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An extensive vitamin study conducted on the widest scale ever, showed that vitamins used by older women do not help to prevent cancer and heart disease at all. The study was published in Archives of Internal medicine.
The study expanded over eight years and included 161,808 postmenopausal women. It also pointed to the disappointing vitamins results in men too.
Marian Neuhouser of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, lead author of the study said, “Get nutrients from food. Whole foods are better than dietary supplements.”
It is however was said by the Co-author Dr. JoAnn Manson said that vitamins undoubtedly have disappointing results regarding this study does not mean that they are completely sans effect.
The research was done in an observational manner, not professionally scientific. Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Harvard’s Brigham & Women’s Hospital said that the study do not clearly negate the idea that vitamins help preventing cancer.
It’s an often expressed idea about medicine that if you have high blood pressure, the steps you take to lower it will have a dramatic impact on your risk for heart disease, stroke and more.
But a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study says that almost 70 percent people with high blood pressure are not doing enough to control it.
Dr. Keith Siller, who is medical director of the Comprehensive Stroke Care Center at New York University Langone Medical Center in New York City, says: “High blood has links with stroke and heart disease, it’s a treatable and preventable condition, but unfortunately majority of people are not doing a good job for controlling it.”
exercise, heart disease, high blood pressure, Medicine, stroke
In Patients with diabetes, drug-coated stents prove safer and more effective than bare metal stents, a new study says.
Study author Dr. Laura Mauri, who is an assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, says: “With drug-coated stents, I would say, there is clear efficacy and clear reduction for repeat revascularization procedures.”
“This is an important caveat and I think we have to judge our patients and need to know them as individual to determine on a case-by-case basis. It’s not a blanket statement, but in general, use of drug-coated stents in diabetic patients is really quite beneficial,” Mauri added.
The study has been presented at the American Heart Association’s annual scientific sessions in New Orleans on Monday.
bare metal stents, Diabetes, drug-coated stents, heart disease
