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Strong evidence supports regular exercise as a lifestyle habit and intervention that lowers risk for a myriad of diseases including coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and breast and colon cancers.1 In addition, exercise has gained treatment status for cardiometabolic risk factors, type 2 diabetes, osteopenia and osteoporosis, and rehabilitation for existing cardiac disease.
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Menopausal women anecdotally report that their hot flashes are worse with stress;1 for instance, if a woman has an unpleasant confrontation, she notices that it will trigger a hot flash. Research supports these anecdotal experiences. Lab stressors such as arithmetic tasks can also increase hot flashes. When women are randomized to a lab stressor condition vs a non-stress condition, those in the stress condition have 47-57% more hot flashes.2 Women are not just reporting more hot flashes during periods of stress; objective measurements of hot flashes confirm the increase during stress conditions. Stress appears to lower the threshold for hot flashes to occur.
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As of 2010, about 14 million cancer survivors were living in the United States, with the number projected to increase to 18 million by 2020.
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Results of this well-done trial strongly suggest that CoQ10 administration over 24 weeks' time does not help relieve the treatment-related fatigue experienced by a significant proportion of women with newly diagnosed breast cancer.
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A large observational study conducted in Germany has found little evidence that higher levels of dietary calcium are associated with a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease events. The additional finding of an elevation in risk with the use of calcium supplements suggests that caution is warranted when recommending them.
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Results from this small open-label trial out of Turkey suggest that vitamins C and E decrease Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) intensity and possibly local inflammation in patients with H. pylori-positive non-ulcer dyspepsia. The results provide added support to results from an earlier clinical trial by the investigators that found adjunctive use of vitamins C and E improved eradication rates of conventional triple therapy for H. pylori infection.
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Clinical Briefs: Could Thinner be Worse for Newly Diagnosed Diabetics?; The Impact of Exercise on Depression in Heart Failure; Reversible Dementia from Corticosteroid Therapy
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Coronary artery calcium, ankle-brachial index, high-sensitivity CRP, and family history are all independent predictors of incident coronary heart disease/cardiovascular disease in intermediate-risk individuals. Coronary artery calcium scoring provided superior discrimination and risk reclassification compared with the other risk markers.
