Blood pressure down with self-monitoring of BP, self-titration of medications
May 10, 2024
A reduction was seen in systolic and diastolic blood pressure with self-monitoring plus self-titration of antihypertensive medications.
Boar’s Head recall tied to listeria expands to 7 million more pounds of deli meat
Jul 31, 2024
“Listeria is especially harmful to people who are pregnant, aged 65 or older, or with weakened immune systems,” the FDA said.
Home vision tests offer limited diagnostic accuracy for neovascular AMD
Apr 29, 2024
Hospital eye service follow-up clinics maintain better diagnostic accuracy for active lesions.
Minocycline does not decrease geographic atrophy enlargement in AMD
Mar 25, 2024
The GA enlargement rate in the study eyes did not differ significantly in the run-in and treatment phases in age-related macular degeneration.
Regular use of laxatives linked to risk for all-cause dementia
Feb 23, 2023
Risk for all-cause, vascular dementia was increased with number of regularly used laxative types
Everyday ageism prevalent among older U.S. adults
Jun 16, 2022
Higher levels of everyday ageism were associated with an increased risk for negative physical and mental health outcomes.
ACC: Use of salt substitute to prevent stroke is cost-saving
Mar 28, 2022
Salt substitute intervention is shown to be cost-saving among individuals with prior stroke or uncontrolled high blood pressure living in rural China.
Cuff size affects accuracy of blood pressure measurements
Mar 02, 2022
Overestimation of blood pressure with use of a cuff that was too small misclassified 39% of participants as having hypertension.
Meta-analysis shows prevalence of statin intolerance Is low
Feb 16, 2022
The prevalence of statin intolerance was 9.1% overall; significant associations were seen for age, female gender, Asian and Black race, obesity and diabetes mellitus.
Low glycemic index or load diet patterns beneficial in diabetes
Aug 05, 2021
Glycated hemoglobin was reduced with low GI/GL dietary patterns, and in fasting glucose, LDL-C, non-HDL-C, BMI, body weight.