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How To Avoid China ’ s Medicine Monopoly
I want to share a shocking statistic with you… Around 80% of all the pharmaceuticals sold in America — both prescription and over-the-counter — are manufactured in China. I’m talking about drugs for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, blood pressure and blood thinners, diuretics, aspirin, antibiotics, and a big chunk of the world’s insulin and diabetes drugs — just to name a few.1 We don’t even make penicillin anymore. The last penicillin plant in the U.S. closed its doors in 2004. Americans who rely on medicine are now almost entirely at the mercy of a country whose relations with the U.S. have become more ...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - September 19, 2023 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Jacob Tags: Health Source Type: news

How do patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus value the importance of outcomes? An overview of reviews
CONCLUSION: We provide standardised, reliable utility values (or associated disutilities) for T2DM, acute, microvascular and macrovascular complications, related comorbidities and treatments that may support judgements when making clinical recommendations, designing decision support tools, and developing interventions and economic analysis.PMID:37516195 | DOI:10.1016/j.jval.2023.07.003
Source: Cancer Control - July 29, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Ena Nino-de-Guzman Javier Bracchiglione Adrian Vasquez-Mejia Gimon de Graaf Claudio Rocha Calderon Pablo Alonso-Coello Source Type: research

Sex differences in the association between stroke risk factors and pre-clinical predictors of stroke in the childhood determinants of Adult Health study
CONCLUSIONS: Smoking, SBP and glucose affect carotid structure and function more in women than men with some of this risk due to co-occurring risk factors.PMID:37391336 | DOI:10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2023.06.077
Source: Atherosclerosis - June 30, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Mohammad Shah Marie-Jeanne Buscot Jing Tian Hoang T Phan Thomas H Marwick Terence Dwyer Alison Venn Seana Gall Source Type: research

Straight from the heart: Mysterious lipids may predict cardiac problems better than cholesterol
Stephanie Blendermann, 65, had good reason to worry about heart disease. Three of her sisters died in their 40s or early 50s from heart attacks, and her father needed surgery to bypass clogged arteries. She also suffered from an autoimmune disorder that results in chronic inflammation and boosts the odds of developing cardiovascular illnesses. “I have an interesting medical chart,” says Blendermann, a real estate agent in Prior Lake, Minnesota. Yet Blendermann’s routine lab results weren’t alarming. At checkups, her low-density lipoprotein (LDL), or “bad,” cholesterol hovered around the 100 milligrams-per-...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - March 16, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Unlucky numbers: Fighting murder convictions that rest on shoddy stats
LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS— When a Dutch nurse named Lucia de Berk stood trial for serial murder in 2003, statistician Richard Gill was aware of the case. But he saw no reason to stick his nose into it. De Berk was a pediatric nurse at Juliana Children’s Hospital in The Hague. In 2001, after a baby died while she was on duty, a colleague told superiors that De Berk had been present at a suspiciously high number of deaths and resuscitations. Hospital staff immediately informed the police. When investigators reexamined records from De Berk’s shifts, they found 10 suspicious incidents. Three other hospitals where D...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - January 19, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Peripheral versus central insulin and leptin resistance: Role in metabolic disorders, cognition, and neuropsychiatric diseases
Neuropharmacology. 2021 Nov 8:108877. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2021.108877. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTInsulin and leptin are classically regarded as peptide hormones that play key roles in metabolism. In actuality, they serve several functions in both the periphery and central nervous system (CNS). Likewise, insulin and leptin resistance can occur both peripherally and centrally. Metabolic disorders such as diabetes and obesity share several key features including insulin and leptin resistance. While the peripheral effects of these disorders are well-known (i.e. cardiovascular disease, hypertension, stroke, dyslipidem...
Source: Neuropharmacology - November 11, 2021 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Jennifer M Erichsen Jim R Fadel Lawrence P Reagan Source Type: research

Causes and Consequences of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Insights from Mendelian Randomization
CONCLUSIONS: The accumulation of genome-wide association studies in PCOS has enabled multiple MR analyses identifying factors that may cause PCOS or be caused by PCOS. This knowledge will be critical to future development of measures to prevent PCOS in girls at risk as well as prevent complications in those who have PCOS.PMID:34669940 | DOI:10.1210/clinem/dgab757
Source: The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism - October 20, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Tiantian Zhu Mark O Goodarzi Source Type: research

The Relationship between Glucose Control & Cognitive Function in People with Diabetes after a Lacunar Stroke.
CONCLUSION: This analysis of lacunar stroke patients with diabetes demonstrates a relationship between A1C and change in cognitive scores over time. Intervention studies are needed in order to delineate if better glucose control could slow the rate of cognitive decline in this high risk population. PMID: 33481011 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism - January 22, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Cukierman-Yaffe T, McClure LA, Thomas R, Bosch J, Sharma M, Gerstein HC, Benavente O Tags: J Clin Endocrinol Metab Source Type: research

Impact of comorbidity on health-related quality of life among type 2 diabetic patients in primary care.
CONCLUSION: Comorbidities considerably impair the HRQL among type 2 diabetic patients. National programs designed for diabetes management should also take into account the challenges of coexisting chronic conditions and its substantial effect on HRQL. PMID: 32248877 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Primary Care - April 5, 2020 Category: Primary Care Authors: Pati S, Pati S, Akker MVD, Schellevis FFG, Jena S, Burgers JS Tags: Prim Health Care Res Dev Source Type: research

Incidence and Risk Factors for Dementia in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Nationwide Population-Based Study in Korea.
CONCLUSION: The optimal management of modifiable risk factors may be important for preventing dementia in subjects with diabetes mellitus. PMID: 31769236 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Diabetes and Metabolism Journal - November 28, 2019 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Diabetes Metab J Source Type: research

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