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Statins and Diabetes
Statins ‘raise your chance of diabetes’… but the benefits still outweigh risks, say doctors.
Patients taking statins face an increased risk of developing diabetes, warn researchers.
The first review into a suspected link with cholesterol-lowering drugs shows a nine per cent rise in the chance of acquiring one form of the disease.
Cancer blood test hope
Personalised blood tests which could track whether cancer treatment is working or if the disease has come back have been developed by US researchers.
The test identifies tumour DNA “rearrangements” which are specific to the individual patient.
In the future, this “genetic fingerprint” could be used to pick out tiny remnants of a tumour, Science Translational Medicine reports.
Cardiologists Say Give Statins to People Even If They Don’t Have Heart Disease
An analysis of ten trials involving statin therapy among 70,000 participants has led an international team of cardiologists to recommend that that the cholesterol-lowering drugs be prescribed for people who do not have heart disease.
Being angry raises risk of heart disease, researchers find
A review of studies found that anger and hostility were found to predict coronary heart disease events such as heart attacks in healthy people and in those who are already showing signs of the condition.
Anger, stress may be linked to heart problems
When you get angry, the stress isn’t restricted to your head. New research shows that anger actually triggers electrical changes in the heart, which can predict future arrhythmias in some patients.
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