Stroke appears 8 times more likely with COVID than with flu
Both flu and COVID-19 can raise your risk for a stroke, but the odds appear to be eight times higher with the coronavirus, a new study finds.
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Both flu and COVID-19 can raise your risk for a stroke, but the odds appear to be eight times higher with the coronavirus, a new study finds.
Jul 2, 2020
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Baby boomers – that's anyone born in the U.S. between 1946 and 1964—are 20% of the population, more than 70 million Americans. Decades ago, many in that generation experimented with drugs that were both recreational and ...
Feb 21, 2020
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Compared to the general population, people with severe mental illness, including schizophrenia, have higher levels of cardiovascular-related mortality, and that association has become stronger over recent decades, according ...
Apr 19, 2022
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Life events that influence levels of the female hormone estrogen may be linked to a woman's risk of developing dementia in later life, according to new research.
Apr 5, 2022
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If you gain weight, the fat cells in the body get bigger. So in the extremely obese, those fat cells are greatly enlarged. Now, researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) were able to show how enlarged fat ...
Nov 29, 2022
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Researchers from Yale School of Public Health used a previously published model of a COVID-19 vaccination program to quantify the speed-versus-efficacy tradeoff of vaccination deployment. The model accounted for transmission ...
Jan 5, 2021
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Celiac disease (CD) is a chronic condition characterized by inflammation and atrophy of the small intestine. It affects roughly 1 in 100 people, and a strict, lifelong gluten-free diet is the only remedy. A new Tel Aviv University ...
Feb 5, 2019
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Short sleep duration and daytime napping appear to increase the risk for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a study published online Nov. 9 in Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics.
Nov 18, 2022
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The causes of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are unclear, and the interventions for AD are very limited. However, researchers led by Prof. He Zhuohao from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...
Sep 14, 2023
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Breakthrough COVID-19 infections after vaccination occurred in 7.5% of Texans surveyed and were linked to Hispanic ethnicity, larger household size, rural versus urban living, type of vaccination, and multiple comorbidities, ...
Mar 10, 2023
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