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Replacing saturated fatty acids with carbohydrates with low glycemic index values is associated with a lower risk of myocardial infarction.
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More than three-fourths of men have some degree of male pattern hair loss by age 70. The unwanted hair loss seen in male pattern hair loss is stimulated by dihydrotestosterone.
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The ECG shown above was obtained from a 50-year-old woman with "skipped beats." Is there anything unusual about these ectopic beats and the effect that they have on the normal beats in this tracing? What happens at the onset of the last lead change (i.e., at the onset where we see leads V4,V5,V6)?
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Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in adults in the United States and western Europe. Approximately 26% of adults older than 65 have some form of AMD.
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Replacing saturated fatty acids with carbohydrates with low glycemic index values is associated with a lower risk of myocardial infarction.
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Yoga and exercise are commonly recommended for patients with osteoporosis. Yoga improves balance, and both yoga and exercise improve quality of life in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. However, the study is limited by small sample size and lack of detail in the research methodology.
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Vital exhaustion predicts long-term risk for adverse cardiac events in men and women, independent of established biomedical risk factors.
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In a much-publicized study on the physical maturation of young girls in three distinct areas of the United States, researchers found a persistence of early attainment of puberty in African American girls and an increased proportion of Caucasian girls who had reached puberty at ages 7 and 8 years. The study leaders delineate physical and psychological risks associated with early maturation and posit that an explanation for such findings might be some combination of increasing toxic environmental and food exposures.
