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• Extending flu vaccination to healthy adults ‘may be more clinically effective’
• Antivirals may not prevent complications in children with seasonal flu
• Walking program can encourage asthmatic children to exercise
• Early life factors influence schizotypy risk in adults
• Bipolar patients face elevated CV morbidity
• Genetics has broad impact on VTE risk
• Device-detected AF burden predicts stroke risk
• Decision to undergo breast cancer risk-reducing surgery is multifactorial
• Prostate cancer gene link to adverse features unaffected by diabetes
• Pretreatment PSA dynamics do not improve outcome prediction
• Self-report assessment devised for contraceptive tolerance
• Pregnant women at risk for complications from H1N1 influenza
• ‘Simple, accurate’ method devised for estimating placental weight
• Decline in AMH, inhibin B precedes early menopause in Type 1 diabetics
• TSEC regimen protects endometrium, prevents bone loss at menopause
• Ovarian preservation ‘feasible’ for some endometrial cancer patients
• AIDS patients at risk for HPV-associated cancers
• Call for better integration of contraceptive and STD/HIV services
• Low adiponectin and high RBP-4 increase metabolic syndrome risk
• High levels of sPLA₂-IIA increase CV event risk for CHD patients
• MRI holds promise for improving diagnosis and treatment of diabetes
• CV function impairments remain after pancreas-kidney transplantation
• Optimal CHD therapy more often prescribed by cardiologists than other clinicians
• Updated Framingham risk tool widens predicted cardiovascular risk range

Extending flu vaccination to healthy adults ‘may be more clinically effective’ Posted: 10 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT The extension of the seasonal influenza vaccination policy from high-risk groups to healthy adults is likely to be more clinically effective, and possibly more cost-effective, than the treatment of people presenting with symptoms, argue UK researchers.

Antivirals may not prevent complications in children with seasonal flu Posted: 10 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT There is no clear evidence to suggest that treatment with the neuraminidase inhibitors oseltamivir and zanamivir can prevent complications in children with seasonal flu, say researchers.

Walking program can encourage asthmatic children to exercise Posted: 10 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT A simple, pedometer-based walking program can encourage physical activity in sedentary children with asthma, researchers have found.

Early life factors influence schizotypy risk in adults Posted: 10 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT The risk for developing schizotypal traits in adulthood appears to be influenced by several early life factors, including low birth weight and family socioeconomic status, but in a highly gender-specific manner, suggest study results

Bipolar patients face elevated CV morbidity Posted: 10 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Patients with bipolar disorder are more likely to be admitted to hospital with a cardiovascular event than individuals without the disorder, results of a longitudinal study suggest.

Genetics has broad impact on VTE risk Posted: 09 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Findings from a meta-analysis demonstrate the impact of genetics on the development of venous thromboembolism in patients of different ethnicities.

Device-detected AF burden predicts stroke risk Posted: 09 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Device-detected episodes of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation are associated with a surprisingly low rate of cerebral infarction, a new analysis of the TRENDS study suggests.

Decision to undergo breast cancer risk-reducing surgery is multifactorial Posted: 09 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT The uptake of risk-reducing surgery in women at increased risk for breast and ovarian cancer depends on risk, time and age, study findings indicate.

Prostate cancer gene link to adverse features unaffected by diabetes Posted: 09 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT The presence of diabetes mellitus does not significantly affect the relationship between the prostate cancer risk variant at chromosome 17q12 and adverse tumor features, the results of a US study indicate.

Pretreatment PSA dynamics do not improve outcome prediction Posted: 09 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Predictions of outcome for men undergoing treatment for prostate cancer are not significantly improved by pretreatment prostate-specific antigen velocity and doubling time measurements, research shows.

Self-report assessment devised for contraceptive tolerance Posted: 09 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Clinicians have developed a new self-report questionnaire to assess tolerability of oral contraceptives.

Pregnant women at risk for complications from H1N1 influenza Posted: 09 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Pregnant women infected with H1N1 influenza are four times more likely to be admitted to hospital than infected people in the general population, study results suggest.

‘Simple, accurate’ method devised for estimating placental weight Posted: 09 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Prenatal placental weight can be estimated using two-dimensional ultrasound with volumetric calculations, US researchers claim.

Decline in AMH, inhibin B precedes early menopause in Type 1 diabetics Posted: 09 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Middle-aged women with Type 1 diabetes show a greater decline in serum levels of anti-Müllerian hormone and inhibin B than their non-diabetic peers, study results show.

TSEC regimen protects endometrium, prevents bone loss at menopause Posted: 09 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Postmenopausal women given bazedoxifene plus conjugated estrogen achieve greater bone mineral density than their peers given a placebo or treated with raloxifene alone, results of a phase III trial suggest.

Ovarian preservation ‘feasible’ for some endometrial cancer patients Posted: 09 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Young women with endometrial cancer who wish to retain ovarian function should be given conservative surgery provided they have a favorable risk profile, Korean researchers suggest.

AIDS patients at risk for HPV-associated cancers Posted: 09 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Patients with AIDS face an increased risk for developing human papillomavirus –associated cancers, say US researchers who found that the magnitude of risk is related to the degree of HIV-related immunosuppression.

Call for better integration of contraceptive and STD/HIV services Posted: 09 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Around 80 percent of young, sexually active women in the USA have received contraceptive services in the previous 12 months, yet more than a third report no counselling or testing for sexually transmitted disease and HIV, US study findings show.

Low adiponectin and high RBP-4 increase metabolic syndrome risk Posted: 09 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Low levels of adiponectin and high levels of retinol-binding protein 4 are significant risk factors for the metabolic syndrome, show results from a study of elderly Korean individuals.

High levels of sPLA<sub>2</sub>-IIA increase CV event risk for CHD patients Posted: 09 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT High levels of type II secretory phospholipase A2 are associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular events in patients with coronary heart disease, report investigators.

MRI holds promise for improving diagnosis and treatment of diabetes Posted: 09 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Magnetic resonance imaging may help clinicians diagnose, stage, and treat diabetes, say the authors of a review.

CV function impairments remain after pancreas-kidney transplantation Posted: 09 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Alterations in cardiovascular function including arterial stiffness, a higher heart rate, reduced stroke volume, and markers of endothelial activation and vascular inflammation, remain after successful simultaneous pancreas–kidney transplantation in patients with Type 1 diabetes, researchers report.

Optimal CHD therapy more often prescribed by cardiologists than other clinicians Posted: 09 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT Optimal medical therapy is more likely to be prescribed to coronary heart disease patients attended by hospital or outpatient clinic cardiologists than those treated by clinicians from other specialties, a difference that is not explained by the presence of noncardiac comorbidities, researchers have found.

Updated Framingham risk tool widens predicted cardiovascular risk range Posted: 09 Aug 2009 05:00 PM PDT The inclusion of noncoronary end points in the updated Framingham risk prediction tool widens the range of predicted risks, but age remains the major determinant, with a low 10-year risk in younger individuals, say US researchers.

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