Health
Vegan diet may decrease heart disease, stroke risk in African Americans
Following a vegan diet for five weeks may decrease risk factors for heart disease, new research shows.
Dec 3, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New tool predicts five-year risk of chronic kidney disease
A new risk calculator tool that uses a mix of variables including age, hypertension, and diabetes status can be used to predict accurately whether someone is likely to develop chronic kidney disease within five years. The ...
Nov 8, 2019
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Diabetes
Cleveland Clinic develops calculator to estimate 10-year risk of diabetes complications
Patients struggling with type 2 diabetes and obesity are faced with the decision of whether to receive usual medical care or undergo weight-loss surgery. Now, a new risk calculator developed by Cleveland Clinic researchers ...
Nov 5, 2019
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Overweight & Obesity
Web-based calculator predicts risk of death, complications from diabetes and obesity
A new web-based risk calculator can accurately predict the likelihood a patient with type 2 diabetes and obesity will die or develop serious complications including a heart attack, heart failure and diabetic kidney disease ...
Nov 5, 2019
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Surgery
ACS NSQIP surgical risk calculator predicts outcomes for geriatric surgical patients
The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) Surgical Risk Calculator establishes a new threshold for assessing quality care for elderly patients undergoing operations. The NSQIP ...
Oct 29, 2019
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Diabetes
New calculator will help clinicians diagnose diabetes more accurately
A new calculator developed by the University of Exeter will help clinicians classify whether a patient has type 1 or type 2 diabetes, ensuring they get the best treatment and reducing complications.
Sep 26, 2019
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Health
Web tool prioritizes health risks for postmenopausal women
A web-based calculator that helps middle-aged women predict their risks of conditions that become more likely with age has been developed by public health, medical and computer science experts from throughout the U.S. and ...
Sep 25, 2019
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Cardiology
The screen interval for high cardiovascular disease risk should be individual
According to a study published today by a Finnish-English research group, a switch from five-year screen intervals to individualized intervals could annually prevent 8 percent of myocardial infarcts and strokes without increasing ...
Apr 4, 2019
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Medical research
Cardiovascular diseases: Prognostic model from the 1990s still gives the best results
The so-called Framingham cardiovascular risk calculator was developed in 1991 on the basis of data gathered in the U.S. between 1968 and 1975. It is named after the town of the same name in Massachusetts, where a systematic ...
Mar 19, 2019
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Health
Hospital-wide scores underestimate readmission risk in neurocritical care patients
Scoring models used to predict 30-day readmission risk in the general hospital population may not accurately predict readmissions for patients in the neurocritical care unit, reports a study in the Journal of Neuroscience ...
Nov 29, 2018
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