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Exercise: The miracle cure and the role of the doctor in promoting it

Exercise: The miracle cure and the role of the doctor in promoting it

Academic Publications,

Being active has enormous health and well-being benefits. Physical activity is important in the management of long-term diseases, but, it is even more important in the prevention of many other common diseases. I believe that if physical activity was a drug it would be classed as a wonder drug, which is why I would encourage everyone to get up and be active.

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International HSMRs Academy Working Group Report to Professor Sir Bruce Keogh

International HSMRs Academy Working Group Report to Professor Sir Bruce Keogh

Academic Publications,

Background
At the end of 2013 Professor Sir Bruce Keogh asked for an independent view from the Academy on behalf of the medical profession on how they see the data on UK and USA hospital death rates based on HSMRs produced by Professor Sir Brian Jarman.

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Maximising-the-benefits-and--minimising-the-harms-of-statins

Maximising the benefits and minimising the harms of statins

Academic Publications
Maximum dose statin therapy irrespective of total cholesterol is well established for the secondary prevention of cardiovascular events. After acute coronary syndrome (ACS) such therapy is shown to reduce all-cause mortality by an apparently impressive 22 per cent in two years.1 The European Society of Cardiology thus recommends that all patients presenting with acute myocardial infarction receive high-intensity statins early during admission unless contraindicated.2

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