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...develop heart problems, DIAD researchers began with the assumption that as many as 60% of the study's 1,123 volunteers with diabetes, who showed no outward signs of heart disease, might be harboring silent heart problems. Researchers expected that screening these patients - using the common treadmill stress test and then imaging their hearts - would help root out any heart abnormalities, such as early blockages or irregular heart rhythms, quickly enough to be treated before leading to a potentially deadly cardiac event. (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...
...primary prevention strategies, such as ensuring that diabetes patients control their weight, cholesterol and blood pressure, and stop smoking. He argues that if the rate of heart problems is indeed declining in diabetes patients because they are being adequately treated for the risk factors for heart disease, then the stress test recommendation becomes redundant - and expensive...
...John Buse, a DIAD investigator and immediate past president of the American Diabetes Association, agrees that the screening should be limited. "We probably should not be doing stress tests in people without heart symptoms," he says. "But doctors need to make sure to ask questions of their patients about any possible symptoms they may be having of heart trouble...
...resulting physiological stress, says Ribes, explains why there have been so many instances of massive mortality among suspension invertebrates in the past few decades. "Even though they're normally vulnerable during summer, these organisms can survive the average season. But when the season becomes abnormal, when you have these atypically high temperatures for longer periods of time, they don't have the energy resources...
...prepared by Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee, reviewed 10 enhanced techniques for interrogating Zubaydah, and determined that none of them constituted torture under U.S. criminal law. The techniques were: attention grasp, walling (hitting a detainee against a flexible wall), facial hold, facial slap, cramped confinement, wall standing, stress positions, sleep deprivation, insects placed in a confinement box, and waterboarding.(View pictures of life inside Guantanamo...