BETH MOLE – 3/8/2023, 4:00 PM Enlarge Getty | BSIP118WITH Surviving a bout of COVID-19 can significantly increase the risk of developing a range of long-term gastrointestinal symptoms and conditions—from constipation and diarrhea to chronic acid reflux, pancreatitis, and inflammation of the bile ducts—according to a study published this week in Nature Communications. The study likely confirms what...
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN’S HOSPITAL Brigham and Boston Medical Center researchers found that different types of kidney damage are associated with the chances of developing and dying from heart disease Findings highlight the individual differences in cardiovascular risk for patients with kidney disease Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an independent risk factor for heart diseases, such as heart...
By Paul McClure March 05, 2023 A mathematical model has been used to compare the effectiveness of single-drug and combination-drug treatment of prostate cancer Depositphotos The prevalence of prostate cancer around the world means that finding an effective treatment is critical. A new UK study has used mathematics to investigate the effectiveness of some currently...
ELSEVIER Ann Arbor, March 6, 2023 – Adding to the growing body of evidence on sleep disturbances and cognitive impairment, new research finds significant links between three measures of sleep disturbance and the risk for developing dementia over a 10-year period. The results, reported in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, published by Elsevier, associate sleep-initiation insomnia (trouble falling asleep within 30...
by Vanderbilt University Medical Center Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Patients with serious pneumococcal infections, including pneumonia and sepsis, are at a substantially increased risk of heart attack after the onset of infection according to a Vanderbilt study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Prior work has demonstrated that infections can potentially lead to systemic inflammatory responses that can trigger the...
Researchers say people with metabolic syndrome have a higher risk of gout. Eddie Pearson/Stocksy Metabolic syndrome (MetS) appears to increase the likelihood of several conditions occurring together, such as cardiovascular disease, high cholesterol, obesity, and type 2 diabetes. The syndrome is not a singular, distinct disease, but rather a collection of risk factors that have been...
CENTER FOR GENOMIC REGULATION IMAGE: FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: NOEMÍ HARO, ÓSCAR POZO, INMA HERNÁNDEZ-MUÑOZ, EVELYN ANDRADES, PALOMA TORRES & RAMON PUJOL CREDIT: HOSPITAL DE MAR/IMIM Cells that form cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma tumours prepare themselves to migrate to the lymph nodes to metastasise other organs, and they make changes so that they can survive...
by Bielefeld University The architecture of DiseaseCapsule. The input is the concatenation of the compressed features from all Gene-PCA models, where each feature corresponds to one Gene-PCA. The number of Gene-PCAs is 75,584, so the dimensionality of the input is 75,584 × 1. DiseaseCapsule consists of three layers: a fully connected layer (FC), a primary capsule layer...
by Abidemi Otaiku, The Conversation Credit: Pressmaster/Shutterstock Can children’s dreams foretell events that will happen nearly 40 years into the future? Yes, according to the results of my latest study published in the journal eClinicalMedicine. More specifically, it showed that children who experience regular bad dreams and nightmares between the ages of seven and 11, may...
by Elana Gotkine A history of gout is associated with an increased risk for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) and Meniere disease, according to a study published online Dec. 26 in the Journal of Clinical Medicine. Hyo Geun Choi, M.D., from the Hallym University College of Medicine in Seoul, South Korea, and colleagues examined the impact of preexisting gout on...
