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Lowering LDL with Ezetimibe
The combination of simvastatin and ezetimibe resulted in significantly lower LDL levels and a lower risk of cardiovascular events than occurred in patients who are treated with statin monotherapy.
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Zinc Supplementation: A Risk for Copper Deficiency
Zinc deficiency is frequently misdiagnosed based on a low level without considering albumin concentration and/or an inflammatory state.
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Sound Stimulation in Alzheimer’s Patients
Music may provide meaningful clinical improvements in patients with Alzheimer's disease, as well as an enhanced quality of life.
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An Unrecognized Relationship Between Asthma and Obesity
Weight reduction may be an overlooked tool for asthma management.
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Oral Nutritional Supplementation for Hospitalized COPD Patients Pays Off
Favorable results should prompt reconsideration of the value — health wise and economic — of oral nutritional supplementation in patients admitted for COPD.
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Risks of Digoxin Use in Atrial Fibrillation
The results of a recent study should prompt reconsideration of the various choices available for rate control in atrial fibrillation.
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Dietary Fat Used to Be the Bad Guy
But the replacement of fats with refined carbohydrates is not a healthful tradeoff.
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We’re Going to Be Hearing a Whole Lot More About Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
The dual burdens of obesity and diabetes — both of which are direct antecedents to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease — have changed the map of fatty liver disease on a global basis.
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GI QI success expands to other specialties
A quality bundle created for colorectal surgical patients has proved so successful that it is being expanded to other units at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in the hopes that the financial and clinical benefits can spread to other specialties.
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FORCE-TJR chooses 16 for PQRS
Patricia Franklin, MD, FACS, the registrar of FORCE-TJR, shared the 16 new measures it uses for the Physician Quality Reporting System. Data on these will be forwarded to the government, and will also be crunched into the usual bits for benchmarking and comparison amongst the other FORCE members.