Wooo! Okay, if your reading this in a first world country this won't apply all that much to you. In my country you can now spend $20k USD per year on private health insurance for yourself and if you actually need it someone will be very financially motivated to deny you coverage for pre-exisiting conditions.
What if you could wear an accelerometer (I'm sure my wristwatch has one) and it could predict you might have a pile of different diseases?
BOOM - pre-existing condition. 100% profit for the most profitable scam in my whole country!
Science fiction? Or science fact?
A bunch of people in the UK Biobank agreed to wear an accelerometer for a couple weeks as part of their contribution! And this group remined those data against the O-link proteomics data and the clinical data they could access from these patients.
You accelerate poorly? Dramatic increase in a ton of different diseases!
Moral of the story?
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