' How Can I Prevent Heart Disease?' Docs Give Different Answers to Men, Women
MONDAY, Dec. 5, 2022 -- Doctors give men and women different advice to head off heart disease, even though guidelines for both are the same.
Men were 20% more likely to be prescribed statins to lower blood levels of bad cholesterol compared with... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - December 5, 2022 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Statins' success may be fuelling obesity crisis by discouraging patients from losing weight
Around eight million Britons take statins to lower their cholesterol, and up to nine million are on medications to lower blood pressure. But it may distract people from tackling their waistlines. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
EHR Alerts to Both Doc and Patient May Boost Statin Prescribing EHR Alerts to Both Doc and Patient May Boost Statin Prescribing
Electronic ' nudges ' that promote new statin prescriptions seemed most effective when sent to patients as well as their primary care doctors in a randomized trial.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines - December 3, 2022 Category: Cardiology Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
Clinician Nudge Ups Initiation of Statin Prescribing in Primary Care
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 30, 2022 -- A clinician nudge alone or combined with a patient nudge can increase initiation of statin prescribing during primary care visits, according to a study published online Nov. 30 in JAMA Cardiology.
Srinath Adusumalli,... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - November 30, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Vitamin D Fails to Stave Off Statin-Related Muscle Symptoms Vitamin D Fails to Stave Off Statin-Related Muscle Symptoms
A substudy of the VITAL trial provides the first randomized data examining the effect of the popular supplement on muscle symptoms in statin users.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines - November 28, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
Leveraging Incidental CAC on Chest CT Boosts Statin Therapy Leveraging Incidental CAC on Chest CT Boosts Statin Therapy
A novel quality improvement project suggests that opportunistic screening with previously performed imaging can be leveraged to improve risk prediction and quality of care.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - November 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
Statins Boost Glycemia Slightly, but CVD Benefits Prevail Statins Boost Glycemia Slightly, but CVD Benefits Prevail
Meta-analysis of 23 trials confirmed statins raise glycemia and can trigger diabetes, but the effect pales in comparison to their CVD prevention.MDedge News (Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines - November 15, 2022 Category: Cardiology Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
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
Statins might prevent you losing your eyesight
Experts at University Hospital Bonn in Germany, examined studies involving 40,000 people from the UK, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Portugal and Russia. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 7, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Genetic tests could identify thousands at risk of heart disease, NHS study
World-first pilot in England helps identify those who could be offered statins, who would otherwise be ‘invisible’ to NHSGPs in the north of England have used predictive genetic tests to identify people most at risk of heart disease in the world ’s first pilot of the technology.The NHS study, called Heart, offered genetic tests to nearly 1,000 people aged 45 to 64, in the hope of better predicting their risk of developing cardiovascular disease over the next 10 years.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 7, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Science editor Tags: Heart disease Genetics Health Heart attack NHS England UK news Source Type: news
Don't bother with dietary supplements for heart health, study says
Six supplements that people commonly take for heart health don't help lower "bad" cholesterol or improve cardiovascular health, according to a study published Sunday, but statins did. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - November 7, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Study Refutes Heart Health Claims of Dietary Supplements
(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- For people without heart disease, preventive low-dose statin therapy lowered LDL cholesterol to a degree that dietary supplements and placebo couldn't match, a randomized trial found.
People taking rosuvastatin... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - November 7, 2022 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
What to Know About Diabetes and the Risk of Silent Heart Attacks
At first it seemed like a routine call—something the paramedics had dealt with countless times before. A man in his mid-50s was having a heart attack, and his physician had called for emergency support. But when the paramedics arrived, the physician pulled them aside and told them something peculiar: the man had no cardiovascular symptoms whatsoever.
The man had come to his doctor’s office because he’d woken early the previous morning sweating and with a sharp pain in his left wrist. These symptoms had quickly subsided and he’d gone back to sleep. Later, after going about his day, he’d visited...
Source: TIME: Health - November 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Markham Heid Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate heart health Source Type: news
Alzheimer's Trial Death; Dementia and Antihypertensives; Simvastatin in Parkinson's?
(MedPage Today) -- A trial investigator for the anti-amyloid drug lecanemab -- which showed cognitive benefit in a phase III trial of early Alzheimer's -- flagged the death of a trial participant following bleeding in the brain and said it... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - November 1, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
More than two dozen herbal supplements found to interact with medicines, including statins
The review will not come as a surprise to those intimately aware of the literature but it does point to a worrying trend. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - October 31, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
