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,
February 2020
Does AHEAD set us back?
associated weight loss did not reduce heart disease risk in adults with diabetes. ... The power of lifestyle to prevent both diabetes and cardiovascular disease outright is irrefutably established.
February 2020
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
February 2020
What's new in other College publications
Effect of Varying Levels of Disease Management on Smoking Cessation: A Randomized Trial. ... Menopause. Differences in Control of Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes by Race, Ethnicity, and Education.
April 2009
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
February 2020
Calculate ‘sum of the parts' to pinpoint CV risk in women
without cardiovascular disease who had at least one of the following cardiovascular risk factors:. ... Think about that,” she said. “A woman in your practice who's 60, who has a family history of premature coronary disease, cardiovascular disease,
January 2018
New warnings for gabapentinoids; other drugs approved
Used as an add-on to maximum-tolerated statin therapy, the drug is indicated for patients who also have either established cardiovascular disease or diabetes and two or more additional risk ... factors for cardiovascular disease.
February 2020
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.
February 2020
Universal care frees doctors to take ‘all measures required’
Health outcomes of uninsured people with cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke, COPD and hip fractures are consistently poorer than for those with coverage.
July 2009
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
February 2020