Why weight loss drugs are not the answer to obesity
Drugs that cause weight to melt away sound more tempting than chocolate cake, but weight loss drugs won’t cure obesity. And that’s OK, because obesity isn’t a disease to be cured. Obesity is just a risk factor for more important risk factors. Fat people are more likely to have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and
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Why weight loss drugs are not the answer to obesity originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 15, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Judy Butler and Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD Tags: Conditions Obesity Source Type: blogs
A man in his 60s with acute chest pain and high voltage
Sent by Anonymous, written by Pendell MeyersA man in his 60s with history of CAD and 2 prior stents presented to the ED complaining of acute heavy substernal chest pain that began while eating breakfast about an hour ago, and had been persistent since then, despite EMS administering aspirin and nitroglycerin. There was associated diaphoresis, but no dyspnea, nausea, or vomiting. He reported having covid 2 weeks ago, but had seemingly fully recovered.Triage 1104:What do you think?The triage ECG was sent to me with no history (I did not have access to baseline ECGs), and I said that I thought this was just LVH causing the an...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - April 14, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
Obesity is crippling the US, but there are solutions
By STEPHANIE TILENIUS
Well over a third of Americans are obese — and the percentage keeps growing at a staggering rate. Over the last twenty years, obesity prevalence grew from 30% to 42% of the US population and rates of severe obesity nearly doubled. If we don’t make serious changes to our healthcare system, it’s scary to think where we’re headed in a few short years.
The fact is, obesity is far from a cosmetic condition. It can be a devastating disease and was classified as such by the American Medical Association in 2013. Obesity is the leading risk factor for deadly diseases like type 2 diabetes, heart d...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy GLP-1 Obesity Stephanie Tilenius vida health Source Type: blogs
Rising Healthcare Costs: How Health Plans Can Help Members Navigate
The following is a guest article by Jake Sattelmair, EVP and General Manager at Wellframe, a HealthEdge company
Healthcare costs are on the rise in the United States, posing significant challenges for individuals, employers, and health plans. Factors such as an aging population, an increased prevalence of chronic conditions and rising costs for medical technology and prescription drugs have all contributed to the surge in healthcare expenses. Unfortunately, these increased costs are passed on to patients, making healthcare increasingly unaffordable and inaccessible for many.
According to the Average Cost of Health Insuranc...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Care Management Chronic Conditions Digital Health Apps Digital Tools Health Plans Healthcare Costs Healthcare Payers HealthEdge Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - research evidence - 12th April 2023
Recent research articles that might be useful to know about.Infant feeding method and special educational need, a cohort study of 191745 Scottish schoolchildren.von Willebrand disease in pregnancy.Another systematic review of COVID vaccination in pregnancy, abstract and link in McMaster ' s Evidence Alerts. Postpartum hypertension, abstract and link in McMaster ' s Evidence Alerts.Safety and immunogenicity of an RSV vaccine in mothers and their infants.Intravenous ketorolac after cesarean, link and abstract in McMaster ' s Evidence Alerts. Induction of labour at or near term for suspected fetal macrosomia - Cochr...
Source: Browsing - April 12, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 10th 2023
Fight Aging! publishes news and commentary relevant to the goal of ending all age-related disease, to be achieved by bringing the mechanisms of aging under the control of modern medicine. This weekly newsletter is sent to thousands of interested subscribers. To subscribe or unsubscribe from the newsletter,
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Reason, the founder of Fight Aging! and Repair Biotechnologies, offers strategic consulting services to investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in the longevity industry and its complexities. To find out m...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 9, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Off and on chest pain for 24 hours in a 50s year old man
Submitted by Ali Khan MD and James Mantas MD, MS, written by Pendell MeyersA man in his 50s with history of diabetes, hypertension, and tobacco use presented to the ED with 24 hours of worsening left sided chest pain radiating to the back, characterized as squeezing and pinching, associated with shortness of breath. His pain was initially mild, then became severely worse several hours prior to presentation, but then eased off again and was minimal on arrival. There was no associated diaphoresis, nausea, vomiting, arm pain, jaw pain, syncope, lightheadedness or other acute symptoms.Initial vitals: Temp 36.7 C, BP 161/79, RR...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - April 9, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
How do we reduce hypertension in Black Americans?
