Diabetes Mellitus Risk Factors For Heart Attack
Metformin and the risk of lactic acidosis
"Can a patient use metformin after a heart attack (after 12 years of using metformin) assuming the patient has good renal function? My question is if metformin should be avoided forever after an acute myocardial infarction or just temporarily withheld after the heart attack in a patient with an adequate renal and liver function (also without congestive heart failure or hypers... Read more »
Expert & Community Posts
Avandia Questions
By Dr. Bill Quick , Health Expert...one of two currently-available drugs in a class of diabetes medications called "TZDs"... Read more »
Is the FDA a watchdog or a dog?
By Dr. Bill Quick , Health ExpertThe latest news about the diabetes drugs Avandia (rosiglitazone) and its close relative Actos... Read more »
Heart Attack Risk 40 per cent Higher in Anxious Men
By Jerry Kennard , Health Expert...of 60 and no history of coronary heart disease or diabetes, were assessed on four different... Read more »
Does My Temperament/Personality Play a Role in My Risk for Heart Disease?
By Lisa Nelson , Health Expert...functional and physiologic problems, risk factors such as diabetes and metabolic syndrome,... Read more »
Aspirin and diabetes and primary prevention
By Dr. Bill Quick , Health Expert...treatment given for about 7 years to adults with diabetes who were given it for primary... Read more »
Health Guide
Depression Not Linked to Increased Risk of Stroke
...number); cholesterol level; obesity; other conditions such as preexisting myocardial infarction, diabetes; social class; education; hypertension treatment, family history of stroke; and use of... Read more »Heart Attack Symptoms and Warning Signs
...- your age, sex and genetic predisposition to atherosclerosis - and those you can influence, like diabetes, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, smoking, lack of exercise and obesity.... Read more »More Research Links Migraine With Aura and Stroke in Women
...greater odds of ischemic stroke.The risk was highest in those with no history of hypertension, diabetes, or myocardial infarction compared to women with no migraine. Women with PMVA... Read more »Heart attack
...you smoke. Eat a low fat diet rich in fruits and vegetables and low in animal fat. Control diabetes. Lose weight if you are overweight. Exercise daily or several times a week by... Read more »Heart attack
...cholesterol levels, especially high LDL ("bad") cholesterol and low HDL ("good") cholesterol Diabetes Male gender Age Heredity Many of the risk factors listed are... Read more »Images
Medications
...is identical to human insulin. It is used to treat diabetes mellitus. Like other insulin... Read more »
...high blood sugar. It is used in patients with type 2 diabetes (non-insulin-dependent diabetes).... Read more »
...to control high blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes (non-insulin-dependent diabetes).... Read more »
...control high blood sugar in patients with type 2 diabetes (non-insulin-dependent diabetes). It... Read more »
...control high blood sugar in patients with type 2 diabetes (non-insulin-dependent diabetes).... Read more »
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Aspirin and Diabetic Cardio Risk
November 12, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Low-dose aspirin has been recommended as a primary prevention strategy for patients with an increased cardiovascular risk, but... Read summary »
Healthy Steps to Save Your Heart
March 12, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Two new studies prove it's worthwhile to take simple, healthy steps to reduce your heart attack risk. Researchers from Harvard... Read summary »
Effects of Glucose Control Last Years
October 29, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Diabetes patients treated with drugs may be less at risk for some major complications of their disease even after therapy is... Read summary »
Diabetes Risk Increases After Heart Attack
September 14, 2007(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Patients who have had a heart attack have a new concern to worry about. New research reveals patients who have had a heart... Read summary »
Diabetes Medication: More Harm than Good?
December 09, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A medication for diabetics may do more harm than good. Doctors are concerned rosiglitazone may increase older patients' risk of... Read summary »
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