Treatment Effectiveness
April 14th, 2010 | 
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Treatment effectiveness is the one topic that is the least discussed in America.
Treatments Depend On Tests
Today, more than anytime in history treatment depends on diagnostic tests. That alone is very troubling. Medical checkups are sometimes more then just a history, physical, and blood tests.
President’s Obama’s first medical checkup since he took office is a good example. His Navy doctors ordered CT scans, which are rapid x-rays, of Obama’s coronary arteries and colon.
San Francisco cardiologist Rita Redberg, editor of the Archives of Internal Medicine, said she is troubled by the amount of tests. Coronary CT scans, which detect calcium deposits in the arteries and virtual colonoscopies, because they aren’t recommended for men of Obama’s age and medical history. Both of these tests boost a person’s lifetime risk of cancer.
“Mr. Obama appears to have been administered two cutting-edge, expensive diagnostic tests that exposed him to a radiation risk while providing no benefit to his care.” Redberg wrote in an editorial
“It’s low-hanging fruit to rid our system of procedures and tests that we’re spending a lot of money on that are actually making people worst,” Redberg said.
“Multiplied many times over,” she said cases like Obama’s burden us with “huge Costs” and puts patients in harm’s way.
The Truth About Treatments
A study of about 800 patients with high blood pressure from clogged kidney arteries, found that propping arteries open with stents didn’t lower blood pressure and raised patients’ risk of side effects, including deaths.
A $300 million study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, found that patients with type 2 diabetes who take the billion-dollar Abbott drug called Tricor don’t live any longer than patients who don’t. Doctors have been prescribing Tricor since the mid-’70s; Abbott is now advertising a newer, more expensive, patent-protected version called Trilipix. A second arm of the study showed that pushing blood pressure below the usual floor in diabetic patients not only failed to help them but also raised their risk of premature death.
A 9,000-patient study sponsored by Novartis, found that the drug valsartan, sold as Diovan, kept 14% of diabetes-prone people who were given the drug from developing diabetes. But neither valsartan nor nateglinide, sold as Starlix, prevented the heart attacks, strokes or other cardiovascular events that make diabetes so devastating.
Over Treatment
Over treatment occurs because of the reliance on medicine. The reliance should be on lifestyle issues, instead of medication. This is the age of innovative strategies that combat disease. The problem is that there is very little understanding of disease. Conventional medicine makes the mistake of fighting a disease without taking away the contributing causes.
Medicine is not personalized or individualize when doctor’s give out prescriptions. What is effective in one person may be over treatment in another. Timing of medication and amount is not always the focus of research.
There is critical risks associated with CT scans in an at risk population. What one person can handle in radiation exposure another can’t. How much is too much, no one knows for sure
Medicine is always in a constant battle with battle with your body. Health is found in unmatched ways when working with the body’s rhythm, and its ability to heal. What if you made to be incredible forever, then you would look to ingest only what feeds, and nourishes your body.
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