Why Health Reform’s Medicare Prevention Provisions For Diabetes Are As Inadequate As Octogenarian Moon Walking
Posted by medical student in blogging dated December 19th, 2011
The Disease Management Care Blog often invites feedback from the DMCB spouse. With her usual discerning eye, she critically appraised yesterday’s Part 2 post and characterized it as “bleh bleh disease management blah prevention blah blah blah Medicare personalized prevention plan bleh Pam Anderson bleh blah prevention.”
In Patients With Triple Vessel Disease, CABG Still Preferred Over PCI
Posted by medical student in health blog dated December 8th, 2011
Results from CREDO-Kyoto PCI/CABG Registry Cohort-2 show that percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) was associated with significantly higher risk for serious adverse events in patients with triple vessel disease than coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). The protective effect of CABG for myocardial infarction was described as “especially remarkable”. In view of these results, said investigator Dr [...]
Discontinuation Of Smokeless Tobacco (snus) After Myocardial Infarction Linked To Improved Survival
Posted by medical student in health blog dated November 19th, 2011
In this prospective cohort study, presented at the ESC Congress 2011, discontinuation of smokeless tobacco after a myocardial infarction (MI) is associated with a lower risk of subsequent mortality. Investigators found that post MI snus quitters had a 44 % lower risk of total mortality.
