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30-day all-cause hospital admission rates lowered in older patients with chronic systolic heart failure who were started on digoxin when compared to placebo.
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This article originally appeared in the August 29, 2013, issue of Internal Medicine Alert
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Evidence-based updates in primary care medicine By Louis Kuritzky, MD
Supplement to Clinical Cardiology Alert, Clinical Oncology Alert, Critical Care Alert, Hospital Medicine Alert, Infectious Disease Alert, Neurology Alert, OB/GYN Clinical Alert, Primary Care Reports.
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In more than 12,000 patients at high risk of cardiovascular events, daily supplementation with 1 g of fish oil (85% eicosapentaenoic acid plus docosahexaenoic acid) did not reduce cardiovascular morbidity nor mortality over approximately 5 years of follow up.
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Elderly patients with mild-to-moderate depressive symptoms may experience improvement in affect with the practice of mindfulness-based stress reduction.
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A popular field that is being discussed in medical research, in popular science, and by the media, epigenetics is broadly defined as the study of the changes in gene expression that occur on the DNA sequence and are heritable.
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Among men diagnosed with prostate cancer, those with the highest levels of plasma omega-3 fatty acids demonstrated an increased risk for developing prostate cancer, bringing into question various recommendations for increased omega-3 intake.