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...results of the remaining two arms of the trial - one in which patients were treated with blood-pressure-lowering drugs and another in which they received statins to reduce cholesterol and fibrate medications to slice their trigylceride levels - showed the same trend, finding that aggressive drug treatment did little to reduce the volunteers' risk of developing heart problems...
Although each of these studies included several thousand diabetes patients, which bolsters the reliability of their results, it doesn't mean they are the final word on the tested treatments. In the blood-fats arm of the ACCORD study, for instance, about 40% of the volunteers had already had a previous heart event and the remainder had risk factors, other than diabetes, that put them at high risk for heart disease, notes Dr. Om Ganda, director of the lipid clinic at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston. That means the trial was not truly a primary-prevention study designed to test...
...tend to be far more tuned in to getting normal targets in my younger patients," says Dr. Daniel Einhorn, medical director of the Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute, who is a co-author on one of the NEJM studies. "Without question, now I am more conservative in my treatment of older, sicker patients, because they don't benefit, and these studies just confirm that...
...levels of lead found in Indian spices and powders in the current study may not set off the FDA's alarms, but, as Lin and her team note, it should alert pediatricians to diagnosing lead poisoning and getting exposed youngsters into treatment sooner...
Wasikowska, the Australian who was superb as a suicidal teen on the HBO series In Treatment, brings a soft-focus regality to her role. Emotionally, though, her Alice is a bright child, a preteen in a late teen's body, as if she had suddenly sprouted by nibbling a magic cake. Her Wonderland dream is an escape from social strictures back to the freedom of childhood, and not imprisonment but liberation...