Uric Acid and Survival in Chronic Heart Failure – (04-23-03)

Uric Acid and Survival in Chronic Heart Failure I don’t always include articles about new lab values for prognostication of disease until be know how to modify the risk factor, but here we see that, in patient with chronic heart failure, low uric acid levels had a 100% accuracy in predicting that these patients will […]

Reduce Uric Acid to Prevent Gout: Details on the Gout Diet

We’ve always known you can reduce uric acid levels, prevent gout and improve your health with diet. But recent evidence clarifies what is worse in a gout diet. Gout sucks.  In school we were taught that the textbook presentation of gout is when the big toe is so painful that merely the weight of the […]

SERUM URIC ACID AND BRAIN ISCHEMIA IN NORMAL ELDERLY ADULTS – (02-25-08)

Serum uric acid and brain ischemia in normal elderly adults The evidence linking insulin resistance and neurodegenerative disorders continues to accumulate. And, much like every other disease process, this link likely occurs through multiple pathways. From lowered insulin sensitivity in the neurons leading to reduced ability to generate energy for the cell to, as in […]

NORMAL LIVER ENZYMES LINKED TO DIABETES?

NORMAL LIVER ENZYMES LINKED TO DIABETES?  I remember early on in practice not recognizing this for what it was.  I had a few patients with mildly elevated liver enzymes (AST, ALT).  They would just comment that they’ve always been elevated.  Usually their doctor had run a barrage of liver tests looking for viral hepatitis.  But, with […]

Kidney Stones Suck; Add This to Banish Them

Kidney stones are one of the most painful acute conditions that humans can endure. Whenever I asked female patients who have had both children and kidney stones which was worse, the answer is always the kidney stones.  Maybe this is because childbirth is a natural process and the body will release endorphins to curb the […]