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Mexican Response to H1N1 Slow

May 21, 2009May 21, 2009 / SupremeCmdr / Leave a comment

Medical News: ATS: Mexican Response to H1N1 ‘Could Have Been Faster’ – in Meeting Coverage, ATS from MedPage Today

More than 75% of the cases were in patients between the ages of 20 and 50, and as of May 18, there have been 70 deaths.

I’m still wondering what the cause was of all of the other reported deaths???

Lose Weight Get Dementia

May 19, 2009May 19, 2009 / SupremeCmdr / Leave a comment

BBC NEWS | Health | Weight loss link to dementia risk

Small study with interesting findings.

Formaldehyde and Cancer

May 19, 2009May 19, 2009 / SupremeCmdr / Leave a comment

Study Reinforces Links Between Formaldehyde and Cancer – ProPublica

The study shows that workers exposed to higher amounts of formaldehyde had a 37 percent greater risk of death [1] from blood and lymphatic cancers, and a 78 percent greater risk of leukemia than those with lower exposures. NCI researchers still have not discovered the biological mechanism by which formaldehyde exposure can cause leukemia.

Unexplained Syncope= Risk Factor for SCD in HCM

May 17, 2009May 17, 2009 / SupremeCmdr / Leave a comment

Syncope and Risk of Sudden Death in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Unexplained syncope is a risk factor for SCD in patients with HCM.

BMS and DES in MI

May 16, 2009May 16, 2009 / SupremeCmdr / Leave a comment

BMS & DES in MI

BMS and DES Findings in SCAAR

May 16, 2009May 16, 2009 / SupremeCmdr / Leave a comment

BMS & DES in SCAAR

Long-Term Outcomes in Sweden.

BMS = bare metal stent

DES = drug eluting stent

SCAAR = Swedish Coronary Angiography and Angioplasty Registry.

TURP TUNA TUMT TUIP – Mayo Clinic Articles

May 13, 2009May 13, 2009 / SupremeCmdr / Leave a comment

Transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) – MayoClinic.com

Transurethral needle ablation (TUNA) – MayoClinic.com

Transurethral microwave therapy (TUMT) – MayoClinic.com

Transurethral incision of the prostate (TUIP) – MayoClinic.com

Metabolic Syndrome and DM1 = Bad Combo

May 13, 2009May 13, 2009 / SupremeCmdr / Leave a comment

Metabolic Syndrome as a Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Disease, Mortality, and Progression of Diabetic Nephropathy in Type 1 Diabetes — Thorn et al. 32 (5): 950 — Diabetes Care

Update on Stents

May 12, 2009May 12, 2009 / SupremeCmdr / Leave a comment

Effectiveness of Coronary Stents

Note the size of the study population combined with the follow up period.  A 25% reduction in mortality was found in patients with drug eluding stents vs. plain metal stents.

Pay Attention to RA Size

May 12, 2009May 12, 2009 / SupremeCmdr / Leave a comment

Right Atrium in Chronic Systolic HF

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Spring Roll Dipping Sauces – (another) Electronic Sticky Note

Spring Roll Dipping Sauce https://thewoksoflife.com/spring-roll-dipping-sauce/ For new readers an electronic sticky note is a reminder and pointer to recipes from other websites that one day I might try. So when the bots come back (see The Recipes in This Blog Are Being Stolen by AI) they’ll be stealing someone else’s copyrighted material.

The Recipes in This Blog Are Being Stolen by AI

I know it’s AI because my recipes can’t be this good!

FOOD FIGHT!

Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat. In that book, I review research on the “funding effect,” the strong correlations between who pays for food and nutrition research and its outcome.  Industry-funded research tends to produce results favorable to the funder’s interests (otherwise it wouldn’t be funded).  But recipients of […]

Scary Charts 01.11.26

Source: Food Inflation: The Price Spikes of Beef, Coffee, Eggs, and Dairy – https://wolfstreet.com/2025/10/24/food-inflation-the-price-spikes-of-beef-coffee-eggs-and-dairy/ I decided I would try to collect data online from the largest supermarkets in the country, and I pretty soon realized that the numbers I was getting were two or three times higher than the official numbers for inflation. Alberto Cavallo, […]

Common Food Preservatives Linked to Higher DM2 Risk

Over the study period, 1,131 cases of type 2 diabetes were identified among the 108,723 participants. Compared with people who consumed the lowest levels of preservatives, those with higher intake showed a markedly increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Overall preservative consumption was linked to a 47% higher risk. Non-antioxidant preservatives were associated with […]

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