Falcon Lake ‘pirate’ shooting: Where’s missing boater David Hartley? – CSMonitor.com
Kapvay (clonidine hydrochloride)
Underwriting Quick Notes
Kapvay = brand name
Shionogi = manufacturer
High Noise Levels and CHD
There are several ways in which noise could contribute to cardiovascular events, according to the researchers. One is through the development of isolated diastolic hypertension, which has been shown to independently predict CHD and is more common among younger individuals.
The stress caused by loud noise also might lead to activation of the endocrine and sympathetic nervous systems, resulting in vasoconstriction, occlusion, and plaque disruption, they explained.
A limitation of the study was the possibility of selection bias. Workers who don’t tolerate noise or who have cardiovascular disease could have moved to other, less stressful jobs — or could have died while still in their noisy jobs.
Hypoglycemia in DM2 = Higher Mortality Risk
Type 2 diabetes patients who experienced these serious drops in blood glucose had nearly three times the risk of death and twice the risk of a major macrovascular event compared with those who didn’t experience hypoglycemia, Sophia Zoungas, MD, PhD, of the University of Sydney in Australia, and colleagues reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The War to Our South – 10/2/2010
Read a Book a Week – 3Q 2010 Update
Life has been rich, full, and busy. Thankfully, business for me has been good.
These are my excuses for not reading a book a week.
I’ve managed to read about half a book a week this year through the end of September. The 4Q has traditionally been a low reading period due to football, hockey, basketball, and baseball playoffs. The number of RSS feeds I have decided to follow have increased. This website is taking more time to maintain.
What to do…what to do?
More on Vitamin D and Mortality (Old Guys Need to Read This)
Memantine for PDD or DLB
Underwriting Quick Notes:
- PDD = Parkinson’s Disease Dementia
- DLB = Dementia with Lewy Bodies
- Memantine = Namenda
Memantine seems to improve global clinical status and behavioural symptoms of patients with mild to moderate DLB, and might be an option for treatment of these patients.
Drink More Water
U.S. Kids Drink Too Little Water: Study
The results of this study should not be surprising.
Emphysema on CT Significantly Correlated With Mortality
Click through for the abstract. There is a link on the page for a PDF version.
CT Scan Findings of Emphysema Predict Mortality in COPD — CHEST
Results: Of the 251 patients, 79 died, with 40 classified as respiratory deaths not involving lung cancer. Univariate Cox analysis revealed that emphysematous change as assessed by CT scan, lung function, age, or BMI were significantly correlated with mortality. Multivariate analysis revealed that emphysematous change as assessed by CT scan had the best association with mortality.
Conclusions: Emphysematous change as assessed by CT scan predicts respiratory mortality in outpatients with various stages of COPD.
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