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Physical fatigue is an indicator of early mortality
Time of Update: 2022-02-19
"Green and her colleagues used the Pittsburgh fatigue Scale on 2,906 participants aged 60 or older who participated in the Long Life Family Study .
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Why does fatty liver still occur despite a healthy diet?
Time of Update: 2022-02-19
Deletion or mutation of these genes leads to lipid accumulation and liver inflammation in non-obese mice fed a normal diet, according to researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany .
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Can a prescription diet treat and prevent chronic disease?
Time of Update: 2022-02-19
A new federally funded study will use machine learning to predict an individual's response to a given diet, allowing doctors to personalize nutritional prescriptions for patients to improve health and treat chronic diseases .
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For glioma patients, mutated gene may open door to new treatment options
Time of Update: 2022-02-19
The study gave Koschmann and his team a deeper understanding of how the atrx mutant works in glioma cells and how it interacts with a class of drugs known as ATM inhibitors .
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If grandfather or great-grandfather started smoking before puberty, offspring women had increased body fat
Time of Update: 2022-02-19
A new study led by the University of Bristol, published today (21 January 2022) in Scientific Reports, reports that women gain more body fat if their grandfather or great-grandfather started smoking before puberty .
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Men prone to worry and anxiety may develop heart disease and diabetes at a young age
Time of Update: 2022-02-19
To track the relationship between anxiety and cardiometabolic disease risk factors, the researchers analyzed data from participants in the Standard Aging Study .
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Social media use linked to poor physical health
Time of Update: 2022-02-19
In addition to higher levels of C-reactive protein, the findings showed that frequent social media use was also associated with physical symptoms, such as headaches, chest and back pain, and more frequent visits to doctors and health centers for medical conditions .
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Smart windows can significantly reduce indoor pathogens
Time of Update: 2022-02-19
Our findings demonstrate the benefits of smart window disinfection and have implications for laboratories, health care facilities and the spread of infectious diseases in the buildings where we live and work .
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The Lancet: Long-term study suggests oral peanut immunotherapy may be more effective in children under four with peanut allergy
Time of Update: 2022-02-19
Peer-reviewed/randomized controlled trials/personThe study included 146 peanut-allergic children and measured desensitization (safe intake of 5,000 mg of peanut protein powder in a food challenge following a two-and-a-half-year daily treatment period under the supervision of the investigator) and remission (26 after treatment ended).
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Dementia: How to Prevent Cognitive Decline
Time of Update: 2022-02-19
Now, an international team of researchers led by Université de Montréal psychology professor Sylvie Belleville has determined how many such intervention sessions are needed to prevent people at risk of cognitive decline: only about 12 .
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Vision loss and retinal changes in Stargardt disease
Time of Update: 2022-02-19
However, even if all patients had the ABCA4 gene variant, there were large differences in age of onset and disease progression .
However, traditional methods of analyzing retinal structural changes do not allow us to link gene variants to phenotypes," said study co-leader Brian P.
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NEJM: Artificial pancreas proves safer, more effective
Time of Update: 2022-02-19
Professor Roman Hovorka Wellcome - MRC School of Metabolic Sciences at the University of Cambridge has developed an app – CamAPS FX, which, coupled with blood sugar monitoring and an insulin pump, acts as an artificial pancreas, automatically adjusting the amount of insulin provided based on predicted or real-time blood sugar levels .
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The Expert Seminar on Nutrition Recommendation Standards for Chinese Winter Sports Athletes, a Key Special for the Science and Technology Winter Olympics, was successfully held
Time of Update: 2022-02-19
On January 20, 2022, the Expert Discussion on Nutrition Recommendation Standards for Chinese Winter Sports Athletes was successfully held in Beijing .
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Difference between biological age of retina and a person's chronological age is associated with increased risk of death
Time of Update: 2022-02-19
Except for cardiovascular disease or cancer, a larger retinal age gap was significantly associated with a 49%-67% increased risk of death .
However, they write: "Our new findings have established that retinal age gap is an independent predictor of increased risk of death, particularly non-cardiovascular/non-cancer mortality .
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Mediterranean diet reduces mortality in older adults
Time of Update: 2022-02-19
As Ulaanbaatar University professor Cristina Andrés-Lacueva, who leads the CIBERFES research group, said: "We developed an index of dietary biomarkers based on the types of foods in the Mediterranean diet and assessed their relationship to mortality .
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Can coffee prevent endometrial cancer?
Time of Update: 2022-02-19
Drinking more coffee is associated with a lower risk of endometrial cancer, according to an analysis of related studies published so far .
The analysis, published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Research, included 24 studies on coffee intake involving 9,833 new cases of endometrial cancer in 699,234 people .
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20% of cancers are caused by bacteria and viruses!
Time of Update: 2022-02-19
way to spreadThe transmission of HPV virus is mainly through sexual transmission, so it is also very important to pay attention to sexual life and menstrual hygiene, and to prevent cervical cancer .
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Introducing lifestyle interventions to reduce heart disease risk in preschoolers
Time of Update: 2022-02-19
project, which included more than 3,800 children aged 3-5 from 50 schools in Colombia, Spain, and the United States, who were assessed on how their knowledge, attitudes, and habits translated into healthy life> .
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The effectiveness of chemotherapy may vary over time
Time of Update: 2022-02-18
William Walker, a researcher at West Virginia University School of Medicine, is investigating whether the blood-brain barrier is more susceptible to chemotherapy drugs at different times of the day .
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"JAMA" study finds that at least 95% of lung nodules are benign
Time of Update: 2022-02-18
Depending on risk factors and imaging features associated with lung malignancy, clinical judgment of malignancy probability, and patient preference, nodules 6 to 8 mm can be reviewed by chest CT within 6 to 12 months .
