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Health todayHeart and stroke confirms
Abdominal obesity and high blood sugar rose in Korean screening from 2014 to 2023
Aggregated national health screening statistics for the Republic of Korea show abdominal obesity rising from 21.0% to 25.5% between 2014 and 2023, with hyperglycaemia and hypertension also higher.
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Health todayCancer new
Parathyroid cancer in Korea rose fivefold, and benign parathyroid disease faster still
In Korean national insurance data from 2005 to 2020, incident parathyroid cancer rose 5.0-fold and benign primary hyperparathyroidism 7.7-fold, with ten-year all-cause mortality raised in both against matched controls.
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Health todayDementia confirms
Two in five memory-clinic patients with subjective complaints were amyloid-positive
In 194 consecutive memory-clinic patients, amyloid PET positivity rose from 40.9% in those with subjective complaints to 91.7% in those with early Alzheimer's disease, with MRI adding nothing.
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Health todayHeart and stroke refines
Side-branch lesions had less restenosis with drug-coated balloons than with stents
In 161 patients with isolated side-branch coronary lesions, binary restenosis at one year was 7.4% after a drug-coated balloon strategy against 21.3% after stenting, with treatment chosen by the operator.
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Behavioural scienceDiet, exercise and sleep new
Diets of Swiss childhood cancer survivors were unrelated to cardiovascular risk
Among 802 Swiss adults treated for cancer before the age of 21, five dietary patterns were identified, none of which was associated with cardiovascular disease or its risk factors.
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Health todayCancer confirms
Kidney cancer mortality fell in Medicaid expansion states, but not for Black patients
Among 284,967 US adults aged 40 to 64 with renal cell carcinoma, overall mortality was 7.5% lower in Medicaid expansion states, with no change in five-year survival for Black patients.
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Health todayObesity, diabetes and GLP-1 refines
Liraglutide's benefit in US veterans may be larger than the LEADER trial found
Reweighting the LEADER trial onto US veterans with diabetes gave a three-year reduction in major cardiovascular events of 4.6% against 1.6%, a difference within statistical uncertainty.
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Health todayFrailty and multimorbidity refines
Combined conditions add mortality beyond their separate effects after emergency surgery
Among 61,400 Danish adults having major emergency abdominal surgery, 31% died within a year, and several combinations of chronic conditions were associated with mortality beyond their effects in isolation.
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Health todayCancer new
Genomic testing reached 38% of Ohio Medicaid women with ER-positive early breast cancer
Among 1,988 Ohio Medicaid patients with early ER-positive breast cancer, 37.8% received Oncotype DX or MammaPrint within six months, with receipt lower for regional than localised disease (aOR 0.35).
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Health todayCancer refines
CT surveillance after lung cancer surgery did not change patients' quality of life
In the IFCT-0302 trial, 1,775 patients resected for non-small cell lung cancer were randomised to CT or minimal follow-up, with no difference in time to deterioration in quality of life.
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Health todayDementia new
Inherited small vessel disease carriers had higher odds of a worse dementia rating
Carriers of a NOTCH3 variant causing CADASIL, an inherited small vessel brain disease, had 2.55 to 5.08 times the odds of a more impaired dementia rating than non-carrier relatives.
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Health todayObesity, diabetes and GLP-1 confirms
Childhood obesity fell four percentage points after school programmes in Spain
A meta-analysis of seven school programmes in 6,716 Spanish schoolchildren found obesity prevalence 4.00 percentage points lower after them, from a baseline of 10.3%.
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