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Behavioural scienceDiet, exercise and sleep confirms
Ultra-processed food intake is associated with higher mortality in 8.8 million adults
A meta-analysis of 51 prospective cohorts covering 8.8 million adults found consumption of ultra-processed foods associated with all-cause mortality, at a hazard ratio of 1.18.
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Health todayHeart and stroke confirms
GLP-1 users with obesity and raised CRP died less often, with heart attacks unchanged
In 50,009 matched pairs with obesity and raised CRP, death, heart attack and stroke combined were lower with GLP-1 exposure (HR 0.80), almost entirely through fewer deaths (HR 0.61).
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Data, models and systemsAI in medicine confirms
AI models predict death after hip fracture, but external validation is inconsistent
A review of 40 studies from 2010 to 2026 found machine learning models predicting outcomes after hip fracture discriminated moderately to strongly, though external validation was inconsistent.
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Tomorrow's worldA changing climate refines
Particulate matter shows no overall association with venous thromboembolism
An updated meta-analysis of 19 observational studies covering more than 4.5 million people found no significant overall association between long-term particulate exposure and venous thromboembolism, with a modest one appearing only among studies reporting in the same units.
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Health todayCancer confirms
Cancer risk in treated HIV followed age and smoking, not immune status
Among 7507 people with HIV on antiretroviral therapy, 219 cancers occurred over a median 5.6 years, with older age and current smoking associated with risk but immune markers not.
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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 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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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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Health todayHeart and stroke new
The largest treatment gaps are not where cardiovascular risk could fall most
The populations with the largest treatment gaps were not those where treating currently untreated people would achieve the greatest absolute reduction in cardiovascular risk.
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Tomorrow's worldA changing climate refines
Landscape fire smoke accounted for 1.9% of deaths and $994.5 billion in losses
Across 1366 communities in ten countries and territories over 2000-19, smoke from landscape fires was estimated to account for 906,869 deaths and $994.5 billion in mortality-related economic losses.
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Tomorrow's worldA changing climate confirms
Residential greenspace linked to lower respiratory deaths from air pollution
A review of 14 cohort studies, mostly European, found residential greenspace associated with lower air-pollution-related respiratory mortality, through cleaner local air rather than reduced personal susceptibility to pollution.
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Health todayCancer confirms
Colorectal screening from 45 still misses cancers diagnosed before that age
A review of 45 studies found detection of colorectal neoplasia rises with age under 50, but a considerable share of cases arise before 45 and outside screening eligibility.
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