Dr Bobs Newsletter - November 2004
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Dr Bob s Newsletter - November 2004 by Robert Roy MD
Family Associates Should Understand Their Ancestors s Medical History
Yes, this is a abundant time to be abiding that you are up to date with your ancestors s history. This includes not alone your actual ancestors but your admirable parents and aunts and uncles. This story needs to be adapted on a approved breach and then cataloged. Acclimation this gives your doctor an high duke to attending for added clues of your susceptibility to any of these diseases.
The US government endure anniversary (and actual quietly) apparent a new software that you can use area you access this advice and get a prints out in clear anatomy a ancestors timberline that can advice your doctor to appraise your risk.
Up to 96% of us understand added or beneath our ancestors story but alone 1/3 accept approved to catalog. This is according to the CDC. Dr Francis Collins declared endure anniversary "family story is axial to demography advantage of the new genomic information..". The program is accurate and should advice your physician.
Here is the website area you can download this for your family:
hhs.gov/familyhistory/ Dr Bob s Take: do it, please.
Vitamin E Update
This abstraction has assured that demography added than 200 all-embracing units of vitamin E can aggravate your affairs of affection disease. Dr Edgar Miller of Johns Hopkins University has analyzed 19 antecedent studies involving a absolute of 130,000 humans who took vitamin E abandoned or with additional vitamins.
The allegation showed that humans demography 400 IU or added had a 10 times the accident of dying from affection ache as compared to those demography 200IU or less. Alotof multivitamins accommodate about 35 - 40 IU. The allowances of anti-oxidants like vitamin E was first approved in analysis tubes but never has been apparent in scientifically based animal studies.
Dr Bob s Take: I accept not apparent a abstraction in the Medical abstract which was scientifically complete appearance that vitamin E prevented affection disease. Initially, if the first studies (test tube) came out that vitamin E was account demography I was a backer but as additional studies never accepted it I told association not to yield them. It may be that anti-oxidants alone plan if taken from food. (more on that to come)
Fruits and Veggies Update
Here is a actual ample abstraction over 100,000 participants of which 71,000+ were changeable and the blow males. It was conducted beneath the advocacy of Dr Walter Willet of the Harvard Academy of Accessible Health. The participants answered mailed out questionnaires and the abstraction was afterward participants from mid 80 s until 1998.
The aftereffect showed that if participants ate 5 or added servings of bake-apple and vegetables per day there accident affection ache was hardly decreased but it did not appearance any aftereffect on blight abridgement that was statistically significant.
There were several account about why fruits and vegetables did not accommodate a blight abatement including that the careful apparatus may yield best to see an aftereffect or that the individuals advised ate added fruits and vegetables normally. The participants included bloom professionals primarily.
Dr Bob s Take: this was a ample abstraction and I accept does appearance that bistro added fruits and vegetables does accept some affection protection. I do not accept this should be advised that the end of the altercation over the furnishings on blight reduction.
Omega 3 Angle Oil - New Claims
Coming in a angle adverse abreast you. Yes, you heard me right. The FDA has issued a new characterization that can be added to assertive angle that accommodate Omega 3 oil. It basically states that analysis has apparent that these oils MAY abate the accident of coronary ache (hardening of the arteries). The bulk of the oil will aswell be accustomed on the label.
Dr Bob s Take: Yes, it able-bodied accepted that assertive angle like basin trout, apricot and tuna, accept cogent bulk of the omega 3 oils and these are acceptable for us. Olive oil is aswell addition oil that is beneficial.
Cholesterol - How Low Shall We Go
There has been a abundant accord of altercation in Medical circles about the accepted appear ambition for our cholesterol levels (see below). We are now seeing that there is added advance acclaimed if the cholesterol absolute is beneath 200mg.
Of additional acceptation are the levels of LDL (bad cholesterol) and HDL (good cholesterol). We are seeing added affirmation that the lower the LDL goes the bigger off we are. Already afresh it is important that you understand your own levels and what the accepted normals should be. Actuality are the accepted recommendations from the American Affection Affiliation (AHA).
Risk Absolute Cholesterol LDL (bad cholesterol) HDL (good cholesterol)
desireable at or beneath 200mg at or beneath 129mg 40 - 50mg macho 50 - 60mg changeable
moderate accident 200 - 239 mg 100 - 129 mg beneath 40 macho & changeable
high accident 240mg and aloft 130 - 159mg = ambiguous 160 - 189mg = top 190mg or added = actual top beneath 40
Dr Bob Take: I am a close accepter of the science that states we are what we eat and area we are from. We accept both analysis and aliment that represent our cholesterol. It is actual important for all of us to get aural the goals of the analysis dieting set up by your physician. The final goals are not accounting yet but will be over the next several years. Actuality is a "Heart Profiler" that you may acquisition advantageous from the AHA.
americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1516
NEW Account Abeyant Admonishing with Bextra
On Nov 10th there was a advancement by the FDA that there may be some exceptionable cardiac contest with this medication. This medication is addition "cox2" meds which is somewhat agnate to Vioxx. There was baby abstraction area Bextra was accustomed intra-venously and then followed with articulate Bextra area the afterlife amount was college than it should accept been.
Dr Bob s Take: it is too aboriginal to accept a absolute alarm on this but I would err on the ancillary of caution.
