Archive for August 2011
JNC 8: A ‘C’ Change in Guidelines
Posted by: admin on: August 9, 2011
George Bakris, MD: I’m Dr. George Bakris, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Hypertensive Diseases Unit at the University of Chicago, Chicago. We’re going to be talking about guidelines, and I’d like to introduce a good friend and colleague Dr. Rajiv Agarwal, Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Indiana University, Indianapolis, […]
How obesity is like alcoholism
Posted by: admin on: August 8, 2011
What is Alcoholism? Alcoholism is a primary chronic disease with genetic, psycho-social and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. It is characterized by continuous or periodic impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol despite adverse consequences and distortions of thinking, mostly denial. Let us look at this definition of alcoholism and see […]
Abdominal aortic aneuryms (AAA) in women by Thomas Maldonado, MD
Posted by: admin on: August 8, 2011
Abdominal aortic aneuryms (AAA) are responsible for 15,000 fatalities annually in the USA and are the 10th leading cause of death. Approximately 5-7% of adults over 60 years old are affected by AAA. Although it appears to be twice as common in men than in women, the risk of risk of rupture in women is […]
The relationship between various measures of obesity and arterial stiffness in morbidly obese patients
Posted by: admin on: August 8, 2011
Background The prevalence of obesity is rising globally, independent of ethnicity, race and age, and is associated with increased mortality and morbidity Several lines of evidence indicate that the distribution of fat is a major determinant of cardiovascular risk in both normal weight, overweight and moderately obese subjects, although measures of general obesity and physiological […]
Can chest pain patients be evaluated in the ER waiting room? John Gever
Posted by: admin on: August 5, 2011
Emergency department patients with chest pain may safely be evaluated in the waiting room when necessary, researchers said. Among 303 patients triaged to waiting-room evaluation in a prospective study, no acute coronary syndromes were missed and adverse event rates overall were lower than among 804 patients who were assessed in conventional monitored beds, reported Frank […]
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