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• Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring useful for children with kidney disease
• Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring useful for children with kidney disease
• Nasal steroids offer acute sinusitis relief
• In utero lithium exposure ‘not linked to developmental problems’
• Pharmacist blood pressure intervention AIM is off
• Schizophrenia patients show skin ceramide alterations
• Antidepressant impact in bipolar depression masked by use in severe cases
• Vitamin D deficiency 'raises psychosis risk in adolescents'
• Research supports continuum of depressive clinical syndromes
• <i>DCC</i> gene variant linked to schizophrenia
• Shorter sleep linked to lower HDL cholesterol in bipolar patients
• Cannabis use affects disease course in schizophrenia patients

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring useful for children with kidney disease Posted: 20 May 2012 05:00 PM PDT Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring can be used to aid clinicians in detecting increased cardiovascular risk among children with chronic kidney disease, say researchers.

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring useful for children with kidney disease Posted: 20 May 2012 05:00 PM PDT Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring can be used to aid clinicians in detecting increased cardiovascular risk among children with chronic kidney disease, say researchers.

Nasal steroids offer acute sinusitis relief Posted: 20 May 2012 05:00 PM PDT Nasal steroids can relieve symptoms of acute sinusitis, especially facial pain and congestion, although they are slow to take effect and the benefits are relatively small, research shows.

In utero lithium exposure ‘not linked to developmental problems’ Posted: 17 May 2012 05:00 PM PDT Results from a Dutch study suggest that exposure to lithium in utero has no significant long-term negative effects on growth, or neurologic, cognitive, and behavioral development in children.

Pharmacist blood pressure intervention AIM is off Posted: 17 May 2012 05:00 PM PDT A pharmacist-led program known as the Adherence and Intensification of Medications accelerates the achievement of target blood pressure levels in people with diabetes.

Schizophrenia patients show skin ceramide alterations Posted: 17 May 2012 05:00 PM PDT Patients with first-episode schizophrenia exhibit abnormalities in skin levels of certain ceramides, suggesting altered sphingolipid metabolism, German researchers report.

Antidepressant impact in bipolar depression masked by use in severe cases Posted: 16 May 2012 05:00 PM PDT Antidepressants are frequently used to treat bipolar disorder depression, typically in more severe cases, which may underlie the poorer responses and high rates of mood switching in patients given antidepressants, conclude Spanish scientists.

Vitamin D deficiency 'raises psychosis risk in adolescents' Posted: 16 May 2012 05:00 PM PDT Adolescents with acute mental illness are more likely to have vitamin D deficiency than healthy individuals, and such deficiency is linked to an increase in the risk for psychosis, say US scientists, although the benefits of supplementation remain unclear.

Research supports continuum of depressive clinical syndromes Posted: 15 May 2012 05:00 PM PDT Research shows that patients with bipolar I disorder experience more severe major depressive episodes than those with bipolar II disorder, who, in turn, experience more severe episodes than patients with major depressive disorder.

<i>DCC</i> gene variant linked to schizophrenia Posted: 15 May 2012 05:00 PM PDT A single nucleotide polymorphism in the deleted in colorectal cancer gene is associated with schizophrenia susceptibility, results from a Canadian study suggest.

Shorter sleep linked to lower HDL cholesterol in bipolar patients Posted: 14 May 2012 05:00 PM PDT Shorter sleep duration is associated with lower high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels in patients with bipolar disorder who are in clinical remission, researchers report.

Cannabis use affects disease course in schizophrenia patients Posted: 14 May 2012 05:00 PM PDT Cannabis use is associated with an earlier age at disease onset in patients with schizophrenia, as well as with a greater number of hospital admissions, researchers report.

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