Word: chronical
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...hormones and the lack of heart benefit from the therapy. What this study does is define how long those risks can last. "The results should not be cause for alarm or panic among women," says Manson. "The findings do underscore the point that HT should not be used for chronic disease prevention, but remains a viable option for short-term treatment of menopausal symptoms. When used for the short-term treatment of distressing symptoms, it's likely that the benefits outweigh the risks." As confusing as they seem, taken together, every analysis from the WHI actually does paint a clearer...
...claims that only patients who are diagnosed "at the upper end of the very severely depressed category" get any meaningful benefit from the widely prescribed drugs. For the others, the paper says, antidepressants are barely more effective than a placebo (although patients suffering from depression, like those suffering from chronic pain, generally do see a substantial placebo benefit...
...Mental illnesses are serious illnesses. When individuals suffer from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, chronic depression, or from one of the plethora of other chronic diseases, their pain is real, and they need real help. An overemphasis on mild forms of depression and anxiety ties up resources that should be used for major mental illnesses. Some people feel blue, and some people are suicidal. When medicine starts to forget the distinction between the two, everyone loses. Healthy people begin to wonder if they truly are healthy, while the genuinely ill are trivialized...
Most people have, from time to time, unintentionally dozed off on the couch watching television or reading a book or even stopped in traffic while driving. But persistent drowsiness during the day usually signals a chronic sleep deficit, and bigger problems. The new study found that people who suffered from "significant dozing" - those who almost always fell asleep involuntarily during the day - were 4.5 times more likely to have a stroke than people in the "no dozing" group. The association between sleepiness and stroke was dose-dependent: the sleepier the person, the higher the risk of stroke. People...
...while the stereotype of a chronic debtor is of someone who is simply careless about spending money and paying bills on time, this is rarely the case. "Delinquency and default are nearly always due to loss of job or a 'life event' such as health problems (and medical bills), death or divorce," wrote analyst Chris Brendler of Stifel Nicolaus in a January report. Today's unemployment rate has yet to cause alarm, but it's the X factor that could determine how much worse credit-card defaults may get as recession looms...