Testing. If you’re concerned about the health of your bones, you can take a simple, safe test that scans your body with a low-dose x-ray. The results will tell you if you’re suffering from the early stages of osteoporosis. In addition, the test will give you a benchmark against ...
The actual evidence, however, has always been less-than-compelling: Just as low cholesterol diets have only a trivial effect on serum cholesterol levels, for instance, and low-salt diets have a clinically insignificant effect on blood pressure, low-purine diets have a negligible effect on uric ...
Conclusions In studies of aerobic exercise in patients with knee OA, very few interventions met guideline-recommended dose; there were small to moderate changes in markers of cardiovascular health and no decrease in markers of systemic inflammation. These findings question whether aerobic exercise is ...
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is considered to be a major public health problem around the globe, and it is associated with major adverse clinical outcomes and significant health care costs. There is growing evidence suggesting that AKI is associated with the subsequent development of chronic kidney di...
Generally, they should aim for a daily dose of at least 300 mg nitrate (optimally 400 mg) and also at least 1 mg of folic acid, preferably in the form of 5-MTHF (a form effective for people suffering with 5,10-Methylene-tetrahydrofolate reductase deficiency), which can revert dysfunction...
(1) Background: Uric acid is a well-known cardiovascular (CV) risk factor in the general population but its role in the setting of rheumatic diseases other than gout is unclear. (2) Methods: This is a retrospective study investigating a cohort of 105 pSS patients recording clinical, serologi...
In addition, cancer therapy adversely affects the metabolic state of the patient and contributes to weight gain. For example, chemotherapy is often administered with a pretreatment dose of steroids. Despite the relatively low doses, incorporation of steroids into a treatment regimen appears to be ...