Below you'll find a list of all posts from February, 2013
The PREDIMED Trial Comments Eligible participants were mostly older Caucasian women with no evidence of cardiovascular disease at enrollment, with either type II diabetes mellitus or at least three of the following major risk factors: smoking, hypertension, elevated LDL levels, low HDL levels, overweight or obesity, or a family history of premature coronary heart disease: Baseline Characteristics Female gender 60% Mean …
Five Things Physicians and Patients Should Question: Don’t perform stress cardiac imaging or advanced non-invasive imaging in the initial evaluation of patients without cardiac symptoms unless high-risk markers are present. Asymptomatic, low-risk patients account for up to 45 percent of unnecessary “screening.” Testing should be performed only when the following findings are present: diabetes in patients older than 40-years-old; peripheral …
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released a Finance Committee report detailing the case of a doctor who reportedly implanted nearly 600 potentially medically unnecessary stents from 2007 through mid-2009 at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, Maryland, and his relationship with the manufacturer of the stents, Abbott Labs. The Senators’ report …