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• Omalizumab reduces exacerbations in children with poorly controlled asthma
• Late introduction of solid food in infants increases allergy risk
• FeNO helps identify responders to steroid therapy
• Subthreshold mixed states worsens bipolar outcomes
• Lack of motivation linked to schizophrenia functional outcomes
• <i>FTO</i> and <i>MCR4</i> variants link to body weight confirmed in TRAILS
• CHD patients benefit from exercise training and weight loss
• High dietary linoleic acid implicated in ulcerative colitis
• Albuminuria warns of subclinical stroke in diabetes patients
• BMI more important than physical activity in determining diabetes risk
• Elinogrel reverses high platelet reactivity in stented patients
• Very low cerebral blood volume predicts post-thrombolysis hemorrhage
• Breast cancer clinical work-up takes longer in African–American women
• Active surveillance candidates may harbor aggressive prostate cancer
• Prostate cancer diagnosis raises suicide and cardiovascular risks
• Quitting smoking substantially improves AMI survival
• Prostate cancer diagnosis raises suicide and cardiovascular risks
• Chest CT scans, CT angiography could contribute to future excess cancer burden

Omalizumab reduces exacerbations in children with poorly controlled asthma Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST Add-on therapy with omalizumab helps reduce asthma exacerbations in children with moderate-to-severe persistent allergic asthma who have poorly-controlled disease despite treatment with inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs), research shows.

Late introduction of solid food in infants increases allergy risk Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST Delaying the introduction of solid food to infants in the first year of life is associated with an increased risk for allergic sensitization to food and inhalant allergens, research shows.

FeNO helps identify responders to steroid therapy Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST Exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) can identify patients with difficult-to-treat asthma and potential responders to high doses of inhaled corticosteroids or systemic steroids, research shows.

Subthreshold mixed states worsens bipolar outcomes Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST Bipolar patients with a current mood episode who have subthreshold symptoms of the opposite polarity have worse outcomes than those without such symptoms, Australian study findings suggest.

Lack of motivation linked to schizophrenia functional outcomes Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST The link between negative symptoms and functional impairment in schizophrenia patients appears to be mediated by lack of motivation, concludes a team of Canadian researchers.

<i>FTO</i> and <i>MCR4</i> variants link to body weight confirmed in TRAILS Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST Common variants in the genes FTO and MCR4 are associated with overall and abdominal adiposity and body mass index in adolescents, show results from TRAILS (TRacking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey).

CHD patients benefit from exercise training and weight loss Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST Results show that participation in a cardiac rehabilitation and exercise training program by overweight or obese patients with coronary heart disease only slightly decreases mortality, but improves various cardiometabolic factors and their quality of life.

High dietary linoleic acid implicated in ulcerative colitis Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST A diet rich in linoleic acid could be linked to the development of ulcerative colitis, a European study suggests.

Albuminuria warns of subclinical stroke in diabetes patients Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST Patients with Type 2 diabetes who have albuminuria are likely to have prevalent silent cerebral infarction, Japanese research shows.

BMI more important than physical activity in determining diabetes risk Posted: 15 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST Body mass index is a major determinant of Type 2 diabetes risk while physical activity has only a modest influence, 20-year data from the Physicians' Health Study reveal.

Elinogrel reverses high platelet reactivity in stented patients Posted: 14 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST The direct-acting reversible P2Y12 inhibitor elinogrel is effective in patients who experience high platelet reactivity on conventional dual antiplatelet therapy, report US researchers.

Very low cerebral blood volume predicts post-thrombolysis hemorrhage Posted: 14 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST Regional very low cerebral blood volume is a good predictor of hemorrhagic transformation after thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke, study findings indicate.

Breast cancer clinical work-up takes longer in African–American women Posted: 14 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST Researchers investigating the time it takes to complete diagnostic testing for breast cancer have found a significant racial disparity among low-income women from South Carolina, USA.

Active surveillance candidates may harbor aggressive prostate cancer Posted: 14 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST Some prostate cancer patients who are suitable for active surveillance protocols may in fact harbor aggressive disease, research findings show.

Prostate cancer diagnosis raises suicide and cardiovascular risks Posted: 14 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST Newly diagnosed prostate cancer patients have a higher risk for cardiovascular events and are more likely to commit suicide than men in the general population, study results show.

Quitting smoking substantially improves AMI survival Posted: 14 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST Never smokers are around half as likely to die after suffering an initial acute myocardial infarction as persistent smokers, but smokers who quit before or after a first heart attack substantially reduce their risk for dying, show study findings reported in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Prostate cancer diagnosis raises suicide and cardiovascular risks Posted: 14 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST Newly diagnosed prostate cancer patients have a higher risk for cardiovascular events and are more likely to commit suicide than men in the general population, study results show.

Chest CT scans, CT angiography could contribute to future excess cancer burden Posted: 14 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST US study findings suggest that computed tomography angiography and chest scans would contribute significantly to a large number of excess cancers projected to result from such scans at current rates of use.

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