Redlining, a historical housing discrimination practice, continues to be linked to worse cardiovascular health among U.S. veterans, according to research published in JAMA Network Open. The analysis used data from the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC), a New Deal program that was created by Congress in the 1930s in an attempt to make homeownership more […]
A shark’s menacing teeth can scare anyone out of the water — but one aspect of some sharks’ existence may be worth emulating: their ability to regrow teeth. An experimental medicine in Japan that could revolutionize the field of dentistry is now moving to clinical trials to create, potentially, the world’s first medicine to regrow […]
Understanding blood pressure readings can be tricky. While most people know they don’t want their blood pressure to get too high (hypertension) or too low (hypotension), many people don’t know how to tell the difference. Some also don’t understand what blood pressure means. “Blood pressure is a measure of force necessary to move blood from […]
The development of head and neck cancer is increasingly linked to HPV infection, which is a sexually transmitted disease. Oropharyngeal cancer is a type of head and neck cancer that is associated with preconceptions regarding the high-risk sexual behavior of the affected individuals. Circumventing some potential sources of bias related to case-control studies, researchers at […]
Abstract Covid-19 patients who require admission to an intensive care unit (ICU) have a higher risk of mortality. Several risk factors for severe Covid-19 infection have been identified, including cardiovascular risk factors. Therefore, the aim was to investigate the association between cardiovascular (CV) risk and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) and mortality of Covid-19 ARDS […]
Rapidly increasing risk factors for cancer mortality worldwide, 1990–2019 The number of cancer deaths attributable to HFPG worldwide in 2019 was 419,340 (95% CI 115,730–848,480). In the global range, tobacco consumption, dietary risks, and alcohol consumption (top three from high to low) were still risk factors that caused the most cancer deaths in 2019 when […]
