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| Image IQ: Syncope, Seizure and Hypokalemia ...Can You Diagnose This Patient? |
A 17-year-old teen went to the ED after suffering his second syncopal episode in the last 6 months. He had shrugged off the first episode as not eating enough before a jog, but this time he hadn’t been doing anything active and his parents witnessed the syncope and what appeared to be a seizure. He reported that he had been feeling heart palpitations prior to the event. Further blood tests showed hypokalemia.
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| Two Decade Long Study Shows Decline in Cardiovascular Disease Among Diabetics |
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Australian researchers have new evidence that patients with diabetes have fewer cardiovascular events today than they did 20 years ago. The data came from an analysis of the Freemantle diabetes study which compared people with type 2 diabetes to people without diabetes. The results were recently published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
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| SGLT2 Inhibitors May Reduce Kidney Problems in Diabetics |
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The use of a commonly prescribed diabetes drug known as a sodium glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor to treat type 2 diabetes may help to lower the risk of serious kidney problems.
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| Engineers Create Blood Vessels Woven From Human Tissue |
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In the new study which appears in the April issue of The FASEB Journal, researchers show that they can make yarn by cutting sheets of a Cell Assembled Matrix (CAM) into ribbons that can be used directly or twisted into threads.
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| Coffee May Be Good For the Heart- A Look at What the Science Says |
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If you can’t imagine starting the day without your cup o’ joe, you aren’t alone. On average, American’s drink 3 cups of coffee every day–collectively that’s 400 million cups of coffee-- daily. Given those kinds of numbers, it’s no wonder that the question of whether or not the coffee habit is beneficial or detrimental to patient health is one that generates a lot of interest- and there’s been plenty of studies devoted to it. Here's a look at some of them.
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| For Heart Health Filtered Coffee Is Best |
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While the determination that consumption of coffee is beneficial or harmful depends on the study, new research is diving further into the debate and into how brewing method might play a role in coffee’s impact on cardiovascular disease and mortality.
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| Vaping Increases Risk of Chronic Hypertension in Young, Healthy Nonsmokers |
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A group of researchers from Michigan Technological University have evidence that vaping raises the heart rates and blood pressure in young, helathy, non-smoking individuals.
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| Study Finds Aortic Stenosis Develops Differently in Men and Women |
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An anaylsis of damaged heart valves from patients who had undergone transplants revealed a surprising finding: the process that causes aortic stenosis is different in women and men.
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| High Blood Pressure May Be Harming Your Brain While You Sleep |
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In healthy people, it's normal for blood pressure to drop during the night. But in hypertensive patients, nighttime blood pressure sometimes doesn't drop, or even increases. A new study published online in the journal Neurology, shows that those individuals may be more likely to have small areas in the brain that appear damaged from vascular disease and associated memory problems.
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