Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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'Department of Medicine, Nephrology Division, Duke University medical center, Durham, North Carolina
2Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition, Duke University medical center, Durham, North Carolina
3Department of Medicine, Nephrology Division, Duke Hypertension Center, Duke University medical center, Durham, North Carolina
Contents
I. Introduction 551
II. Individual Nutrients and Blood Pressure 552
III. Other Dietary and Lifestyle Modifications 560
IV. Current Recommendations and Implementation 563
V. Summary 564 References 568
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Melody Petersen
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 The doctors had pored through the medical charts of fifty patients who had died in an academic medical center. They used their expertise in forensics to determine what they believed caused the patients to die and then compared their finding with what doctors at the medical center had written on the death certificate. They found that 96 percent of death certificates contained some kind of error. About 34 percent of the death certificates had such serious errors, the pathologists said, that doctors had written the wrong causes or manners of death. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 Peck, MD Attending Physician Montefiore medical center St. Lukes-Roosevelt Medical Center
Clinical Instructor, Department of
Ophthalmology Columbia University, College of
Physicians and Surgeons New York, New York
Rock Positano, DPM, MSc, MPH Director
Non-surgical Foot and Ankle
Service Hospital for Special Surgery New York Presbyterian Hospital New York, New York
Joseph Scharpf, MD Associate
Head and Neck Institute Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, Ohio
John J. |
| Kraft, MD Assistant Professor of Clinical
Medicine Weill Cornell medical center New York, New York
Sharon Lewin, MD Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
Columbia University, College of
Physicians and Surgeons New York, New York
Larry Lipshultz, MD Professor, Scott Department of
Urology Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas
Michael Osborne, MD Director
Breast Cancer Programs of Continuum Cancer Centers of New York
New York, New York
Rochelle L. Peck, MD Attending Physician Montefiore medical center St. |
Dan Buettner
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 I knew that physicians at the medical center had played key roles in the Adventist Health Study and had collected a wealth of data on Adventist behaviors.
Julie Smith, LLUMC's director of public and media relations, took me on a quick tour, starting on the roof of the medical center where a pair of busy helicopter pads serves the only Level 1 trauma center in the area. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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Dan Buettner
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| After just a half mile of steadily climbing up the road (Loma Linda is Spanish for "lovely hill"), I found myself surrounded by the manicured lawns, parking lots, and large buildings of the Loma Linda University and medical center (LLUMC). Privately owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and founded in 1905, LLUMC is a modern facility with a proud tradition of service. I knew that physicians at the medical center had played key roles in the Adventist Health Study and had collected a wealth of data on Adventist behaviors. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| City of Hope National medical center (a private research institution and hospital) announced the successful laboratory production of human insulin. Understand, no mention was made of the UC-SF connection.
The next step in Genentech's questionable ethics and launch of a biotech business is clouded because the next partner sued for payments related to further patents and development of molecular genetic technology.3
The situation becomes even murkier and the greed obviously more profound when, as explained by Sherrie F. |
Devra Davis
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 M any of today's health hazards are not at all like those of the massive sick building in Texas or the inefficient old buildings of Harvard and the University of Pittsburgh medical center. Chronic ailments do not conveniently become evident when people suddenly succumb to symptoms neatly in one locale. Instead, cancer and neurological disorders arise over years of time as a result of assorted triggers in our lives that may reflect where we have worked, what we have eaten, and where we happen to live now and in the past. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 A study published in 2005 by researchers working collaboratively at University College London, Duke University medical center, and the German Institute of Human Nutrition concluded that we evolved the ability to taste bitterness in order to detect toxins in plants and avoid eating them. (Which is why the plants produce the toxins in the first place and has led to the term many plant biologists use to describe them— antifeedants. |
Bottom Line Health
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| David Mendelson, an associate professor of radiology at Mount Sinai medical center in New York City.
"To me, the provocative thing is that [Allen] used these newer techniques, and you can see a positive result [for airway problems] when you have no other objective evidence of a patient's complaint," Mendelson says. ro ^° learn more about indoor allergens, visit the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology at www.aaaai.org/pa tients. Click on "AAAAI Tips Brochures" under "Featured Resources." Then scroll down to the article on "Indoor allergens."
Important for Asthmatics— Read Labels! |
| David Mendelson, MD, associate professor of radiology, Mount Sinai medical center, New York City.
Radiological Society of North America annual meeting, Chicago.
Acat and its dander can trouble people who have asthma long after the animal has left the room, according to a new study.
Cat allergens, in fact, can hamper the lung function of asthmatics who are allergic to cats for up to 22 hours after exposure, says Jared W. Allen, a postdoctoral researcher at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. |
| THE STUDY
In the study, Martha Clare Morris, an epidemiologist at Rush University medical center in Chicago, and her team collected data on 6,158 people age 65 and older who lived on the south side of Chicago and were part of the Chicago Health and Aging Project.
The participants filled out a questionnaire about what they ate, and had their cognitive ability tested every three years during the six-year study.
People who ate fish once a week had a 10% slower decline in thinking ability over time than people who consumed fish less than weekly. |
Devra Davis
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| Tapped for the sort of job that many physicians run from, for the past two decades Tuckfelt has served as chief of medicine and vice president for medical affairs at Orange Regional medical center in Goshen, New York. He is in charge of the problems in medicine that nobody wants to admit exist—mistakes in medication or surgery that can kill or sicken people. The practice of oncology has changed but not as much as it needs to, since the old killing paradigm still has a stronger grip on cancer medicine than it should.
