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Prevalence of dementia, heart disease and stroke in community-dwelling adults in Canada, 2016 –2021: opportunities for joint prevention
ConclusionRecent increases in the prevalence of dementia, heart disease and stroke in Canadian communities threaten to reverse any gains in vascular disease prevention over the past six years. Findings reveal the urgent need for intensified prevention efforts that are community-based with a focus on joint reduction in the shared risk factors contributing to all three diseases.
Source: Archives of Public Health - August 24, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

What Prohibition Can Teach Us About Drug and Alcohol Policy Today
It’s widely understood today that drinking while pregnant is harmful for the fetus. But the link between alcohol and the health of infants wasn’t as well known in the 1930s, when prohibition was repealed in the U.S. and all sorts of people, pregnant women included, began drinking again.Because prohibition was lifted on a piecemeal basis across the U.S., some counties continued to prohibit alcohol, or stay “dry,” while their neighboring counties were “wet.” Those conditions created what economists call a natural experiment, and made it possible to track the health impacts of maternal drin...
Source: TIME: Health - August 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Oliver Staley Tags: Uncategorized Public Health Source Type: news

Syncope Evaluation: Evidence-Based and Economical
This study eliminated low-risk syncope patients and those with non-syncope transient loss of consciousness, such as seizure and head trauma, using a structured approach in the emergency department (ED), with only high-risk syncope patients being admitted. These high-risk syncope patients made up 28% of the patients included in the study. After admission, a simplified Wells’ pulmonary embolism criteria score was calculated, and a D-dimer was obtained. If either was high, the patient was scanned for PE and 17% were found to be positive, with two-thirds of those being found to have large-vessel pulmonary emboli. The bottom ...
Source: The Hospitalist - July 5, 2023 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Ronda Whitaker Tags: Clinical Guidelines Source Type: research

Pharmacoepidemiologic study of association between apparent treatment resistant hypertension, cardiovascular disease and interaction effect by sex and age
CONCLUSION: aTRH was significantly associated with an increased risk of CVD and this association was modified by both sex and age. Further studies are warranted to test these mechanisms.PMID:37274374 | PMC:PMC10237003 | DOI:10.4330/wjc.v15.i5.262
Source: World Journal of Cardiology - June 5, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Julianne Theresa Nelson Longjian Liu Source Type: research

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