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Insulin and Sympathoexcitation: It Is Not All in Your Head

Obesity and weight gain are frequently associated with increases in blood pressure, driven in part by sympathoexcitation (1). Obesity also is linked with insulin resistance and is associated with ongoing public health concerns, including the socalled metabolic syndrome (2). Even small increases in plasma insulin concentration (as low as one-fifth of that achieved after a mixed meal) (3) have ma...

Very low HbA1C, is it a problem?

Dear Editor An important problem to manage diabetes mellitus is controlling the patients` blood glucose. Fluctuation of blood glucose results in molecular biochemistry change and can result in unwanted diabetic complications (1). In clinical practice, hemoglobin A1C (HbA1C) is a common useful laboratory test to follow-up patients with diabetes (2). Sometimes, an unexpecte...

Music is Good for Your Brain, but Don’t Blast it

When you learn to play an instrument – whether a piano, guitar, violin, trumpet, or drum – you simultaneously engage a large number of brain areas. These include areas responsible for sensation (hearing, touch, and vision), movement, and “cognitive functions” such as concentration, memory, reasoning, and decision making. Over years of training, these brain areas become better connected and you ...

Healthcare IT: Is your Information at Risk?

Healthcare Information Technology (IT) has made great advances over the past few years and while these advances have enable healthcare professionals to provide higher quality healthcare to a larger number of individuals it also provides the criminal element more opportunities to access sensitive information, such as patient protected health information (PHI) and Personal identification Informat...