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Do Statins Make You Stupid?

By On June 20, 2010 · 4 Comments

If you have been reading this blog you might have come to the conclusion as I have that only stupid women take statins to prevent heart attacks or death and that only stupid men think that it will save their lives if they don’t have a prior history of heart disease. But now there is [...]

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Play MISTY for Me? No Investigator Given Full Set of the Data

By On September 29, 2009 · 3 Comments

In the Migraine Intervention for Star-Flex Technology (MIST) trial the mist seems to be making it difficult for me to understand the study results. The original trial was supposed to examine the effects of closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO) on migrain headache. However all of the conflict of interest, alleged misrepresentation of data, [...]

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More Than Meets The Eye on Most Recent Analysis of Statins for Primary Prevention

By On July 9, 2009 · 6 Comments

A recent meta-analysis in bmj of the treatment of people with multiple risk factors for heart disease but without a history of heart attacks looked at 70,388 people. They reported a 12% reduction in overall mortality which was statistically significant.

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Angioplasty Found to be Useless Waste of Money

By On June 25, 2009 · 8 Comments

I just found a way to save 25 billion dollars a year for President Barack Obama’s healthcare plans. That is to cut out angioplasty, for which multiple studies, including one in the June 11 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. The mounting evidence doesn’t stop doctors from performing them.

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Our Editorial on Jupiter Published in Circulation

By On May 20, 2009 · 5 Comments

famous JUPITER study just came out here in the journal Circulation, in which we argue that the results of the study do not dictate that such large numbers of people should start taking statin drugs for the prevention of heart disease based on the marker of inflammation C-Reactive Protein (CRP).

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Live Blogging From Messina IT: Inappropriate Use of Antihypertensive Medications and Berlusconi Tells Earthquake Victims to ‘Enjoy Camping’

By On April 13, 2009 · 5 Comments

Sicilian mother-in-law who was put on the alpha adrenergic blocker drug Cardura (doxasosin) for hypertension in spite of the fact that in the NIH-sponsored ALLHAT study over a decade ago the group that was taking the alpha blockers was stopped early because the risk of death was increased …

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Salt and Health: Mrs. Bremner Strikes Back

By On March 27, 2009 · 4 Comments

Last week Mrs. Bremner was communicating to us from the American Heart Association Meeting about the importance of salt on blood pressure and health which led to a post

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Should I Take Aspirin or Put a Gun To My Head?

By On March 18, 2009 · 10 Comments

A recent report from the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) shows that daily aspirin in people without a history of heart disease will prevent heart attacks in men, and strokes in women.

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They’re Dropping Like Flies on their SSRIs!

By On March 10, 2009 · 10 Comments

this recent study and accompanying editorial in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology that is hot off the press showed a three fold risk of cardiac sudden death in healthy women on antidepressants…

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Use This Drug Cuz I Told You To, You Moron

By On February 25, 2009 · 4 Comments

This week’s JAMA has an article that evaluates guidelines written for the appropriate treatment of a variety of cardiac conditions. These are guidelines written by experts in the field about appropriate treatments for a variety of conditions, from heart attacks to atrial fibrillation. The guidelines were ranked according to level of evidence, with guidelines [...]

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