July/August 2013

Cleveland Clinic Bariatric

As a risk factor for a host of diseases, obesity contributes to upticks in hypertension, diabetes, heart failure and other conditions. Specialists and hospitals treating these patients face challenges that range from adapting interventional and imaging procedures to acquiring supersized equipment. Is there a way to turn the tide? Bariatric surgery offers one strategy.

Obesity does not discriminate by age. Today’s youth and elders—and all ages between—have seen the problem expand. What will reverse the trend?

Case managers are proving to be allies in efforts to curb potentially costly withholding of reimbursement for heart failure readmissions.

Novel anticoagulants offer physicians a welcome option to warfarin for treating patients with atrial fibrillation who are at risk of stroke. But proceed with caution until more data accumulate.

The American College of Cardiology (ACC) released changes to the process for developing appropriate use criteria (AUC), including frequently misinterpreted terminology for describing the levels of appropriateness of care.

The IOM report affirms that the available evidence on associations between sodium intake and direct health outcomes is consistent with population-based efforts to lower excessive sodium intakes.

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