Only smoking is bigger risk factor in middle-age men
Source: Low Aerobic Activity Tied to Higher Death Rates in Men | Medpage Today
Get up. Get out. Move it.
Author: SupremeCmdr
Human Papillomavirus–Associated Cancers — United States, 2008–2012 – MMWR
Diabetes treatments and risk of heart failure, cardiovascular disease, and all cause mortality: cohort study in primary care – The BMJ
Conclusions – There are clinically important differences in risk of cardiovascular disease, heart failure, and all cause mortality between different diabetes drugs alone and in combination. Overall, use of gliptins or glitazones was associated with decreased risks of heart failure, cardiovascular disease, and all cause mortality compared with non-use of these drugs. These results, which do not account for levels of adherence or dosage information and which are subject to confounding by indication, might have implications for prescribing of diabetes drugs.
Prediction of 90-day mortality in older patients after discharge from an emergency department: a retrospective follow-up study – BMC Emergency Medicine
Drinking Alcohol Linked to 7 Types of Cancer
Source: Drinking Alcohol Linked to 7 Types of Cancer
For a copy of the study go to:
Source: Alcohol consumption as a cause of cancer – Connor – 2016 – Addiction – Wiley Online Library
I am so screwed.
Recurrent Diabetic Ketoacidosis Raises Mortality Risk in T1D – Medpage Today
Recurrent episodes of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) were associated with a substantially increased risk of death in patients with type 1 diabetes, according to a retrospective single-center Scottish study.
Limitations of the study included its single-center design, which “does leave the generalizability of these results open to question,” Gibb and colleagues said.
Source: Recurrent Diabetic Ketoacidosis Raises Mortality Risk in T1D | Medpage Today
Drunkorexia
Source: Drunkorexia: New Trend Sweeping College Campuses
Read the comments to the article.
Priceless.
Free Evidence-based App – Botanicals, Supplements, Complimentary Therapies
About Herbs includes information on herbs, supplements, and alternative medicine techniques like acupuncture and acupressure.
Source: About Herbs app: free evidence-based app worth downloading
Free. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Did I mention free?
Survival Improving for RA – Medpage Today
Biologics, treatment-to-target, CVD prevention are likely factors
Source: Survival Improving at Rapid Clip for RA Patients | Medpage Today
iMedicalApps: Aspirin Guide – Medpage Today
Makes sense of USPSTF recommendations
Source: iMedicalApps: Aspirin Guide | Medpage Today
Loyal readers know I’ve been looking at this daily aspirin thing for quite some time. Read this, or this, and this. So when I learned about a new iPhone app I had to download it and enter my personal data.
The app says I should take low dose aspirin daily. I stopped taking aspirin a few years ago after a minor bleeding episode. I had bumped my shin, broke the skin and began bleeding. The bleeding took forever to stop so I stopped the aspirin. I’ve cut myself since and not had any difficulties coagulating.
Annual wellness visit is in a few months. I’ll show the app to my doctor and see what he recommends.
Great little app by the way.
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