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Kapvay = brand name
Shionogi = manufacturer
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The War to Our South – 10/2/2010
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.
Depression + CHD = Bad
The risk of all-cause mortality was elevated 67% for patients with coronary heart disease (P<0.05) and 2.10 times for those with depressive symptoms (P<0.001) in the long-running Whitehall II study of British civil servants.
But patients who had both conditions had a nearly five-fold risk compared with those who had neither (hazard ratio 4.99, P<0.001), Hermann Nabi, PhD, of the University of Versailles, France, and colleagues reported online in Heart.
Scary Charts of the Day – 09.20.2010
Official Google Reader Blog: A welcome and a look back
These charts should be extremely scary especially to folks in the newspaper and media businesses. If you wanted some hard evidence on consumer preferences for news outlets shifting to the Internet, here you go. The top chart is the number of people who use Google Reader at least once a week. The bottom chart is the number of items read on Google Reader.
Personally, we still buy a daily newspaper.
Fish Kill Update 09.18.2010
Guest Post: What’s Going On In The Gulf? « naked capitalism
Oil? What oil?
There are two links near the bottom of this article concerning possible human health consequences from the spill. We now know about the respiratory and possible cancer issues of 9/11 survivors and workers having inhaled lots of stuff. Pay attention to your Gulf Shore applicants for unusual rashes or symptoms.
The New US Economy
Lost Decade for American Income – WSJ.com
For your Scary Charts check out the article link below.
Or see what Yves Smith is writing about real estate.
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