CardioExchange Archive

February 14th, 2014

Is It Time for an Alternative to CME?

Nicholas Bergfeld, BS, BA

A medical student’s conversation with his physician father makes him wonder about the future of lifelong medical education.

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November 4th, 2013

Healthy Diet in Middle Age Leads to Healthier Old Age

Larry Husten, PHD

New results from a long-running study offer fresh evidence that a “healthy” diet is actually good for you. The study shows that women who followed a healthy diet while in middle age had a much better chance of reaching age 70 without any of the major illnesses or impairments usually associated with old age. In a […]

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September 29th, 2010

How Are You Managing Co-Morbid Conditions?

Joseph S. Ross, MD, MHS

Some of you may remember a 2005 paper in JAMA, in which relevant clinical practice guidelines were applied to a hypothetical 79-year-old woman. This woman had multiple co-morbid conditions, otherwise known as multimorbidity, including COPD, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, hypertension, and osteoarthritis. The authors surmised that, if guideline-directed care were followed, this hypothetical patient would be […]

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August 2nd, 2010

Framingham: Cardiac Function Linked to Brain Aging

Larry Husten, PHD

Brain age is closely associated with cardiac function, according to a new report in Circulation from the Framingham Heart Study. Angela Jefferson and colleagues collected brain MRI, cardiac MRI, neuropsychological, and laboratory data on 1504 participants in the Framingham Offspring Cohort and found a significant association between neuropsychological and brain MRI variables and cardiac index […]

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