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TL wrote a new post, Should we use Aspirin with Warfarin? 11 years, 4 months ago
Use and Associated Risks of Concomitant Aspirin Therapy With Oral Anticoagulation in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation
Circulation 2013;128(7):721-728.Should we use Apsirin with Warfarin?
Probably not, as […]
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TL wrote a new post, Evidence Based Medicine – an Oral History 11 years, 4 months ago
Andrew Knight writes:This fascinating video looks at the origins and future of the evidence based medicine movement through interviews with the major players – Guyatt, Sackett, Haynes and more.
Even they […]
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TL wrote a new post, Should we stent renal artery stenosis? 11 years, 4 months ago
Stenting and Medical Therapy for Atherosclerotic Renal-Artery Stenosis — NEJM
Patients with more than 60% renal artery stenosis and hypertension were randomised to receive stunting plus medical treatment or […]
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TL wrote a new post, Nuts to you – in the nicest possible way 11 years, 4 months ago
Association of Nut Consumption with Total and Cause-Specific Mortality — NEJMIn a study of health professionals, nut consumption was associated with reduced all-cause mortality.
This was primarily due to a […]
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TL wrote a new post, Warfarin Interactions With Antibiotics 11 years, 4 months ago
Warfarin Interactions With Antibiotics in the Ambulatory Care Setting [JAMA Intern Med. 2014]
A retrospective, longitudinal cohort study evaluated patients receiving warfarin between January 1, 2005, and March […]
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TL wrote a new post, New Lipid Guidelines – Hooray! 11 years, 6 months ago
This week, the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) released new guidelines for the management of Lipids.
The new guidelines are a major shift in thinking. They are far closer […]
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TL replied to the topic Should I take a cholesterol tablet? If so, which one? in the forum Cardiovascular disease 11 years, 6 months ago
This week, the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) released new guidelines for the management of Lipids.
The new guidelines are a major shift in thinking. They are far closer to the proposed POQ in the discussion above than to the previous guidelines. Spooky. This is clearly cause and effect. Who would have…[Read more]
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TL wrote a new post, Top 20 POEMS for 2012 11 years, 7 months ago
Mark Ebell is the editor of Essential Evidence Plus, a great source of POEMS, and to which I subscribe.
He has nominated the top POEMS of 2012. The list was published in The American Family Physician last […]
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TL replied to the topic Should I take a cholesterol tablet? If so, which one? in the forum Cardiovascular disease 11 years, 7 months ago
Thanks Dan,
The studies quoted by Ben confirm that the benefits of statins are unrelated to the baseline LDL level, but they do have some benefit in primary prevention. The extent of that benefit is dependent on absolute cardiac risk.
Measuring lipids once to determine absolute cardiac risk (at age 35-55) seems like a valid…[Read more]
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TL wrote a new post, No pain no gain – Exercise is good for pain in hip and knee osteoarthritis 11 years, 7 months ago
Exercise for lower limb osteoarthritis: systematic review incorporating trial sequential analysis and network meta-analysis
Paul S. Mueller, MD, MPH, FACP Reviewing Uthman OA et al., BMJ 2013 Sep 20; […] -
TL replied to the topic CVD Risk Calculations in the forum Clinical Questions 11 years, 7 months ago
James McCormack (of http://therapeuticseducation.org, my favourite podcast) has a Risk Calculator at
http://bestsciencemedicine.com/chd/calc2.html
This shows the effect of different treatments on risk, and displays the risk pictorially. Even though it is in beta, it is worth a look.The algorithm used in this tool (and the Australian [Read more]
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TL wrote a new post, Effect of vitamin D supplemention on depression – none 11 years, 7 months ago
Effect of vitamin D supplement on depression scores in people with low levels of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D: nested case-control study and randomised clinical trial Kjærgaard M, Waterloo K, Wang CE, Almås B, […] - Load More
