The results of a large-scale screening study could be used to develop blood tests to diagnose diseases such as Alzheimer’s before symptoms take hold. By Miryam Naddaf Coloured CT scan of a coronal section through the brain of a patient with Alzheimer’s disease.A computed-tomography scan of a brain affected by Alzheimer’s disease, the most common...
by Vanderbilt University Medical Center Graphical Abstract. Credit: Diabetes Care (2023). DOI: 10.2337/dc23-1681A multicenter, longitudinal study, co-led by investigators at the Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center (DRTC), has discovered that a small pancreas size predicts a faster progression to stage 3 type 1 diabetes (T1D), the point at which clinical diagnosis occurs. The team also...
by Uppsala University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainUsing the results of a standard blood test and an online tool, you can find out if you are at increased risk of having a heart attack within six months. The tool has been developed by a research group at Uppsala University in the hope of increasing patients’ motivation to...
by Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainHypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) and gestational diabetes (GDM) are two of the most common pregnancy complications and put pregnant people at increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease later in life. Now, in a new study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s (SMFM) annual...
Antara Ghosh TOPLINE:A two-step screening, using a risk score and biomarkers, can identify patients with diabetes at a higher risk for heart failure who will most likely benefit from preventive drugs. METHODOLOGY:Researchers compared screening methods and downstream risk for heart failure in 5 years, particularly those without atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD).They pooled data from 4889...
by Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute Credit: Cancer Research Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1158/2767-9764.CRC-23-0389Alterations in the chemical modifications that control gene expression, known as epigenetics, have proven to be one of the most characteristic properties of all human tumors. This realization has generated the development of intense pharmacological research to find drugs that act at this level...
by American Heart Association Credit: Christina Morillo from PexelsBlack women who develop high blood pressure before age 35 and are on medication for hypertension may have triple the odds of having a stroke, and those who develop high blood pressure before age 45 may have twice the risk of suffering a stroke, according to a preliminary...
by Translational Genomics Research Institute Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainIn a study published in the journal, Cells, a team of scientists describe using machine learning models to identify changes in RNA molecules of plasma extracellular vesicles (EVs) that may hold potential for identifying Alzheimer’s disease (AD) at its earliest stages. EVs are tiny particles released by the...
by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainInvestigators from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai and colleagues found that women with fatty liver disease related to alcohol consumption have almost twice the risk of dying within a certain time period than men with the same condition. The findings, published in the Journal of Hepatology, highlight the...
by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust Baseline [18F]FDG-PET-CT and chest radiograph features of incipient tuberculosis. Credit: The Lancet Microbe (2024). DOI: 10.1016/S2666-5247(23)00289-6A novel approach to studying the progression of tuberculosis (TB) from infection to disease has identified and treated people at increased risk of developing the disease that current methods of testing would not.Researchers...
