by Karolinska Institutet Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainOzempic and other GLP1 agonists are associated with a reduced risk of developing cirrhosis and liver cancer in people with type 2 diabetes and chronic liver disease, according to a nationwide study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden published in the journal Gut. GLP1 agonists like Ozempic reduce blood sugar levels...
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Invasive fungal infections: A growing risk to human health worldwide
by Ben Knight, University of New South Wales Candida albicans. Credit: Wikipedia.Thinking of fungi probably conjures up an image of some wild mushrooms or a sourdough starter in your mind. That, or maybe a time where you had an unfortunate itchy skin rash that went away with a bit of topical medication. But researchers in mycology—the...
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Unnecessary cataract surgery? Some do it to improve their eyesight, but it’s not without risk
by Langis Michaud, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainJudy is an accomplished consultant who regularly travels for business meetings. She came to see me because she was finding her contact lenses uncomfortable and wanted to explore other options—notably surgical alternatives. One option was to replace her lens with an implant. This surgery is similar to cataract...
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Study Estimates Post-COVID Risk for Alopecia Areata
Infection with COVID-19 conferred a nearly twofold risk of developing alopecia areata (AA), results from a large analysis of Korean patients demonstrated. “There is a growing number of reports on new onset, exacerbation, and recurrence of AA after COVID-19,” corresponding author Jin Park, MD, PhD, of the Department of dermatology at Jeonbuk National University Medical...
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Delayed Meals Tied to Increased CVD Risk
TOPLINE:Beyond the nutritional quality of a diet, the timing of meals is important, with later first and last meals of the day associated with increased risks for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), especially in women, results of a large prospective study suggested. METHODOLOGY:The study included 103,389 participants, mean baseline age 42.6 years and 79% women, who were...
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Study Links Specific Drugs to Delusions of Parasitosis Risk
Delusions of parasitosis is linked to female gender, older age, polypharmacy with more than five drugs, and certain types of drugs (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder drugs, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, gabapentin, and opioids), reported researchers in a small retrospective case-control study. Delusions of parasitosis (DOP) affects mostly middle-aged women and has associations with renal failure and some...
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New stroke risk down with clopidogrel-aspirin initiated within 72 hours
by Elana Gotkine Combined clopidogrel-aspirin therapy initiated within 72 hours after stroke onset leads to lower risk for new stroke at 90 days among patients with mild ischemic stroke or high-risk transient ischemic attack (TIA) of presumed atherosclerotic cause, according to a study published in the Dec. 28 issue of the New England Journal of...
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Risk for vitiligo increased for transplant recipients
by Elana Gotkine Transplant recipients, especially those receiving hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT), have an increased risk for vitiligo, according to a brief report published online Dec. 13 in JAMA Dermatology. Chul Hwan Bang, M.D., Ph.D., from the Catholic University of Korea in Seoul, and colleagues conducted a population-based cohort study including data from the...
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Heart vest could help predict sudden cardiac death risk
by University College London UCL medical student Mansoon Tamang in the ECGI vest. Credit: University College London A reusable vest that can map the electrical activity of the heart in fine detail could potentially be used to better identify people at high risk of sudden cardiac death, suggests a new study led by UCL researchers. Electrical...
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Infection with stomach bacteria may increase risk of Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers from Charité and McGill University quantify association between Helicobacter pylori and Alzheimer’s diseasePeer-Reviewed Publication CHARITÉ – UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN Infection with the stomach bacterium Helicobacter pylori could increase the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease: In people over the age of 50, the risk following a symptomatic infection can be an average of 11 percent higher,...