Both social factors—such as low socioeconomic status and crowded housing—and genetic factors—such as variants in genes related to inflammatory pathways—likely impact COVID-19–related health outcomes. In an article ...
Mar 9, 2022
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Although firearms do not cause someone to develop thoughts of suicide, risk for suicide increases when a firearm is present in the home, and it may increase further when the firearm is stored unsafely. A study in Suicide ...
Mar 9, 2022
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People with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, collectively known as psoriatic disease, are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease than others in the general population. In a new study published in Arthritis & Rheumatology ...
Mar 9, 2022
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Although rates of smoking and smoking-related cancers have declined in the United States in recent years, some people may be at higher risk for cigarette use and nicotine addiction and could therefore gain significant benefits ...
Mar 7, 2022
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Osteoarthritis—a chronic joint disease that causes pain, disability, and loss of function— has remained a major public health concern worldwide in recent years. That's according to a recent analysis published in Arthritis ...
Mar 2, 2022
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New research published in Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica indicates that severe COVID-19 in pregnancy increases the risk of pre-labor caesarean birth, a very or extreme preterm birth, stillborn birth, and the ...
Feb 24, 2022
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Phthalates are endocrine disrupting chemicals that are used in plastics and as food additives. A recent study in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry examined whether prenatal exposure to phthalates in maternal and cord ...
Feb 24, 2022
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Intersectionality posits that social categorizations and personal identities are interconnected in a way that creates a unique nuanced lived experience for individuals rather than an additive experience. For example the experience ...
Feb 24, 2022
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The early COVID-19 pandemic brought overall declines in children's mental health–related emergency department visits, according to a study in Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice that analyzed electronic health records ...
Feb 24, 2022
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In an analysis published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society that included 247 adults aged 70 years or older who were discharged from the hospital after major surgery from 1997 to 2017, patients who had non-elective ...
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