As of 2019, around one fifth of the U.S. population has been diagnosed with a mental illness or disorder. Changes to the climate are known to affect mental health—for example, more frequent heat waves and storms can lead ...
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Maternal obesity impairs heart health and function of the fetus according to a new study in mice. The study, published in The Journal of Physiology found that maternal obesity causes molecular changes in the heart of the ...
May 12, 2022
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UVA Health researchers and their collaborators have developed a better way to predict the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a progressive, potentially deadly form of lung inflammation, for people of non-European ...
May 3, 2022
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A new detailed microsimulation, using a database of 40 million people, has examined the future of Japan's aging population up to 2043. It projects that more people will live longer, and that overall years spent living with ...
Apr 26, 2022
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An analysis of more than 10,000 individuals has failed to produce a model that accurately predicts sudden cardiac arrest. The results from the ESCAPE-NET project are presented at EHRA 2022, a scientific congress of the European ...
Apr 4, 2022
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A new model to analyze infectious disease outbreak data has been developed by mathematicians that could be used to improve disease tracking and control.
Mar 7, 2022
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A new study reveals that certain changes to models that predict the risk of developing cardiovascular problems in the general population can help clinicians improve risk prediction in individuals with kidney disease. The ...
Feb 10, 2022
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The gut microbiome is an ecosystem of hundreds to thousands of microbial species living within the human body. These populations affect our health, fertility, and even our longevity. But how do they get there in the first ...
Feb 10, 2022
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To better understand the factors governing the wave and plateau dynamics of the spread of COVID-19, a team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, the University of California ...
Dec 14, 2021
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University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers, working with scientists from the Regeneron Genetics Center (RGC), discovered a new gene variant associated with lower levels of heart-damaging LDL cholesterol ...
Dec 2, 2021
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