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The STRIDE Weight Loss and Lifestyle Intervention for Individuals Taking Antipsychotic Medications: A Randomized Trial.
Conclusions: Individuals taking antipsychotic medications can lose weight and improve fasting glucose levels. Increasing reach of the intervention is an important future step.
PMID: 25219423 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The American Journal of Psychiatry - September 15, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Green CA, Yarborough BJ, Leo MC, Yarborough MT, Stumbo SP, Janoff SL, Perrin NA, Nichols GA, Stevens VJ Tags: Am J Psychiatry Source Type: research
Noninvasive ventilation in the treatment of sleep-related breathing disorders: concise clinical review
Abstract
Noninvasive mechanical ventilation (NIPPV) was originally used in patients with acute respiratory compromises or exacerbations of chronic respiratory diseases, as an alternative to the endotracheal tube. Over the past 30 years NIPPV has been also used during the night in patients with stable chronic lung disease such as obstructive sleep apnea, the overlap syndrome (COPD and obstructive sleep apnea), neuromuscular disorders, obesity-hypoventilation syndrome, and in other conditions such as sleep disorders associated with congestive heart failure (Cheyne–Stokes respiration). In this review we discuss t...
Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person - August 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
The Look AHEAD Study: Implications for Clinical Practice Go Beyond the Headlines
On Friday, October 19, 2012, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that the lifestyle “intervention was stopped early in NIH-funded study of weight loss in overweight and obese adults with type 2 diabetes after finding no harm, but no cardiovascular benefits.” The primary study question of the long-term Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes) Study had been answered. An intensive lifestyle intervention program aimed at a 10% weight loss and 175 minutes of physical activity per week did not reduce cardiovascular events (defined as heart attack, stroke, hospitalization for angina, or death) in people with ...
Source: Journal of the American Dietetic Association - March 21, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Linda M. Delahanty Tags: Commentary Source Type: research
Association between serum bilirubin and cardiovascular disease in an overweight high risk population from the SCOUT trial
Conclusion: Bilirubin was not a risk-factor independent from other traditional cardiovascular risk-factors in our population.
Source: Nutrition, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Diseases : NMCD - February 18, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: M.E. Jørgensen, C. Torp-Pedersen, N. Finer, I. Caterson, W.P.T. James, U.F. Legler, C. Andersson Tags: Liver abnormalities, diabetes and cardiovascular risk Source Type: research
A safe, effective diet pill - the elusive holy grail
Trade in illegal, ineffective drugs flourishes as pharmaceutical industry repeatedly fails to produce successful pillAttempts to invent a safe and effective diet pill have foundered time and again, allowing the internet trade in illegal and ineffective herbal supplements and dangerous drugs, such as DNP, to flourish.A successful diet pill could make billions for the pharmaceutical industry, but efforts to date have ended in disaster, with patients harmed, drugs banned and massive compensation paid out.Fen-phen, an appetite suppressant, was the most spectacular failure. It was withdrawn in the US in 1997 after causing wides...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 14, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Sarah Boseley Tags: The Guardian Diets and dieting Drugs trade Healthcare industry World news Pharmaceuticals industry & wellbeing Health policy Society Politics UK news Life and style Public services policy Business Science Source Type: news
New U.S. heart guidelines back stronger therapies for high-risk patients
(Reuters) - New U.S. guidelines on heart health that were a decade in the making recommend stronger measures for patients at particularly high risk of heart attack or stroke, including more aggressive therapy with drugs that lower cholesterol or even weight loss surgery.
Source: Reuters: Health - November 12, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
New heart guidelines back stronger therapies for high risk patients
(Reuters) - New U.S. guidelines on heart health that were a decade in the making recommend stronger measures for patients at particularly high risk of heart attack or stroke, including more aggressive therapy with drugs that lower cholesterol or even bariatric weight loss surgery.
Source: Reuters: Health - November 12, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
A predictive model of complications after spine surgery: the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) 2005–2010
Conclusions: Our model can provide individualized estimates of the risks of postoperative complications based on preoperative conditions, and can potentially be used as an adjunct in decision-making for spine surgery.
