Search results for "Cardiovascular Disease"
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
A comparison of low carb and low fat diets
The study enrolled 148 men and women who were obese (BMI 30 to 45) but didn’t have diabetes or cardiovascular disease. ... For those who are losing weight on a low carbohydrate diet but were worried that the excess fat intake was increasing their
May 2022
Musical diets: You can dance if you want to
cardiovascular disease and premature death.
May 2022
Why should we care about conflicts of interest in medicine?
Centers for Disease Control's (CDC) guidelines for prescribing opioid pain medication for chronic pain. ... year risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (heart attacks and the like) of over 7.5%.
May 2022
Is any alcohol dangerous to your health?
If you are at low risk for the many potential alcohol-related pathologies, have risk factors for cardiovascular disease, and drink moderately and responsibly, there is the same potential for net ... Really. That does not mean I am recommending alcohol to
May 2022
Milking dairy data for more than they are worth
cardiovascular disease or death from all causes. ... difference in overall disease and death risk than those consuming a bit less.
May 2022
Declines in dementia, of hearts and minds
But these projections also pertain to the financial devastation wrought by a tidal wave of dementia-related healthcare costs crashing into a system already drowning in the costs of chronic disease. ... Dementia of the Alzheimer's type, and related
May 2022
Preventive medicine: on being a bad patient
I am getting to an age at which various things are recommended in order to reduce my risk of developing some dread disease. ... The present recommendations about cholesterol lowering are to treat patients with a 10 year risk of cardiovascular events of
May 2022
Of salt, 'saltation' and salience: the case for fixing what's broken
in the American Journal of Hypertension in early April, was a meta-analysis examining sodium intake in populations around the world and its association with both all-cause mortality and cardiovascular ... Blood pressure reduction in turn has been
May 2022
Diet and truth: tales of dogma, or data?
Yusuf asserted, after noting that he has no expertise in nutrition, that in effect, everything we know about diet and cardiovascular disease is wrong. ... rates of chronic disease and premature death, and diets lower in these and higher in meat, soda,
May 2022