by Elana Gotkine Former smokers avoid more than half of the excess cardiovascular, cancer, and respiratory mortality associated with current smoking within the first decade after quitting, according to a research letter published online Nov. 27 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Blake Thomson, D.Phil., and Farhad Islami, M.D., Ph.D., from the American Cancer Society in Atlanta,...
By Dr. Sanchari Sinha Dutta, Ph.D.Reviewed by Benedette Cuffari, M.Sc. A brief report published in the Journal of Health, Population, and Nutrition describes the effect of vegetarian diets on all-cause mortality in adults in the United States. Study: Vegetarian diets and risk of all-cause mortality in a population-based prospective study in the United States. Image...
by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert, Northeastern University Neel Joshi, associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology, is a lead author in a PLOS Pathogens paper that could lay ground for probiotic pill to prevent childhood diarrhea, a leading cause of infant mortality around the globe. Credit: Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University Across much of the world, childhood diarrhea is a major...
by Federico Graciano, Duke-NUS Medical School Mean SBP and proportion BP controlled by treatment group over time. Panel A: Mean SBP was estimated with a generalized linear MMRM for SBP, with cluster random effects for clinic, and random effects for participants. The I bars indicate 95% CIs. *The p-value for the difference in the mean SBP...
by American College of Physicians Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A retrospective cohort study of patients with atrial fibrillation and diabetes found that the use of non–vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOAC) was associated with a lower risk of diabetes complications and mortality than warfarin. These findings suggest that NOAC may be a better therapeutic choice...
CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES ONCOLÓGICAS (CNIO) Inflammation is a defence mechanism of the body to fight pathogens. However, when it is widespread and excessive, it can aggravate the pathology and even cause death. One of the ways in which this excessive response occurs is called acytokine storm, an inflammatory process produced by these proteins, cytokines,...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON Oropharyngeal cancer incidence among men is continuing to rise rapidly in nearly all 50 states and among women living in states in the Midwest and Southeast regions, according to a new study by investigators at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) School...
A few strategies offer the possibility of growing additional redundant blood vessels, though this is far from rigorously proven. Intermittently provoking hematopoietic stem cells to leave the bone marrow via CXCL12 upregulation, for example. Humans are not completely uniform in their major blood vessel networks, there are variant populations with more redundancy. The value of that greater redundancy is...
Intensive blood pressure treatment targeting systolic blood pressure <120 mm Hg results in lower rates of major adverse cardiovascular events and lower all-cause mortality than a standard treatment target among patients at increased cardiovascular risk, according to a study published in the May 20 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Cora E. Lewis, M.D., M.S.P.H., from...
by Padma Nagappan, San Diego State University Fresh and processed meats, cheese, eggs, sugary food, soft drinks, and grains are acid-producing foods. For cancer survivors who have a reduced capacity to process such foods that produce sulfuric, phosphoric, or organic acids, it can increase their mortality risk trifold if they also smoked in the past,...