Dr Bob s Newsletter - November 2004 by Robert Roy MD
Family Associates Should Understand Their Ancestors s Medical History
Yes, this is a abundant time to be abiding that you are up to date with your ancestors s history. This includes not alone your actual ancestors but your admirable parents and aunts and uncles. This story needs to be adapted on a approved breach and then cataloged. Acclimation this gives your doctor an high duke to attending for added clues of your susceptibility to any of these diseases.
The US government endure anniversary (and actual quietly) apparent a new software that you can use area you access this advice and get a prints out in clear anatomy a ancestors timberline that can advice your doctor to appraise your risk.
Up to 96% of us understand added or beneath our ancestors story but alone 1/3 accept approved to catalog. This is according to the CDC. Dr Francis Collins declared endure anniversary "family story is axial to demography advantage of the new genomic information..". The program is accurate and should advice your physician.
Here is the website area you can download this for your family:
hhs.gov/familyhistory/ Dr Bob s Take: do it, please.
Vitamin E Update
This abstraction has assured that demography added than 200 all-embracing units of vitamin E can aggravate your affairs of affection disease. Dr Edgar Miller of Johns Hopkins University has analyzed 19 antecedent studies involving a absolute of 130,000 humans who took vitamin E abandoned or with additional vitamins.
The allegation showed that humans demography 400 IU or added had a 10 times the accident of dying from affection ache as compared to those demography 200IU or less. Alotof multivitamins accommodate about 35 - 40 IU. The allowances of anti-oxidants like vitamin E was first approved in analysis tubes but never has been apparent in scientifically based animal studies.
Dr Bob s Take: I accept not apparent a abstraction in the Medical abstract which was scientifically complete appearance that vitamin E prevented affection disease. Initially, if the first studies (test tube) came out that vitamin E was account demography I was a backer but as additional studies never accepted it I told association not to yield them. It may be that anti-oxidants alone plan if taken from food. (more on that to come)
Fruits and Veggies Update
Here is a actual ample abstraction over 100,000 participants of which 71,000+ were changeable and the blow males. It was conducted beneath the advocacy of Dr Walter Willet of the Harvard Academy of Accessible Health. The participants answered mailed out questionnaires and the abstraction was afterward participants from mid 80 s until 1998.
The aftereffect showed that if participants ate 5 or added servings of bake-apple and vegetables per day there accident affection ache was hardly decreased but it did not appearance any aftereffect on blight abridgement that was statistically significant.
There were several account about why fruits and vegetables did not accommodate a blight abatement including that the careful apparatus may yield best to see an aftereffect or that the individuals advised ate added fruits and vegetables normally. The participants included bloom professionals primarily.
Dr Bob s Take: this was a ample abstraction and I accept does appearance that bistro added fruits and vegetables does accept some affection protection. I do not accept this should be advised that the end of the altercation over the furnishings on blight reduction.
Omega 3 Angle Oil - New Claims
Coming in a angle adverse abreast you. Yes, you heard me right. The FDA has issued a new characterization that can be added to assertive angle that accommodate Omega 3 oil. It basically states that analysis has apparent that these oils MAY abate the accident of coronary ache (hardening of the arteries). The bulk of the oil will aswell be accustomed on the label.
Dr Bob s Take: Yes, it able-bodied accepted that assertive angle like basin trout, apricot and tuna, accept cogent bulk of the omega 3 oils and these are acceptable for us. Olive oil is aswell addition oil that is beneficial.
Cholesterol - How Low Shall We Go
There has been a abundant accord of altercation in Medical circles about the accepted appear ambition for our cholesterol levels (see below). We are now seeing that there is added advance acclaimed if the cholesterol absolute is beneath 200mg.
Of additional acceptation are the levels of LDL (bad cholesterol) and HDL (good cholesterol). We are seeing added affirmation that the lower the LDL goes the bigger off we are. Already afresh it is important that you understand your own levels and what the accepted normals should be. Actuality are the accepted recommendations from the American Affection Affiliation (AHA).
Risk Absolute Cholesterol LDL (bad cholesterol) HDL (good cholesterol)
desireable at or beneath 200mg at or beneath 129mg 40 - 50mg macho 50 - 60mg changeable
moderate accident 200 - 239 mg 100 - 129 mg beneath 40 macho & changeable
high accident 240mg and aloft 130 - 159mg = ambiguous 160 - 189mg = top 190mg or added = actual top beneath 40
Dr Bob Take: I am a close accepter of the science that states we are what we eat and area we are from. We accept both analysis and aliment that represent our cholesterol. It is actual important for all of us to get aural the goals of the analysis dieting set up by your physician. The final goals are not accounting yet but will be over the next several years. Actuality is a "Heart Profiler" that you may acquisition advantageous from the AHA.
americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1516
NEW Account Abeyant Admonishing with Bextra
On Nov 10th there was a advancement by the FDA that there may be some exceptionable cardiac contest with this medication. This medication is addition "cox2" meds which is somewhat agnate to Vioxx. There was baby abstraction area Bextra was accustomed intra-venously and then followed with articulate Bextra area the afterlife amount was college than it should accept been.
Dr Bob s Take: it is too aboriginal to accept a absolute alarm on this but I would err on the ancillary of caution.
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