The only tangible result has been more and more disagreements about what a pre-pre-heart attack is, without any tangible impact on patient care (other than plenty of useless testing).
There’s a feature story on this in Thursday’s WSJ—just in time for the ACC meeting :- ) I’ll post the article if anyone here is interested.
“The efficient-market hypothesis may be the foremost piece of B.S. ever promulgated in any area of human knowledge!”