by King’s College London Space-filling model of the Cholesterol molecule. Credit: RedAndr/Wikipedia Scientists from King’s working on the ZOE Health Study analyzed blood markers from 4,787 people and found that participants who had higher levels of harmful fats commonly linked to heart disease, were more likely to experience ongoing symptoms from both COVID-19 and non-COVID disease....
by University of Leeds Credit: University of Leeds A study of over 26,000 middle-aged UK women reveals those with a vegetarian diet had a 33% higher risk of hip fracture compared to regular meat-eaters. University of Leeds research, published Thursday, August 11 in the journal BMC Medicine, investigated the risk of hip fracture in occasional meat-eaters; pescatarians, people...
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION Embargoed until 4 a.m. CT/5 a.m. ET Wednesday, August 10, 2022 DALLAS, August 10, 2022 — Structural or functional abnormalities within the heart’s left atrium, with or without symptoms, may increase a person’s risk of developing dementia later in life by 35%, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American...
by Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute The relationship between GCT genome and transcriptome. a Heatmap showing gene enrichment per GCT tissue relative to healthy seminiferous tubules, binned by cytoband. Colors correspond to significance of enrichment according to the adjusted p-value (false discovery rate correction). The number next to each histology is the number of eligible microbiopsies...
by British Medical Journal Credit: CC0 Public Domain An artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm, derived from the features of individual heartbeats recorded on an ECG (electrocardiogram), can accurately predict diabetes and pre-diabetes, suggests preliminary research published in the online journal BMJ Innovations. If validated in larger studies, the approach could be used to screen for the disease in...
By Rich Haridy August 07, 2022 A new study proposes a blood biomarker could be a useful way to detect patients at risk of either developing diabetes or experiencing severe cancer outcomes Depositphotos A new study has found people with elevated blood levels of a protein called prostasin face a significantly higher risk of developing...
by University of Michigan Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Blood clots are thought to occur in as many as a third of patients hospitalized with COVID-19. In many cases these clots can be deadly, such as pulmonary embolisms—blood clots that travel to the lungs. In fact, in nearly one third of patients with COVID-19, these clots...
UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM Experts at the University of Nottingham, in collaboration with experts at Keele University, have found that the risk of heart attacks and strokes temporarily increases in the four months after a gout flare. The research showed that gout patients who suffered from a heart attack or stroke were twice as likely to...
by University of Chicago Medical Center Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Though we often undervalue our ability to smell compared to our abilities to see and hear, our olfactory sense provides our brain with critical information, from detecting potential dangers like smoke to recognizing the sweet smell of baking cookies. Researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine...
by The Endocrine Society Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain People with sedentary lifestyles and unhealthy sleep behaviors could develop fatty liver disease, according to new research published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Fatty liver disease is the leading chronic liver disease worldwide, affecting about a quarter of the adult population. This type...
