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Colon Exams and MI Rates.
Screening flexible sigmoidoscopy does not put people at higher than general risk of cardiovascular disease events, Dr. Theodore R. Levin said at the annual Digestive Disease Week.
Some have theorized that flexible sigmoidoscopy may be causing death rates to climb by providing a port of entry for infection, which theoretically could increase the risk of infection-mediated atherosclerosis.
Results of previous studies indicated that patients may have cardiovascular events at higher than expected rates during the period just following their exam. But it had not been proved that such events were the direct result of the sigmoidoscopy, said Dr. Levin of Kaiser Permanente, Walnut Creek, Calif.
In a study conducted at Kaiser Permanente, Dr. Levin ...
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