{"id":1504,"date":"2010-04-20T16:50:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T20:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/%e2%80%a2-add-sugar-add-risk%e2%80%a2-fill-the-plavix-prescription-or-else\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:59","slug":"%e2%80%a2-add-sugar-add-risk%e2%80%a2-fill-the-plavix-prescription-or-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/04\/20\/%e2%80%a2-add-sugar-add-risk%e2%80%a2-fill-the-plavix-prescription-or-else\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2022 Add Sugar, Add Risk<br \/>\u2022 Fill the Plavix Prescription, or Else\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Add Sugar, Add Risk:<\/strong> People with diets that contain large amounts of added sugars (e.g., high-fructose corn syrup) have lower HDL levels and higher triglyceride levels, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/jama.ama-assn.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/303\/15\/1490\">a new report from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) appearing in <em>JAMA<\/em><\/a>. &#8220;Monitoring trends in consumption and understanding the effect added sugars have on risk of cardiovascular and other diseases is critically important, because added sugars are a potentially modifiable source of calories,&#8221; write Jean Welsh and colleagues in their paper.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8220;Added sugars are food additives that can be recognized by consumers and have been proposed for specific labeling on food and beverage packaging,&#8221; they add. &#8220;The results of our study demonstrate that increased added sugars are associated with important cardiovascular disease risk factors, including lower HDL-C levels, higher triglyceride levels, and higher ratios of triglycerides to HDL-C.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fill the Plavix Prescription, or Else&#8230;<\/strong> One in six patients who received a drug-eluting stent didn&#8217;t fill their clopidogrel prescription immediately, and these patients had a greater risk for subsequent events, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/circoutcomes.ahajournals.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/CIRCOUTCOMES.109.902031v1\">a large retrospective study by P. Michael Ho et al. in <em>Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes<\/em><\/a>. The incidence of death or MI was 7.9% in those who filled their prescriptions on the day of discharge compared to 14.2% in those who delayed filling their prescriptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add Sugar, Add Risk: People with diets that contain large amounts of added sugars (e.g., high-fructose corn syrup) have lower HDL levels and higher triglyceride levels, according to a new report from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) appearing in JAMA. &#8220;Monitoring trends in consumption and understanding the effect added sugars have on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}