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Your Good Health: Man takes niacin for cholesterol, gets diabetes
Dear Dr. Roach: A reader recently asked you about taking niacin for lowering cholesterol and what side-effects might be expected. Your reply did not include the very serious side-effect of diabetes.
Nov 25, 2015 2:00 PM
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Your Good Health: Myelin damage weakens nerves
Dear Dr. Roach: About eight years ago, I was diagnosed with CIDP (chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy). After several tests, it was diagnosed by a spinal tap.
Nov 25, 2015 4:43 AM
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Your Good Health: Two colon cancer tests give different results
Dear Dr. Roach: I am an 85-year-old man in pretty good health. I recently had a stool test by the Veterans Affairs hospital.
Nov 23, 2015 3:39 PM
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Your Good Health: No need to boost daily Aspirin dose
Dear Dr. Roach: My newspaper recently ran an article on the pros and cons of a daily Aspirin for protection against both heart disease and colon cancer.
Nov 12, 2015 6:00 AM
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Your Good Health: Low cholesterol count no cause for concern
Dear Dr. Roach: Can your cholesterol count be too low? I am 72, and my normal LDL level is 100 to 102. My doctor thinks that is high because he classes me as 鈥減rediabetic,鈥 and he put me on pravastatin. My LDL level is now 68.
Nov 11, 2015 4:19 AM
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Your Good Health: Potassium level no cause for concern
Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 75-year-old man in excellent overall health. Routine blood work recently showed an elevated potassium level of 5.6.
Nov 10, 2015 6:00 AM
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The Doctor Game: Protein boosted by fad status
Fads in clothing come and go. Women鈥檚 skirts go up and then get longer. Men鈥檚 pants get wide and then narrower. Fads also occur in medicine. In the 1980s, it was 鈥渓ow fat鈥 for packaged foods and weight-loss diets.
Nov 7, 2015 1:37 AM
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Your Good Health: Low blood pressure often hits seniors when standing
Dear Dr. Roach: Will you write about orthostatic hypotension? I鈥檝e been told I have this disorder. I鈥檓 a retired 86-year-old man in fairly good medical shape. I want to regain my regular activities. My regular doctor put me on labetalol.
Nov 5, 2015 4:18 AM
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Your Good Health: How to make sense of cholesterol readings
Dear Dr. Roach: Several years ago, I started going to a new doctor, who said that the way to get the correct cholesterol number is to divide the HDL into the LDL, and if the answer is not 2.
Nov 3, 2015 3:26 PM
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Your Good Health: Why simple tests aren鈥檛 a good idea
Dear Dr. Roach: I read your response to the 67-year-old woman whose insurance wanted her to have a routine urinalysis, which you felt was unnecessary.
Nov 3, 2015 4:20 AM
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