Just being diabetic puts you at risk for getting pancreatitis and makes it more likely that you would be on one of these drugs. The article didn't say if the patient's were alcoholic or had gall bladder disease (the most common causes of pancreatitis), or any other risk factors for that matter. At this point I would call this an association more than a side effect. I wouldn't specifically avoid these drugs unless there was a history of pancreatitis. Also important to remember that alternative diabetic medicines have side effects too.
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
High Cholesterol Medicines - Are They Worth It?
I could spend an hour or two discussing management of elevated cholesterol. Studies have shown questionable benefit of non-statin medications and a lot of studies have actually shown harm, as seen in this study.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
A New Direction
This is the first time I've posted on this website in nearly a month. Quite honestly I've lost interest in the site. I've also found that I haven't had as much time to update the site as well. I've thought about deleting it several times during the past month. However, this past week I've come across three medically relevant news stories on Yahoo! just through casual web browsing and thought that including these stories on my site would be a good way to rejuvenate the site and get it focused on a more specific topic.
Doing a medical site is tough. First, I don't want to tell medical stories I've experienced due to fear of violating patient rights, which is easy to do even if you are being very careful. Secondly, I don't want to discuss specific medical conditions because there is more than one way to skin a cat and the way I diagnose and treat something might be different than the way a reader's doctor does things and I don't want to cause controversy. Thirdly, there are a lot of medical websites out there, some good and some bad, and it would be easy to regurgitate information but that wouldn't really contribute to medical news and/or knowledge as a whole.
Like I said, I came across a few medical news stories this week by accident and I thought sharing similar stories in the future with small commentary would make for interesting discussion. I will be using this new focus on the site as kind of an experiment. If I think it goes well I will possibly try running a similar but separate site for my clinic patients (and anyone who wants to view the site) in the future. Feel free to chime in with any questions, concerns, criticisms, or suggestions. Thanks.
Doing a medical site is tough. First, I don't want to tell medical stories I've experienced due to fear of violating patient rights, which is easy to do even if you are being very careful. Secondly, I don't want to discuss specific medical conditions because there is more than one way to skin a cat and the way I diagnose and treat something might be different than the way a reader's doctor does things and I don't want to cause controversy. Thirdly, there are a lot of medical websites out there, some good and some bad, and it would be easy to regurgitate information but that wouldn't really contribute to medical news and/or knowledge as a whole.
Like I said, I came across a few medical news stories this week by accident and I thought sharing similar stories in the future with small commentary would make for interesting discussion. I will be using this new focus on the site as kind of an experiment. If I think it goes well I will possibly try running a similar but separate site for my clinic patients (and anyone who wants to view the site) in the future. Feel free to chime in with any questions, concerns, criticisms, or suggestions. Thanks.
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