Search results for "Cardiovascular Disease"
QD: News Every Day--Health care reform scarce in presidential address
Primary care shortage. Dentists want to screen their patients for cardiovascular disease and other chronic conditions. ... More than three-quarters of nearly 2,000 dentists surveyed thought it was important for them to screen for hypertension,
January 2022
Who should take statins and why are researchers demanding a retraction?
prescribing statin drugs to patients at low risk of cardiovascular disease such as heart attack or stroke. ... According to the 2012 article, they are about 100 researchers who wrote diverse research papers about how effective statins were in reducing
January 2022
QD: News Every Day--Western diet linked to less than ideal health in old age
At follow-up, 4% met the ideal aging criteria, 12.7% developed a nonfatal cardiovascular disease, 2.8% died from cardiovascular disease, and 7.3% from noncardiovascular causes over the mean ... actually might improve the possibility of achieving older
January 2022
QD: News Every Day--Update shows 1 in 3 overweight, 1 in 3 obese, for $300 billion in costs
Among the other factoids:. --The rate of death from cardiovascular disease fell 30.6% from 1998 to 2008. ... One third of deaths from cardiovascular disease occurred among younger than 75.
January 2022
Dead people don't get bronchitis, or antibiotic resistance
of risk for cardiovascular disease had an estimated 245 additional cardiovascular deaths per 1 million courses. ... courses of azithromycin therapy; for patients with the highest decile of baseline risk of cardiovascular disease, there were 245
January 2022
News from JUPITER (and New Orleans)
The patients had no history of cardiovascular disease, though some had risk factors like hypertension, obesity and smoking.
January 2022
Preventive aspirin inflames opinions
By 2003, at least one-third of American adults ages 35 and older, as well as 4 out of every 5 with cardiovascular disease, were taking aspirin daily or every other ... Frequency and practice-level variation in inappropriate aspirin use for the primary
May 2015
QD: News Every Day--'5 a day' fine, but more than that may not be needed
Eating 5 daily portions of fruit and vegetables is associated with a lower risk of death from any cause, particularly from cardiovascular disease, but beyond 5 portions appears to have no ... So, researchers conducted the meta-analysis of 16 studies
January 2022
QD: News Every Day--Adults widely consume supplements with sometimes severe side effects
One study reported that high intake of supplemental calcium was associated with an excess risk of cardiovascular disease death in men but not in women. ... Seventy percent of women took calcium supplements, but it wasn’t associated with death from
January 2022
QD: News Every Day--Disaster planning sparse in U.S. facilities
It's time to plan for the next natural disaster. In its next poll, ACP Internist ties into its October cover story on managing cardiovascular disease in the elderly by asking
January 2022