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• Stress and depression worsen asthma in children
• Balance problems common in COPD patients
• Statins may benefit COPD patients
• Entero-hepatic <i>Helicobacter</i> species often present with Crohn’s disease
• Yeast colonization offers Crohn’s disease immune response clues
• No single palliative treatment best for inoperable esophageal cancer
• Attention network impairments in schizophrenia uncovered
• Range of factors linked to violence and crime in affective disorder
• Diabetes and schizophrenia gene link search continues
• Gene variants linked to both bipolar disorder and schizophrenia
• Attentional set-shifting in schizophrenia dependent on working memory
• Mania in BD associated with proinflammatory state
• Schizophrenia homicide rates related to total homicide rates
• ACE inhibitor subclass may prevent dementia in hypertensive patients
• Cognitive impairments, subsyndromal depression linked to poor long-term outcome in BD

Stress and depression worsen asthma in children Posted: 19 Jul 2009 05:00 PM PDT Depressed children with asthma exhibit a dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system and greater airway resistance than non-depressed children with the respiratory condition, researchers report.

Balance problems common in COPD patients Posted: 19 Jul 2009 05:00 PM PDT Many patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exhibit deficits in balance and are at increased risk for debilitating and potentially fatal falls, study results show.

Statins may benefit COPD patients Posted: 19 Jul 2009 05:00 PM PDT Statin therapy is associated with a reduction in morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, results of a systematic review suggest.

Entero-hepatic <i>Helicobacter</i> species often present with Crohn’s disease Posted: 19 Jul 2009 05:00 PM PDT Entero-hepatic Helicobacter species may be present in up to a quarter of patients with Crohn's disease, a multicenter, cross-sectional study suggests.

Yeast colonization offers Crohn’s disease immune response clues Posted: 19 Jul 2009 05:00 PM PDT Patients with Crohn's disease and their healthy relatives are more often and more heavily colonized with the yeast Candida albicans than other individuals, French researchers report.

No single palliative treatment best for inoperable esophageal cancer Posted: 19 Jul 2009 05:00 PM PDT A randomized study suggests no single palliative treatment is more effective than any other for inoperable esophageal cancer.

Attention network impairments in schizophrenia uncovered Posted: 16 Jul 2009 05:00 PM PDT Schizophrenia patients have gender-specific impairments on the Attention Network Test compared with healthy individuals that may point to a neuropsychological endophenotype, conclude German researchers.

Range of factors linked to violence and crime in affective disorder Posted: 16 Jul 2009 05:00 PM PDT Criminal behavior and violent crimes among patients with affective disorder are associated with more than just overall diagnosis, say German scientists who found a range of factors linked to such behavior.

Diabetes and schizophrenia gene link search continues Posted: 15 Jul 2009 05:00 PM PDT The search for a genetic basis in the association between diabetes and schizophrenia continues after UK scientists found no evidence to link the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gene to schizophrenia.

Gene variants linked to both bipolar disorder and schizophrenia Posted: 15 Jul 2009 05:00 PM PDT Variations in the D-amino acid oxidase activator gene are linked to the development of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, although they account for only a part of genetic susceptibility, UK study findings suggest.

Attentional set-shifting in schizophrenia dependent on working memory Posted: 14 Jul 2009 05:00 PM PDT Researchers have found that deficits in spatial working memory exist in both first-episode and established schizophrenia, while attentional set-shifting ability is impaired only during the later stages of the illness.

Mania in BD associated with proinflammatory state Posted: 14 Jul 2009 05:00 PM PDT Study results show that bipolar disorder patients in a manic state have increased levels of proinflammatory cytokines, which seem to be related to mood state.

Schizophrenia homicide rates related to total homicide rates Posted: 13 Jul 2009 05:00 PM PDT The number of homicides committed by patients with schizophrenia is strongly associated with total homicide rates, suggesting that both types of homicide have common etiological factors, show results from an Australian study.

ACE inhibitor subclass may prevent dementia in hypertensive patients Posted: 13 Jul 2009 05:00 PM PDT Elderly patients with hypertension who are treated with centrally active angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors show significantly less cognitive decline than their peers treated with other anti-hypertensive drugs, study results indicate.

Cognitive impairments, subsyndromal depression linked to poor long-term outcome in BD Posted: 13 Jul 2009 05:00 PM PDT Study results suggest that cognitive impairments and the amount of time spent with subsyndromal depression may be illness features associated with poorer long-term functional outcome in patients with bipolar disorder.

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