All Articles on Cardiovascular Health

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  A new lowdown on high blood pressure?

  Recent results seem to support dramatically reducing blood pressure, says Dr. Bev Green, and might finally unify hypertension guidelines.
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  Is cholesterol screening being done as recommended?

  Study identifies substantial over- and underuse of lipid testing.
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  How well does bariatric surgery work?

  The number of bariatric surgeries done each year in the United States has ballooned. Now, in an August 27 state-of-the-art review in The BMJ and a September 3 editorial in JAMA, David Arterburn, MD, MPH, weighs the evidence on the benefits and risks of the various types of this surgery.
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  New online care from dietitians helps control weight

  Overweight Group Health patients with hypertension benefit from ‘pocket dietitian’
• Group Health and UW scientist Bruce M. Psaty, MD, PhD, named to Institute of Medicine

  The Institute of Medicine (IOM) announced today, Oct. 21, that Bruce M. Psaty, MD, PhD, has been newly elected into its membership ranks, one of the most prestigious honors in the fields health and medicine.
• Less blood clot risk is linked to estradiol than to Premarin pills

  In an observational study of comparative safety, use of estradiol was associated with less risk of developing blood clots in leg veins (deep vein thrombosis) and clots in the lungs (pulmonary emboli) than was use of conjugated equine estrogens.
• Team care of chronic diseases seems cost-effective

  The collaborative TEAMcare program for people with depression and either diabetes, heart disease, or both appears at least to pay for itself, according to a UW Medicine and Group Health Research Institute report in the May 7 Archives of General Psychiatry. Over two years, after accounting for the $1,224 per patient that the program cost, it may save as much as $594 per patient in outpatient costs.