This content is machine translated Hypertension in the elderly Does lowering blood pressure provide any benefit at all, and how low should you go? With increasing age, systolic blood pressure rises continuously, whereas diastolic blood pressure rises until the sixth decade of life and then falls again. Thus, in old age, isolated systolic hypertension…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Statin therapy Lipid lowering in old age – does it make sense? The benefits of statin therapy in secondary prevention should not be denied in principle to older patients at risk. Currently, statins have no value in primary prophylaxis in old age.…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Chronic hepatitis C New drugs are expensive, but cure many patients Chronic hepatitis C is one of the most common causes of advanced liver disease and liver transplantation in Switzerland. For people with chronic HCV infection, however, the situation has improved…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated General allergic reactions Emergency management – anaphylaxis is too rarely recognized The most common triggers of anaphylaxis in adults are drugs and insect bites, and food in children. The development and dynamics of anaphylaxis are unpredictable. According to the WAO recommendation…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated 1st Swiss Symposium on Psychosomatics Fatigue – fate of our time? At the 1st Swiss Symposium for Psychosomatics at the Giesserei in Zurich-Oerlikon, the topic was “Exhaustion, Burnout and the Tired Society”. Are we really getting more and more tired and…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated AHA Congress 2015 in Orlando Big News: Do we need to rethink blood pressure targets? The dominant topic at the AHA Congress was the SPRINT trial and its implications for future hypertension treatment. Is it prognostically meaningful to target lower systolic blood pressure values in…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated When is which imaging procedure appropriate? CT or MRI – decision-making aids for the practice Although there are clear guidelines on which investigational modality is used for which question, the decision is plurifactorial. If in doubt, you can ask the radiologist for advice. Medical history…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Drowsiness in road traffic Stop, have a coffee, take a short nap – and keep going 10-15% of the population suffer from daytime sleepiness. Causes include socially induced sleep deprivation, shift work, or diseases such as sleep apnea syndrome, narcolepsy and other hypersomnias, restless legs syndrome,…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Long-term therapy for restless legs syndrome Restless legs are common and usually persist for life Restless legs syndrome is a common and usually chronic condition whose treatment needs to be adjusted repeatedly during its course. In recent years, studies and recommendations on long-term therapy have…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Calcium and vitamin D3 substitution Which patient groups benefit? There is currently insufficient evidence to support calcium substitution in the healthy general population for primary prevention of osteoporosis. Although a small increase in bone density was measured densitometrically, no…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Chinese medicine in the family practice Which patients can benefit from TCM? The evidence for acupuncture for pain is broadly supported in meta-analyses. Integrative medicine, i.e. cooperation between complementary and conventional medicine, will be the model of the future. The WHO has…
