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• Maximum home SBP helps predict target organ damage
• Severe PSC requiring transplantation linked to milder UC course
• Maximum home SBP helps predict target organ damage
• No gender differences in social outcome among schizophrenia patients
• PAD predicts worse clinical course of HF
• Cerebellum TrkB expression reduced in bipolar disorder patients
• History of violence, IQ linked to suicide risk in schizophrenic men
• Eplerenone reduces risk for AF
• Use of legal ‘social drugs’ increased in bipolar-spectrum patients
• Type 2 diabetes increases mortality risk in schizophrenia patients
• Specialist inpatient treatment benefits patients with refractory affective disorders
• Similarly elevated prodromal symptoms in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome and SPD patients
• Antihypertensive therapy for normotensive diabetics questioned
• HF patients may be at increased fracture risk
• Decision-making abilities ‘intact’ in euthymic BD patients

Maximum home SBP helps predict target organ damage Posted: 29 May 2011 05:00 PM PDT Maximum home systolic blood pressure is more closely related to cardiac and vascular damage than is average home systolic blood pressure in patients with untreated hypertension, a Japanese study has shown.

Severe PSC requiring transplantation linked to milder UC course Posted: 29 May 2011 05:00 PM PDT Patients with ulcerative colitis and severe comorbid primary sclerosing cholangitis requiring transplantation have a milder course of UC than patients with mild liver involvement, suggest UK study findings.

Maximum home SBP helps predict target organ damage Posted: 29 May 2011 05:00 PM PDT Maximum home systolic blood pressure is more closely related to cardiac and vascular damage than is average home systolic blood pressure in patients with untreated hypertension, a Japanese study has shown.

No gender differences in social outcome among schizophrenia patients Posted: 26 May 2011 05:00 PM PDT There are no significant gender differences in social outcome among patients with schizophrenia, study results suggest.

PAD predicts worse clinical course of HF Posted: 26 May 2011 05:00 PM PDT The presence of peripheral arterial disease is an independent predictor of adverse outcomes in patients with heart failure, a substudy of HF-ACTION suggests.

Cerebellum TrkB expression reduced in bipolar disorder patients Posted: 26 May 2011 05:00 PM PDT Cerebellum tyrosine kinase B expression is reduced in patients with bipolar disorder, study results show.

History of violence, IQ linked to suicide risk in schizophrenic men Posted: 25 May 2011 05:00 PM PDT Study results suggest that men with schizophrenia who have a previous history of violent offending are at increased risk for suicide, while those with a low IQ are at reduced risk.

Eplerenone reduces risk for AF Posted: 25 May 2011 05:00 PM PDT Eplerenone may reduce the risk for new-onset atrial fibrillation and flutter in heart failure patients, suggests a sub-analysis of the EMPHASIS-HF trial.

Use of legal ‘social drugs’ increased in bipolar-spectrum patients Posted: 25 May 2011 05:00 PM PDT The use of legal "social drugs" such as coffee and tobacco is more common among depressed individuals who meet criteria for bipolarity, according to the Hypomania Check-List 32, than among those who do not, Italian research shows.

Type 2 diabetes increases mortality risk in schizophrenia patients Posted: 24 May 2011 05:00 PM PDT The presence of Type 2 diabetes is associated with increased mortality risk in patients with schizophrenia, study results suggest.

Specialist inpatient treatment benefits patients with refractory affective disorders Posted: 24 May 2011 05:00 PM PDT Specialist, multidisciplinary inpatient treatment is effective for reducing depression among patients with severe and treatment-resistant affective disorders, UK research shows.

Similarly elevated prodromal symptoms in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome and SPD patients Posted: 23 May 2011 05:00 PM PDT Young people with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome and those with schizotypal personality disorder exhibit similarly elevated levels of prodromal symptoms of psychosis, study results show.

Antihypertensive therapy for normotensive diabetics questioned Posted: 23 May 2011 05:00 PM PDT Research shows that the antihypertensive therapy candesartan modestly reduces the risk for vascular complications in patients with diabetes already treated for hypertension.

HF patients may be at increased fracture risk Posted: 23 May 2011 05:00 PM PDT Study findings suggest that heart failure patients may be at increased risk for osteoporotic fractures.

Decision-making abilities ‘intact’ in euthymic BD patients Posted: 23 May 2011 05:00 PM PDT Patients with bipolar disorder who are euthymic do not display poorer decision-making abilities than mentally healthy individuals, research show.

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