BYLINE: Valerie Goodwin Newswise — Over 10% of the population in the United States has been diagnosed with diabetes according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Around 7.5% of these diabetic patients will experience cardiovascular events like heart attack or stroke in their lives. Research from rheumatologists, cardiovascular pharmacologists and nephrologists at the […]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Patients taking blood thinners who were also prescribed statins had a lower risk of gastrointestinal bleeding, no matter what type of blood thinner was used, a retrospective analysis suggested. Of the over 17 million people on blood thinners in the Epic Cosmos database, 11.2% experienced gastrointestinal bleeding compared with 4.4% of […]
You can’t blame Jack Merendino for being nervous when he stepped on the treadmill for an exercise stress test last year. Just a few months earlier his younger brother had major heart surgery, both his parents died of heart disease, and his cardiac calcium score—which reflects calcium deposits and plaques clogging his arteries—was slightly elevated. […]
Newswise — Researchers from New Jersey Medical School at Rutgers Health received a multi-million-dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study how previous infections help or hinder the body’s subsequent response to unrelated pathogens that cause lung disease. The five-year grant will support the work of immunologists William C. Gause, Amariliz Rivera […]
Abstract Whereas autonomic dysfunction and the metabolic syndrome are clinically associated, the relationships with the plasma metabolome is unknown. We explored the association between orthostatic blood pressure responses and 818 plasma metabolites in middle-aged subjects from the general population. We included 3803 out of 6251 subjects (mean age, 57 years; 52% women) from the Malmö sub-cohort […]
Researchers moved a mannequin equipped with a device that emits aerosol particles to examine the number and movement of the particles. (Photo courtesy of Takeshi Asai, professor emeritus at the University of Tsukuba) TOKYO — The risk of coronavirus infection peaks within five seconds of passing an infected person, a research team from the University […]
BLOOMINGTON Ill. (WMBD) — Impact Life at Carle Bromenn Medical Center offered the use of mixed reality headsets to those who were giving blood. The mixed reality headset is a Microsoft HoloLens 2 and is meant to be calming and distract blood donors who may be at risk of passing out or for those who […]
