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Optimal Blood Pressure in Patients Presenting with Aortic Stenosis
A post-hoc analysis of patients suffering from mild to moderate aortic stenosis in a study of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol lowering showed that the optimal blood pressure for the best survival was 130-139/70-90 mmHg.
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What Should You Tell Your Patients About Sleep Apnea, CPAP, and Heart Disease?
In this large, multicenter, randomized, controlled trial, continuous positive airway pressure did not reduce incident cardiovascular events compared with usual care, but did reduce snoring and daytime sleepiness and improved health-related quality of life and mood.
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Is Yoga Effective for Treating Asthma?
Although the data on yoga in asthma are only of moderate quality, they do suggest that yoga may improve quality of life and asthma symptoms.
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How Much More Physical Activity Helps Patients Avoid Chronic Diseases?
Higher levels of total physical activity are strongly associated with lower risk of five common chronic diseases: breast and bowel cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.
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Self-Administered Acupressure Beneficial in Treating Persistent Cancer-Related Fatigue in Breast Cancer Survivors
Two different types of self-administered acupressure techniques were significant in reducing persistent cancer-related fatigue compared with standard of care, but only relaxing acupressure affected quality of sleep and life.
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Changing Gut Microbiota to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes
The long-term consumption of a healthy diet, such as the Mediterranean diet or low-fat/high complex carbohydrate diets, may exert a protective effect on the development of type 2 diabetes by changing the gut microbiota, increasing the abundance of Roseburia genera and Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, respectively.
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An RCT Looking at the Effects of Panax ginseng and Ginkgo biloba
Cognitive improvement in women after treatment with Ginkgo biloba may be mediated by changes in cardiovascular reactivity.
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Vasopressin as a Single Vasopressor Agent in Patients with Septic Shock
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What Influences ICU Admission?
High ICU utilization hospitals were more likely to use invasive procedures and incur higher costs than low ICU hospitals with no difference in mortality.
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Airway Management in the Critically Ill: Challenges, Advances, and Controversies
Recent evidence and guidelines help inform best airway practice in the ICU, but challenges and controversies remain.