Do PPIs have long-term side effects?
Proton-pump inhibitors relieve acid reflux, but people who take them long-term may be more susceptible to certain bacterial infections, pneumonia, and bone fractures.
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Month: April 2010
Sporadic high blood pressure deserves attention
Monitoring your blood pressure by taking daily readings at home over a period of time can provide a more accurate sense of your true pressure than a reading in the doctor’s office, which may be artificially high or low.
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Heart Beat: Don’t give frozen produce the cold shoulder
Eating frozen fruits and vegetables is a good way to boost the nutritional value of your diet when fresh local produce is not available.
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Heart failure in women
Many factors can cause or contribute to heart failure in women, including coronary artery disease, hypertension, and diabetes. Treatment generally involves medications such as ACE inhibitors, beta blockers, and diuretics.
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By the way, doctor: Does a colonoscopy reach the ileum?
I am scheduled to have a colonoscopy soon. Does the examination reach the ileum?
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State-of-the-heart therapy for prostate cancer
Aggressive prostate cancer can be treated by using hormone therapy to lower testosterone, but it can result in higher cholesterol, high blood pressure, stiffening arteries, and other heart-unhealthy conditions.
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Heart Beat: Green tea and statins
People who take a statin may want to watch their intake of green tea, as there is a possibility it may boost the blood concentration of the medication to pain-causing levels.
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In the journals: Triple-negative breast cancer rate is triply high in black women
Researchers found that a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer is three times as likely to occur in black women as in white women.
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Ask the doctor: Is sotalol making me tired and heavier?
My doctor put me on a calcium-channel blocker, but after I had angioplasty and got a stent, my doctor switched me to sotalol. Now I feel tired all the time and have gained weight, even though I feel like I’m eating less. Can this be from the sotalol?
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The election-year physical
Americans have become accustomed to the practice of presidential candidates releasing their health records to prove their fitness for holding office.
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