Medicine and Man

• Risk-Scoring Systems for Predicting Incident Diabetes Mellitus in U.S. Adults Age 45 to 64 Years http://bit.ly/qcIGd #
• Waist girth; maternal or paternal diabetes; hypertension; short stature, black race, age>55, weight, rapid pulse & smoking predict diabetes #
• Magnitude of heart rate reduction is associated with survival benefit and not dose of beta blocker in heart failure http://bit.ly/2pK0q #
• Plasma PTH levels predict cardiovascular mortality in community, even in individuals with PTH within normal range http://bit.ly/1WjCyD #
• Nationwide campaign in France – “Keep Antibiotics Working” successful in reducing unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions http://bit.ly/3eSsX #
• Almost half of all strokes that occur during the 7 days after a transient ischemic attack (TIA) happen within 24 hours http://bit.ly/ki6Xo #
• Google Squared is live http://www.google.com/squared/ #
• American adults are less healthy than Europeans at all wealth levels. Poorest Americans are at greatest disadvantage http://bit.ly/AhY50 #
• Propylthiouracil associated with higher risk of liver damage compared to Methimazole (treatment for hyperthyroidism) http://bit.ly/ofqdT #
• Sedatives (for anxiety) & sleeping pills increase the risk of suicide four-fold among the elderly http://bit.ly/5eHiL #
• McDonald in Pakistan http://bit.ly/18L3uN (via @maniagrawal) #

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