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• Fetal and infant growth patterns linked to early wheeze, atopy risk
• Recurrent mood episodes increase attention, executive dysfunction
• Sleep problems linked to suicide attempts in psychiatric outpatients
• Acute appendicitis best treated with laparoscopic appendectomy
• Physicians have differing attitudes towards DVT prophylaxis
• Embolic deflection device could reduce strokes during TAVI
• Diabetes and insulin treatment linked to increased cancer risk
• Influence of diabetes on PSA could hinder prostate cancer detection
• Hernia repair more common after prostate surgery than radiotherapy
• Radiation risk should not deter women from mammography screening
• Apolipoproteins predict arterial stiffness in young adults
• Lp(a) concentrations do not promote early atherosclerosis
• Depression may increase risk for and be consequence of diabetes
• Diabetes and insulin treatment linked to increased cancer risk
• STEMI emergency transfer times ‘excessively long’
• Cardiac troponin T levels predict adverse outcomes in older adults

Fetal and infant growth patterns linked to early wheeze, atopy risk Posted: 23 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Results from a UK study suggest that growth patterns in utero and during infancy are associated with risk for wheeze and atopy in the first 3 years of life.

Recurrent mood episodes increase attention, executive dysfunction Posted: 23 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Results from an Egyptian study show that remitted bipolar disorder patients with recurrent mood episodes have greater deficits in attention and executive function than first-episode patients.

Sleep problems linked to suicide attempts in psychiatric outpatients Posted: 23 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Nocturnal sleep disturbances are associated with a significantly increased risk for suicide attempts in psychiatric outpatients, results from a Chinese study show.

Acute appendicitis best treated with laparoscopic appendectomy Posted: 23 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Patients with acute appendicitis should be treated with laparoscopic appendectomy instead of open appendectomy, suggest Chinese researchers who found greater reductions in hospital stay, postoperative pain, and complication rates, in addition to earlier recovery.

Physicians have differing attitudes towards DVT prophylaxis Posted: 22 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Physicians' understanding of deep vein thrombosis, its risk factors, and associated complications varies according to their specialty and level of training, US research shows.

Embolic deflection device could reduce strokes during TAVI Posted: 22 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Use of a device that deflects emboli away from the cerebral circulation during transcatheter aortic valve intervention is feasible and could potentially reduce patients' risk for intra-operative stroke, say researchers.

Diabetes and insulin treatment linked to increased cancer risk Posted: 22 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Patients with Type 2 diabetes, particularly insulin-treated individuals, have a higher prevalence of cancer than nondiabetic individuals, say German researchers.

Influence of diabetes on PSA could hinder prostate cancer detection Posted: 22 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Having Type 2 diabetes may decrease the rate at which a man's prostate-specific antigen level changes over time, potentially hindering future detection of prostate cancer, US researchers report.

Hernia repair more common after prostate surgery than radiotherapy Posted: 22 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Men treated with radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer are more likely to require inguinal hernia repair than their counterparts treated with external beam radiotherapy, study findings show.

Radiation risk should not deter women from mammography screening Posted: 22 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST The risk for radiation-induced breast cancer associated with routine mammographic screening is extremely low, especially when compared with the expected benefits from screening, Canadian researchers report.

Apolipoproteins predict arterial stiffness in young adults Posted: 22 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Researchers say that elevated levels of apolipoprotein B are associated with increased arterial stiffness in young adults.

Lp(a) concentrations do not promote early atherosclerosis Posted: 22 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Concentrations of lipoprotein (Lp)(a) are not associated with an increased risk for early atherosclerosis, researchers report.

Depression may increase risk for and be consequence of diabetes Posted: 22 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Study findings demonstrate strong evidence to suggest that the association between diabetes and depression is bidirectional.

Diabetes and insulin treatment linked to increased cancer risk Posted: 22 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Patients with Type 2 diabetes, particularly insulin-treated individuals, have a higher prevalence of cancer than nondiabetic individuals, say German researchers.

STEMI emergency transfer times ‘excessively long’ Posted: 22 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST A new analysis of the HORIZONS-AMI trial has identified a number of systems-related factors that are associated with reperfusion delay in patients with ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction.

Cardiac troponin T levels predict adverse outcomes in older adults Posted: 22 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Blood levels of cardiac troponin T predict the risk for incident heart failure and cardiovascular death in older adults, study findings show.

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