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                    [Title] => Sagip Buhay now online
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MANILA, Philippines – The Sagip Buhay Medical Foundation, an organization with the Philippine General Hospital’s Department of Medicine as its beneficiary, launched its website www.sagipbuhay.org recently.

[DatePublished] => 2009-06-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 429603 [Title] => Global program to fight heart ills bared [Summary] =>

Noted cardiologists from North America, Europe, Asia and Japan recently launched a unique global program designed to evaluate and reduce the excess risk of heart attack and other related diseases.

[DatePublished] => 2009-01-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 330117 [Title] => Raising HDL cholesterol for Asians urged [Summary] => The importance of raising high density lipoprotein cholesterol to reduce cardiovascular risk was underscored in a symposium sponsored by Merck Inc. during the recent joint annual convention of the Philippine Lipid Society and Philippine Society of Hypertension.

Dr. Rody Sy, cardiologist and associate professor at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine, presented the recommendations of the Pan-Asian Consensus Panel, which suggested that the HDL-C target in Asian countries should be at least 40 mg/dL.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 260129 [Title] => Profile of a killer syndrome [Summary] => Industrialization and urbanization have indeed rapidly caught up on us. There are fastfood outlets and supermarkets on any available space of commercial land, perpetually feeding our insatiable appetite for fatty and salty foods. Schoolchildren will rather take a ride than to walk a few blocks to school. Our idea of exercise is by clicking the television remote control rather than walking our dog in the nearby park.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 255129 [Title] => A bulging waistline: An indicator of ‘Syndrome X’ [Summary] => Look at yourself in the mirror? What do you have? Curves in the right places or bulges that you have to shed?

Examine your belly. If your waistline measures a bulging 40 inches or more in men and more than 35 inches in women, there is a big probability that you may have Syndrome X.

According to the National Cholesterol Education Program in the US, Syndrome X is the clustering of any three of the following risk factors: hypertension, diabetes mellitus, low HDL-cholesterol which is the good cholesterol, high triglycerides, and abdominal obesity.
[DatePublished] => 2004-06-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 240419 [Title] => Metabolic syndrome: Don’t eat to your heart’s discontent [Summary] => We generally love to eat to our heart’s content. We rarely give it a thought that sometimes we eat to our heart’s discontent. Even worse, sometimes we eat our way to the grave.

Metabolic syndrome is now a well-recognized problem associated with an increased cardiovascular mortality. And lifestyle, especially dietary indiscretion, may have a lot to do with it. In recent data from the National Health Survey, 14-20 percent of Filipinos above 20 years old have metabolic syndrome.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 198784 [Title] => New insights in managing hypertension [Summary] => High blood pressure (BP) remains as a leading cardiovascular problem leading to strokes and heart attacks, and despite advances in its treatment, there is still much to be desired to prevent its dreaded complications.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 156863 [Title] => Imelda brother placed under close guard [Summary] => A brother of former First Lady Imelda Marcos was placed under close guard and monitoring by the Sandiganbayan yesterday while he is confined at a hospital in Manila for a heart ailment.

Tacloban City Mayor Alfredo "Bejo" Romualdez, a younger brother of Mrs. Marcos, had been ordered arrested last week by the anti-graft court for failing to present himself in court during his arraignment in a graft case stemming from his alleged illegal takeover in 1975 of the Bataan Shipyard and Engineering Co. (Baseco).
[DatePublished] => 2002-04-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 154320 [Title] => Filipino heart specialists shine in int’l congress [Summary] => CEBU CITY — Filipino heart specialists took center stage in the Third Congress of the Asian Pacific Society of Atherosclerosis and Vascular Diseases (APSAVD) held here recently at the Waterfront Convention Center.