Nearly half of all Americans have high blood pressure, but hypertension disproportionately affects Black Americans, with 56 percent of this population affected. The disparity is especially stark for stage II hypertension, which affects 42.1 percent of Black Americans compared with 28.7 percent of white Americans. “In the United States, at any decade of life, blacks
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How do we reduce hypertension in Black Americans? originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 8, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Jie Shi Yan, MD Tags: Conditions Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Rethinking Medication and Information Technology
Previous articles in this series looked at barriers to taking medication and possible solutions, including special conditions that produce challenges. This final article in the series turns the question on its head. Can patients get better without the medications?
Dr. Omar Manejwala, CMO of DarioHealth, goes so far as to use the terms “paternalistic” and “infantilizing” to label claims that people fail to take medication solely out of ignorance or forgetfulness. To all the other factors that hold people back from taking their meds, he adds social and religious factors, concerns about side effects an...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Ambulatory Clinical Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC AdhereHealth Bryan Hill Carium Caroline E. Ortiz Charles Lee Cognizant DarioHealth FDB fee-for- Source Type: blogs
Towards An Aging Clock Based on Retinal Imaging of the Microvasculature
Blood vessel density declines with age, alongside other detrimental changes in the microvasculature, such as small areas of tissue damage following microbleeds. All of this can be readily imaged in the retina, and retinal imaging is already in widespread use in clinical practices. Thus it is interesting to see progress towards an aging clock that uses this aspect of degenerative aging as a marker. A number of potential therapeutic strategies may meaningfully increase angiogenesis and thus microvascular density in later life, such as increased circulating VEGF via gene therapy, or use of existing FDA-approved CLCX12 agonist...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 6, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Heart Disease: The Best Time To Eat For A Healthy Heart
Eating before this hour could save you from high blood pressure and gaining weight. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - April 4, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: Heart Disease Source Type: blogs
An Indoor Activity That Lowers Blood Pressure More Than Walking
An indoor activity found to diminish high blood pressure more effectively than walking. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - April 3, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: Blood Pressure Source Type: blogs
I was reading EKGs on the system and came across this one......
I am always looking for EKGs that show either subtle OMI or OMI mimics.Which did I think this was?I suspected that this was amimic. It is hard to say why. There is " inferior " ST depression, reciprocal to high lateral ST Elevation. The precordial leads have ST Elevation but also high voltage and look like possible LVH. I was not certain that it did not represent OMI, but was pretty sure.So I went to the chart and found that it was not different from previous ECGs and the patient ruled out for MI by serial troponins.This is a very difficult ECG and so I wanted to know how the PM Cardio Bot would per...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - April 2, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Beyond ChatGPT: What Does GPT-4 Add To Healthcare?
Dust has yet to settle on the ChatGPT hype, but OpenAI, the developer behind the artificial intelligence (AI) language model underpinning ChatGPT, has launched the next iteration of its model: GPT-4.
Announcing GPT-4, a large multimodal model, with our best-ever results on capabilities and alignment: https://t.co/TwLFssyALF pic.twitter.com/lYWwPjZbSg— OpenAI (@OpenAI) March 14, 2023
OpenAI advertises its new AI model as being “more creative and collaborative than ever before” and “can solve difficult problems with greater accuracy”. The tool is already being adopted by organisations such as Be My Eyes...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Future of Medicine Healthcare technology AI digital health Source Type: blogs
High Blood Pressure: One Fun Activity That Treats Hypertension
High blood pressure -- known to doctors as hypertension -- is a risk factor for heart disease. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 27, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Blood Pressure Source Type: blogs
