CONCLUSIONS – Impaired FPG and type 2 diabetes represent risk factors for SCD.
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Fatal Injuries in Offshore Oil and Gas Operations — United States, 2003–2010
During 2003–2010, the U.S. oil and gas extraction industry (onshore and offshore, combined) had a collective fatality rate seven times higher than for all U.S. workers (27.1 versus 3.8 deaths per 100,000 workers).
via Fatal Injuries in Offshore Oil and Gas Operations — United States, 2003–2010.
$5 per thousand.
Length of LAD Coronary Artery Determines Prognosis
Interesting study. The link takes you to the abstract.
Walk or Run? Think Distance, Not Speed
Researchers evaluated 33,060 runners in the National Runners’ Health Study and 15,045 walkers in the National Walkers’ Health Study. Dr. Thompson said there will be more results coming from the data. The study found:
- Running reduced the risk for first-time hypertension 4.2%, and walking reduced it by 7.2%.
- Running cut the risk for first-time high cholesterol 4.3%, and walking reduced it by 7.0%.
- Running cut the risk for first-time diabetes 12.1%, and walking decreased it by 12.3%.
- Running reduced coronary heart disease 4.5% compared with 9.3% for walking.
via Walk or run? Think distance, not speed, for health benefits – amednews.com.
GREAT NEWS for this aging tortoise who no longer runs 10-k’s due to bilateral knee osteoarthritis.
Cinnamon Game Harms Players
Calls to the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) related to cinnamon increased from 51 in 2011 to 178 calls in the first 6 months of 2012, wrote Steven Lipshultz, MD, of University of Miami’s Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine in Florida, and colleagues, online in a Perspective in Pediatrics.
Of the 178 calls, 122 (69%) were classified as intentional misuse or abuse “consistent with the cinnamon challenge,” the authors wrote, and about (17%) required medical attention.
The challenge requires a person to swallow a tablespoon of the dry, ground spice in 60 seconds without drinking fluids.
The authors pointed to 51,000 YouTube video clips — one viewed 19 million times — as of August 2012 that showed adolescents watching someone coughing and choking as the cinnamon triggers a severe gag reflex. They said the popularity of the Internet coupled with peer pressure instigated too many cinnamon challenges.
via Cinnamon Game Harms Players.
I am so thankful my own children are (mostly) past the stupid stage.
Slow Pace Linked to Early Death in Renal Patients
Clinical assessment of gait speed and ‘timed up and go’ performance — the time it takes to stand from a seated position, walk around a cone placed 4 meters away, and return — were more strongly predictive of 3-year mortality than kidney function or standard blood testing in the study, published this week in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
Researchers Suggest 2 Paths to get Patients Back on Statins
…statin discontinuation is common and has been linked to a greater risk of heart-related events and death in patients who have coronary artery disease, the study said.
via Researchers suggest 2 paths to get patients back on statins – amednews.com.
One out of every four Americans over the age of 45 are on a statin.
Coronary Calcium Score Predicts Cardiovascular Mortality in Diabetes
CONCLUSIONS: In T2DM, CAC predicts CVD mortality and meaningfully reclassifies participants, suggesting clinical utility as a risk stratification tool in a population already at increased CVD risk.
via Coronary Calcium Score Predicts Cardiovascular Mortality in Diabetes.
Whoa.
Association of Clinical Symptomatic Hypoglycemia With Cardiovascular Events and Total Mortality in Type 2 Diabetes
CONCLUSIONS: Symptomatic hypoglycemia, whether clinically mild or severe, is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events, all-cause hospitalization, and all-cause mortality. More attention may be needed for diabetic patients with hypoglycemic episodes.
Watch those hypoglycemic episodes in applicants with T2DM.
Association Between BMI Measured Within a Year After Diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes and Mortality
CONCLUSIONS: Patients categorized as normal weight or obese with T2DM within a year of diagnosis of T2DM exhibit variably higher mortality outcomes compared with the overweight group, confirming a U-shaped association of BMI with mortality. Whether weight loss interventions reduce mortality in all T2DM patients requires study.
via Association Between BMI Measured Within a Year After Diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes and Mortality.
Could we have another U shaped mortality curve? Watch that BMI.
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