Sunday, November 3, 2013

Medical News

Medical News


Ambulatory BP best for assessing diabetes CV risk

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 04:00 PM PST

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring should be used to monitor patients with Type 2 diabetes who have a high risk for developing cardiovascular complications, say researchers.

Insomnia concerns go unaddressed in heart failure patients

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 04:00 PM PST

The impact of insomnia on health and function is a major concern for patients with heart failure, qualitative and quantitative research shows.

Ambulatory BP best for assessing diabetes CV risk

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 04:00 PM PST

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring should be used to monitor patients with Type 2 diabetes who have a high risk for developing cardiovascular complications, say researchers.

Opioid use increases following bariatric surgery

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 04:00 PM PST

Opioid use among obese patients undergoing bariatric surgery increases in the year after surgery, a large US cohort study has found.

Ambulatory BP best for assessing diabetes CV risk

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 04:00 PM PST

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring should be used to monitor patients with Type 2 diabetes who have a high risk for developing cardiovascular complications, say researchers.

High pneumonia incidence ups elderly COPD medical costs

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 04:00 PM PST

Older individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are almost six times more likely to develop pneumonia and eight times more likely to need hospital treatment than those without the disease, US researchers have found.

High pneumonia incidence ups elderly COPD medical costs

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 04:00 PM PST

Older individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are almost six times more likely to develop pneumonia and eight times more likely to need hospital treatment than those without the disease, US researchers have found.

Financial interests ‘driving IMRT uptake for prostate cancer’

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 04:00 PM PST

A study suggests that the recent rapid uptake of intensity-modulated radiotherapy for prostate cancer in the USA has been driven by urologists with financial conflicts of interest.

Stage and grade dominate RCC outcomes

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 04:00 PM PST

Tumor grade and American Joint Committee on Cancer stage have emerged as the most important predictors of mortality in a competing risks analysis of patients undergoing nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma.

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