Date: December 27, 2016 Source: University of Utah Health Sciences Summary: After all the lifting, hauling and wrapping, worn out gift givers may blame the season’s physical strain for any shoulder soreness they are feeling. It turns out there could be another reason. A new study finds that individuals with symptoms that put them at […]
Cardiovascular medicine Research Lack of an association or an inverse association between low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol and mortality in the elderly: a systematic review Uffe Ravnskov1, David M Diamond2, Rokura Hama3, Tomohito Hamazaki4, Björn Hammarskjöld5, Niamh Hynes6, Malcolm Kendrick7, Peter H Langsjoen8, Aseem Malhotra9, Luca Mascitelli10, Kilmer S McCully11, Yoichi Ogushi12, Harumi Okuyama13, Paul J Rosch14, Tore […]
The nutritional product policosanol not only dramatically slows down the progression of arterial narrowing, but actually reverses plaque. And it is safer, cheaper, and has additional biochemical benefits that the statins do not. Policosanol makes blood less likely to abnormally form clots by lowering fibrinogen (decreases platelet aggregation), something that statins do not do. In […]
International Journal of Surgery, 12/15/2016 Hu X, et al. This study demonstrated the safety of short–term treatment with vitamin C, and this treatment may reduce the incidence of postoperative atrial fibrillation (AF) after cardiac surgery. The authors recommend further studies, as well as more high quality RCTs, to confirm the effects of different durations of […]
The Journal of Headache and Pain, 12/15/2016 Tsai CL, et al. – This population–based cohort study aimed to investigate whether patients with primary headache disorders (PHDs) were at a high risk of developing stroke. Researchers recommend that with gender–dependent, age–specific and time–dependent characteristics, PHDs is suggestive of an incremental risk for ischaemic stroke. Methods The […]
Tuesday, 13 December 2016 15:50 By Erik Goldman If you’re recommending Red Yeast Rice supplements to patients as a natural alternative for cutting CVD risk, you may be unwittingly guiding them to ineffective products, and simultaneously compromising your clinical credibility. This is all thanks to a regulatory gray zone that permits supplement companies to market […]
Ultra-processed food consumption and the incidence of hypertension in a Mediterranean cohort: The Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra Project American Journal of Hypertension, 12/13/2016 de Deus Mendonca R, et al. In this study, researchers investigate the relationship between ultra–processed food intake and the incidence of hypertension in a Mediterranean cohort. In this large prospective cohort of […]
12 December 2016 A man who suffered a stroke after getting his hair washed in a salon has been talking about his “life-changing injury”. Doctors who treated him said it was likely to have been a case of “beauty parlour syndrome” – which can occur when the neck is over-extended. This can damage arteries, which […]
DECEMBER 12, 2016 Pennsylvania State University Health and Medicine News Previous research suggests that drinking wine in moderation can be good for your health, but new research indicates that drinking beer may also have health benefits. Shue Huang, a doctoral candidate in nutritional sciences at Penn State, and colleagues found that moderate drinkers had the […]
Amit V. Khera, M.D., Connor A. Emdin, D.Phil., Isabel Drake, Ph.D., Pradeep Natarajan, M.D., Alexander G. Bick, M.D., Ph.D., Nancy R. Cook, Ph.D., Daniel I. Chasman, Ph.D., Usman Baber, M.D., Roxana Mehran, M.D., Daniel J. Rader, M.D., Valentin Fuster, M.D., Ph.D., Eric Boerwinkle, Ph.D., Olle Melander, M.D., Ph.D., Marju Orho-Melander, Ph.D., Paul M Ridker, M.D., […]
November 02, 2016 PracticeUpdate Editorial Team November 2, 2016—New Orleans, Louisiana— Sucralose may lead to insulin resistance in people with obesity, according to new research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The results were presented at ObesityWeek 2016, from October 31 – November 4. Marta Yanina Pepino de Gruev, PhD, now at […]
Ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 in Western diet is 16:1 by Kristen Monaco Contributing Writer, MedPage Today October 25, 2016 A wildly unbalanced consumption of omega-6 versus omega-3 fatty acids is contributing to the growing rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes, two researchers are arguing. In an editorial appearing in the BMJ journal Open […]
Liam Davenport October 24, 2016 Being overweight or obese leads to clinically meaningful increases in the rate of cognitive decline in association with changes in inflammatory markers in the blood, a new analysis of longitudinal data suggests. The results, which indicate that an increased body mass index (BMI) may accelerate cognitive decline by several months […]
by Mark Hyman, M.D. THERE’S NO DOUBT about it. Artificial sweeteners cause obesity. I always thought it was funny to see a very large person order a Big Mac, large fries — and top it off with a Diet Coke. I also found it peculiar that I rarely saw thin people drinking diet sodas. So […]
But observational study suggests benefit from dietary sources by Larry Husten October 13, 2016 Calcium supplements might increase cardiovascular risk, whereas dietary calcium was associated with a protective effect, a new observational study found. Many people — in particular, older women — take calcium supplements to prevent or treat osteoporosis, though the supporting evidence for […]
Because of their cholesterol content, eggs have long been touted as a driver of heart disease. As a SuppVersity reader, you know that there are multiple reasons why the notion that the consumption of eggs, or rather egg yolks, would increase your cardiovascular disease risk: (a) there’s no mechanistic “if your cholesterol is high, your CVD risk is […]
Diabetic Medicine, 10/04/2016 Hansen CS, et al. – Researchers conducted this study to explore the possible relationship between vitamin D deficiency and cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy in people with diabetes. They concluded that high and low vitamin D levels were connected with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy in people with diabetes. They added that future studies should […]