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• Frequent night-time waking linked to childhood asthma risk
• Prenatal acetaminophen exposure ‘not linked to childhood asthma’
• Acute rhinosinusitis linked to transient lung function reductions
• Patients with GERD spectrum disease experience IBS symptoms
• Benefits of cannabis prevention to avoid schizophrenia ‘unclear’
• HIV-1 subtype C link with dyslipidemia could raise CVD risk
• Psychotic features in bipolar disorder point to worse prognosis
• Parental age-related schizophrenia ‘distinct from other forms’
• Biventricular pacing ‘prevents adverse LV effects of RV apical pacing’
• Bipolar weight gain begins with first manic episode
• Schizophrenia development after psychosis predicted by clinical factors
• Hypertension treatment increases oxidized LDL antibodies
• Depressive mood structure ‘unstable across bipolar disorder episodes’
• Schizophrenia patients can accurately assess memory capacity
• Asthma increases hospitalization risk among children with swine flu
• Hypertension and CAD should be prime targets for heart failure
• Dyslipidemia increases risk for heart failure
• Hypertension and CAD should be prime targets for heart failure
• Brain emotion reactions differ in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

Frequent night-time waking linked to childhood asthma risk Posted: 29 Nov 2009 04:00 PM PST Frequent night-time waking in the first 3 years of life is associated with an increased risk for asthma in later childhood, study results suggest.

Prenatal acetaminophen exposure ‘not linked to childhood asthma’ Posted: 29 Nov 2009 04:00 PM PST Results from a US study suggest that prenatal exposure to the analgesic acetaminophen (paracetamol) does not increase the risk for asthma in children.

Acute rhinosinusitis linked to transient lung function reductions Posted: 29 Nov 2009 04:00 PM PST Acute rhinosinusitis is associated with temporarily reduced lung function in patients without chronic lung disease or allergy, research shows.

Patients with GERD spectrum disease experience IBS symptoms Posted: 29 Nov 2009 04:00 PM PST Symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome are common in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease, German researchers reported at the Gastro 2009 meeting in London, UK.

Benefits of cannabis prevention to avoid schizophrenia ‘unclear’ Posted: 26 Nov 2009 04:00 PM PST The importance of preventing cannabis use in order to prevent schizophrenia or psychosis cases remains unclear after a UK team found that thousands of heavy users would need to be prevented just to avoid one case.

HIV-1 subtype C link with dyslipidemia could raise CVD risk Posted: 26 Nov 2009 04:00 PM PST HIV-1 subtype C infection is associated with dyslipidemia and an increased inflammatory state that may increase the risk for cardiovascular disease, South-African researchers suggest.

Psychotic features in bipolar disorder point to worse prognosis Posted: 26 Nov 2009 04:00 PM PST Bipolar disorder patients who have psychotic features have a worse prognosis and response to lithium monotherapy than patients without such features, the results of a Turkish study indicate.

Parental age-related schizophrenia ‘distinct from other forms’ Posted: 25 Nov 2009 04:00 PM PST Parental age-related schizophrenia has a distinct etiopathology from other forms of schizophrenia and female gender does not exert a protective effect over its development, US study findings indicate.

Biventricular pacing ‘prevents adverse LV effects of RV apical pacing’ Posted: 25 Nov 2009 04:00 PM PST Biventricular pacing can prevent the adverse left ventricular remodeling and reduction in left ventricular ejection fraction observed with conventional right ventricular apical pacing in patients with bradycardia and normal systolic function, researchers report.

Bipolar weight gain begins with first manic episode Posted: 25 Nov 2009 04:00 PM PST The clinically significant weight gain observed in bipolar disorder patients begins with the first manic episode, regardless of previous episodes, and may be due to the treatment required, say Canadian researchers.

Schizophrenia development after psychosis predicted by clinical factors Posted: 24 Nov 2009 04:00 PM PST The development of schizophrenia after first-episode psychosis can be reliably predicted by a combination of three clinical factors, say Spanish investigators in findings that could help to improve the prognosis of patients.

Hypertension treatment increases oxidized LDL antibodies Posted: 24 Nov 2009 04:00 PM PST Circulating levels of autoantibodies against oxidized low-density lipoprotein increase after successful treatment for hypertension, Brazilian researchers have discovered.

Depressive mood structure ‘unstable across bipolar disorder episodes’ Posted: 24 Nov 2009 04:00 PM PST Suicidality, mood, psychomotor, and neurovegetative symptoms are stable across depressive episodes in bipolar disorder whereas the overall dimensional structure is not temporally stable, US researchers have discovered.

Schizophrenia patients can accurately assess memory capacity Posted: 23 Nov 2009 04:00 PM PST While schizophrenia patients have memory impairments and reduced feeling of knowing ratings, they can rely on memory retrieval to accurately assess their awareness of what they know, say French scientists.

Asthma increases hospitalization risk among children with swine flu Posted: 23 Nov 2009 04:00 PM PST Children with asthma face a significantly greater risk for hospitalization after infection with H1N1 influenza than after infection with seasonal influenza, research suggests.

Hypertension and CAD should be prime targets for heart failure Posted: 23 Nov 2009 04:00 PM PST The main risk factors for heart failure in the US population are hypertension in women and coronary artery disease in men, study findings show.

Dyslipidemia increases risk for heart failure Posted: 23 Nov 2009 04:00 PM PST People with dyslipidemia have an increased risk for heart failure, report researchers from the US-based Framingham Heart Study.

Hypertension and CAD should be prime targets for heart failure Posted: 23 Nov 2009 04:00 PM PST The main risk factors for heart failure in the US population are hypertension in women and coronary artery disease in men, study findings show.

Brain emotion reactions differ in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia Posted: 23 Nov 2009 04:00 PM PST Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia patients have different patterns of medial temporal lobe activation during an emotional memory task, researchers have found.

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