TY - JOUR PY - 2015// TI - In memory of Daniel - reviving research to prevent gun violence JO - New England journal of medicine A1 - Sacks, Chana A. SP - 800 EP - 801 VL - 372 IS - 9 N2 - At the moment that Daniel was shot, I had just fallen asleep after a night on call in the cardiac intensive care unit. My attending during that rotation was Robert Gerszten, who offered us insights from the burgeoning field of metabolomics and cardiovascular disease: that alterations in levels of blood metabolites may precede chronic illnesses by decades - knowledge that might someday enable us to identify people at risk for diseases years before the first clinical manifestation. Contemplating the possibilities of this concept, caring for critically sick patents, and studying the vast cardiology literature, I found my mind filled with. . .
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