Dr. Brad Bale - on deCODEme genetic test - Can't get more personal than this

With his Bale Method approach to preventing heart attacks, Dr. Bradley Bale has been breaking ground in what looks to be the future of medicine—preventive care.

As he puts it: "After 20 years of practice I looked back and realized a lot of patients over this time were not just patients—they had become friends. And more than I care to think of had suffered a heart attack or a stroke or actually perished from a heart attack or stroke, so I wanted to look into ways to try to prevent that in-stage disease."

The plain-spoken Medical Director of the Heart Attack Prevention Clinic had immediate success. By simply applying the current information on heart attacks from medical journals like Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, and JAMA, he came up with what would be known as the Bale Method. Focusing on individual patient's lifestyles and particular risks, Bale looked back on his first six years in preventive medicine and realized that, of his 3500 patients, not one had suffered a heart attack.

Prevention worked. He made up his mind that "the whole future of medicine rests with prevention and not treating in-stage disease."

Category:

Education

Tags:

• deCODEme
• heart
• attack
• symptoms
• genes
• genetic
• test
• health
• preventive
• healthcare
• cancer
• diabetes