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		<title>Reducing salt intake has no effect on heart risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reducing the salt in your diet may lower your blood pressure a bit, but it will not reduce your chances of dying from heart disease or having a heart attack or stroke. That's the conclusion of a new Cochrane review of all relevant clinical trials. Another example of conventional medical wisdom found to have no supporting evidence. (Reminds me of statin drugs, so good at reducing cholesterol but pitiful at cutting the risk of heart attack and stroke in people without heart disease.)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=8339&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Benefit to Reducing Blood Pressure Below 140/90</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new Cochrane review identified the seven trials that had tested this ideal and found that it didn’t hold up to scientific scrutiny.  Using more drugs to reduce blood pressure lower than the standard target, 140/90 mmHg, did not prolong survival or reduce stroke, heart attack, heart failure or kidney failure. The trials had a combined total of more than 22,000 participants who were followed about 3 ½ years.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=3016&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blood Pressure Drugs for All at High Risk, Whether or Not Blood Pressure is High</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/06/01/blood-pressure-drugs-for-all-whether-or-not-blood-pressure-is-high/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The typical doctor visit starts with blood pressure measurement, and everyone with a high reading is told to come back again in three months. If blood pressure remains high, one drug or more is the next step, and then three-month follow-up visits continue indefinitely.

A team of British researchers wants to radically change this scenario. Blood pressure lowering drugs should be prescribed to anyone who is at high enough risk to benefit from treatment, whatever their reason for being at high risk and regardless of whether they have high blood pressure or not. What's more, the British researchers want to change the traditional doctor-visit focus from: has your blood pressure gone down and stayed down? to: is your drug therapy causing any adverse effects?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=2315&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drug-Coated Stent No Riskier Than Bare-Metal Stent, But…</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drug-coated stents, intended to keep coronary arteries from closing up again, have been under suspicion for causing harm to people years after they had an artery-opening procedure. In earlier studies, the powerful drugs used to coat the tiny wire-mesh cylinders known as stents, were linked to a slightly higher rate of death and potentially fatal blood clots. A new study of Swedish people who were implanted with either a bare-metal stent or a drug-coated stent appears to exonerate the latter.

While this is good news for people who already had a drug-coated stent implanted, it should not distract from the fact that too many Americans continue to undergo artery-opening procedures for non-emergency heart conditions that can be just as successfully treated with drugs alone.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=2312&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drugs For High Blood Pressure: Which Are Best?</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2005/04/01/drugs-for-high-blood-pressure-which-are-best/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2005 18:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drugs that lower high blood pressure are the cornerstone of preventive medicine. Clearly they have prevented many a heart attack or stroke, but it's getting harder and harder for doctors to know who should get what drug… and who should not be treated at all. Every few years a committee of hypertension experts (often with strong ties to the pharmaceutical industry) lowers the threshold for the definition of normal hypertension, steadily expanding the pool of people who should be on drugs.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=933&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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