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• Schizophrenia patients show increased arousal to neutral social scenes
• Mental imagery linked to mood stability in bipolar disorder patients
• Age should not be a barrier to VKA treatment in AF, VTE
• Statins advised for young adults with stroke of unknown cause
• Erlotinib improves lung cancer outcome for <i>EGFR</i> mutation carriers
• Statins advised for young adults with stroke of unknown cause
• Mediterranean diet, healthy lifestyle prevent premature death
• CRP ‘not useful’ for identifying patients at risk for CV events
• Diabetes patients with MI risk life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias
• High pregnancy HbA1c increases pre-eclampsia risk in Type 1 diabetics
• Age should not be a barrier to VKA treatment in AF, VTE
• Vitamin K antagonists linked to increased coronary calcification in AF patients
• Dose-response relationship between exercise and CHD risk

Schizophrenia patients show increased arousal to neutral social scenes Posted: 02 Aug 2011 05:00 PM PDT Study results show that patients with paranoid schizophrenia report significantly higher levels of emotional arousal when viewing neutral social scenes than mentally healthy individuals.

Mental imagery linked to mood stability in bipolar disorder patients Posted: 02 Aug 2011 05:00 PM PDT Mental imagery may be associated with mood stability in patients with bipolar disorder, say UK researchers.

Age should not be a barrier to VKA treatment in AF, VTE Posted: 01 Aug 2011 05:00 PM PDT Old age alone does not contraindicate anticoagulation with vitamin K antagonists among patients with venous thromboembolism or atrial fibrillation, Italian researchers report.

Statins advised for young adults with stroke of unknown cause Posted: 01 Aug 2011 05:00 PM PDT Prescribing statins to young stroke survivors may reduce their risk for subsequent vascular events, even if the stroke etiology is unclear, researchers report in the journal Neurology.

Erlotinib improves lung cancer outcome for <i>EGFR</i> mutation carriers Posted: 01 Aug 2011 05:00 PM PDT The tyrosine kinase inhibitor erlotinib significantly improves progression-free survival over standard chemotherapy in patients with advanced nonsmall-cell lung cancer and a mutation in the endothelial growth factor receptor gene, Chinese researchers report.

Statins advised for young adults with stroke of unknown cause Posted: 01 Aug 2011 05:00 PM PDT Prescribing statins to young stroke survivors may reduce their risk for subsequent vascular events, even if the stroke etiology is unclear, researchers report in the journal Neurology.

Mediterranean diet, healthy lifestyle prevent premature death Posted: 01 Aug 2011 05:00 PM PDT Adherence to four modifiable healthy lifestyle factors can substantially reduce the risk for premature mortality, study findings suggest.

CRP ‘not useful’ for identifying patients at risk for CV events Posted: 01 Aug 2011 05:00 PM PDT Study findings suggest that C-reactive protein levels, prior to or on-treatment with atorvastatin, are not useful for identifying patients at risk for future cardiovascular events.

Diabetes patients with MI risk life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias Posted: 01 Aug 2011 05:00 PM PDT Diabetes patients with a prior myocardial infarction may be at particularly high risk for ventricular arrhythmias, as indicated by T-wave alternans and heart rate variability measurements, study results show.

High pregnancy HbA1c increases pre-eclampsia risk in Type 1 diabetics Posted: 01 Aug 2011 05:00 PM PDT Women with Type 1 diabetes who have high levels of glycated hemoglobin prior to and during pregnancy are at increased risk for developing pre-eclampsia, show study results.

Age should not be a barrier to VKA treatment in AF, VTE Posted: 01 Aug 2011 05:00 PM PDT Old age alone does not contraindicate anticoagulation with vitamin K antagonists among patients with venous thromboembolism or atrial fibrillation, Italian researchers report.

Vitamin K antagonists linked to increased coronary calcification in AF patients Posted: 01 Aug 2011 05:00 PM PDT Atrial fibrillation patients who use vitamin K antagonists show increased levels of coronary calcification, say researchers from The Netherlands.

Dose-response relationship between exercise and CHD risk Posted: 01 Aug 2011 05:00 PM PDT There is a dose-response relationship between exercise and risk for coronary heart disease, suggest US researchers.

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