Tuckfelt looks back wistfully. |
| A survey of emergency room doctors at a major medical center found that none of them was aware that some of the diagnostic procedures they were ordering increased the risk of cancer for their patients thirty years later.
The risks of radiation, unlike many other cancer risks, are not based on theoretical models or experimental research with lab rats. The numbers we use to estimate the chances you will get cancer from radiation come from real people who survived the atomic bombings that
Table 15-2 Radiation Risks of CT Scans. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 He's a clinical professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical School and medical director at Hypertension and Vascular Biology Institute and the Life Extension Institute at Saint Thomas Hospital and medical center in Nashville. He's also the editor in chief of JANA (Journal of the American Nutraceutical Society). His book What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Hypertension: The Revolutionary Nutrition and Lifestyle Program to Help Fight High Blood Pressure should be required reading—I recommend it to everyone. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Fish Lowers Dementia Risk
Martha Clare Morris, ScD, epidemiologist, Rush University medical center, Chicago.
Greg M. Cole, PhD, neuroscientist, Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System, and associate director, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.
Archives ofNeurology online.
Your mother probably told you that fish is brain food. Apparently, she was right. A new study has found that older people who regularly eat fish reduce the amount of cognitive decline they experience. |
| Aart Spilt, director of the department of radiology at Leiden University medical center in the Netherlands, and his colleagues focused on a group of 17 Dutch patients, all older than 75 years of age and all diagnosed with late-onset dementia.
The participants underwent blood testing and neuropsychological exams, as well as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to detect signs of structural brain damage and impairments in brain blood flow.
Results were compared with similar tests that were conducted on a group of 16 men and women of similar age who did not have dementia. |
| It appears that there are still reasons to be concerned about the antidepressant treatment of child and adolescent depression," says Alec Miller, chief of child and adolescent psychology at Montefiore medical center in New York City. THE FUTURE
Miller, who is also an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, says that children who are battling depression need more and better treatment options. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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Devra Davis
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| At the University of Pittsburgh medical center, he connected with brilliant doctors on the cutting-edge, including Dane Boggs, and got the sort of cancer care that you can find nowadays if you have the insurance or the money to pay for it. So I got to wait six years for the chance to tell him how and why I came to believe that we reach peace when we leave this earth.
One day after his latest round of high-dose chemotherapy, Dad and I sat in a small booth with turquoise-plastic covering in the eternally comforting Eat 'n Park Diner, just off Murray Avenue in Squirrel Hill. |
Arthur C. Upton, M.D.
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| Director, Occupational Health and Reproductive Hazards Center, University of Massachusetts medical center, Worcester, MA
Herbert Rosenkranz, M.D., Chairman, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Kenneth Rosenman, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
WRITERS AND ILLUSTRATORS
Patricia Barnes-Svarney Robert Barnett Sue Berkman Winifred Conkling Ed Edelson
Writers
Oliver Fultz Constance Grzelka Dr. |
Elaine Magee
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 It is well known, for example, that high doses of alpha-tocopherol supplements decrease gamma-tocopherol concentrations in the blood, according to Sridevi Devaraj, PhD, an associate professor with the Laboratory for Atherosclerosis and Metabolic Research at the University of California, Davis, medical center. That may be undesirable, as gamma-tocopherol may help reduce free radicals and be more potent than alpha-tocopherol in inhibiting inflammation associated with heart disease. |
| A recent study of New Yorkers by the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain at Columbia University medical center found that closely following the patterns of the Mediterranean diet was associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer's disease. More needs to be known about this possible food synergy benefit, but so far this looks like another reason to eat the Mediterranean way!
Reduce levels of oxidized LDL in the circulation. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 But Campbell was unable to get other Redding physicians to produce any cases, even physicians who in private complained about Moon, Realyvasquez, and Redding medical center. By the summer of 2001, Campbell was deeply discouraged. He'd exhausted every option he could think of for alerting the authorities. His wife was fed up with his obsession, and he still had a busy primary care practice to tend to.
A year later, Campbell got word that an FBI agent was nosing around town, asking questions after a few patients or their families had complained to the agency about the cardiac program. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 University of Hamburg medical center, have written in 5A//that "because of flawed methods and small clinical benefits, the scientific basis for recommendations of cholinesterase inhibitors for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease is questionable."13
HORMONE TREATMENT
For many years people believed that estrogen and progesterone prevented the development of Alzheimer's disease, benefited the cognitive dysfunction of AD patients, and improved memory function in normal people or delayed the normal decline of memory with aging. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Collip, MD, of the Department of Pediatrics at the Nassau County medical center, undertook a rigorous scientific study with 76 young patients aged 2-16 years. Without going into specific details of this study, it was found children taking 200 mg of Vitamin B6 daily experienced less frequent asthma attacks, less wheezing, less tightness in the chest and less breathing difficulties. As a result of taking Vitamin B6 less medication was also necessary. The study concluded that pyridoxine B6 therapy may be useful in reducing the severity of asthma, in children in particular. |
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