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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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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 2009 Jan 12;9:1. So it’s likely to be predictive, but only at a very late stage.

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Do Statins Cause Diabetes?

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Share JUPITER In 2008 a landmark paper was published showing that in people without cardiovascular disease and relatively normal LDL-cholesterol (<3.4 Because of the increased risk, I am also quicker to introduce non-statin-based cholesterol-lowering agents such as ezetimibe, bempedoic acid, PCSK9 inhibitors or inclisiran when available.

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Drug regulation – How does it work?

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

That rate hovered steady in 2009 and 2010, and then rose to about 70% in 2011, 2012, and 2013. This has become a massive and resource intensive exercise and involves many other different ‘agencies’ that need to be brought to heel. This is a cholesterol lowering injectable drug, known as a PCSK9-Inhibitor. And nothing else!

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

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

Where hosting the football World Cup became an exercise in bribery from which no-one, and nothing, was immune. As far back as 2009, the long-time editor of the New England Journal of Medicine wrote these words. Any man, or woman, who refused to take a bribe from FIFA was the exception, not the rule. So, good luck with that.