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A recent trial of testosterone therapy has garnered much attention on social and mainstream media and caught the eye of the skeptical cardiologist. Published in the prestigious New England Journal …
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Mashup Score: 0Are The New Lower Blood Pressure Targets Right For You? - 1 year(s) ago
In 2015 a landmark NIH-sponsored trial looking at outcomes when hypertensive patients (aged >50 years) were randomized to treatment to a higher versus a lower blood pressure goal called the SPRI…
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For the last several weeks I’ve been wearing a small, unobtrusive bracelet on my right wrist which has been silently monitoring my blood pressure on a regular basis. Based on my initial evaluation …
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In 2019 (on National Coffee Day!) the skeptical cardiologist revealed that he was a coffee snob and addict. Despite my love of coffee, as a scientist, I try to approach the health benefits or harms…
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Mashup Score: 0Measuring and Reversing Biological Age: The EGYM© versus The Longevity Lunatic Fringe© - 1 year(s) ago
A few days after turning 69 the skeptical cardiologist walked into the Magadalena Ecke YMCA and began a program called EGYM. I’d seen banners advertising this program and was intrigued to try…
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Mashup Score: 0You’ve Been Diagnosed With an Enlarged, Enlarging, Dilated, or Aneurysmal Aorta: What Does it Mean? - 1 year(s) ago
The recent sudden, unexpected death of prominent soccer journalist Grant Wahl from a ruptured ascending aortic aneurysm prompted the skeptical cardiologist to resuscitate his dormant article on mea…
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Mashup Score: 1How I Self-Diagnosed and Treated My Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy - 1 year(s) ago
An often over-looked heart condition, basal septal hypertrophy was making me dizzy when I ran.
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Mashup Score: 0Are Wrist Blood Pressure Monitors Accurate? Can We Go Cuffless? - 1 year(s) ago
The skeptical cardiologist spruced up and updated The Skeptical Cardiologist’s Guide to Home Blood Pressure Monitoring today. Most of what I wrote then is still accurate and I am still using …
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Mashup Score: 0Profiles in Coronary Artery Disease: Navigating the False Dichotomies of Dietary Ideologues - 1 year(s) ago
This reader went from low-carb ideologue to vegan ideologue to trying to seek the truth regardless of what “side” it favors
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Mashup Score: 0A Primer on Atrial Fibrillation: Causes, Treatments, Stroke Prevention, and Monitoring - 1 year(s) ago
Atrial fibrillation occurs when the normal, regular, synchronous action of the upper chambers of the heart becomes chaotic, rapid, and inefficient. Some who go into atrial fibrillation know it righ…
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