‘Improved diabetes screening’ needed for adolescents
Analysis of NHANES data between 2005 and 2014 shows that many US adolescents with diabetes are not aware that they have the condition, with this being most common among children of non-White ethnicity. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - July 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Diabetes Source Type: news
Postdiagnosis omega-3 intake may lower CRC mortality
Increasing intake of marine omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids after diagnosis could provide a colorectal cancer-related mortality benefit. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - July 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Colorectal cancer Source Type: news
Distinct connectivity subtypes found for behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia
Researchers have found four distinct patterns of network degeneration that may help classify patients with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - July 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurodegeneration Source Type: news
CML patients sustain increased risk of vascular events
Patients treated for chronic myeloid leukaemia have a higher risk of arterial and venous vascular events than their counterparts in the general population, suggest the results of a Swedish cohort study. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - July 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Chronic myeloid leukaemia Source Type: news
‘Clinically important’ cardiovascular benefits with antidiabetic agents
Research focusing on the newer oral antidiabetic agents reveals “clinically important” reductions in cardiovascular outcomes and mortality, relative to no treatment, among patients treated in primary care. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - July 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Diabetes Source Type: news
Outcomes may be good after ejection fraction recovery
Recovery from a reduced ejection fraction appears to be a predictor of good outcomes in patients with heart failure, a retrospective analysis shows. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - July 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart failure Source Type: news
Mutations Explain Late Progression in Pembrolizumab-Treated Melanoma
Researchers have identified several genetic mutations in metastatic melanoma that are behind acquired resistance to programmed death 1 therapy. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - July 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Melanoma Source Type: news
Revised MRI criteria improves MS diagnosis accuracy
Researchers believe that, when diagnosing multiple sclerosis, lesions in the symptomatic region should not be excluded, as stated in the McDonald dissemination in space criteria. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - July 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Multiple sclerosis Source Type: news
Expanded INTERSTROKE confirms global hypertension impact
Hypertension accounts for around half of all strokes in all regions of the world, show the results of the second phase of INTERSTROKE. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - July 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
HF and ejection fraction both impact CABG outcomes
Both heart failure and reduced ejection fraction influence the outcomes of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting, say researchers. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - July 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart failure Source Type: news
Post-MI heart failure increases cancer risk
Myocardial infarction survivors who have heart failure are more likely to develop cancer than their heart failure-free counterparts, indicates research published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - July 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart failure Source Type: news
Disheartening result for cyclosporine A in nonshockable cardiac arrest
Administering cyclosporine A at the time of resuscitation of patients with nonshockable out-of-hospital cardiac arrest does not reduce the likelihood of subsequent multiple organ failure, shows the results of the CYRUS trial. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - July 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiology Source Type: news
‘Strikingly’ low 1-year mortality recorded for TAVR device
Findings from the PARTNER trial of the SAPIEN3 transcatheter heart valve system support the use of transcatheter aortic valve replacement as “the preferred therapy” in high-risk and inoperable patients with aortic stenosis. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - July 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Interventional cardiology Source Type: news
Genetic risk factors signal AD susceptibility in the very young
Genetic risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease appear to have an early effect on the brain and may allow the detection of susceptible young individuals before symptoms are present, findings from two studies in Neurology suggest. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - July 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Alzheimer ' s disease Source Type: news
Statin primary prevention effect in FH quantified
A retrospective analysis suggests that statin therapy reduces the risk of a first coronary artery disease event or death in patients with familial hypercholesterolaemia by around 44%. (Source: MedWire News)
Source: MedWire News - July 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiometabolic Source Type: news
