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• Airway inflammation precedes late-onset wheeze in children
• Exercise workload influences dynamic hyperinflation in COPD
• Hypoxia linked to coagulation activation in COPD
• PET/CT superior to bone scintigraphy for detecting metastatic breast cancer
• Endoscopy reduces mortality in UGIH patients
• Age at psychosis onset not influenced by cannabis use disorders
• Rosiglitazone linked to increased CVD risk in elderly
• Bipolar I and II patients show abnormal white matter differences
• Specialized early intervention programs for psychosis show long-term benefits
• Flu vaccination and risk perception ‘very poor’ among travelers
• BARI-2D results suggest rosiglitazone may not cause CV events
• Abnormal emotional cue responses inherent in bipolar disorder
• Schizophrenia and frontotemporal dementia show familial segregation
• Cutting CVD risk uniformly in diabetics ‘can cause unnecessary harm’
• Enlarged pituitary volume found in bipolar disorder
• Modest cognitive benefit with antipsychotics in schizophrenia
• Atypical bipolar disorder features predict reduced treatment response

Airway inflammation precedes late-onset wheeze in children Posted: 11 Jul 2010 05:00 PM PDT Results from a UK study suggest that airway inflammation is often evident in young children years before they develop late-onset wheezing.

Exercise workload influences dynamic hyperinflation in COPD Posted: 11 Jul 2010 05:00 PM PDT Increased upper limb exercise workload reduces inspiratory capacity and increases the risk for dynamic pulmonary hyperinflation in patients with severe and very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, research shows.

Hypoxia linked to coagulation activation in COPD Posted: 11 Jul 2010 05:00 PM PDT Hypoxia in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is associated with activation of coagulation processes as well as increased systemic inflammation, study results show.

PET/CT superior to bone scintigraphy for detecting metastatic breast cancer Posted: 11 Jul 2010 05:00 PM PDT US researchers report a high degree of concordance between integrated positron emission tomography/computed tomography and bone scintigraphy for detecting bone metastases in women with breast cancer.

Endoscopy reduces mortality in UGIH patients Posted: 11 Jul 2010 05:00 PM PDT Mortality among patients with acute non-variceal upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage is reduced by endoscopy, say Italian scientists who suggest care on a gastroenterology ward may offer additional benefits.

Age at psychosis onset not influenced by cannabis use disorders Posted: 08 Jul 2010 05:00 PM PDT Cannabis use disorders do not appear to influence age at onset of psychosis, although they do often precede the onset of illness, researchers report.

Rosiglitazone linked to increased CVD risk in elderly Posted: 08 Jul 2010 05:00 PM PDT Results from an observational study of elderly Medicare beneficiaries in the USA show that rosiglitazone treatment is associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease events compared with treatment with pioglitazone.

Bipolar I and II patients show abnormal white matter differences Posted: 08 Jul 2010 05:00 PM PDT Patients with bipolar I and bipolar II disorder have distinct neuropathological substrates, study findings show.

Specialized early intervention programs for psychosis show long-term benefits Posted: 07 Jul 2010 05:00 PM PDT Specialized early intervention programs for patients with a first episode of psychosis appear to have a long-term beneficial effect in terms of symptomatic remission and social/vocational outcomes, findings from the prospective follow-up EPPIC study show.

Flu vaccination and risk perception ‘very poor’ among travelers Posted: 07 Jul 2010 05:00 PM PDT European travelers to resource-limited destinations have very poor risk perception and vaccination coverage regarding seasonal and pandemic influenza, survey results show.

BARI-2D results suggest rosiglitazone may not cause CV events Posted: 07 Jul 2010 05:00 PM PDT New results from a post-hoc analysis of the BARI-2D trial show no association between rosiglitazone and cardiovascular events.

Abnormal emotional cue responses inherent in bipolar disorder Posted: 07 Jul 2010 05:00 PM PDT Exaggerated response to emotional signals in cortico-limbic brain regions may represent heritable functional abnormalities underlying the development of bipolar disorder, neuroimaging study findings indicate.

Schizophrenia and frontotemporal dementia show familial segregation Posted: 06 Jul 2010 05:00 PM PDT Schizophrenia and frontotemporal dementia show co-segregation in certain families, report researchers who found that some affected relatives shared mutations in key susceptibility genes.

Cutting CVD risk uniformly in diabetics ‘can cause unnecessary harm’ Posted: 06 Jul 2010 05:00 PM PDT The benefits of intensively modifying risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) vary widely in people with diabetes, researchers claim.

Enlarged pituitary volume found in bipolar disorder Posted: 06 Jul 2010 05:00 PM PDT Patients with bipolar disorder show enlarged pituitary gland volume relative to mentally healthy controls, results from a magnetic resonance imaging study show.

Modest cognitive benefit with antipsychotics in schizophrenia Posted: 05 Jul 2010 05:00 PM PDT Schizophrenia patients treated with antipsychotics over a 2-year period show modest improvement in cognitive test performance, study results show.

Atypical bipolar disorder features predict reduced treatment response Posted: 05 Jul 2010 05:00 PM PDT Bipolar disorder patients with atypical features of illness, such as psychotic symptoms and rapid cycling, are more likely than other patients to relapse while on long-term treatment with mood stabilizers, study results show.

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