by American Academy of Neurology Credit: CC0 Public Domain People with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are more likely to have a stroke than people without the disease, according to a study published in Neurology. The study does not prove that IBD causes stroke; it only shows an association. Inflammatory bowel disease causes chronic inflammation of the intestines....
Peer-Reviewed Publication BRIGHAM AND WOMEN’S HOSPITAL Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is the most common form, and yet the cause of this disease is poorly understood. Findings from previous genome-wide association studies suggest that there is a complex metabolic network that affects optic nerve health. Researchers from...
by Justin Jackson, Medical Xpress Differences in regional gray matter volume between participants with gout (n = 1,165) and controls (n = 32,202), as analyzed by voxel-based morphometry. Blue regions represent areas where participants with gout had significantly less gray matter. T statistics are thresholded at a 5% false discovery rate (0.0013 threshold on uncorrected P values). Models adjusted...
by Taylor & Francis Space-filling model of the Cholesterol molecule. Credit: RedAndr/Wikipedia Increased levels of lipoprotein(a), a variant of “bad cholesterol” in the bloodstream, are a risk factor for recurrent coronary heart disease (CHD) in people aged 60 or over, according to the results of a new study which tracked the issue over the course of...
by Houston Methodist Patients with prior COVID have higher rates of impaired MFR indicating cardiovascular disease. Variant and severity of infection influence the rates of impaired MFR. Data also suggests impaired MFR could be reversible. Credit: Houston Methodist Patients infected with beta and delta COVID-19 variants, and those who required hospital stays for COVID-19 infection, were...
by Lund University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A common cause of myocardial infarction and stroke is the rupture of atherosclerotic plaques. The exact location of plaque ruptures has previously been unknown, but now researchers at Lund University have mapped this. The research team has also identified an enzyme, a marker, that they hope will help predict who is at risk...
by Diabetologia Credit: CC0 Public Domain New research published in Diabetologia shows an association between type 2 diabetes (T2D) and developing dementia in later life—with the risk of dementia increasing the earlier a person develops T2D. The study is by Ph.D. student Jiaqi Hu and Professor Elizabeth Selvin of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore,...
by University of California, Los Angeles Credit: CC0 Public Domain The commonly used Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX), which includes self-identified race and ethnicity information, and the Osteoporosis Self-Assessment Tool (OST), which does not, had suboptimal performance in determining major osteoporotic fracture risk across racial/ethnic categories in younger postmenopausal women. But OST was excellent for identifying...
by American Heart Association Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A study of more than 58,000 women over a 12-year period found that longer or shorter menstrual cycles were associated with a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease, heart attack or atrial fibrillation, according to new research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. Regular menstrual cycle length, defined as cycle...
By Bhavana Kunkalikar May 22 2023 Reviewed by Benedette Cuffari, M.Sc. In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers explore the relationship between gout and neurodegenerative disease susceptibility. Study: Association of gout with brain reserve and vulnerability to neurodegenerative disease. Image Credit: Triff / Shutterstock.com What is gout? Gout, which is often referred to as hyperuricemia, is...
