gjm comments on Measuring lethality in reduced expected heartbeats - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 03 January 2014 08:05:33PM 2 points [-]

I'm fairly sure it isn't proportional: someone with a heart rate of 40bpm isn't going to live twice as long as someone with a heart rate of 80bpm. (But might well live 3x longer than someone with a heart rate of 120bpm, which I guess would indicate a serious medical problem.)

I'm not an expert, though, and will gladly be corrected on this.