[JEV News, December 23, 2011] The time has never taken a break. It comes quietly and goes quietly. Before we know it, the annual holiday season has come and about gone. I and staff of JEV Publishing wish you a loving and peaceful holiday season, and a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year. To help…
Hyperglycemia is the cardinal clinical finding of diabetes mellitus, regardless of its types. Understandably, to qualify for the diagnostic criteria of diabetes mellitus, the timing and the level of hyperglycemia are specifically defined, e.g. FPG (fasting plasma glucose) >=110 (6.1 mmol/l) and <126 mg/dl (7.0 mmol/l) = Impaired Fasting Glucose; and FPG >=126 mg/dl (7.0…
[JEV News, December 16, 2011] I wrote for the JEV News last week, on December 9, 2011, about the announcement on Medicare coverage for obesity screening and counseling as a preventive service for seniors who are obese with a Body Mass Index more than 30 Kg/M2. I praised the new coverage an excellent initiative by…
Often in clinical practice, using categorization with numbers and/or letters to represent different stages of a disease, when each stage is defined and agreed by the medical experts of the specialty, of which the disease develops. Commonly, the evolvement of disease is continuing and progressive as its health impact intensifying and the patient’s condition deteriorated….
[JEV News, December 9, 2011] The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Tuesday last week, November 29, 2011, that it would begin to cover obesity screening and counseling as a preventive service under Medicare for seniors who were obese with a Body Mass Index more than 30 Kg/M2. This is an excellent initiative…
The “Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure” offers the following guidelines: “(1) In persons older than 50 years, systolic blood pressure greater than 140 mmHg is a much more important cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor than diastolic blood pressure. (2) The risk of CVD…
[JEV News, December 2, 2011] During the last few years, more studies cite the benefits of Vitamin D and its deficiency in those people who do not expose themselves to sunlight for producing Vitamin D physiologically. Some of the studies produce new findings that many tissues and organs are equipped with Vitamin D receptors to…
In medical studies on the association between the strength of a factor (variable) or factors and the outcomes of the disease, they may find a range of optimum only at the elbow of a J curve, while confirming a positive relationship in its long arm, and at the same time, observing an inverse relationship in…
traduit par Charles A. Fortin Je suis Robert Su, médecin. Je vous salue à nouveau sur ma baladodiffusion spécialement pour vous. Lors de ma dernière discussion à propos de la restriction des glucides, je vous ai conseillé d’éviter ou du moins de restreindre les aliments riches en glucides, de façon à vous empêcher de prendre du poids…
Sex had been a taboo topic until the middle of 1900’s, when Dr. Alfred Kingsey [1] published his research in human sexuality. Since that, thanks to the growing social liberalism and individualism, sex has become an open subject. Aside the moral issue, sex life is undeniably one of few important factors, which may change the…