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Your Good Health: Salt substitute OK for most, unless you have kidney disease

Your Good Health: Salt substitute OK for most, unless you have kidney disease

Increasing potassium, decreasing sodium in your diet reduces heart disease risk
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Your Good Health: Hot flashes persist well past menopause and a thyroidectomy

Your Good Health: Hot flashes persist well past menopause and a thyroidectomy

About 75% of women in North America will experience hot flashes around the time of menopause.
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Your Good Health: Drug for LDL level worsens quality of life

Your Good Health: Drug for LDL level worsens quality of life

In people at the highest risk for heart attack and stroke, there is a small additional benefit in pushing LDL levels lower than usually recommended.
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Your Good Health: Waking up at 2 a.m. for meds does more harm than good

Your Good Health: Waking up at 2 a.m. for meds does more harm than good

The best recommendation now is to take the blood pressure medication at any time that is convenient for you, as long as it is the same time every day.
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Your Good Health: Second blood pressure reading lower than the first

Your Good Health: Second blood pressure reading lower than the first

Dear Dr. Roach: I’m concerned about my blood pressure. I take readings twice a day, in the a.m. and p.m. I find that when I first take my blood pressure, it is high.
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Your Good Health: Vaginal cream safe for melanoma survivors

Your Good Health: Vaginal cream safe for melanoma survivors

Those with history of an estrogen-sensitive tumour should discuss options with their oncologist
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Your Good Health: The radiation risk from CT scan is very minimal

Your Good Health: The radiation risk from CT scan is very minimal

A bleed inside of the brain is very dangerous, so benefit of scan outweighs danger
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Your Good Health: Heart murmur in older adult needs evaluation

Your Good Health: Heart murmur in older adult needs evaluation

An echocardiogram might be needed to get to the cause of the issue
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Your Good Health: Reflux patient needs infusions for osteoporosis

Your Good Health: Reflux patient needs infusions for osteoporosis

The IV infusion recommended for patients with esophageal disorders
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Your Good Health: PBC patient needs calcium amid normal levels

Your Good Health: PBC patient needs calcium amid normal levels

It’s important for all people with osteopenia or osteoporosis to have adequate calcium in their diets.
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