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Do Statins Cause Diabetes?

Dr. Paddy Barrett

It all comes down to: What your priorities are What your objectives are Your risk tolerance Your ability to update that risk model Where you draw the line of ‘risk’ equating to ‘causation’ The same is true when it comes to the question of statins ‘causing’ diabetes. What to do? Let’s dive in.

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14 Ways To Prevent Dementia

Dr. Paddy Barrett

The 14 Factors Include: Hearing Loss High LDL cholesterol Less Education Traumatic Brain Injury Depression Social Isolation Hypertension Obesity Smoking Excess Alcohol Diabetes Physical Inactivity Air Pollution Visual Loss Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2024 report of the Lancet standing Commission When You Intervene Matters.

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Why You Need To Measure apoB To Assess Your Cardiovascular Risk

Dr. Paddy Barrett

The fundamental characteristic of atherosclerosis is when a cholesterol particle becomes trapped in the artery wall. Each of these particles contains varying amounts of LDL cholesterol (CE) and triglycerides INSIDE the particle. CE = Cholesterol Ester. Share But what about LDL cholesterol? TG = Triglycerides.

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Left ventricular hypertrophy: an ECG-based study of prevalence and risk factors in a multiethnic population

Open Heart

Methods Population-based health surveys were performed in 2009 and 2015 and included in total 8961 individuals aged 35–75 years with recorded 12-lead ECG. Individuals with LVH were older, more likely to have hypertension, diabetes, known cardiovascular disease (CVD) and elevated levels of cholesterol and creatinine.

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How To Test For Insulin Resistance

Dr. Paddy Barrett

BMC Endow Disorders 2009 The issue with using waist circumference to identify insulin resistance is that it likely only flags it as an issue when things have progressed very far. mmol/l (150 mg/dl) Low HDL Cholesterol - (Males: <1.0 So if you have type 2 diabetes, you, by definition, are insulin resistant.

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National Trends of Vascular Risk Factor Control Among Stroke Survivors: From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2009 to 2020

Journal of the American Heart Association

BackgroundContemporary data describing the national trends on vascular risk factor control among stroke survivors are limited.Methods and ResultsThis is a cross‐sectional analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey cycles 2009 to 2010 to 2017 to March 2020. in 2009–2010 versus 61.5% in 2009–2010 versus 38.6%

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What is corruption – and why does it matter so much?

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

As far back as 2009, the long-time editor of the New England Journal of Medicine wrote these words. Try publishing a paper suggesting that cholesterol lowering is a waste of time, when the market for cholesterol lowering drugs is worth hundreds of billions. Primarily because new ideas threaten profit. So, good luck with that.