August 17, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for August 17, 2018
Wall Street Journal, Troubling Rise in Pregnancy-Related Heart Problems by Sumathi Reddy— The number of women having heart attacks before, during and after deliveries increased by 25% from 2002 through 2013, according to a study published in July in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Around 4.5% of women who had heart attacks died, a high […]
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March 22, 2013
Mental Illness Not a Barrier to Weight Loss (Video)
Maintaining a healthy weight among patients with serious mental illness often has been considered a lost cause because many psychotropic medications induce weight gain, according to Michael Jensen, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. But with this study, “our psychiatric care providers can no longer say we can’t possibly prevent weight gain or […]
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