The Canadian Syncope Risk Score (CSRS) is an accurate validated prediction score for emergency department patients with unexplained syncope. These are the results of a study titled "Multivariable risk scores for predicting ...
May 19, 2021
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People with depression have higher levels of inflammation in their bodies than those without depression, regardless of socioeconomic background, ill health or unhealthy behaviors, a study by King's College London finds.
May 17, 2021
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People who clock six to seven hours of sleep a night had the lowest chance of dying from a heart attack or stroke when compared with those who got less or more sleep, according to a study being presented at the American College ...
May 5, 2021
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Lung cancer is the third most common cancer in the U.S. and the leading cause of cancer death, with about 80% of the total 154,000 deaths recorded each year caused by cigarette smoking. Black men are more likely to develop ...
May 4, 2021
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Scientists and healthcare providers are beginning to use a new approach for assessing a person's inherited risk for diseases like Type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease and breast cancer, which involves calculating a polygenic ...
Mar 10, 2021
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New research indicates that tests of patients' kidney health may provide insights on their risk of developing cardiovascular disease. The findings are published in an upcoming issue of JASN.
Mar 4, 2021
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In African Americans, the genetic risk landscape for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is very different from that of people with European ancestry, according to results of the first whole-genome study of IBD in African Americans. ...
Feb 19, 2021
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Liver transplant priority in the U.S. goes to the sickest patients, which fails to consider other important factors, including how long patients are likely to survive post-transplant.
Jan 13, 2021
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Findings from the FinnGen study encompassing 120,000 women indicate that inherited breast cancer risk should be assessed in an increasingly comprehensive manner. Currently, only individual gene mutations are taken into consideration ...
Dec 14, 2020
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An international group led by researchers from the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences have used a combination of genome-wide association analysis—or GWAS—and a trans-ancestry comparison of different GWAS studies, ...
Oct 6, 2020
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