Thursday, January 14, 2010

Most Americans overweight, and one-third are obese: NHANES

›
This is terrible. As a population, we must change our eating habits and be more active. With all the talk of trying to reduce health care sp...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Brits Not NICE to Dronedarone

›
Interesting: The British National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has made a preliminary determination NOT to cover the new antiarr...
Saturday, January 9, 2010

Obesity overtakes smoking as health burden in US

›
Data from 1993 to 2008 show quality-adjusted life-years lost from obesity recently surpassing those lost from smoking. For complete story vi...
Thursday, January 7, 2010

Low vitamin D levels associated with increased heart risks in black patients.

›
Research News fro ACC: The Los Angeles Times (1/6, Maugh) "Booster Shots" blog reported that "the disparity in rates of heart...
Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Overweight, obesity up CV risk regardless of metabolic markers in long-term study

›
Investigators showed that overweight and obese individuals without the metabolic syndrome are also at an increased the risk of cardiovascula...

Obesity Rise Hurts Health More Than Smoking

›
America's obesity epidemic now poses an equal or greater threat to health-related quality of life than smoking, according to a new study...

More positive data on the impressive power of cardiac rehab

›
Background-- For patients with coronary heart disease, exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation improves survival rate and has beneficial effec...