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Health todayMental health new
One in five Black US students left the suicide attempt question blank
Across 163,489 US high school students surveyed from 2001 to 2021, the suicide attempt question was left blank by 21.6% of Black adolescents and 7.1% of white adolescents.
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Health todayHeart and stroke confirms
Cochrane review pools 107 trials of exercise rehabilitation in coronary heart disease
An updated Cochrane review pooled 107 randomised trials in 26,886 adults with coronary heart disease, comparing exercise-based rehabilitation with no exercise on death, infarction and hospital admission.
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Health todayDementia confirms
AT2-stimulating antihypertensives were linked to less dementia in two US cohorts
In 1.6 million Medicare beneficiaries and 80,267 Vanderbilt patients aged 65 and over with hypertension, incident Alzheimer's disease and related dementias were less common among users of angiotensin II receptor-stimulating than receptor-inhibiting antihypertensives (6.7% against 8.2% in Medicare).
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Data, models and systemsWhat linked data reveals new
Australians in same-sex relationships had about a quarter higher all-cause mortality
Australian census records linked to death registrations show all-cause mortality a quarter higher among adults in same-sex than different-sex relationships, and external-cause mortality two to three times higher.
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Behavioural scienceAdherence and persistence confirms
Most US adults starting a GLP-1 obesity drug stop within the year
Among 201,229 insured US adults with obesity and no diabetes starting a GLP-1 drug, 30.7% stayed on it for most of the following year, as did 20.3% of paediatric patients.
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Data, models and systemsForecasts and their record new
21-valent pneumococcal vaccine could prevent 1.5-1.7 times as many cases as 20-valent
National surveillance and a multicentre pneumonia study in Japan estimate the 21-valent pneumococcal vaccine could prevent 1.5-1.7 times as many cases as the 20-valent in adults aged 65 and over.
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Tomorrow's worldInnovation in treatment refines
Self-guided lifestyle app lowered LDL-cholesterol by 3.9% more than usual care
In a pragmatic online trial of 278 adults with LDL-cholesterol above target, a self-guided lifestyle app lowered LDL by 3.9% more than usual care at six months.
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Health todayCancer new
Fine particulate matter shows no association with ovarian cancer across pooled cohorts
A systematic review of 145 studies of environmental chemical exposures and gynaecologic cancers found no pooled association between PM2.5 and ovarian cancer (HR 1.02 per 5 µg/m³, 95% CI 0.91–1.13) and only a marginal one for endometrial cancer (HR 1.02, 95% CI 0.99–1.05).
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Data, models and systemsHealth systems and access confirms
Education and wealth are associated with lower biological age in 12 European countries
In 10,043 to 14,015 SHARE adults aged 50-75, every measure of socioeconomic advantage was associated with a lower estimated biological age, though the gap differed between the 12 countries.
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Tomorrow's worldA changing climate refines
China's clean-heating pilots cut winter PM2.5 most on the worst pollution days
Across 88 clean-heating pilot cities in northern China, heating-season PM2.5 fell by 3.01 micrograms per cubic metre on average, and by 5.96 on the most polluted days.
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Data, models and systemsAI in medicine new
Model using intake records predicted six-month deaths in Taiwanese care homes
A model built from routine intake assessments in 636 Taiwanese care homes predicted death within 180 days of admission, with an AUROC of 0.90 in a separate 2024 cohort.
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Behavioural scienceSocial connection new
Weaker social ties before surgery are linked to early death and non-home discharge
Patients with weaker social connection before surgery had 1.50 times the odds of early postoperative death and 1.95 times the odds of being discharged somewhere other than home.
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