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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
Association of Coronary Artery Calcium Detected by Routine Ungated CT Imaging With Cardiovascular Outcomes
CONCLUSIONS: Incidental CAC ≥100 was associated with an increased risk of all-cause death and adverse cardiovascular outcomes, beyond traditional risk factors. DL-CAC from routine non-ECG-gated CTs identifies patients at increased cardiovascular risk and holds promise as a tool for opportunistic screening to facilitate earlier intervention.PMID:37704309 | DOI:10.1016/j.jacc.2023.06.040
Source: Atherosclerosis - September 13, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Allison W Peng Ramzi Dudum Sneha S Jain David J Maron Bhavik N Patel Nishith Khandwala David Eng Akshay S Chaudhari Alexander T Sandhu Fatima Rodriguez Source Type: research
Atherosclerosis on CT coronary angiography and risk of long-term cardiovascular events post liver transplantation
CONCLUSION: The standardized CAD-RADS classification on CTCA predicted the occurrence of cardiovascular outcomes following LT, with a potential to increase utilization of preventive cardiovascular therapies.PMID:37432891 | DOI:10.1097/LVT.0000000000000215
Source: Atherosclerosis - July 11, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Thalys Sampaio Rodrigues Anoop N Koshy Paul J Gow Laurence Weinberg Benjamin Cailes Adam Testro Gerard Smith Han S Lim Andrew W Teh Ruth P Lim Omar Farouque Source Type: research
Predictive values of coronary artery calcium and arterial stiffness for long-term cardiovascular events in patients with stable coronary artery disease
CONCLUSIONS: A CAC score ≥100 or a CAVI ≥ 9.0 predicts the long-term occurrence of MACEs in both asymptomatic and symptomatic patients with stable CAD. These two noninvasive tests can be used as screening tools to guide treatment for the prevention of future CV events.PMID:36448219 | DOI:10.1002/clc.23955
Source: Atherosclerosis - November 30, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Thosaphol Limpijankit Sutipong Jongjirasiri Krissada Meemook Nattawut Unwanatham Ammarin Thakkinstian Jiraporn Laothamatas Source Type: research
Statin therapy for primary prevention in men: What is the role for coronary artery calcium?
Statin therapy is widely prescribed for patients with established ASCVD (secondary prevention). Meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) show conclusively that statins substantially reduce recurrent major ASCVD events (myocardial infarction and stroke)1. More problematic is use of statins for patients without ASCVD (primary prevention). RCTs clearly demonstrate that statins can lower ASCVD for primary prevention in patients at higher risk for future vascular events2-4; however, the number needed to treat (NNT) to prevent one ASCVD event is much higher for primary prevention than for secondary prevention.
Source: Journal of Clinical Lipidology - November 23, 2022 Category: Lipidology Authors: Scott M. Grundy, Jijia Wong, Gloria L. Vega Source Type: research
How People With Diabetes Can Lower Stroke Risk
After spending nearly two decades trying to manage her Type 2 diabetes, Agnes Czuchlewski landed in the emergency room in 2015, with news that she’d just experienced a heart attack. She also learned that she had metabolic syndrome, a cluster of conditions that includes diabetes but also brings higher risk of heart disease and stroke.
“Because I needed to lose quite a bit of weight when I was first diagnosed, I was focused on the number I saw on the scale, and then on my blood-sugar numbers,” recalls Czuchlewski, 68, who lives in New York City. “I didn’t realize other numbers came into play, li...
Source: TIME: Health - November 10, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Millard Tags: Uncategorized Disease healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
How Menopause Affects Cholesterol —And How to Manage It
Kelly Officer, 49, eats a vegan diet and shuns most processed foods. So, after a recent routine blood test revealed that she had high cholesterol, “I was shocked and upset,” she says, “since it never has been [high] in the past.”
Officer is not alone. As women enter menopause, cholestrol levels jump—by an average of 10-15%, or about 10 to 20 milligrams per deciliter. (A healthy adult cholesterol range is 125-200 milligrams per deciliter, according to the National Library of Medicine.)
This change often goes unnoticed amidst physical symptoms and the general busyness of those years. But, says D...
Source: TIME: Health - September 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katherine Harmon Courage Tags: Uncategorized freelance healthscienceclimate heart health Source Type: news
Related Factors of Cerebral Hemorrhage after Cerebral Infarction and the Effect of Atorvastatin Combined with Intensive Nursing Care
CONCLUSION: Patients with hypertension, large infarction lesions, high NIHSS score at admission, atrial fibrillation, and small artery occlusion cerebral infarction can increase the risk of bleeding transformation in patients with cerebral infarction. For patients with bleeding transformation, atorvastatin calcium tablets combined with early intensive nursing intervention has a certain value for improving the prognosis of patients.PMID:35959354 | PMC:PMC9357761 | DOI:10.1155/2022/9546006
Source: Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine - August 12, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Qian Yang Yuedong Yang Xiaoting Li Source Type: research
Association of polygenic risk scores with incident atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease events among individuals with coronary artery calcium score of zero: The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis
CONCLUSIONS: Among individuals with CAC = 0, the ASCVD PRS was associated with incident ASCVD events. This appears to be driven by genetic variants related to stroke but not CHD, and particularly among women and non-Whites. ASCVD event rates remained below the threshold recommended for consideration for initiation of statin therapy even in the high PRS groups.PMID:35952728 | DOI:10.1016/j.pcad.2022.08.003
Source: Atherosclerosis - August 11, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Mahmoud Al Rifai Jie Yao Xiuqing Guo Wendy S Post Shaista Malik Roger S Blumenthal Christie M Ballantyne Matthew Budoff Kent D Taylor Henry J Lin Stephen S Rich Catherine Hajek Philip Greenland Jerome I Rotter Salim S Virani Source Type: research
The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis-Calcium Score Improves Statin Treatment Allocation in Asymptomatic Adults
CONCLUSION: In asymptomatic subjects, the MESA-C score improves allocation to statin treatment and CV risk discrimination, while both scores are essential for more precise survival estimations.PMID:35911540 | PMC:PMC9334900 | DOI:10.3389/fcvm.2022.855390
Source: Atherosclerosis - August 1, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Gadi Shlomai Joseph Shemesh Shlomo Segev Nira Koren-Morag Ehud Grossman Source Type: research
Polycystic ovary syndrome: a "risk-enhancing" factor for cardiovascular disease
Fertil Steril. 2022 May;117(5):924-935. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2022.03.009.ABSTRACTPolycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrine disorder among women of reproductive age and is hallmarked by hyperandrogenism, oligo-ovulation, and polycystic ovarian morphology. Polycystic ovary syndrome, particularly the hyperandrogenism phenotype, is associated with several cardiometabolic abnormalities, including obesity, dyslipidemia, elevated blood pressure, and prediabetes or type 2 diabetes. Many, but not all, studies have suggested that PCOS is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), includi...
Source: Atherosclerosis - May 5, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Carolyn Guan Salman Zahid Anum S Minhas Pamela Ouyang Arthur Vaught Valerie L Baker Erin D Michos Source Type: research
