TUESDAY, Oct. 6, 2020 — Hospitalized COVID-19 patients face an increased risk of developing dangerous blood clots, a new review
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Scientists design an algorithm for personalized cardiovascular risk estimation in healthy people
Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) have designed an algorithm that provides a personalized estimate of cardiovascular
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Individuals With Autism at Risk for Other Health Conditions
MONDAY, Sept. 21, 2020 — Individuals with autism have increased health risks even when considering lifestyle factors, according to a
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College students with disabilities at greater risk for substance abuse
College students with physical and cognitive disabilities use illicit drugs more, and have a higher prevalence of drug use disorder,
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As pandemic progressed, people’s perceived risk assessment went up
In the first week of the coronavirus pandemic, people living in the United States underestimated their chances of catching the
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Middle-aged adults with healthy heart habits may lower high blood pressure risk years later
Better heart health, as measured by the American Heart Association’s Life’s Simple 7 (LS7) scale, was associated with a significantly
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Depression risk detected by measuring heart rate changes
For the first time doctors have shown that measuring changes in 24-hour heart rate can reliably indicate whether or not
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Highly fluorinated chemicals can increase risk for diabetes and coeliac disease in children
Tuulia Hyötyläinen and Matej Orešič, both researchers in biomedicine, have published two studies on the connection between highly fluorinated chemicals—per-
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Body mass index is a more powerful risk factor for diabetes than genetics
Losing weight could prevent or even reverse diabetes, according to late breaking research presented today at ESC Congress 2020. In
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Intensive lifestyle intervention focused on weight loss lowers obesity-related cancer risk
New research shows that an intensive lifestyle intervention (ILI) aimed at weight loss lowered incidence of obesity-related cancers in adults
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