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wellness

Hold the salt

by Stephen on 2011/01/14

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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Old Drugs, new tricks!

by Stephen on 2010/12/30

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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