High-dose vitamin D for ICU patients who are vitamin D deficient does not improve outcomes
Administration of high-dose vitamin D3 compared with placebo did not reduce hospital length of stay, intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay, hospital mortality, or the risk of death at 6 months…
September 30, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: emergency medicine, high-dose-vitamin, hospital-length, hospital-mortality, icu, not-reduce, nutrition, placebo-did, risk, the-risk
Milk consumption in teens ‘increases risk of hip fractures’ for men
Drinking milk has long been promoted as positive for building stronger bones. But it seems drinking milk as a teenager does not reduce the risk of hip fractures later in life and can even increase the risk for men, according to new research published in JAMA Pediatrics.
November 19, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: bones / orthopedics, diet, hip-fractures, increase-the-risk, jama, new-research, not-reduce, nutritional counseling, promoted-as-positive, reduce-the-risk, risk, seems-drinking, teenager-does, the-risk
New Study Findings Show No Benefit Of Prescription Omega-3 Fatty Acids In Prevention Of Recurrent Symptomatic Atrial Fibrillation In Affected Patients
Findings from a new study show, compared to placebo, treatment with high-dose prescription omega-3 fatty acids did not reduce the recurrence of symptomatic atrial fibrillation (AF) among patients with symptomatic paroxysmal AF or persistent AF who have no evidence of substantial structural heart disease…
November 16, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: among-patients, not-reduce, nutritional counseling, omega-3-fatty, on call diets, oncalldiets, reduce-the-recurrence, structural-heart, the-recurrence
New Study Findings Show No Benefit Of Prescription Omega-3 Fatty Acids In Prevention Of Recurrent Symptomatic Atrial Fibrillation In Affected Patients
Findings from a new study show, compared to placebo, treatment with high-dose prescription omega-3 fatty acids did not reduce the recurrence of symptomatic atrial fibrillation (AF) among patients with symptomatic paroxysmal AF or persistent AF who have no evidence of substantial structural heart disease…
November 16, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: acids-did, among-patients, atrial-fibrillation, diet, heart-disease, new-study, not-reduce, omega-3-fatty, on call diets, oncalldiets, recurrence, structural-heart, the-recurrence