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• Supplements and exercise benefit malnourished COPD patients
• Schizophrenia patients show sound localization and discrimination deficits
• Certain cognitive deficits worse in BDI than BDII patients
• Home parenteral nutrition ‘treatment of choice’ for intestinal failure
• Pulmonary Embolism Rule-out Criteria does not rule out PE
• RLS, procoagulant state may link migraine to stroke
• Skeletal-related events in metastatic breast cancer reduced with denosumab
• Seed migration linked to swelling after prostate BRT
• Gallstone disease reduced by long-term statin therapy
• Assessment age important in early atherogenic risk prediction
• High plasma lactate linked to increased risk for Type 2 diabetes
• Asthma and COPD raise risk for Type 2 diabetes in women
• High childhood fruit, vegetable diet helps maintain arterial flexibility in adulthood
• Heart-type fatty acid binding protein detection insufficient for early AMI diagnosis

Supplements and exercise benefit malnourished COPD patients Posted: 30 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Malnourished chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients benefit from nutritional supplementation combined with low-intensity exercise, results from a Japanese study show.

Schizophrenia patients show sound localization and discrimination deficits Posted: 30 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Patients with schizophrenia show impairments in both localization and spatial discrimination of sounds, say researchers.

Certain cognitive deficits worse in BDI than BDII patients Posted: 30 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Patients with bipolar I disorder show greater memory and semantic fluency deficits than those with bipolar II disorder, but both patient groups show similar impairments in other measures of cognition, results from a review and meta-analysis of published studies show.

Home parenteral nutrition ‘treatment of choice’ for intestinal failure Posted: 30 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Home parenteral nutrition is confirmed as the treatment of choice for the majority of patients with intestinal failure, with only a small group of patients requiring intestinal transplantation, report researchers.

Pulmonary Embolism Rule-out Criteria does not rule out PE Posted: 29 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST The Pulmonary Embolism Rule-out Criteria rule does not safely rule out pulmonary embolism without additional tests, either when used alone or in combination with another clinical decision rule, study findings indicate.

RLS, procoagulant state may link migraine to stroke Posted: 29 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Researchers say that migraine with aura is more likely to affect young ischemic stroke patients if they have right-to-left shunt and an underlying procoagulant state.

Skeletal-related events in metastatic breast cancer reduced with denosumab Posted: 29 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Denosumab is more likely than zoledronic acid to delay or prevent skeletal-related events in patients with breast cancer metastatic to bone, and its subcutaneous administration makes it more convenient, conclude scientists.

Seed migration linked to swelling after prostate BRT Posted: 29 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Japanese study results show that seed migration after prostate cancer treatment with brachytherapy is common, and may be caused by the swelling of the prostate gland after seed insertion.

Gallstone disease reduced by long-term statin therapy Posted: 29 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Long-term statin therapy significantly reduces the risk for gallstone disease in the Danish population, a study suggests.

Assessment age important in early atherogenic risk prediction Posted: 29 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST The age at which risk factors are measured is an important consideration when identifying children at high risk for early atherosclerosis, analysis of four large prospective cohort studies shows.

High plasma lactate linked to increased risk for Type 2 diabetes Posted: 29 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Researchers say that high levels of plasma lactate are strongly associated with increased prevalence of Type 2 diabetes in older adults.

Asthma and COPD raise risk for Type 2 diabetes in women Posted: 29 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Women with current or previous asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have an increased risk for developing Type 2 diabetes, show study findings.

High childhood fruit, vegetable diet helps maintain arterial flexibility in adulthood Posted: 29 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST Children who consume large quantities of fruit and vegetables may have a reduced risk for arterial stiffness – an independent predictor of cardiovascular events and mortality – later in life, Finnish researchers report.

Heart-type fatty acid binding protein detection insufficient for early AMI diagnosis Posted: 29 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST The cardiac biomarker heart-type fatty acid binding protein does not reliably detect early acute myocardial infarction in patients suspected to have the condition, results of a meta-analysis indicate.

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