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• Central obesity ‘better than BMI’ for assessing asthma risk
• Poorly educated patients require more COPD specialist contact
• Novel genetic links with aspirin-induced asthma identified
• Clinically meaningful change identified for dyspepsia index
• RFA can resolve BE genetic abnormalities
• Impaired gastric acidification affects calcium homeostasis and bone mass
• WHO declares swine flu pandemic
• U-shaped curve for BMI impact on new-onset heart failure survival
• Longer hospital admission points to bipolar executive function impairment
• Mood and sleep symptoms differentiate BP from ADHD in young children
• UK mental health in-patients benefit from smoke-free law
• Prenatal influenza B exposure ‘increases psychiatric risk’
• Flattened glucocorticoid rhythm may underpin bipolar brain dysfunction
• Verbal hallucinations linked to defective monitoring of internal speech in schizophrenia
• Impaired conscious inhibitory processing present in recent onset schizophrenia
• Early B-type natriuretic peptide response ‘predicts acute heart failure outcome’
• High frequency rTMS reduces auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia
• Executive dysfunction is a potential endophenotype for bipolar disorder
• Left ventricular mass increase linked to elderly cognitive decline

Central obesity ‘better than BMI’ for assessing asthma risk Posted: 21 Jun 2009 05:00 PM PDT Waist circumference is a better correlate of childhood asthma and allergy risk than standard body mass index measures, a study has found.

Poorly educated patients require more COPD specialist contact Posted: 21 Jun 2009 05:00 PM PDT Education programs led by lung specialists are necessary to address the lack of disease knowledge and infrequent contact with experts among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, say researchers.

Novel genetic links with aspirin-induced asthma identified Posted: 21 Jun 2009 05:00 PM PDT Japanese researchers have identified two novel genetic associations with increased susceptibility to aspirin-intolerant asthma.

Clinically meaningful change identified for dyspepsia index Posted: 21 Jun 2009 05:00 PM PDT Australian researchers have calculated the change in score on the Nepean Dyspepsia Index that corresponds to a clinically meaningful difference in a patient's functional well being.

RFA can resolve BE genetic abnormalities Posted: 21 Jun 2009 05:00 PM PDT Radiofrequency ablation of dysplastic Barrett's esophagus can result in neosquamous epithelium with resolution of pre-existing genetic abnormalities, research indicates.

Impaired gastric acidification affects calcium homeostasis and bone mass Posted: 21 Jun 2009 05:00 PM PDT A mouse study linking low gastric acid to calcium homeostasis and bone loss could impact on the treatment of many patients who receive proton pump inhibitors, researchers believe.

WHO declares swine flu pandemic Posted: 18 Jun 2009 05:00 PM PDT The spread of the novel H1N1 swine-derived influenza A virus has reached pandemic level, the World Health Organization has declared.

U-shaped curve for BMI impact on new-onset heart failure survival Posted: 18 Jun 2009 05:00 PM PDT There appears to be a U-shaped relationship between body mass index and mortality among patients with new-onset heart failure due to acute coronary syndrome, conclude US investigators.

Longer hospital admission points to bipolar executive function impairment Posted: 18 Jun 2009 05:00 PM PDT For bipolar disorder patients, longer admission to hospital is associated with more severe executive functioning deficits at discharge, the results of a US study indicate.

Mood and sleep symptoms differentiate BP from ADHD in young children Posted: 18 Jun 2009 05:00 PM PDT Elevated mood and decreased sleep can discriminate juvenile-onset bipolar disorder from attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in children as young as 3 years of age, study results suggest.

UK mental health in-patients benefit from smoke-free law Posted: 17 Jun 2009 05:00 PM PDT Most mental health units in England have faced challenges introducing smoke-free policies, but such policies have provided some positive changes for patients, survey results show.

Prenatal influenza B exposure ‘increases psychiatric risk’ Posted: 17 Jun 2009 05:00 PM PDT Some individuals exposed to the influenza B virus while in utero have an increased risk for developing schizophrenia in adulthood, a case–control study has shown.

Flattened glucocorticoid rhythm may underpin bipolar brain dysfunction Posted: 17 Jun 2009 05:00 PM PDT Dopamine release in the prefrontal cortex increases flattening of the glucocorticoid rhythm, which may underpin prefrontal dysfunction in bipolar disorder patients, conclude researchers.

Verbal hallucinations linked to defective monitoring of internal speech in schizophrenia Posted: 16 Jun 2009 05:00 PM PDT Study results suggest that verbal hallucinations are linked to defective monitoring of internal speech, and that errors in context processing are involved in hallucinations and delusions in schizophrenia.

Impaired conscious inhibitory processing present in recent onset schizophrenia Posted: 16 Jun 2009 05:00 PM PDT Study results suggest that unconscious inhibitory motor processing is intact in schizophrenia and does not contribute to the slowing of activated volitional motor inhibitory responses.

Early B-type natriuretic peptide response ‘predicts acute heart failure outcome’ Posted: 16 Jun 2009 05:00 PM PDT Patients with reductions in B-type natriuretic peptide levels over the first 5 days of treatment for acutely decompensated heart failure have improved 1- and 6-month survival compared with those with little or no change in the biomarker, a study indicates.

High frequency rTMS reduces auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia Posted: 15 Jun 2009 05:00 PM PDT High frequency repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation significantly reduces the severity of auditory verbal hallucinations in patients with schizophrenia, French research shows.

Executive dysfunction is a potential endophenotype for bipolar disorder Posted: 15 Jun 2009 05:00 PM PDT Impaired psychomotor processing speed and executive function may represent vulnerability markers for bipolar I disorder irrespective of psychopathology in the family, Finnish researchers report.

Left ventricular mass increase linked to elderly cognitive decline Posted: 15 Jun 2009 05:00 PM PDT Left ventricular mass increase is linked to progressive cognitive decline in elderly individuals, regardless of blood pressure levels or degree of arterial stiffness, Italian study findings indicate.

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