Weight Loss Drug Wegovy Can Also Reduce Risk of Serious Heart Events, Study Shows
Popular weight loss drugs have dominated news headlines and social media, mostly for their ability to help people shed pounds and control diabetes. But now there is evidence that one of the drugs, semaglutide, can also help reduce the risk of dying from heart disease in some patients. The drug semaglutide is sold under the brand names Wegovy, Ozempic, and Rybelsus. This trial, however, only studied the effects of Wegovy, which is semaglutide at 2.4mg in injectable form, and currently approved for weight management. The results of a much-anticipated study, sponsored by semaglutide’s maker Novo Nordisk, investigating t...
Source: TIME: Health - November 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Different transfusion approaches for helping heart attack patients who develop anemia recover led to similar 30-day outcomes
NIH-funded findings suggest potential benefit of giving more blood to patients. (Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases)
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases - November 11, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Transfusion Thresholds Square Off in Acute Myocardial Infarction
(MedPage Today) -- PHILADELPHIA -- For acute myocardial infarction (MI) patients with anemia, being more liberal with blood transfusion thresholds didn't significantly impact risk of recurrent heart attack or death in the MINT trial, although... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - November 11, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Why is pre-eclampsia still causing the deaths of mothers and their babies?
The condition affects up to 6% of all pregnancies yet understanding of its causes and how to treat it remains basicHaving had one normal pregnancy, Emma Bailey assumed that her second experience of childbirth would progress relatively smoothly. But, at 34 weeks, she began to suffer sudden bursts of stabbing pain just underneath her ribcage.“It was really excruciating pain,” she remembers. “I was admitted to hospital, but they sent me home, saying it was probably just anxiety. I then had to be readmitted the very next day because I was in agony.”Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 11, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Cox Tags: Science Pregnancy Health Maternal mortality Stroke Heart attack High blood pressure Infant and child mortality UK news Aspirin Parents and parenting Medical research Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Source Type: news
Classification Identifies Four Stages of Heart Attack Classification Identifies Four Stages of Heart Attack
In a consensus statement, the Canadian Cardiovascular Society defines four stages of acute atherothrombotic myocardial infarction based on tissue injury severity.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines - November 10, 2023 Category: Cardiology Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
Scientists in Russia struggle in a world transformed by its war with Ukraine
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Yuri Kovalev remembers how some of his older colleagues took offense when he moved to the United States in 2003 to take a postdoc position at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. He could have stayed in Russia where he got his Ph.D., at the Lebedev Physical Institute, one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious science centers. Why ...
Source: ScienceNOW - November 9, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Flexible working can significantly improve heart health, study shows
US researchers suggest that better work-life balance particular beneficial for those over 45 or at higher riskFlexible working can reduce someone ’s risk of having a heart attack or stroke,new American research has found.Having a better work-life balance is so beneficial to health that some employees who work flexibly end up with heart health equivalent to what they had 10 years earlier.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 9, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Denis Campbell Health policy editor Tags: Health Work-life balance Heart disease Medical research UK news US news Source Type: news
Seek and Ye Shall Find Afib in Stroke Survivors
(MedPage Today) -- In 2023, stroke remains the fifth leading cause of death in the U.S. and a leading cause of long-term disability. After a stroke, the 5-year risk of myocardial infarction or vascular death is 17% and the 4-year risk of recurrent... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - November 8, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
AI analysis of chest CT exams predicts cardiovascular disease
Tuesday, November 28 | 3:00 p.m.-3:10 p.m. | T7-SSCA06-1 | Room E353BA deep-learning algorithm can predict a patient’s risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) from analysis of a single chest CT image, according to a group of researchers from Harvard Medical School.Although a patient’s coronary artery calcium score (CAC) from a cardiac CT exam can be used to refine a patient’s risk of ASCVD, presenter Vineet Kalathur Raghu, PhD, and colleagues wanted to explore the potential utility of chest CT studies for this crucial task. To accomplish this goal, they developed CT-CV-Risk, a deep-learning algorithm t...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - November 8, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Erik L. Ridley Tags: 2023 AI Preview Source Type: news
AI algorithm predicts morbidity, mortality on spine DEXA exams
Tuesday, November 28 | 10:00 a.m.-10:10 a.m. | T3-SSMK05-4 | Room E352In this Tuesday morning talk, researchers will describe how a deep-learning algorithm’s assessment of biological age on dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) exams can facilitate morbidity and mortality predictions.A group led by presenter Alex Cheng sought to determine if AI could be used to estimate biological age on DEXA images and if this measure was associated with cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality. They then used lateral and lumbar spine DEXA data from nearly 45,000 participants in the UK Biobank to train a convolutional neural net...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - November 8, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Erik L. Ridley Tags: 2023 AI Preview Source Type: news
Should We End Obesity?
It’s unusual for a medication to become a household name; even more uncommon for its branding to become, like Advil, shorthand for an entire class of products; and rarest of all, for it to change not just U.S. medicine, but U.S. culture.
Ozempic has done all three.
Approved in 2017 as a type 2 diabetes medication, Ozempic has largely made its name—and a fortune for its manufacturer, Novo Nordisk—as a weight-loss aid. Novo Nordisk knew early on that diabetes patients often lost weight on the drug, but even company executives couldn’t have guessed how widely it would eventually take off as both ...
Source: TIME: Health - November 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized Drugs feature healthscienceclimate Magazine TIME 2030 Wellbeing Source Type: news
Dad rushed to hospital five minutes into his regular morning run - 'It was a shock'
Paul Wapham has shared the warning sign that alerted him to a heart attack during his morning run. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - November 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Strain on the body: Marijuana raises risk of heart attack, heart failure and stroke by up to a THIRD, two major studies find
Researchers at the American Heart Association revealed people who use marijuana are at higher risk for heart disease and stroke. Studies are to be presented in Pennsylvania (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
MI Classified Into Four Stages Based on Myocardial Tissue Injury
MONDAY, Nov. 6, 2023 -- In an expert consensus statement published online Oct. 28 in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology, the authors present the classification of four stages of myocardial infarction (MI) based on myocardial tissue injury,... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - November 6, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Marijuana Use Could Raise Odds for Heart Attack, Heart Failure
MONDAY, Nov. 6, 2023 -- People who regularly smoke medical marijuana may be increasing their risk for a heart attack, heart failure or stroke, new research suggests.
One study found that cannabis use among older patients increases the risk of heart... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - November 6, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
