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HbA1c, a glucose test for assessing diabetes' risk, can now be utilized to assess cardiovascular risk. According to recent study data HbA1c is an effective risk predictor for cardiovascular diseases. Because this study involved only patients with diabetes additional studies involving non-diabetic participants need to take place in the future.

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Cardiovascular Risk Prediction in Diabetic Men and Women Using Hemoglobin A1c vs Diabetes as a High-Risk Equivalent

The FDA recently warned about the increased radiation exposure associated with CardioGen-82. Now they are telling radiologist to stop using it.

FDA Drug Safety Communication: FDA alerts healthcare professionals to stop performing heart scans with CardioGen-82 due to potential for increased radiation exposure in patients

ACOG previously recommended mammograms for 40 and older women every one or two years. Now, however, they are saying mammograms should be performed annually.

Annual Mammograms Now Recommended for Women Beginning at Age 40

Women undergoing their second cesarean delivery may encounter a several minute delay in delivery due to adhesions that have developed from their first cesarean delivery, according to a recent study.

Do adhesions at repeat cesarean delay delivery of the newborn?

A recent small study demonstrated that hot coffee and tea drinkers had a smaller risk of MRSA colonization in their nasal passage than those not consuming the hot beverages. Interestingly, the coffee and tea had to be hot in order to result in a decrease of MRSA in the nasal cavity. Although the data is interesting, further studies are necessary to determine the validity of these findings.

Tea, coffee intake decreased likelihood of MRSA nasal carriage

A recent large study shows that older patients who have been on NSAID (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug) for extended period experience adverse cardiovascular events twice as much as patients who are not chronic NSAID users.

http://www.theheart.org/article/1253349.do

According to data derived from a population-based, twenty-year study there are many factors that can increase the risk eclampsia (seizures developing during pregnancy that are not related to a neurological disorder). Some of these factors include being young or old mother, longer birth interval between deliveries, gestational diabetes, weight gain above or below the guidelines, and pre-pregnancy obesity.

Although small, the risk of cardiovascular complications increases for those taking Chantix. This comes after the FDA recently told the manufacture of Chantix to include the warning that Chantix increases the risk of second myocardial infarction (heart attack). Stop-Smoking Drug Linked to Heart Risks

According to a study in Norway, children born at term as a result of induced labor were more like to suffer bilateral and quadriplegia (all four limbs) spastic CP. Induction of labor and cerebral palsy: a population-based study in Norway.