In this international congress, participated in by close to a thousand foreign and local delegates, Dr. Rody Sy, current president of the Philippine Lipid Society (PLS), was elected next president of the APSAVD.
[DatePublished] => 2002-03-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) ) )
DR. RODY SY
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                    [Title] => Sagip Buhay now online
                    [Summary] => 

MANILA, Philippines – The Sagip Buhay Medical Foundation, an organization with the Philippine General Hospital’s Department of Medicine as its beneficiary, launched its website www.sagipbuhay.org recently.

[DatePublished] => 2009-06-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 429603 [Title] => Global program to fight heart ills bared [Summary] =>

Noted cardiologists from North America, Europe, Asia and Japan recently launched a unique global program designed to evaluate and reduce the excess risk of heart attack and other related diseases.

[DatePublished] => 2009-01-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 330117 [Title] => Raising HDL cholesterol for Asians urged [Summary] => The importance of raising high density lipoprotein cholesterol to reduce cardiovascular risk was underscored in a symposium sponsored by Merck Inc. during the recent joint annual convention of the Philippine Lipid Society and Philippine Society of Hypertension.

Dr. Rody Sy, cardiologist and associate professor at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine, presented the recommendations of the Pan-Asian Consensus Panel, which suggested that the HDL-C target in Asian countries should be at least 40 mg/dL.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 260129 [Title] => Profile of a killer syndrome [Summary] => Industrialization and urbanization have indeed rapidly caught up on us. There are fastfood outlets and supermarkets on any available space of commercial land, perpetually feeding our insatiable appetite for fatty and salty foods. Schoolchildren will rather take a ride than to walk a few blocks to school. Our idea of exercise is by clicking the television remote control rather than walking our dog in the nearby park.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 255129 [Title] => A bulging waistline: An indicator of ‘Syndrome X’ [Summary] => Look at yourself in the mirror? What do you have? Curves in the right places or bulges that you have to shed?

Examine your belly. If your waistline measures a bulging 40 inches or more in men and more than 35 inches in women, there is a big probability that you may have Syndrome X.

According to the National Cholesterol Education Program in the US, Syndrome X is the clustering of any three of the following risk factors: hypertension, diabetes mellitus, low HDL-cholesterol which is the good cholesterol, high triglycerides, and abdominal obesity.
[DatePublished] => 2004-06-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 240419 [Title] => Metabolic syndrome: Don’t eat to your heart’s discontent [Summary] => We generally love to eat to our heart’s content. We rarely give it a thought that sometimes we eat to our heart’s discontent. Even worse, sometimes we eat our way to the grave.

Metabolic syndrome is now a well-recognized problem associated with an increased cardiovascular mortality. And lifestyle, especially dietary indiscretion, may have a lot to do with it. In recent data from the National Health Survey, 14-20 percent of Filipinos above 20 years old have metabolic syndrome.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 198784 [Title] => New insights in managing hypertension [Summary] => High blood pressure (BP) remains as a leading cardiovascular problem leading to strokes and heart attacks, and despite advances in its treatment, there is still much to be desired to prevent its dreaded complications.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 156863 [Title] => Imelda brother placed under close guard [Summary] => A brother of former First Lady Imelda Marcos was placed under close guard and monitoring by the Sandiganbayan yesterday while he is confined at a hospital in Manila for a heart ailment.

Tacloban City Mayor Alfredo "Bejo" Romualdez, a younger brother of Mrs. Marcos, had been ordered arrested last week by the anti-graft court for failing to present himself in court during his arraignment in a graft case stemming from his alleged illegal takeover in 1975 of the Bataan Shipyard and Engineering Co. (Baseco).
[DatePublished] => 2002-04-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 154320 [Title] => Filipino heart specialists shine in int’l congress [Summary] => CEBU CITY — Filipino heart specialists took center stage in the Third Congress of the Asian Pacific Society of Atherosclerosis and Vascular Diseases (APSAVD) held here recently at the Waterfront Convention Center.

In this international congress, participated in by close to a thousand foreign and local delegates, Dr. Rody Sy, current president of the Philippine Lipid Society (PLS), was elected next president of the APSAVD.
[DatePublished] => 2002-03-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) ) )
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