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Health todayMental health new
Korean adults with depression and unstable incomes have 18% higher mortality
Among 735,922 Korean adults diagnosed with depression, those with the most variable annual incomes had 18% higher mortality over a mean 10.3 years than those with the most stable.
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Health todayMental health confirms
Depression in US asthma patients was linked to 9.9 months shorter survival
Among 4,945 US adults with asthma, those with depressive symptoms lived 9.9 months less over 15 years, with income accounting for about a quarter of the difference.
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Behavioural scienceAdherence and persistence confirms
Most people with HIV starting fostemsavir were still taking it a year later
A retrospective cohort of 77 adults starting fostemsavir in US clinical practice found most still taking it at 12 months, and most of those already suppressed stayed suppressed.
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Data, models and systemsAI in medicine confirms
Machine learning model predicted deaths best in diabetes with hypertension
Among 2,428 US adults with type 2 diabetes and hypertension in NHANES, a random forest predicted death with an AUC of 0.873, against 0.783 for logistic regression.
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Behavioural scienceInfection and pandemics new
Lagos wastewater sequencing found enteric viruses, Vibrio cholerae and resistance genes
Sequencing of untreated wastewater from Lagos drainage canals in July and August 2024 detected enteric viruses, Vibrio cholerae and genes conferring resistance to several antibiotic classes.
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Health todayFrailty and multimorbidity refines
Older breast cancer survivors still score lower on physical function after ten years
Among 45,530 Women's Health Initiative participants, women with regional breast cancer scored 6.8 points below matched cancer-free women on physical function at one year and 5.3 points below at ten.
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Data, models and systemsHealth systems and access new
Later-born Chinese older adults spend more years happy, with widening education gaps
Analysis of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey from 2002 to 2018 found that each later-born cohort of older adults spent a higher proportion of its remaining life happy.
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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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Behavioural scienceSocial connection confirms
Isolation's link with death was weaker in UK Biobank adults using mixed transport
Social isolation carried a hazard ratio of 1.34 for all-cause death in 490,114 UK Biobank adults, and the link was weaker in those using a car alongside other transport.
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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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