There is evidence that grilling meat releases potentially cancer-causing substances. Meat lovers can take steps to reduce their risk, such as cooking smaller pieces at a lower temperature, or precooking the meat for two minutes in a mictowave oven.
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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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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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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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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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I am scheduled to have a colonoscopy soon. Does the examination reach the ileum?
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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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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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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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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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