Pauline Anderson June 26, 2013 BOSTON, Massachusetts —A new study showed that compared with normal-weight participants, obese people have an 81% greater risk for episodic migraine (EM), a condition characterized by up to 14 migraine episodes a month. The risk was highest among obese women or younger people who are obese and under 50 years of age. […]
By G. Douglas Andersen, DC, DACBSP, CCN Dynamic Chiropractic – June 1, 2013, Vol. 31, Issue 11 When the National Institutes of Health’s AARP Diet and Health Study reported that men who took calcium supplements had a higher risk of dying from cardiovascular disease compared those who didn’t,1 it was the third large cohort in six months with […]
Susan Jeffrey May 30, 2013 A new meta-analysis looking at the vascular and gastrointestinal effects of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) — including selective cyclooxygenase-2 [COX-2] inhibitors, also known as coxibs, as well as traditional NSAIDs such as diclofenac and ibuprofen — shows that the vascular risks associated with high-dose diclofenac and possibly ibuprofen are similar […]
Published: May 30, 2013 | Updated: May 30, 2013 By Michael Smith , North American Correspondent, MedPage Today Action Points In this large meta-analysis diclofenac, ibuprofen, and coxibs all significantly increased major coronary events. Naproxen did not significantly increase major vascular events, but heart failure risk was roughly doubled by all NSAIDs. High doses of […]
By Carole Alison Chrvala, PhD Reviewed by Philip Green, MD, Assistant in Clinical Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, NY Take Note Results from case-control studies suggest that nonselective NSAIDs and COX-2 inhibitors are associated with an increased risk of atrial fibrillation, with the highest risk evident for new and […]
Forbs.com SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 5/27/2013 In an extraordinary editorial and feature article, Nature, one of the world’s pre-eminent scientific journals, has effectively admonished the chair of the Harvard School of Public Health’s nutrition department, Walter Willett, for promoting over-simplification of scientific results in the name of public health and engaging in unseemly behavior towards those who venture conclusions that differ to […]
David R Seaman Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2013, 21:15 doi:10.1186/2045-709X-21-15 Background Back pain is one of the most common complaints that patients report to physicians and two-thirds of the population has an elevated body mass index (BMI), indicating they are either overweight or obese. It was once assumed that extra body weight would stress the […]
Published: May 20, 2013 | Updated: May 20, 2013 By Crystal Phend, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today Action Points This study was published as an abstract and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal. A greater taste for salt among older hypertensive […]
Effects of watermelon supplementation on arterial stiffness and wave reflection amplitude in postmenopausal women. Figueroa A, Wong A, Hooshmand S, Sanchez-Gonzalez MA. Menopause. 2013 May;20(5):573-7. doi: 10.1097/GME.0b013e3182733794. Abstract OBJECTIVE: Postmenopausal women have increased arterial stiffness (brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity [baPWV]) and wave reflection. L-Citrulline supplementation reduces baPWV but not brachial blood pressure. Peripheral vasodilators decrease […]
David R Seaman Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2013, 21:15 doi:10.1186/2045-709X-21-15 Published: 20 May 2013 Abstract Background Back pain is one of the most common complaints that patients report to physicians and two-thirds of the population has an elevated body mass index (BMI), indicating they are either overweight or obese. It was once assumed that extra body weight would […]
Published: May 14, 2013 | Updated: May 15, 2013 By Cole Petrochko , Staff Writer, MedPage Today Action Points Thin women may have a greater risk of developing endometriosis than women who are morbidly obese. Note that the association between body mass index (BMI) and endometriosis was strongest in infertile women, with a significantly lower […]
By Nick Collins, Science Correspondent 12:01 AM BST 14 May 2013 Your waist should be no more than half the length of your height, according to experts who claim that having too large a trouser size can dramatically shorten your lifespan. Measuring the ratio of someone’s waist to their height is a better way of […]
The Risk and Prevention Study Collaborative Group May 9, 2013 N Engl J Med 2013; 368:1800-1808 Abstract BACKGROUND Trials have shown a beneficial effect of n−3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in patients with a previous myocardial infarction or heart failure. We evaluated the potential benefit of such therapy in patients with multiple cardiovascular risk factors or […]
Published: May 6, 2013 | Updated: May 6, 2013 By Nancy Walsh , Staff Writer, MedPage Today Action Points Note that this study was published as an abstract and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal. Vitamin D deficiency was significantly associated […]
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The number one killer in America is heart disease. Now there’s a simple new test that possibly predicts heart disease years in advance not by looking at your heart, but your fingers instead. KCAL9’s Juan Fernandez spoke to Dr. Chris Renna of LifeSpan Medicine in Santa Monica to find out how […]
Adv Nutr. 2013 May; 4(3): 294–302. Published online 2013 May 6. doi: 10.3945/an.113.003657 PMCID: PMC3650498 Dietary Fats and Health: Dietary Recommendations in the Context of Scientific Evidence Glen D. Lawrence Abstract Although early studies showed that saturated fat diets with very low levels of PUFAs increase serum cholesterol, whereas other studies showed high serum cholesterol […]
by ROB STEIN April 24, 2013 6:01 PM ET Scientists have discovered what may be an important new risk factor for heart disease. And here’s the surprising twist: The troublesome substance seems to be a waste product left behind by bacteria in our guts as they help us digest lecithin — a substance plentiful in […]
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR APRIL 22, 2013 High levels of cortisol — the so-called stress hormone — have been associated with cardiovascular disease in some studies, but not in others. This may be because measuring cortisol in blood or saliva at one point in time may pick up acute stress, but it fails to account for […]