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Menopause Increases Metabolic Syndrome Risk
Menopause could be a risk factor for the development of metabolic syndrome or some of its components, such as central obesity, hypertension, and high blood sugar.
4 hours ago - Medindia Health - 2 articles
Q&A: Obesity, fatty liver play role in increased risk for COVID-19
Data from the UK BioBank demonstrated patients with obesity and fatty liver had an increased risk for symptomatic COVID-19 infection, according to a release from...
10 hours ago - Healio - 4 articles
Study: Even moderate exercise during pregnancy boosts benefits of breastmilk for babies
A new study led by researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine finds even moderate exercise during pregnancy increases a compound in...
17 hours ago - News Medical - 2 articles
Visceral adiposity is an independent risk factor for high intra-operative blood loss during living-donor liver transplantation; could preoperative rehabilitation and nutritional therapy mitigate that risk?
Blood loss during liver transplantation is one of the major concerns of the transplant team, given the potential negative post-transplant outcomes related to it. Blood loss was...
19 hours ago - Clinical Nutrition
Alzheimer's drug could be re-purposed to reverse blood vessel damage in diabetes
Drugs that were developed to treat Alzheimer's Disease could be re-purposed to prevent - or even reverse - the damage done to the blood vessels in people who are obese or...
1 day ago - News Medical
Menopause Increases Risk of Metabolic Syndrome
Menopause increases the risk of metabolic syndrome and its components like diabetes, central obesity, cancer, and heart disease in women. Understanding the cause of metabolic...
1 day ago - Medindia Health - 2 articles
Menopause can increases risk of metabolic syndrome, shows study
Perimenopause is a time when women become more vulnerable to a number of health problems. A new study based on data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging identified...
1 day ago - News Medical - 7 articles
The British Are Fatter Than the Rest of Europe, Says PM Johnson
The British are far fatter than any other nation in Europe bar the Maltese so there needs to be a debate about how to tackle soaring rates of obesity which cost the country...
1 day ago - Medscape
BMI should be assessed in management of COVID-19 patients
A new study published on the preprint server medRxiv* in June 2020 reports that obesity is a risk factor of composite poor outcome of COVID-19 disease. On the other hand...
1 day ago - News Medical - 6 articles
Novel vaccine that removes aged immune cells mitigates metabolic disorders in obese mice
Aging is a multifaceted process that affects our bodies in many ways. In a new study, researchers from Osaka University developed a novel vaccine that removes aged immune cells...
1 day ago - News Medical
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Cancer Cells Make Blood Vessels Resistant To Chemotherapy
Scientists at Hokkaido University have identified how inflammatory changes in tumors caused by chemotherapy trigger blood vessel anomalies and thus drug-resistance, resulting...
Charcoal- New Weapon Against COVID-19 Fight?
Nanozymes are made by treating medical-grade charcoal. They pass through membranes of cells' mitochondria to curtail damaging levels of superoxides, radical oxygen ions, that...
Another warning on antibody tests: A THIRD of home blood-kits miss Covid-19
Rapid 'have you had it' coronavirus antibody tests correctly identify someone has had the disease just 66 per cent of the time, a review led by McGill University Health Centre...
Menopause Increases Metabolic Syndrome Risk
Menopause could be a risk factor for the development of metabolic syndrome or some of its components, such as central obesity, hypertension, and high blood sugar.
Over 40% COVID-19 Cases In An Italian Town Were Asymptomatic: Study
In Vo, an Italian town, more than 40 percent of coronavirus cases were asymptomatic, stated researchers.
New Radical COVID-19 Drug Development Approach Holds Promise
University of Washington's Baker Lab uses de novo computational design on TACC systems to create new therapeutic approach for treating novel coronavirus.
Coronavirus may be traveling along US interstates as people travel...
Models created by the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia predict that cases will only continue to surge in these states, as well as 'spread' to towns and along interstates as...
Kids' Brains Affected by COVID-Linked Inflammatory Syndrome
Neurologic findings in adult COVID-19 patients were also observed in some pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome cases that follow exposure to the virus, with brain...
Post-Vax Febrile Seizures Not Linked to Kids' Cognition
Children who had a febrile seizure soon after being vaccinated showed no difference in development or behavior than other children, a prospective study showed. No significant...
One ART Regimen Tied to Lower COVID-19 Risk in HIV
A certain regimen of antiretroviral therapy may have contributed to lower COVID-19 incidence and severity among people living with HIV, researchers in Spain found. Risk of...