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• LABA step-up therapy best for poorly controlled childhood asthma
• ICSs do not have dose-dependent effects on growth in asthmatic girls
• Unsupervised home exercise effective for maintaining pulmonary rehabilitation benefits
• Schizophrenia patients show consistent working memory impairments
• Childhood adversities have additive effect on psychiatric disorder onset
• Stereotactic body radiotherapy achieves low toxicity and maintains QoL
• Osteoporosis drugs may reduce breast cancer risk
• Increased apoCIII content implicated in atherogenesis
• Mild cognitive impairment more common with FH
• Hyperglycemia, but not insulin use, predicts cancer in Type 2 diabetics
• Factors predicting diastolic dysfunction in Type 2 diabetes elucidated
• Aspirin fails to prevent cardiovascular events in patients with subclinical CVD
• Bystander CPR improves survival for children with cardiac arrest

LABA step-up therapy best for poorly controlled childhood asthma Posted: 03 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST Treatment with a long-acting beta-agonist is the most likely step-up therapy to illicit a good response among children with asthma that remains poorly controlled despite taking low-dose inhaled corticosteroids, say researchers.

ICSs do not have dose-dependent effects on growth in asthmatic girls Posted: 03 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST Results from a US study suggest that inhaled corticosteroid treatment is not associated with significant dose-dependent growth reductions in adolescent girls.

Unsupervised home exercise effective for maintaining pulmonary rehabilitation benefits Posted: 03 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST Unsupervised home exercise is just as effective as a weekly, supervised, outpatient-based exercise program for maintaining the benefits of pulmonary rehabilitation among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Australian researchers have found.

Schizophrenia patients show consistent working memory impairments Posted: 03 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST Schizophrenia patients have comprehensive deficits in working memory that are consistent in this patient group and stable over time, researchers have found.

Childhood adversities have additive effect on psychiatric disorder onset Posted: 03 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST Childhood adversities have significant subadditive associations with the onset of psychiatric disorders throughout the life course, a US study has found.

Stereotactic body radiotherapy achieves low toxicity and maintains QoL Posted: 02 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST Stereotactic body radiotherapy achieves low toxicity and maintains quality of life in patients with localized prostate cancer, researchers report.

Osteoporosis drugs may reduce breast cancer risk Posted: 02 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST Women who use biphosphonate drugs to prevent and treat osteoporosis may have a lower risk for breast cancer than non-users, according to a study by US researchers.

Increased apoCIII content implicated in atherogenesis Posted: 02 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST Plasma levels of apolipoprotein CIII bound to apoB-containing lipoproteins are associated with levels of small, dense low-density lipoprotein particles, research in healthy men indicates.

Mild cognitive impairment more common with FH Posted: 02 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST Older patients with familial hypercholesterolemia have a higher incidence of mild cognitive impairment than individuals without FH, report researchers in the American Journal of Medicine.

Hyperglycemia, but not insulin use, predicts cancer in Type 2 diabetics Posted: 02 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST The presence of hyperglycemia is a risk factor for cancer in Chinese patients with Type 2 diabetes, report researchers.

Factors predicting diastolic dysfunction in Type 2 diabetes elucidated Posted: 02 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST Asymptomatic diastolic dysfunction is prevalent in ethnic minority patients with newly diagnosed Type 2 diabetes and is predicted by physical inactivity and glucose level, show study results.

Aspirin fails to prevent cardiovascular events in patients with subclinical CVD Posted: 02 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST Results of the Aspirin for Asymptomatic Atherosclerosis trial show that aspirin does not reduce the risk for cardiovascular events in individuals with subclinical atherosclerosis as identified by a low ankle brachial index.

Bystander CPR improves survival for children with cardiac arrest Posted: 02 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PST Study findings demonstrate that children who have a witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest are more likely to survive with a favorable neurological outcome if they receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation from a bystander.

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