{"id":656075,"date":"2026-10-16T01:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T01:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/656075\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T01:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T01:43:14","slug":"opinion-how-to-read-your-bodys-warning-signs-years-before-you-get-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/656075\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: How to read your body\u2019s warning signs years before you get sick\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health EquityIf the risk of cancer, heart disease or another debilitating disease became real tomorrow, I ask patients what they wish they would had done today<\/p>\n<p>Updated Oct. 14, 2026, 8:00\u202fa.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"e1bc1vag0 css-ucetlp-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" data-testid=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"16\">Years ago, as a young internal-medicine doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital, I was called to answer a \u201ccode blue.\u201d In the room, I found a man in his 70s, whose heart had stopped.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"e1bc1vag0 css-ucetlp-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" data-testid=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"16\">For 20 minutes, we pressed on his chest and pushed medicines, but despite our best efforts, we could not revive him. I later learned from his daughter that he had struggled with controlling high cholesterol, high blood pressure and Type 2 diabetes \u2014 all conditions which he had been diagnosed with years earlier but for which he had not sought ongoing medical care.<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"css-1kev1t6-StyledHoneyToken eiqmymy0\">Copyright \u00a92026 MarketWatch, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health EquityIf the risk of cancer, heart disease or another debilitating disease became real tomorrow, I ask patients&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[752,258,277904,1700,6776,277905,11919,113344,58448,1701,1595,103,397,396,277908,277906,61,60,166,277907,1605,85514,3063,387,174,13943,58444,1544],"class_list":["post-656075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-advice","tag-cancer","tag-cancer-oncology","tag-cardiology","tag-cardiovascular-health","tag-cardiovascular-health-cardiology","tag-commentary","tag-commentary-opinion","tag-content-types","tag-endocrinology","tag-general-news","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-hormonal-health","tag-hormonal-health-endocrinology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lifestyle","tag-linkendrnrealtime-linkedarticle-snco20261014005259","tag-living","tag-living-lifestyle","tag-oncology","tag-opinion","tag-personal-finance","tag-political","tag-political-general-news","tag-retirement-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}