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Health todayHeart and stroke new
Between 15% and 49% of heart disease patients had clinically elevated cardiac anxiety
A review of 26 studies in 9,628 patients with cardiovascular disease found clinically elevated fear of cardiac sensations in 15% to 49%, varying with the questionnaire cut-off used.
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Behavioural scienceSocial connection new
Carers who repeatedly stop and restart unpaid care are more likely to smoke
In the UK Household Longitudinal Study, adults repeatedly moving in and out of unpaid caring had higher odds of smoking (OR 1.67) and lower odds of physical inactivity (OR 0.65).
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Health todayObesity, diabetes and GLP-1 confirms
Lower education was the most consistent marker of obesity in Korean adults
Analysis of Korea's national health and nutrition survey for 2022 to 2024 found lower education the most consistent marker of obesity in adults, with income and employment less consistent.
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Behavioural scienceSmoking and vaping confirms
Brief tobacco intervention lowered risk scores in Indian guards, fading by day 90
In a randomised trial among 86 male security personnel at a North Indian tertiary hospital, a WHO ASSIST-linked brief intervention reduced tobacco risk scores relative to general health information, with a group-by-time effect size of 0.34 and dependence differences weakening by day 90.
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Health todayHeart and stroke refines
Deaths after CPR in US hospitals remained above pre-pandemic levels through 2022
Among 612,930 weighted US hospitalisations with CPR after in-hospital cardiac arrest, 67.8% of patients died, and adjusted odds of death in 2021 were 1.26x those in 2016.
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Health todayDementia confirms
Lithium use was associated with 37% lower dementia risk in pooled cohort studies
A meta-analysis of 23 studies pooled four cohort studies to a hazard ratio of 0.63 for dementia among lithium users, although the authors state that causality is not established.
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Data, models and systemsAI in medicine new
Language models identified in-hospital cardiac arrests better than ICD codes
On a hand-picked set of notes, a trained language model flagged encounters for in-hospital cardiac arrest of which 88% were genuine, against 68% for an ICD-code algorithm.
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Health todayHeart and stroke new
Black patients were 4% of enrolment in the defining hypertrophic cardiomyopathy trials
Across 13 of the trials that define current treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Black patients were 3.98% of Black and White participants, as compared to 16.5% of US adults.
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Behavioural scienceInfection and pandemics new
Offering HPV vaccine at 9-10 brought median series completion to 12.2 years
In a cluster-randomised trial in 31 US paediatric practices, offering HPV vaccination at ages 9-10 rather than 11-12 brought median age at series completion forward from 13.3 to 12.2 years.
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Health todayHeart and stroke new
Kidney disease progressed less often on a GLP-1 drug plus SGLT2 inhibitor
Among 32,448 matched adults with chronic kidney disease, those adding a GLP-1 drug to an SGLT2 inhibitor had 0.70 times the rate of kidney disease progression over a median year.
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Health todayMental health new
One gene variant more than triples serious mental illness risk in Colombia
Exome sequencing of 21,958 cases and 19,826 controls in a Colombian founder population identified seven genes associated with serious mental illness, one variant raising risk more than threefold.
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Health todayObesity, diabetes and GLP-1 confirms
Swiss children with obesity from poorer areas arrive with worse cardiometabolic risk
Among 886 children treated for obesity in Bern, ten points higher on the neighbourhood socioeconomic index was associated with lower obesity severity and lower odds of insulin resistance (OR 0.80).
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