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白衣高血圧、仮面高血圧をフォローしていったら、耐糖能異常や糖尿病発症が多かったという報告 Increased long-term risk of new-onset diabetes mellitus in white-coat and masked hypertension Journal of Hypertension:August 2009 - Volume 27 - Issue 8 - p 1672-1678 OSASでは、Masked hypertension比率3割、白衣高血圧３％、高血圧4割弱 J Hypertens. 2008 May;26(5):885-92. これで、メタボリックシンドロームという診断の独立性が担保されたという話ではないだろう。ただ、白衣高血圧が、全部が全部有害性がないなどということはできない（White coat hypertension: not so benign after all?　Journal of Human Hypertension (2003) 17, 807–809.）。 では、どのWCHTが問題なのか？・

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a substance in the liver that helps process fat and glucose. That substance is a component of the common food additive lecithin, and researchers speculate it may one day be possible to use lecithin products to control blood lipids and reduce risk for diabetes, hypertension or cardiovascular disease using treatments delivered in food rather than medication.

U. S. health regulators have given their approval to United Therapeutics Corp.’s new Tyvaso inhalation solution for treating pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) using the Tyvaso inhalation system, causing the company7’s shares to rise as much as 13%. Read more »

Former Kansas Governor and now Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote an op-ed that appears in Yahoo! News. The sentiment of the article is correct. The current system is not sustainable. She then mentions a degree of consensus around “cost controls, guaranteed coverage and providing more choices.” (I’m not sure what providing more choices really means because I believe that all Americans just want excellent healthcare. One choice.) She then goes ahead and point out the p