Medical News: HbA1c Predicts Cardiovascular Risk – in Cardiovascular, Diabetes from MedPage Today
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Taking Asprin? Don’t Stop
Medical News: Aspirin Holiday Is a Bad Idea – in Cardiovascular, Prevention from MedPage Today
A case-control study found that patients taking low-dose aspirin for secondary prevention who had recently discontinued the drug had a higher risk of nonfatal myocardial infarction than those who continued to take the aspirin.
Mom Was Right – Eat Your Veggies
The War to Our South – 7/16/11
To Tweet or Not To Tweet
Read this article. The authors of the respective Twitter posts mentioned in the article are irresponsible and the misinformation potentially damaging.
Albuminuria and Mortality
Prescription Drug OD Deaths Up in Florida
Deaths in Florida involving prescription drugs in 2009 were four times as common as those related to illicit drugs, with alprazolam (Xanax) joining opioids among the top killers, the CDC reported.
From 2003 to 2009, the death rate in Florida from overdoses of prescription drugs increased 84.2%, from 7.3 to 13.4 per 100,000 population, according to data from the Florida Medical Examiners Commission analyzed by the CDC in the July 8 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Time to tighten up your anxiety/depression underwriting guidelines? How about script checks at lower amounts? Can you differentiate between the applicant who wants to off himself versus plain vanilla anxiety?
Predictive Ability of CRP Questioned
Medical News: AHA: Value of Measuring CRP Questioned – in Meeting Coverage, AHA from MedPage Today
“In patients who already have a reason to be on a statin, C-reactive protein (CRP) measurement does not appear to provide any additional information about cardiovascular risk beyond traditional factors, a secondary analysis of the ASCOT trial showed.”
Spider MRI
BBC Nature – Inside a tarantula spider’s beating heart
No, not a new technique nor a brand name for a machine. An actual MRI on a spider.
Silent Heart Damage and Cocaine
“Heavy cocaine users have a high prevalence of cardiac damage as seen by cardiac MRI.”
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