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Every cell in the body has chromosomes with so-called telomeres, which are shortened over time and also through lifestyle choices such as smoking and obesity. Researchers have long speculated that the shortening of telomeres increases the risk of heart attack and early death. Now a large-scale population study in Denmark involving nearly 20,000 people shows that there is in fact a direct link, and has also given physicians a future way to test the actual cellular health of a person.
16 February 2012 | Eurekalert Medicine & Health
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Four years ago, Mark Honigsbaum was
told he had high blood pressure. He isn't overweight, doesn't smoke and eats
healthily – so what brought it on? He explores the facts and figures surrounding
one of the western world's biggest killers.
09 January 2012 | The Observer
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In the United States, the cost paid for statins in people under the age of 65 who have private insurance is approximately 400 percent higher than comparable costs paid by the government in the United Kingdom. These findings, from the Boston University School of Medicine Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program, are the first results of a comprehensive comparison of prescription drug costs between the US and UK The study appears on-line in the journal Pharmacotherapy.
05 January 2012 | Eurekalert Medicine & Health
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Patients with HIV are living longer and have more comorbidities. A new index could help clinicians determine who might benefit from screening and measure net benefit for a wide range of interventions for an individual patient.
17 November 2011 | Medscape (requires free registration)
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Abnormalities in cardiac function were prevalent among HIV patients, according to a single-center study.
24 October 2011 | MedPage Today HIV/AIDS
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Updated adult treatment guidelines were issued by the European AIDS Clinical Society at the 12th European AIDS Conference, Belgrade, 12-15 October 2011. The guidelines include specific recommendations on managing co-morbidities and hepatitis B coinfection in people living with HIV.
17 October 2011 | EACS
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The latest guidelines of the European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS),
released here at the society's 13th European AIDS Conference, give
special emphasis to comorbid conditions that may occur in patients
infected with HIV.
16 October 2011 | Medscape (requires registration)
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Behind two days of talks at the United Nations and a unanimously adopted 13-page
document about the need to fight noncommunicable diseases around the world
is a fierce struggle between commercial and health interests that has only just
begun.
21 September 2011 | Washington Post
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How Politics, Commerce, and Science Complicated the Fight Against an 'Invisible Epidemic' .
20 September 2011 | Foreign Affairs
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Valuable lessons from the global commitment to fight HIV/AIDS over the past three decades should inspire a new worldwide effort to confront the epidemic of non-communicable diseases, say Emory public health leaders.
07 September 2011 | Moreover.com HIV/AIDS feed
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