High or rapidly rising BP poses greatest stroke, mortality risk
Findings from the Rotterdam study show how the trajectories of people’s blood pressure in mid to late life have varying effects on their risk of having a stroke or dying. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - May 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hypertension Source Type: news
CMR ‘may be preferable’ to SPECT for CHD prognosis
Long-term follow-up of the CE-MARC study suggests that cardiovascular magnetic resonance could be a better predictor of cardiovascular events than single-photon emission computed tomography in patients with coronary heart disease. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - May 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Coronary heart disease Source Type: news
Model may guide statin treatment in diabetes patients
Researchers have developed a model to predict the benefits of statin treatment in individual patients with Type 2 diabetes, but experts question whether individualised treatment is always the best choice. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - May 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Diabetes Source Type: news
On-treatment relapse drives disability accrual in MS patients
Frequent relapse activity appears to be a key driver of disability accrual in patients with relapse-onset multiple sclerosis, indicates a study of patients receiving first-line injectable disease-modifying treatment. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - May 13, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Multiple sclerosis Source Type: news
Genomic cfDNA profiling feasible in metastatic CRPC
Comprehensive genomic profiling of cell-free DNA can provide clinically useful information in men with castration-resistant prostate cancer treated with enzalutamide, research indicates. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - May 13, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Prostate cancer Source Type: news
Pre-existing maternal diabetes still major risk factor for congenital heart defects
The strong influence of pre-pregnancy diabetes on the likelihood of women giving birth to babies with congenital heart defects has not lessened over recent decades, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - May 13, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Diabetes Source Type: news
‘Profound’ metabolic effects from modest weight loss in obese
A randomised trial published in Cell Metabolism demonstrates the “profound therapeutic effects” achievable by obese people who lose just 5% of their bodyweight. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - May 13, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Diabetes Source Type: news
Tau pathology closely tracks brain function during early AD
Tau tangles may be a better indicator of cognitive changes during Alzheimer’s disease progression than beta-amyloid deposition, researchers propose. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - May 12, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Alzheimer ' s disease Source Type: news
Restricted artificial pancreas use may suffice
Restricting use of an artificial pancreas to the evening and nighttime, with standard pump therapy the rest of the time, seems to deliver similar benefits to using one all day and night in patients with Type 1 diabetes, a study suggests. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - May 12, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Diabetes Source Type: news
Dementia risk high after ICH
A large study shows that nearly a third of patients who survive an intracerebral haemorrhage will go on to develop dementia within 4 years. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - May 11, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Ticagrelor no better than aspirin for stroke patients
The direct platelet inhibitor ticagrelor has proved no more effective than aspirin for preventing recurrent events in patients who start treatment within 24 hours of noncardioembolic, nonsevere stroke or high-risk transient ischaemic attack. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - May 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
ENCHANTED results challenge reduced alteplase dose in Asian stroke patients
A reduced dose of alteplase has failed to prove itself noninferior to the standard dose in a predominantly Asian population of patients with ischaemic stroke. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - May 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Depression course predicts dementia risk
Patients with late-life depression have an increased risk of dementia if their symptoms increase over time, whereas a single episode of depression, even if severe, does not carry a significant risk, study findings indicate. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - May 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Alzheimer ' s disease Source Type: news
Oral regimens could offer simple solution for severe hyperglycaemia
Study findings indicate that oral treatments could offer a simpler alternative to upfront insulin for patients who have severe hyperglycaemia at the time of diagnosis with Type 2 diabetes. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - May 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Diabetes Source Type: news
Elevated endothelial progenitor cells may characterise PAH patients
Plasma levels of endothelial progenitor cells are elevated in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - May 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pulmonary hypertension Source Type: news
