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Gustavo Alcal
Servicio de Cardiologa
Millions of sufferers from heart disease have been given new hope by a study that
shows the condition may be reversible.
Heart disease kills 114,000 people a year in the UK and affects 2.6 million overall. Previous research suggested
it is a chronic, progressive disease that can be slowed but not reversed.
Now scientists have found that very intensive treatment with a powerful cholesterol-lowering drug may reduce
the fatty deposits in the arteries. But the drug, Crestor, manufactured by Astra Zeneca and launched in
2003, has been the focus of controversy after evidence emerged that it could cause a muscle-wasting
disease.
Results of an international study released yesterday at the American College of Cardiology annual conference
in Atlanta show that two years of treatment with Crestor, whose chemical name is rosuvastatin, cut
cholesterol levels by over half and reduced the thickness of the atheroma by 6.8 per cent. The research
found almost four out of five patients showed some form of reduction in atheroma.
Dr Sarah Jarvis, of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said: "For the first time we have a drug that can
not only halt the progression of the disease, but in the vast majority of patients, it actually showed the
disease regress."
Professor Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, said: "This was extremely
aggressive treatment that achieved a small reduction in atheroma ... What the study didn't do is show
whether this was an important biological difference. It wasn't designed to test whether this drug regimen
actually saves lives, so whilst the results sound promising and are likely to translate into a better
outcome for patients, we still need further studies to confirm whether the regression demonstrated
translates to fewer heart attacks."
Cardioversor desfibrilador
implantable
Modificacin de la respuesta al
tratamiento al recordar momento de ira
Voltaire, pseudnimo de
Francois Marie Arouet
"Los mdicos son hombres que
recetan medicinas de las que saben
poco, para curar enfermedades de las que
entienden menos, en seres humanos de
los que no conocen nada."
Kenneth Heaton
Med Humanit. 2011 Dec 1;37(2):97-102
Muchos mdicos son renuentes a atribuir
sntomas fsicos a perturbaciones emocionales,
y esto resulta en diagnsticos tardos, excesivos
exmenes complementarios y tratamientos
inapropiados. Podran aprender a ser mejores
mdicos estudiando a Shakespeare. Esto es
importante porque los llamados sntomas
funcionales son la principal causa de consultas
a mdicos generalistas y de derivaciones a
especialistas"
Kristina Orth-Gomr
Profesora Emrita 2008 Medicina Comunitaria
Actualmente Departamento de Neurociencia Clnica
Kristina Orth-Gomr
Departamento Medicina Psicosomtica, Universidad de
Medicina Charit, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin
La ciencia de la meditacin
Definiciones
En este estudio NOETICO se defini como
una disciplina de tratamiento cuya
influencia pretende permitir, emitir,
canalizar o conectar una influencia
curativa intelectual, intuitiva o espiritual sin
el uso de frmacos, dispositivos ni
procedimientos quirrgicos.
El estudio fue revisado por el comit de
tica y se obtuvo consentimiento.
Con grupo de oracin vs sin grupo de oracin. Lancet 2005; 366: 211-217
Dr Herbert Benson
Director Emrito Institute for Mind/Body Medicine,
Massachusssetts General Hospital
Profesor Asociado Mind/Body Medical Institute,
Harvard Medical Shool
Presencia de complicaciones
Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database
Estudio HARMONY
BMJ Open. 2012 Mar 5;2(2):e000848
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