Source: The Spine Journal - November 8, 2013 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Kimon Bekelis, Atman Desai, Samuel F. Bakhoum, Symeon Missios Tags: Clinical Studies Source Type: research
Could leptin explain the link between abdominal obesity and cardiovascular disease
High levels of adipose tissue hormone leptin in the blood reduces blood vessels' ability to dilate, and also affects blood clotting, all of which increase the risk of heart attack and stroke. These are some of the results that Manuel Gonzalez shows in his doctoral thesis that he defended at Umea University. Numerous population studies have shown that overweight people, especially those with abdominal obesity, have a higher risk of coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 9, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Source Type: news
Cardiovascular Effects of Intensive Lifestyle Intervention in Type 2 Diabetes
In this study, conducted in 16 centers in the United States, 5145 overweight or obese patients with type 2 diabetes were randomly assigned to participate in an intensive lifestyle intervention that promoted weight loss through decreased caloric intake and increased physical activity, the intervention group, or receive diabetes support and education only, the control group. The primary outcome was a composite of death from cardiovascular causes, nonfatal myocardial infarction, nonfatal stroke, or hospitalization for angina occurring over a maximum follow-up of 13.5 years. At a median follow-up of 9.6 years, the trial was st...
Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - October 1, 2013 Category: Surgery Authors: The Look AHEAD Research Group Tags: Abstracts Source Type: research
Guideline: ACP recommends weight loss and CPAP therapy for obstructive sleep apnea
People diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) should not consider surgery, according to new recommendations from the American College of Physicians (ACP). Instead, ACP recommends that patients lose weight and use continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) as initial therapy. More than 18 million American adults have sleep apnea, which increases the risk of high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, heart failure, and diabetes and increases the chance of driving or other accidents. Sleep apnea is a leading cause of excessive daytime sleepiness...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia Source Type: news
The role of nutrition, nutraceuticals, vitamins, antioxidants, and minerals in the prevention and treatment of hypertension.
Abstract
Macronutrient and micronutrient deficiencies are very common in the general population and may be even more common in patients with hypertension and cardiovascular disease due to genetic or environmental causes and prescription drug use. These deficiencies will have an enormous impact on present and future cardiovascular health and outcomes, such as hypertension, myocardial infarction, stroke and renal disease, and on overall health costs. The diagnosis and treatment of these nutrient deficiencies can reduce blood pressure; improve vascular health, endothelial dysfunction, and vascular biology; and decrea...
Source: Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine - September 20, 2013 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Houston MC Tags: Altern Ther Health Med Source Type: research
What is metabolic syndrome? What causes metabolic syndrome?
Metabolic Syndrome, also known as Syndrome X, refers to a number of conditions that occur simultaneously and increase the risk of diabetes, stroke and heart disease. People with metabolic syndrome have high blood sugar levels, hypertension (high blood pressure), too much fat around their belly, and unhealthy cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Although on its own, each condition can raise the risk of heart attack or stroke, people with just one or two of them do not have metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is a preventable and reversible condition...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 24, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Source Type: news
Just a few extra pounds increases heart failure risk
Conclusion
This large study uses an interesting genetic approach (Mendelian randomisation) to suggest obesity increases the risk of heart failure and adverse changes in liver enzymes.
The combination of a very large sample, prospectively collected information, and a wide range of cardiometabolic measures lend credibility to the findings. The method the researchers used is also thought to reduce the chances of factors other than BMI influencing results, and the chance that the ‘outcome’ could be causing the ‘exposure’ (reverse causality).
The main limitation of this kind of research is that assumptions need to be m...
Source: NHS News Feed - June 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Obesity Lifestyle/exercise Source Type: news
Diabetes Lifestyle Intervention Does Not Reduce Heart Attack Or Stroke Risk
A long-term, intensive lifestyle intervention program for type 2 diabetes patients that focused on weight loss and exercise did not reduce the risk of stroke or heart attacks, researchers involved in the "Look AHEAD" trial explained at the American Diabetes Association's 73rd Scientific Sessions, Chicago, Illinois. However, the program improved patients' physical quality of life, reduced incidence and severity of depressive symptoms, lowered medical costs because of fewer hospitalizations, outpatient care and medications, and also reduced *microvascular complications...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Diabetes Source Type: news
