14 January 2011
An extremely welcome announcement by the American Heart Association that everybody should look to reduce their sodium intake to less than 1500 mg od. It has been know for years that sodium caused an age related increase in blood pressure so that over half of 60 year olds have high blood pressure in western societies [...]
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30 December 2010
The drug metformin has been around since the early sixties. Whilst it has been prescribed since that time in the UK and Europe, misplaced concerns about serious side effect of a similar now discontinued drug prevented it being prescribed in the USA until the last decade. Metformin has been shown to reduce cardiovascular mortality compared [...]
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