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• Home BP monitoring ‘could help guide dosing, titration’
• Mania symptom profile changes with age
• Emotion perception impaired in patients at risk for psychosis
• Preterm birth increases psychiatric disorder risk
• Tooth scaling reduces CV disease risk
• Preterm birth increases psychiatric disorder risk
• Oxidative stress linked to NSS severity in schizophrenia
• Reproductive stage progression linked to worsening bipolar disorder
• Mixed picture for pulse pressure effect on surgical outcomes
• Serum PFOA levels increase cardiovascular risk factors
• Hot weather increases death risk in psychosis patients
• NMDA antibodies increased in mania patients
• Risk score may aid emergency heart failure decisions
• Stress troubles women’s hearts
• Specific personality traits linked to suicide risk in schizophrenia

Home BP monitoring ‘could help guide dosing, titration’ Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT Researchers report that home blood pressure monitoring provides a reliable indicator of blood pressure control in elderly patients.

Mania symptom profile changes with age Posted: 14 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT A review of published studies shows that there are significant age-group differences in the prominence of specific symptoms of mania among patients with bipolar disorder.

Emotion perception impaired in patients at risk for psychosis Posted: 14 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT Patients at ultra-high risk for psychosis, as well as those with first-episode schizophrenia, show significant impairments in facial and vocal emotion recognition, researchers report.

Preterm birth increases psychiatric disorder risk Posted: 13 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT Individuals born preterm are at increased risk for a range of psychiatric disorders in young adulthood, researchers report.

Tooth scaling reduces CV disease risk Posted: 13 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT Taiwanese study results show that undergoing tooth scaling significantly reduces the risk for future myocardial infarction, stroke, and total cardiovascular events.

Preterm birth increases psychiatric disorder risk Posted: 13 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT Individuals born preterm are at increased risk for a range of psychiatric disorders in young adulthood, researchers report.

Oxidative stress linked to NSS severity in schizophrenia Posted: 13 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT The severity of neurologic soft signs negatively correlates with antioxidant superoxide dismutase activity in patients with schizophrenia, research shows.

Reproductive stage progression linked to worsening bipolar disorder Posted: 12 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT Results from a US study of women with bipolar disorder suggests that the illness may worsen with progression toward the later stages of reproductive life.

Mixed picture for pulse pressure effect on surgical outcomes Posted: 12 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT Two studies published in Anesthesia and Analgesia have muddied the water regarding the effect of preoperative pulse pressure on perioperative outcomes.

Serum PFOA levels increase cardiovascular risk factors Posted: 12 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT Serum levels of perfluorooctanoic acid, which is found in Teflon and Gore-Tex, appear to be associated with cardiovascular disease risk, even at levels commonly found in the general population, Korean investigators have discovered.

Hot weather increases death risk in psychosis patients Posted: 12 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT Hot weather is associated with increased mortality rates among patients with psychosis, dementia, or substance use disorder, UK research shows.

NMDA antibodies increased in mania patients Posted: 11 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT Patients with bipolar disorder show increased levels of antibodies to the NR2 subunits of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor during periods of acute mania, researchers report.

Risk score may aid emergency heart failure decisions Posted: 11 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT A novel risk score may help physicians decide whether to admit or discharge patients who present to the emergency department with an acute episode of heart failure, say its developers.

Stress troubles women’s hearts Posted: 11 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT Women experience more myocardial stress than men, regardless of arterial hemodynamic function and cardiac geometry and output, research shows.

Specific personality traits linked to suicide risk in schizophrenia Posted: 11 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT Patients with schizophrenia who have a history of suicide attempts show a different pattern of temperament and character traits compared with their nonsuicidal counterparts, say Turkish researchers.

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