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Target prevention to tackle cardiovascular disease burden

06 Feb 2012 | by Tom Moberly

with the burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to US researchers....Dr Jarett Berry from the University of Texas and colleagues analysed data from more than 250,000 people. They found that a person's chance of having a cardiovascular event can be raised over a lifetime by small increases in risk factors. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine , the researchers ...

ECG readings would improve cardiovascular risk scores

12 Apr 2012 | by Stephen Robinson

from 2,192 adults aged 70 to 79 years who did not have cardiovascular disease, looking for CHD events ...

Appointment Systems - GPs' call-backs solve DNA problems

25 Jan 2012 | by Harry Longman

workload? Partner Dr Kam Singh explains: 'Under our old system, we wasted a dozen or more appointments ... love the system and the GPs can make more time for themselves. 'That is translating into lower costs ... . 'They found none who didn't like the new system,' Dr Singh says. Nationally more than 40 practices ...

Polycystic ovary syndrome increases risk of MI 10-fold

27 Mar 2012 | by Stephen Robinson

Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) are far more likely to develop cardiovascular disease...of cardiovascular events in this group with 432,506 women without the condition. MI occurred in 1.9% of women ... '. But the findings highlight the need to consider cardiovascular risk in women with PCOS, he said. This includes ...

Expert Opinion: Skin cancer and the two-week wait referral

01 Mar 2012 | by Dr Pooja Trehan, Dr Klara Balogh and Dr Rachael Morris-Jones

Is the two-week wait referral system improving diagnosis rates in skin cancer?...-week wait referral (2WW) system in England and Wales was to reduce waiting times for specialist consultation ... than 95% of all skin cancers. The 2WW system in dermatology was designed to improve outcomes ... patients at medical school or soon after qualifying as a GP, so 2WW is an excellent system for allowing ...

Telehealth - The impact and success of telehealth

11 Jan 2012 | by Dr Raza Toosy and Dr Saeed Chaudhary

Two GP viewpoints on deploying telehealth systems from Dr Raza Toosy and Dr Saeed Chaudhary...of patient care, the system fails when patients do not engage or are unwilling to change, despite help from ... -fifth of patients on a caseload were provided with a Tunstall telehealth system. Over a 12-month period ... to work at the practice nurse level, with systems in place to support nurses taking on the challenge ...

QOF could cut antipsychotic use for dementia patients

01 Feb 2012 | by Stephen Robinson

Study suggests scoring system could limit inappropriate use of antipsychotics for dementia patients.

Biologics in the treatment of psoriasis

01 Mar 2012 | by Dr Anthony Bewley and Dr Ravinder Atka

of patients with severe psoriasis who have failed to respond to conventional systemic agents or for whom other systemic treatments are inappropriate. Key words Psoriasis, comorbidities, psoriatic arthropathy, biologics, systemic agents The severity of psoriasis is measured by the Psoriasis Area ...

Rapid steroid dose cuts admissions for asthma

16 Apr 2012 | by Tom Moberly

Hospital admissions for asthma can be reduced by providing systemic corticosteroid treatment within.... Systemic corticosteroids were given within 75 minutes in 50% of cases, and there were delays in 33% of cases. In 17% of cases, children failed to receive any systemic corticosteroid treatment. Early administration of systemic corticosteroids reduced the odds of children being admitted to hospital by 40%. Dr ...

Cancer calculator helps GPs spot disease at early stage

04 Jan 2012 | by Stephen Robinson

A tool to predict patients' risk of cancer could be integrated into GP computer systems to improve...patients. It could also be integrated into GP computer systems to generate a list of high-risk patients ...

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