by Crystal Phend, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today June 20, 2014 Testosterone products can cause venous thromboembolism (VTE) even in patients without polycythemia, the FDA warned amidst ongoing cardiovascular risk assessment. Product labels will be required to carry a general warning about the risk of blood clots in the veins, in addition to the warning […]
Practice Update Barry J Maron MD Story Source Screening young people for cardiovascular disease has been advocated largely for those engaged in competitive organized sports. Indeed, some clinicians have promoted mandatory screening 12-lead ECGs for all athletes, even on a national level, in an effort to prevent sudden death. This model, initially proposed by Italian […]
Complement Ther Med. 2014 Jun;22(3):511-22. doi: 10.1016/j.ctim.2014.03.009. Epub 2014 Mar 31. Posadzki P Abstract OBJECTIVES: To critically evaluate the effectiveness of yoga as a treatment of hypertension. METHODS: Seventeen databases were searched from their inceptions to January 2014. Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) were included, if they evaluated yoga against any type of control in patients […]
Bernard B. Lanter, Karin Sauer, David G. Davies Department of Biological Sciences, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, USA doi: 10.1128/mBio.01206-14 10 June 2014 mBio vol. 5 no. 3 e01206-14 Full Text Article ABSTRACT Atherosclerosis, a disease condition resulting from the buildup of fatty plaque deposits within arterial walls, is the major underlying cause of ischemia […]
Ronald Grisanti D.C., D.A.B.C.O., D.A.C.B.N., M.S. Story Source What if there was a fruit that protected you from hardening of the arteries and even if eating a high fat diet was shown to reduce plaque build-up in your arteries. Well there is such a fruit and it is the simple grapefruit! Grapefruit contains a powerful […]
Tsiros MD, et al. Clin J Pain. 2014 Jul;30(7):583-8. doi: 10.1097/AJP.0000000000000017. PubMed Reference Abstract OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether obesity is associated with musculoskeletal pain in children. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Obese (n=107) and healthy-weight (n=132) 10- to 13-year-old children (132 males, 107 females) participated in an observational case-control study. Children self-reported pain location (excluding abdominal pain), […]
JAMA Intern Med. 2014 Jun;174(6):947-53. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.946. Davidson BL1, Verheijen S2, Lensing AW3, Gebel M4, Brighton TA5, Lyons RM6, Rehm J7, Prins MH8. Abstract IMPORTANCE: Combined anticoagulant and aspirin therapy is associated with increased bleeding risk in patients with atrial fibrillation, but the bleeding risk of combined use of anticoagulant and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) […]
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Published: Jun 16, 2014 By Elbert Chu, Associate Producer, MedPage Today Action Points A study notes that in England from 2003 to 2011, there was a significant fall in BP and mortality from stroke and ischemic heart disease which may have been contributed to by a fall in sodium intake. Note that in another study […]
Published: Jun 16, 2014 By Crystal Phend, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today Story Source Action Points Note that one of the studies was published as an abstract and presented at a conference. Those data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal. Improving overall diet quality over a 4-year […]
Medscape Medical News > Conference News Alice Goodman June 15, 2014 Full Story PARIS — Erectile dysfunction (ED) is common and often severe in men suffering from gout, according to the results of a cross-sectional survey of men who presented to a rheumatology clinic. “These results strongly support the proposal to screen all men with […]
Practice Update Research · June 13, 2014 TAKE-HOME MESSAGE In 12,195 patients with first myocardial infarction (MI) and 15,583 age- and sex-matched controls from 52 countries, the current use of alcohol was associated with a significantly reduced risk for MI compared with the risk for non-users (P = .001), although the strength of the association […]
Published: Jun 13, 2014 By Todd Neale, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today Story Source Eating too much processed red meat — including sausages and deli meats — might increase the risk of heart failure and of dying from the disease, a study of Swedish men showed. Compared with men who ate less than 25 grams […]
Kaluza J1, Akesson A2, Wolk A2. Circ Heart Fail. 2014 Jul;7(4):552-7. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.113.000921. Epub 2014 Jun 12. Abstract BACKGROUND: Epidemiological studies of red meat consumption in relation to risk of heart failure (HF) are scarce. We examined the associations of unprocessed and processed red meat consumption with HF incidence and mortality in men. METHODS AND […]
Soy food consumption, cardiometabolic alterations and carotid intima-media thickness in Chinese adults Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases, 06/12/2014 Clinical Article PubMed Reference Journal Reference Liu J, et al. – The researchers examined the associations of habitual soy food consumption with cardiometabolic disturbances and carotid intima–media thickness (CIMT). They concluded that greater soy consumption was associated […]
MEDICAL NEWS | PHYSICIAN’S FIRST WATCH June 12, 2014 By Kelly Young Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD, and Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, FHM Higher protein intake is associated with reduced stroke risk, according to a meta-analysis in Neurology. Researchers assessed the results of seven prospective cohort studies in roughly 250,000 participants. During a median follow-up of 14 […]
Published: Jun 11, 2014 Download Complimentary Source PDF By Todd Neale, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today Story Source Action Points Compared with low cardiovascular health, intermediate and high levels of health were both associated with substantially lower incidence of cognitive impairment, researchers found. Note that the lack of a dose-response relationship suggests that it is […]
Frontline Medical News, 2014 Jul 10, MA Otto Story Source CHICAGO (FRONTLINE MEDICAL NEWS) – More liberal lipid targets in elderly patients and lower statin doses might offset the risk of memory decline associated with statin use in these patients, Australian investigators suggested. Dr. Katherine Samaras and her associates did neuropsychometric testing on 377 subjects […]
PracticeUpdate Research · June 09, 2014 TAKE-HOME MESSAGE Researchers in Korea examined the association, in patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes (T2D), between the rate of weight gain (from age 20 years to age of maximum weight) and indicators of subclinical coronary artery disease (CAD). Among the 1724 participants, the highest quarter of prior […]