BMJ Rheumatoid arthritis or one of the other types of inflammatory arthritis, diagnosed before or during peak reproductive years, may curb men’s fertility, finds research published online in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. Inflammatory arthritis is associated with fathering fewer children, higher rates of infertility, involuntary childlessness, and fertility issues, such as poor sperm quality,...
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Youth-onset Type 2 Diabetes Leads to Serious Complications in Early Adulthood
Adolescents with type 2 diabetes, especially those from underserved communities, are at high risk of developing serious complications early in adulthood, new research shows. Type 2 diabetes was once thought to be a metabolic disorder exclusively of adulthood. Now, however, with about a third of youth in America being overweight, it has become increasingly more...
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Drug-resistant germ packs a punch for US travelers
by Josh Babcock, Washington State University Devendra Shah and Rachel Soltys examine antibiotic susceptibility plates in the laboratory. Credit: Washington State University One type of salmonella bacteria is much more likely to cause disease and fend off frontline antibiotics when acquired in Europe, Asia, and parts of Africa rather than domestically in the United States. Washington...
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Increased risk of acute myocardial infarction the first two weeks following COVID-19
by Umea University Figure 1. Overview of the self-controlled case series study design. Credit: DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00896-5 A large nationwide study based on all COVID-19 patients in Sweden performed at Umeå University, concludes that the risk of acute myocardial infarction and stroke is three-fold increased the first two weeks following COVID-19. The study was published in The Lancet....
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Amyloid levels in blood predict memory and thinking changes later in life
by Alzheimer’s Research UK Credit: CC0 Public Domain Today (Wednesday 4 August) researchers in the U.S. have published findings describing how levels of the hallmark Alzheimer’s protein, amyloid in midlife are linked to a subsequent decline in memory and thinking in later life. The scientific publication, Neurology, published the results. Amyloid builds up in the brain during Alzheimer’s,...
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Breath test to determine correct treatment for epilepsy
UNIVERSITY OF BASEL Breath instead of blood: researchers from the University of Basel have developed a new test method to measure treatment success in epilepsy patients. They hope that this will enable doctors to react more precisely when treating the disease. Epilepsy affects some 50 million people worldwide and pharmaceutical treatment of the disease is a tightrope...
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Potential biomarker found for lung disease in scleroderma patients
by University of Michigan Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers have discovered a protein that may predict disease severity for a lung condition that often proves fatal to patients with scleroderma. The recent study, published in Arthritis Care & Research and investigated by a Michigan Medicine researcher, found a novel adipokine, known as CTRP9, is associated with pulmonary function for...
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Study: 15 novel biomarkers for diseases predisposing to dementia discovered
by University of Helsinki Flowchart of sample selection in discovery and validation cohorts. ARIC, the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study. Credit: DOI: 10.1002/alz.12419 A study by an international research group identified 15 novel biomarkers that are linked to late-onset dementias. These biomarkers are proteins, which predict cognitive decline and subsequent increased risk of dementia already 20...
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A blood marker predicts who gets ‘breakthrough’ COVID
Smriti Mallapaty A worker at Sheba Medical Center in Israel prepares a dose of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Breakthrough cases among the center’s vaccinated healthcare workers were rare in the first months of 2021.Credit: Jack Guez/AFP via Getty People fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are less likely to become infected with the coronavirus if they have...
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Systolic blood pressure above 120 mmHg increases rate of cardiovascular disease
Provides insight on what blood pressure targets in patients with hypertension according to glucose status should be. Image credit: Pixabay (Free Pixabay license) An estimated 1.13 billion people worldwide have hypertension or high blood pressure, and two-thirds of these individuals are living in low- and middle-income countries. Blood pressure is the force manifested by circulating...