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• Hypertension risk elevated with increased BMI, waist circumference
• DARA ‘superior’ to conventional angiography
• Gaps in optimal medical therapy for ICD patients still exist
• Poor sleep may impact health of young diabetes patients
• Gaps in optimal medical therapy for ICD patients still exist
• Hypertension risk elevated with increased BMI, waist circumference
• Premenopausal gender-related atheroprotective effect offset early in menopausal life
• Breastfed babies ‘more irritable’ than formula milk-fed babies
• Prenatal assay of maternal blood shows promise for diagnosis of fetal trisomy
• Breast cancer survivors lack knowledge about treatment
• Functional impairments persist in remitted BD patients
• Bushmeat poses public health risk
• Obstetric complications linked to NSSs in men with schizophrenia
• Lipid levels ‘not linked to suicide risk in bipolar disorder patients’
• GABA and Glx elevated in unmedicated schizophrenia patients
• COMT SNP differentially affects emotion recognition in BD patients
• Connectivity between auditory and language networks reduced in schizophrenia
• Study results support predominant polarity in bipolar disorder
• MR-proANP, copeptin combined with cTnT could identify high-risk HF outpatients
• Antihypertensive benefits rapid and lasting in the very elderly
• Pediatric psychosis patients show increased grey matter loss

Hypertension risk elevated with increased BMI, waist circumference Posted: 15 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST Researchers have found that there is an elevated relative risk for hypertension with increased body mass index and waist circumference among White, Aboriginal, and Asian individuals.

DARA ‘superior’ to conventional angiography Posted: 15 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST Dual axis rotational coronary angiography may be superior to conventional angiography in the diagnosis of coronary heart disease, an analysis suggests.

Gaps in optimal medical therapy for ICD patients still exist Posted: 15 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST Despite well-proven benefits and guideline recommendations, gaps in optimal medical therapy use among patients receiving implantable cardioverter defibrillators still exist, say researchers.

Poor sleep may impact health of young diabetes patients Posted: 15 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST Results from a US study suggest that poor sleep is associated with increased glucose levels, worse performance at school, and reduced health-related quality of life in young people with Type 1 diabetes.

Gaps in optimal medical therapy for ICD patients still exist Posted: 15 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST Despite well-proven benefits and guideline recommendations, gaps in optimal medical therapy use among patients receiving implantable cardioverter defibrillators still exist, say researchers.

Hypertension risk elevated with increased BMI, waist circumference Posted: 15 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST Researchers have found that there is an elevated relative risk for hypertension with increased body mass index and waist circumference among White, Aboriginal, and Asian individuals.

Premenopausal gender-related atheroprotective effect offset early in menopausal life Posted: 15 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST Recently postmenopausal women have the same prevalence of subclinical carotid atherosclerosis as age- and traditional risk factor-matched men, report researchers.

Breastfed babies ‘more irritable’ than formula milk-fed babies Posted: 15 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST Breastfed babies are more likely to show distress, and less likely to smile, laugh, and vocalize, or be able to be soothed than are formula-fed babies, UK researchers say.

Prenatal assay of maternal blood shows promise for diagnosis of fetal trisomy Posted: 15 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST A novel assay that selectively analyzes cell-free DNA in maternal blood is highly accurate and cost-effective for assessing fetal aneuploidy, say US researchers.

Breast cancer survivors lack knowledge about treatment Posted: 15 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST Many breast cancer survivors lack knowledge about local recurrence and mortality risks associated with breast-conserving surgery and mastectomy, results of a US survey show.

Functional impairments persist in remitted BD patients Posted: 12 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST A significant proportion of bipolar disorder patients who receive specialized mental health care achieve symptomatic recovery, but functional recovery is much less common, study results show.

Bushmeat poses public health risk Posted: 12 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST Illegal bushmeat seized by US customs and Border Protection contains zoonotic pathogens that may threaten public health, study data show.

Obstetric complications linked to NSSs in men with schizophrenia Posted: 12 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST Obstetric complications are associated with an increased prevalence of neurological soft signs in male patients with schizophrenia, Italian research suggests.

Lipid levels ‘not linked to suicide risk in bipolar disorder patients’ Posted: 11 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST Italian researchers have found no evidence to suggest an association between lipid levels and suicide attempts in patients with bipolar disorder.

GABA and Glx elevated in unmedicated schizophrenia patients Posted: 11 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST Unmedicated patients with schizophrenia show elevated levels of neurotransmitters γ-aminobutyric acid and combined glutamate-glutamine in the medial prefrontal cortex compared with medicated patients and mentally healthy individuals, researchers have found.

COMT SNP differentially affects emotion recognition in BD patients Posted: 10 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST A single nucleotide polymorphism in the catechol-O-methyltransferase gene is associated with differential facial emotion recognition deficits in manic and depressed patients with bipolar disorder, study results show.

Connectivity between auditory and language networks reduced in schizophrenia Posted: 10 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST Patients with schizophrenia show reduced connectivity between auditory and language processing areas of the brain compared with mentally healthy individuals, say Dutch researchers.

Study results support predominant polarity in bipolar disorder Posted: 09 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST Certain demographic and clinical factors are associated with predominant polarity in patients with bipolar disorder, research suggests.

MR-proANP, copeptin combined with cTnT could identify high-risk HF outpatients Posted: 09 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST Serial monitoring of midregional proatrial natriuretic peptide and copeptin combined with cardiac troponin T could identify high-risk heart failure outpatients, say researchers.

Antihypertensive benefits rapid and lasting in the very elderly Posted: 09 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST Very elderly patients with hypertension receive rapid protection against stroke and cardiovascular events when they are treated with an antihypertensive agent, show the results of the HYVET extension.

Pediatric psychosis patients show increased grey matter loss Posted: 09 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST Children and adolescents with first-episode psychosis show increased levels of gray matter volume loss compared with their mentally healthy peers, say Spanish researchers.

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