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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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Behavioural scienceInfection and pandemics refines
COVID-19 antibody levels overstate protection in people on immunosuppressive therapy
Binding antibody levels after mRNA vaccination were 54.5 times lower in people on B-cell depleting drugs than in healthy controls, and protection was lower at any given antibody level.
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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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Behavioural scienceSmoking and vaping refines
Smokers and e-cigarette users with a smoking history report more long-standing illness
In the 2022 Health Survey for England, those who both smoked and vaped had 2.35 times the adjusted odds of a long-standing condition as never users, and smokers 1.87 times.
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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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Behavioural scienceAlcohol and drug use confirms
Fentanyl was present in three quarters of cocaine overdose deaths in Cuyahoga County
Of 1,150 unintentional cocaine-related overdose deaths in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, from 2014 to 2024, fentanyl was also present in 74.6%, with the two groups differing by age and race.
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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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Behavioural scienceInfection and pandemics confirms
Carbapenem resistance was associated with death in ICU-acquired bloodstream infections
Among 352 adults at one centre who developed gram-negative bloodstream infection at least 48 hours after ICU admission, half the isolates were carbapenem-resistant and 30-day mortality was 57.9%.
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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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