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New stroke guidelines focus on women’s risks

Posted on: 06/02/2014 - 21:00

Newly released guidelines provide the first evidence-based recommendations for preventing stroke in women. The document addresses the issues that uniquely increase stroke risk in women – pregnancy,...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Too much dietary sugar raises CVD mortality

Posted on: 03/02/2014 - 21:00

Excess intake of sugar in the diet significantly raises the risk of cardiovascular mortality, independently of other risk factors, according to an analysis of National Health and Nutrition...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

The politics of food addiction: Who wins, who 'loses'

Posted on: 28/01/2014 - 17:15

ATLANTA – It’s too soon to disrupt current obesity treatment by declaring food addiction to be a clinical condition, according to Dr. Paul Fletcher. "If we are to employ [the term] food...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

One health system cut diabetes events, with set patient measures and cash for physicians

Posted on: 23/01/2014 - 19:30

An incentivized, system-based approach to improve care for patients with diabetes and other chronic diseases appeared to pay off after just 3 years by significantly cutting the incidence of adverse...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

Immunosuppressive therapy ups risk for skin cancers

Posted on: 23/01/2014 - 14:35

HOLLYWOOD, FLA. – Current and previous use of thiopurines, biologics, and combination therapies are all independent risk factors for skin cancer, according to expert analysis given at a conference on...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Postpartum care after gestational diabetes is preconception care as well

Posted on: 07/01/2014 - 20:05

WASHINGTON – The rise in gestational diabetes cases demands new strategies for active postpartum care that will not only assist with prevention of type 2 diabetes, but will also prepare women for...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

‘JNC 8’ relaxes elderly systolic target below 150 mm Hg

Posted on: 18/12/2013 - 18:25

The group of experts who had constituted the JNC 8 panel, a team assembled in 2008 by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to update official U.S. hypertension management guidelines, set the...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Chelation plus vitamins halved cardiovascular events in diabetics

Posted on: 26/11/2013 - 16:45

DALLAS – An EDTA-based chelation regimen for secondary prevention of cardiovascular events in patients with a history of myocardial infarction got a boost from a new TACT trial analysis showing...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Combined angiotensin inhibition raises hyperkalemia, acute kidney injury risks

Posted on: 11/11/2013 - 22:15

ATLANTA – The combined use of an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor and an angiotensin receptor blocker was associated with an increased risk of hyperkalemia and acute kidney injury in patients...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

FDA moves to reduce or remove unhealthy trans fats from foods

Posted on: 07/11/2013 - 18:50

The Food and Drug Administration has made a move toward further reducing – or eventually removing – the trans fat content in processed foods, with the "preliminary determination"...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

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