10 Health Habits That Changed Our Lives in 2023
As health reporters and editors, we know what’s good for us. But that doesn’t mean we always do it.
This year, each of us took at least one thing we’ve learned covering health and applied it to our own lives. Here’s what stuck.
Collecting houseplants
Last year at this time, I had a modest couple of shelves of houseplants. Now, I live in a jungle. I started collecting rare aroids—a family of plants that includes philodendrons, monsteras, and alocasias—and my new hobby transformed the trajectory of my year. Tending to my plants keeps me busy, so I have less time to scroll social...
Source: TIME: Health - December 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: TIME Staff Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
AI predicts cardiovascular disease mortality risk on chest CT
A deep-learning algorithm could predict a patient’s risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) from analysis of noncontrast-enhanced chest CT exams, according to a study presented at the recent RSNA meeting. Researchers, led by presenter Vineet Kalathur Raghu, PhD, from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, trained an AI model to predict a patient’s probability of cardiovascular mortality within 12 years. In testing, the algorithm yielded a statistically significant improvement in prediction performance over a baseline regression model. The algorithm, called CT-CV-Risk, also predicte...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - December 19, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Erik L. Ridley Tags: CT Artificial Intelligence Image Processing Chest Radiology Source Type: news
FDA Updates Labels for Two Cholesterol-Lowering Agents FDA Updates Labels for Two Cholesterol-Lowering Agents
New bempedoic acid and bempedoic acid/ezetimibe labels add primary hyperlipidemia and remove the maximally tolerated statin requirement and statement on the effect on mortality.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines - December 18, 2023 Category: Cardiology Tags: Cardiology Source Type: news
Long-Term Use Of Statins Linked To Heart Disease: Studies
Authored by Vance Voetberg via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), For decades, statins have been heralded as the reliable heroes in the battle against heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States and globally. However, this…#vancevoetberg #epochtimes #benshutterstock #clinicalpharmacology #coq10 #insufficientcoq10 #statin #biophysicaljournal #biofactors #statincardiomyopathy (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
More than two million heart patients face higher doses of statins or extra drugs to reduce cholesterol
Nice estimates that up to 145,000 heart attacks, strokes and premature deaths could be prevented over the next decade if people's cholesterol levels were lowered. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
U.S. FDA Updates LDL-C Lowering Indication for Esperion ’s Nexletol (bempedoic acid) Tablet and Nexlizet (bempedoic acid and ezetimibe) Tablet
Updated Label Adds Primary Hyperlipidemia, Removes Maximally Tolerated Statin Requirement, Removes Limitation of Use
Cardiovascular (CV) Risk Reduction Labels Remain on Track: in U.S. with PDUFA Date of March 31; in Europe with Anticipated... (Source: Drugs.com - New Drug Approvals)
Source: Drugs.com - New Drug Approvals - December 13, 2023 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Statins and CKD; Farxiga's Limited Symptom Improvement; Stop Wasted TNKase
(MedPage Today) -- The prevalence of lower extremity artery disease was an estimated 9.7% around the world, reaching a high of 14.5% in South-Central Asia. (European Journal of Preventive Cardiology)
Removal of race stratification did not improve... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - December 12, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
DR ELLIE CANNON: Mum had a stroke in her 80s... will statins help me avoid one?
Today's reader has asked DR ELLIE CANNON whether they should accept their GP's suggestion to start taking statins to reduce the risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What is the Latest on the Statin-Type 2 Diabetes Debate? What is the Latest on the Statin-Type 2 Diabetes Debate?
Recent reports continue the conversation about statins and new-onset diabetes.Medscape Education Clinical Briefs (Source: Medscape Pharmacist Headlines)
Source: Medscape Pharmacist Headlines - December 8, 2023 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Tags: Diabetes & Endocrinology Clinical Brief Source Type: news
Statins Protect Against Heart Disease in High-Risk Groups, New Studies Find
Researchers from Brigham and Women ’s Hospital have found that statins, the most prescribed class of drugs to treat high cholesterol, reduced the risk of heart attack and stroke among two groups at high risk of heart disease. (Source: BWH News)
Source: BWH News - December 6, 2023 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Statin Use Increased From 1999-2000 to 2013-2014, Then Plateaued
MONDAY, Dec. 4, 2023 -- Overall statin use for primary prevention increased since 1999 to 2000 but has plateaued since 2013 to 2014, according to a research letter published online Dec. 5 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.Casey J. Kim, M.D., from... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - December 4, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Statin Use Remains Low for At-Risk Patients Statin Use Remains Low for At-Risk Patients
Expanded prescribing guidelines have not boosted statin use among patients who are at risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines - December 4, 2023 Category: Cardiology Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care News Source Type: news
Pharmacist-Based Strategy Places More Patients on Statins Pharmacist-Based Strategy Places More Patients on Statins
In two studies run in parallel, testing different strategies, automatic referral to a pharmacist was superior to EHR alerts for increasing statin prescriptions for at-risk patients.MDedge News (Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Headlines)
Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Headlines - November 16, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
Statins Reach More Patients With Pharmacist's Orders
(MedPage Today) -- PHILADELPHIA -- One way of looping remote pharmacists into the primary care clinician workflow successfully boosted statin initiation in the cluster-randomized SUPER LIPID trial.
Researchers devised an intervention of asynchronous... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - November 14, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Daily statins taken by millions could be replaced by remarkable new gene therapy that cuts 'bad' cholesterol by up to 50% with a SINGLE dose, scientists claim as they hail 'brave new world' of heart treatment
Daily statins taken by millions to ward off heart attacks and strokes could be replaced 'within the decade' by a gene-editing jab, scientists claim. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
