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Thyroid Disease Risk Varies Among Blacks, Asians, and Whites
Bottom Line: An analysis that included active military personnel finds that the rate of the thyroid disorder Graves disease is more common among blacks and Asian/Pacific Islanders compared with whites,...
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Is UK Shale Gas Extraction Posing a Risk to Public Health?
Bottom Line: Dr. Seth Shonkoff, Executive Director for Physicians Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy, and his colleagues say that operations to produce natural gas from formations such as...
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Marijuana Use May Increase Heart Complications In Young, Middle-Aged Adults
Study Highlights Marijuana use may result in heart-related complications in young and middle-aged adults. Nearly 2 percent of the health complications from marijuana use reported were cardiovascular...
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Promising Biomarkers To Predict Suicide Risk
Bottom Line: In this Review, published to coincide with the launch of The Lancet Psychiatry journal, Professor Kees van Heeringen from Ghent University in Belgium and John Mann from Columbia University...
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Multidimensional Frailty Score Helps Predict Postoperative Outcomes in Older...
Bottom Line: A multidimensional frailty score may help predict postoperative outcomes in older adults. Author: Sun-wook Kim, M.D., of the Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea, and...
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Eating More Fruits, Vegetables May Cut Stroke Risk Worldwide
Study Highlight: Eating more fruits and vegetables may reduce the risk of stroke worldwide, according to a new analysis of 20 studies conducted in Europe, the United States and Asia. Bottom Line:...
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Frequent Arguments with Family and Friends Linked to Doubling in Death Risk...
Bottom Line: Frequent arguments with partners, relatives, or neighbours may boost the risk of death from any cause in middle age, suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology &...
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From Age 30 Onwards, Inactivity has Greatest Impact on Women’s Lifetime Heart...
Bottom Line: From the age of 30 onwards, physical inactivity exerts a greater impact on a woman’s lifetime risk of developing heart disease than the other well-known risk factors, suggests research...
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Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressures Predict Risk of Different...
Bottom Line: Raised systolic and diastolic blood pressures may have different effects on different types of cardiovascular diseases and at different ages, according to new research involving 1.25...
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An Hour of Moderate Exercise a Day May Decrease Heart Failure Risk
Bottom Line: In a new study reported in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Heart Failure, researchers say more than an hour of moderate or half an hour of vigorous exercise per day may...
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