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Can Dietary Intervention Delay the Onset of Alzheimer’s Disease?
Targeted nutritional interventions are an evidence-based and safe means of reducing the risk of Alzheimer's disease and cognitive decline.
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.
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.
ECG Review: Sinus Tachycardia with Tall, Peaked T Waves
If told that this patient was having new-onset chest pain we would wonder why his heart rate is so fast, and we would clearly be concerned that the prominent T wave peaking might be ischemic or a DeWinter T wave equivalent.
Clinical Briefs
In this issue: flat basal insulin, another possible interventional fix for atrial fibrillation, and a glimmer of hope for beta-blockers in heart failure from diastolic dysfunction.
Tedizolid Phosphate Injection and Tablets (Sivextro®)
A new oxazolidinone-class antibacterial has been approved for the treatment of acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections.
Prevalence of Rest Tremor in Essential Tremor
Rest tremor is seen in patients with more advanced essential tremor, yet its prevalence varies significantly between patient groups.
Is It Time to Purge Full-Strength Aspirin from the Outpatient Armamentarium?
The current study provides further evidence of a lack of benefit to high-dose maintenance aspirin, along with a suggestion of harm.
Comparative Efficacy and Safety of Blood Pressure-lowering Agents in Adults with Diabetes and Kidney Disease
Although no blood pressure-lowering strategy prolonged survival in adults with diabetes and kidney disease in this meta-analysis, angiotensin-converting enzyme and angiotensin-receptor blockers, alone or in combination, were the most effective pharmacological strategies to prevent the development of end-stage renal disease.
APIC 2015: Daily bathing of pediatric patients with antiseptic reduces BSIs
Daily bathing of pediatric patients with disposable cloths containing 2% chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) reduced central line-associated bloodstream infections by 59% and saved approximately $300,000 in one hospital over a six-month period, according to a study presented recently in Nashville at the annual APIC conference.