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So I've just been invited to a dinner to discuss case studies for the clinical utility of inflammation studies....which led me to a question:
Now that I'm out in the real world, I've noticed a few colleagues doing a lot of "specialized" labs that are supposed to have great predictive value for future cardiac events/prevention type of studies and one which posits that it is a gene test with better predictive value than a treadmill stress for future MI risk.
So, me being me, I asked for the studies and evidence and got a lot of heming/hawing/foot shuffling but a paucity of studies and evidence to back up the claims. I went to my next layer which was to call my cardiology attending and ask him about it...his response was something along the lines of " the tests are out there but we don't have a good enough idea as to their actual value to use them instead of treadmill stuff as of yet"....and then I called a practicing, non-academic cardiologist that I know well and pretty much got the same response.
Does anyone on this forum currently use specialized labs for prevention i.e. ClevelandHeartLab or Boston's? Can anyone speak to the evidence for these labs?
Moderator - don't know if this is appropriate. If not, please shut it down or move the thread.
Now that I'm out in the real world, I've noticed a few colleagues doing a lot of "specialized" labs that are supposed to have great predictive value for future cardiac events/prevention type of studies and one which posits that it is a gene test with better predictive value than a treadmill stress for future MI risk.
So, me being me, I asked for the studies and evidence and got a lot of heming/hawing/foot shuffling but a paucity of studies and evidence to back up the claims. I went to my next layer which was to call my cardiology attending and ask him about it...his response was something along the lines of " the tests are out there but we don't have a good enough idea as to their actual value to use them instead of treadmill stuff as of yet"....and then I called a practicing, non-academic cardiologist that I know well and pretty much got the same response.
Does anyone on this forum currently use specialized labs for prevention i.e. ClevelandHeartLab or Boston's? Can anyone speak to the evidence for these labs?
Moderator - don't know if this is appropriate. If not, please shut it down or move the thread.