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• Long-term mortality high after COPD exacerbation requiring ventilation
• Susceptibility to COPD strongly influenced by genes
• Exercise helps improve asthma control
• Ethnic differences found in schizophrenia brain structure
• Extracellular pathway implicated in neurobiology of mental disorders
• Perfusion defects common following PE
• 10 risk factors explain 90% of strokes worldwide
• Favorable disease-free survival for stage T3 radical prostatectomy patients
• Significantly less risk for prostate cancer in diabetes patients
• Clotting mutation linked to increased TE risk among tamoxifen users
• Sperm DNA damage can predict IVF outcomes
• Fresh blastocyst transfer results in ‘healthiest’ babies
• IVF unaffected by adenomyosis in women with endometriosis
• Fertility could be affected by personality
• Assisted reproductive technologies are economically profitable
• Even small amounts of exercise improve lipid profiles in youth
• Raised apoB may drive atherogenicity in the metabolic syndrome
• 10 risk factors explain 90% of strokes worldwide
• CARAT trial to assess chronic care model in Type 2 diabetes
• Cardiac autonomic function ‘worse in Indian Asians than Europeans’
• TIMI risk score valid for emergency chest pain diagnosis
• Continuing warfarin therapy superior to bridging, cessation in device surgery
• ‘Bleeding obesity paradox’ found for PCI patients

Long-term mortality high after COPD exacerbation requiring ventilation Posted: 21 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT Long-term mortality rates are high among chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients after their first exacerbation requiring non-invasive ventilation, study results show.

Susceptibility to COPD strongly influenced by genes Posted: 21 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT Results from a study of twins suggest that genes play a major role in individual susceptibility to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Exercise helps improve asthma control Posted: 21 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT A structured exercise intervention can help improve asthma control in adults with the respiratory condition, results from a Canadian study show.

Ethnic differences found in schizophrenia brain structure Posted: 21 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT Black patients with schizophrenia show reduced global gray matter volume compared with ethnically-matched mentally healthy controls, report UK researchers who found no such deficits in White patients.

Extracellular pathway implicated in neurobiology of mental disorders Posted: 21 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT Patients with major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia show disruption of the extracellular-regulated protein kinase pathway, results of a post-mortem brain study show.

Perfusion defects common following PE Posted: 20 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT Almost a third of patients show pulmonary perfusion defects 1 year after pulmonary embolism, say French researchers who identified key clinical risk factors for this outcome.

10 risk factors explain 90% of strokes worldwide Posted: 20 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT The INTERSTROKE study has identified 10 risk factors that account for 90% of the risk for stroke worldwide.

Favorable disease-free survival for stage T3 radical prostatectomy patients Posted: 20 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT Treating clinical disease stage T3 prostate cancer patients with radical prostatectomy results in favorable cancer-specific survival and freedom from biochemical progression-free survival rates, say researchers.

Significantly less risk for prostate cancer in diabetes patients Posted: 20 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT Prostate cancer is significantly less prevalent among men with diabetes compared with men without the condition, UK study results show.

Clotting mutation linked to increased TE risk among tamoxifen users Posted: 20 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT Women who experience a thromboembolic event while taking tamoxifen for early breast cancer are nearly five times more likely to carry the Factor V Leiden gene mutation than women who do not develop a thromboembolism, US researchers report.

Sperm DNA damage can predict IVF outcomes Posted: 20 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT Couples who fail to achieve a clinical pregnancy after IVF have higher sperm DNA fragmentation than couples who do achieve clinical pregnancy, report researchers.

Fresh blastocyst transfer results in ‘healthiest’ babies Posted: 20 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT To maximize the chances of having a healthy baby after assisted reproductive technology, embryos should be transferred to the uterus as fresh blastocysts, report Australian researchers.

IVF unaffected by adenomyosis in women with endometriosis Posted: 20 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT Research results indicate that the presence of adenomyosis in women with endometriosis has no adverse effect on IVF/intracytoplasmic outcomes.

Fertility could be affected by personality Posted: 20 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT Women in low social classes who are highly neurotic have more children than those with low levels of neuroticism, but are more likely to have children with a low body mass index, indicating malnutrition, say researchers.

Assisted reproductive technologies are economically profitable Posted: 20 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT The typical total cost of assisted reproductive technologies represents just 0.25 percent of a country's total national healthcare expenditure, say researchers.

Even small amounts of exercise improve lipid profiles in youth Posted: 20 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT There is a dose-response relationship between physical activity and dyslipidemia in young people, Canadian researchers have discovered.

Raised apoB may drive atherogenicity in the metabolic syndrome Posted: 20 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT Multiple biomarkers are associated with the presence of and future risk for the metabolic syndrome in young adults, clinical trial data suggest.

10 risk factors explain 90% of strokes worldwide Posted: 20 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT The INTERSTROKE study has identified 10 risk factors that account for 90% of the risk for stroke worldwide.

CARAT trial to assess chronic care model in Type 2 diabetes Posted: 20 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT A study is underway in Europe to assess the feasibility and impact of the "chronic care model" as a framework for managing patients with Type 2 diabetes.

Cardiac autonomic function ‘worse in Indian Asians than Europeans’ Posted: 20 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT Indian Asians show marked impairments in cardiac autonomic function compared with their European counterparts, a study has found.

TIMI risk score valid for emergency chest pain diagnosis Posted: 20 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT The Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction risk score is useful for risk-stratifying patients with suspected acute coronary syndromes in the emergency department, US researchers say.

Continuing warfarin therapy superior to bridging, cessation in device surgery Posted: 20 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT Continuing warfarin anticoagulation during pacemaker or defibrillator implantation in moderate to high thromboembolic risk patients is better tolerated compared with bridging therapy or temporary discontinuation of anticoagulation, US researchers report.

‘Bleeding obesity paradox’ found for PCI patients Posted: 17 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT Patients in the middle range for body mass index have comparable risk for major bleeding or need for blood transfusion after percutaneous coronary intervention to those with a low weight, US researchers have found.

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