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.
This article originally appeared in the August 29, 2013, issue of Internal Medicine Alert
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.
Supplements and herbal medications have extensive worldwide use; in the United States alone, more than $5 billion was spent on herbal supplements in 2012.
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.
Elderly patients with mild-to-moderate depressive symptoms may experience improvement in affect with the practice of mindfulness-based stress reduction.