Search results for "Cardiovascular Disease"
Guidelines diminish cholesterol worries
Heart Disease and The Kenneth Jay Pollin Professor of Cardiology at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. ... Preventable, chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and diet-related cancers affect about half of all Americans
June 2015
Mental health needs integration into the primary care setting
Psychiatric disorders were the most expensive conditions to treat among Medicaid beneficiaries, but also the most common when combined with cardiovascular disease.
June 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
Framing risks, benefits perilous for physicians and patients
She did not smoke, was not diabetic or hypertensive, and had no family history of heart disease. ... Statins for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. Cochrane Database Syst Rev.
January 2012
QD: News Every Day--Obesity trumps adiposity for cardiovascular risk
The main finding of this study does not, of course, diminish the importance of adiposity as a major modifiable determinant of cardiovascular disease," the authors wrote. ... Rather, because excess adiposity is a major determinant of the intermediate risk
June 2020
Pseudoconfusion about saturated fat: 5 reasons for 1 hot mess
meat; and that variation in palmitic acid did predict variation in heart disease rates. ... They share a very important blind spot. Both looked at variation in saturated fat intake and variation in cardiovascular disease and mortality, finding no
June 2020
Endo ‘08: new research ignites debate about best A1C goals
In cause-specific analysis, low testosterone predicted a higher risk of death due to cardiovascular disease and cancer. ... Boston. Patients with metabolic risk should also undergo a global assessment for 10-year risk for coronary heart disease and
September 2008
More options available for psoriatic arthritis
Some patients present with joint pain first. As a systematic inflammatory condition, psoriatic arthritis is associated with significantly increased risk of cardiovascular disease, including myocardial infarction and stroke, diabetes, hypertension,
April 2019
Genomics will aid primary care, with primary care's help
The ability to sequence people's genomes inexpensively will be critically important for the next stage of studies aiming to understand the genetic basis of disease. ... Here at NHGRI, we have ClinSeq, which is examining the practicality of using genome
April 2010
Finesse required to treat anxiety in the elderly
anxiety. According to studies analyzed in the Depression and Anxiety literature review, several medical conditions are associated with anxiety disorders and symptoms, including gastrointestinal conditions, hyperthyroidism, diabetes, cardiovascular
January 2013