by Will Doss, Northwestern University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Among patients with no detectable coronary artery calcium, those who smoke, have diabetes or hypertension nonetheless have the highest risk of cardiovascular disease events, according to a study published in the journal Circulation. The findings demonstrate that even in patients with no coronary artery calcium, the traditional...
New research predicts the global burden of dementia by 2050. Catherine MacBride/Stocksy Globally, about 153 million people will have dementia by 2050, according to a new study. Risk factors such as smoking, obesity, and high blood sugar could be responsible for almost 7 million of these cases. Estimated increases of dementia cases in the Middle...
by Newcastle University Scientists at work in AMLo Biosciences lab to predict the spread or return of a melanoma. Credit: AMLo Biosciences & Newcastle University A pioneering test which reliably predicts the spread or return of the most deadly form of skin cancer has been developed by a team of Newcastle scientists and clinicians. The...
by Aaron Wagner, Pennsylvania State University Credit: CC0 Public Domain Childhood sexual abuse can lead to depression, anxiety, cardiovascular disease, and other health problems later in life. Not all abused children experience these problems, however, and researchers are working to understand whose health is affected and why. In a new article in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology,...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – IRVINEP IMAGE: PLOTS FOR BIOCHEMICAL RELAPSE STRATIFIED BY PROGNOSTIC MODELS BASED ON CLINICAL DATA ALONE (TOP) OR CLINICAL DATA PLUS AN ERV PANEL (BOTTOM). “WE FOUND THAT THE COMBINATION OF ERVS AND CLINICAL INFORMATION OUTPERFORMED PREDICTION MODELS BASED ON CLINICAL PROGNOSTICATORS ALONE,” SAYS FARAHNAZ RAHMATPANAH, PHD, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN RESIDENCY IN...
Geriatrics January 12, 2022 Question What is the association of a COVID-19 diagnosis and mobility and physical function among community-living middle-aged and older Canadians during the initial pandemic lockdown in 2020? Findings This cohort study of 24 114 participants found that community-living middle-aged and older adults with confirmed, probable, or suspected COVID-19 had nearly 2-fold higher odds of...
EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CARDIOLOGY Sophia Antipolis, 11 January 2022: Antidepressants and other psychiatric medications are associated with an almost doubled risk of premature death in patients with heart conditions, according to research published today in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).1 “Our study shows that the use of...
by Brigham and Women’s Hospital Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Imagine going to the doctor’s office at age 55 and, after measuring a set of health variables, the physician predicted your health trajectory for 10 years into the future. Investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital studied easily obtained variables among women at midlife, variables included health...
People walk differently. Your way of walking is not exactly as unique as your fingerprints, but it is recognizably yours. And now an international team of scientists say that the way we walk may predict our osteoarthritis risk in the future. The way you walk is relatively unique and causes different kinds of stress to...
by Tom Wilemon, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Credit: CC0 Public Domain A team of Vanderbilt researchers has revealed some of the mechanisms by which polyps develop into colorectal cancer, setting the framework for improved surveillance for the cancer utilizing precision medicine. Their study, published Dec. 14 in Cell, describes findings from a single-cell transcriptomic and imaging...
