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• Adipose tissue may play role in COPD-related systemic inflammation
• Some asthmatic children show microsatellite DNA instability
• Asthma does not affect body posture in children
• Study sheds light on patient mental capacity in relation to psychiatric admission
• Monocyte proinflammatory state in BD linked to environmental factors
• Green tea decreases gastric cancer risk in women
• Medical treatment value questioned for operable CTEPH
• Prevalence and predictors of post-stroke dementia defined
• More women opting for prophylactic mastectomy
• Men should weigh up benefits and harms of prostate cancer screening
• Exercise testing improves traditional CVD risk assessment by 50%
• Statin switch threatening lipid goals in over 1 million US patients
• Impact of abdominal obesity on diabetes ‘strikingly’ similar across Europe
• IFG not uncommon in obese Middle-Eastern children
• Male heart transplant patients survive longer with male donor hearts
• Biomarkers show robust mortality prediction in heart failure

Adipose tissue may play role in COPD-related systemic inflammation Posted: 29 Sep 2009 05:00 PM PDT Leptin and adiponectin are both associated with systemic inflammatory processes during chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations, research shows.

Some asthmatic children show microsatellite DNA instability Posted: 29 Sep 2009 05:00 PM PDT Some children with asthma show genetic instability in microsatellite DNA, but to a lesser extent than previously observed in adults with the respiratory condition, say Greek researchers.

Asthma does not affect body posture in children Posted: 29 Sep 2009 05:00 PM PDT Body posture in children with asthma does not differ from that in children without the respiratory disorder, study results show.

Study sheds light on patient mental capacity in relation to psychiatric admission Posted: 29 Sep 2009 05:00 PM PDT Nearly a quarter of people admitted to psychiatric hospital are informal patients with incapacity who generally feel coerced and show high levels of treatment refusal, according to UK researchers.

Monocyte proinflammatory state in BD linked to environmental factors Posted: 29 Sep 2009 05:00 PM PDT The association of the monocyte proinflammatory state with bipolar disorder is primarily the result of common shared environmental factors, rather than BD being a causative factor for monocyte activation, suggest Dutch study results.

Green tea decreases gastric cancer risk in women Posted: 29 Sep 2009 05:00 PM PDT A high consumption of green tea may decrease the risk for gastric cancer, particularly for the distal subsite, in women, scientists report.

Medical treatment value questioned for operable CTEPH Posted: 28 Sep 2009 05:00 PM PDT Medical pulmonary hypertensive therapy does not benefit most patients with operable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, suggest US researchers.

Prevalence and predictors of post-stroke dementia defined Posted: 28 Sep 2009 05:00 PM PDT The likelihood that stroke patients will develop dementia is strongly associated with multiple strokes and stroke characteristics rather than underlying vascular risk factors, a meta-analysis demonstrates.

More women opting for prophylactic mastectomy Posted: 28 Sep 2009 05:00 PM PDT The number of women undergoing prophylactic contralateral mastectomy has more than doubled in New York State, USA since 1995, say researchers.

Men should weigh up benefits and harms of prostate cancer screening Posted: 28 Sep 2009 05:00 PM PDT Men at low to high risk for prostate cancer should fully consider the benefits and harms of prostate-specific antigen screening before going ahead with the test, study findings show.

Exercise testing improves traditional CVD risk assessment by 50% Posted: 28 Sep 2009 05:00 PM PDT Exercise testing significantly improves the accuracy of cardiovascular disease risk assessment when used alongside testing for traditional risk factors such as dyslipidemia, researchers believe.

Statin switch threatening lipid goals in over 1 million US patients Posted: 28 Sep 2009 05:00 PM PDT Switching patients from atorvastatin to generic simvastatin may compromise lipid control, study findings published in the American Journal of Therapeutics suggest.

Impact of abdominal obesity on diabetes ‘strikingly’ similar across Europe Posted: 28 Sep 2009 05:00 PM PDT The effect of abdominal obesity on the frequency of diabetes is similar across different regions of Europe, despite regional differences in cardiovascular risk factors and rates of cardiovascular disease, study findings show.

IFG not uncommon in obese Middle-Eastern children Posted: 28 Sep 2009 05:00 PM PDT The prevalence of Type 2 diabetes in Iranian children with childhood obesity is low, but around one in 20 show evidence of impaired fasting glucose, results of a cross-sectional study show.

Male heart transplant patients survive longer with male donor hearts Posted: 28 Sep 2009 05:00 PM PDT Male heart failure patients who receive an orthotopic heart transplantation from a female donor face a 15% greater mortality risk than their peers who receive a male donor heart, study findings show.

Biomarkers show robust mortality prediction in heart failure Posted: 28 Sep 2009 05:00 PM PDT Elevated levels of the biomarkers C-reactive protein, B-type natriuretic peptide, and troponin T are independent predictors for mortality in patients with heart failure, results of community-based study demonstrate.

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