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This brief but important intervention trial was detailed recently in the pages of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The conclusion was that eating canned soup on a regular basis could rapidly increase the body load of BPA, high levels of which have been associated with a variety of illnesses.
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The first results of a 5-year study of the effects a mindfulness-based stress reduction program on medical complications and psychosocial outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes show prolonged reduction in psychological distress and depression compared to usual care.
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Both vitamin D deficiency and supplementation with vitamin D are significantly associated with several cardiovascular outcomes, including mortality.
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Patients with chronic kidney disease or who have had renal replacement therapy have often been excluded from trials of anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation (AF). In this study, the authors analyzed data from hospitalized patients with nonvalvular AF in Denmark from 1997 through 2008. Patients with chronic kidney disease with and without renal replacement therapy were identified from a national registry.
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In patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD), medical therapy is the mainstay of treatment. Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) guided by angiographic stenosis is more effective than medical therapy at reducing angina, but does not change the rate of death or myocardial infarction (MI).
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The risk of interrupting prophylactic warfarin for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients is unclear. Thus, these investigators from Denmark evaluated their national health registry and found 102,591 patients > age 30 with a first-time hospitalization for AF between 1997 and 2008.
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Side effects of statins; effects of cannabis use; antihypertensives and lip cancer; and FDA actions.
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