Sunday, September 22, 2013

Medical News

Medical News


Framingham model predicts hypertension in young adults

Posted: 22 Sep 2013 05:00 PM PDT

The Framingham Heart Study model for predicting short-term risk for hypertension has good discriminatory ability in a biracial population of young adults, say researchers.

Urinary pneumococcal antigen testing ‘useful in children’

Posted: 22 Sep 2013 05:00 PM PDT

Urinary antigen testing is effective in detecting invasive pneumococcal pneumonia in children, say the authors of a UK-based case–control study.

Sleep disturbances may influence vascular cognitive decline

Posted: 22 Sep 2013 05:00 PM PDT

Patients with vascular cognitive impairment without dementia have distinct abnormal sleep patterns that may be related to their cognitive deficits, researchers report.

Surgery shows first-line potential for stress urinary incontinence

Posted: 22 Sep 2013 05:00 PM PDT

The authors of a head-to-head study say that surgery should be considered as a first-line option for women with stress urinary incontinence, ahead of physiotherapy.

QoL questionnaire predicts nocturia, risk for falling

Posted: 22 Sep 2013 05:00 PM PDT

A study of Japanese outpatients highlights the association between nighttime voiding and bone fractures, after showing that the Nocturia Quality-of-Life questionnaire can identify patients at risk for both.

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