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| Irish Doctors Call for Changes to Government Vitamin D Recommendations |
A recent metanalysis by researchers from Trinity College Dublin indicates an association between low circulating levels of vitamin D and mortality from COVID-19, and has doctors calling the government to increase the recommended daily intake for vitamin D across the continent.
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| AI May Help Physicians Diagnose Blood Clots |
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Computer learning algorithms can now learn to distinguish different types of blood clots based on what caused them, says a new study.
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| Obesity, Diabetes or High Blood Pressure Prematurely Ages Teenage Arteries |
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Obesity, type 2 diabetes or high blood pressure may prematurely age arteries , according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
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| Anticoagulants Improve Odds of Survival in COVID Patients |
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Researchers from the Mount Sinai COVID Informatics Center report improved survival rates in COVID patients treated with anticoagulants. Results of the study demonstrated that hospitalized COVID-19 patients treated with anticoagulants had improved outcomes both in and out of the intensive care unit setting, without a significant difference in bleeding.
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| New Study Contradicts Discredited Research on the Benefits of Organic Nitrates for Bone Health |
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Organic nitrates do not have clinically relevant effects on bone mineral density or bone turnover in postmenopausal women, according to a study published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.
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| Visual Dx: Weight Gain, Fatigue, and Cold Sensitivity ...Can You Diagnose This Patient? |
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A 25-year-old female visited her primary care physician complaining about weight gain over the past 2 and a half months. She has not had any changes with diet or exercise, yet she has gained 10 pounds. She also has had chronic fatigue over this period and has recurring constipation. Her skin appears pale and she mentions feeling extreme cold sensitivity, even when the temperature of a room feels fine to others.
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| L-Thyroxine Ineffective In Patients With Subclinical Hypothyroidism, Study Says |
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The common synthetic thyroid medication L-thyroxine has been shown to be ineffective in reducing symptoms in patients with subclinical hypothyroidism (SCH), according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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| The Human Body Has Internal Scale to Sense Body Weight Says Study |
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It has been suggested that the human body has an intrinsic weight sensor that functions as part of energy homeostasis. Information about body weight is used to drive caloric intake and metabolic expenditure with the goal of maintaining body weight at a specific set point, however little is known about how such a sensor might function. In a recent paper, published in the journal EClinicalMedicine researchers from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have devised a method to investigate this system they have dubbed the “graviostat,” using weighted vests.
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| Two Decade Long Study Shows Decline in Cardiovascular Disease Among Diabetics |
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Australian researchers have new evidence that patients with diabetes have fewer cardiovascular events today than they did 20 years ago. The data came from an analysis of the Freemantle diabetes study which compared people with type 2 diabetes to people without diabetes. The results were recently published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
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| SGLT2 Inhibitors May Reduce Kidney Problems in Diabetics |
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The use of a commonly prescribed diabetes drug known as a sodium glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor to treat type 2 diabetes may help to lower the risk of serious kidney problems.
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