a new era in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the heart with his invention of the electrocardiograph, for which he was awarded the 1924 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. His creation became an essential clinical instrument for displaying the electrical properties of the heart– especially useful, of course, in the diagnosis of heart disease.
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