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…
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…
Robert Su, Pharm.B., M.D. Principal Physician, Virginia Pain Clinic Author, Carbohydrates Can Kill Host, The Carbohydrates Can Kill Podcast Show. Discussion: Statistics show that the prevalence of kidney stones (nephrolithiasis or urolithiasis) has increased for the last 30 years. Of the US population, the number of Americans with kidney stones increased from less than 4%…
[JEV News, November 11, 2011] On November 7, 2011, I published an interim report on the risk of kidney stone (nephrolithiasis) with carbohydrate restriction. The data of this report were collected from those, 22 in total, who voluntarily participated in this survey with their individual information and whose identities were sealed. I wholeheartedly thank them…
Robert Su, Pharm.B., M.D. Principal Physician, Virginia Pain Clinic Author, Carbohydrates Can Kill Host, The Carbohydrates Can Kill Podcast Show Featured Speaker: The Non-English Language Content for Carbohydrates Can Kill Purpose: Since the end of 1700’s, carbohydrate-restricted diet has been reportedly used for treating diabetes mellitus and morbid obesity. Several studies cite the metabolic…
On November 2, 2011, I interviewed with Dr. Uffe Ravnvskov, on the Carbohydrates Can Kill Podcast show. Dr. Ravnvskov is an internist/nephrologists who has done lots of research in the roles of cholesterol in our health. He shared with us the reasons why treating cholesterol is unnecessary and harmful. As explained in the article, “Coronary…