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2023

Smoggy Days Raise Short-Term Odds for Stroke

Smoggy Days Raise Short-Term Odds for StrokeTHURSDAY, Sept. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Exposure to air pollution, even for just a short time, drives up your risk of having a stroke over the next few days, new research warns.That conclusion stems from a review of 110 studies conducted across Asia, Europe and the Americas. Depending on the specific nature of the pollutant in question, stroke risk rose anywhere from 5% to 28% within less than a week after first being exposed to high levels of air pollution.The team also pinpointed a notable increase in the risk of dying from a stroke within a week following air pollution exposure. That jump ranged from just 2% to as much as 60%, depending on the type of pollutant studied.“The associated stroke risk depends on the pollution, as some are more harmful than others,” explained...

Over a Third of Adults With Type 1 Diabetes Weren't...

28 September 2023
Over a Third of Adults With Type 1 Diabetes Weren`t Diagnosed Until After 30THURSDAY, Sept. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Type 1 diabetes has long been viewed as a childhood disease, but a new study suggests it might be time to revise that thinking.Investigators concluded that nearly 4 in 10 Americans with type 1 diabetes aren’t diagnosed with the blood sugar condition until they’re at least 30.“Our research adds to a growing body of studies showing that adult-onset type 1 diabetes may be as common as childhood-onset type 1 diabetes,” said study author Michael Fang, an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.“Nonetheless,” added Fang, “I think this finding may come as a surprise to many clinicians and people in the general population.”The U.S. Centers for Disease...

Coffee Won't Raise Preemie Birth Risk, But Smoking...

28 September 2023
Coffee Won`t Raise Preemie Birth Risk, But Smoking Certainly Will: StudyTHURSDAY, Sept. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Smoking during pregnancy is a significant risk factor for premature births, but drinking coffee is not, new research suggests.Women who smoked during pregnancy were 2.6 times more likely to give birth prematurely compared to nonsmokers, a risk that was double that of previous estimates, the University of Cambridge scientists found.“We’ve known for a long time that smoking during pregnancy is not good for the baby, but our study shows that it’s potentially much worse than previously thought. It puts the baby at risk of potentially serious complications from growing too slowly in the womb or from being born too soon,” said Gordon Smith, head of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Cambridge, in the United Kingdom.The study...

Adding Just 3,000 Steps Per Day Could Lower High Blood...

28 September 2023
Adding Just 3,000 Steps Per Day Could Lower High Blood PressureTHURSDAY, Sept. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Adding 3,000 extra steps a day can help older adults with hypertension significantly lower their blood pressure.About 80% of older adults in the United States have high blood pressure. Keeping it down can help protect against heart failure, heart attacks and strokes.“We’ll all get high blood pressure if we live long enough, at least in this country,” Linda Pescatello, professor of kinesiology at the University of Connecticut, said in a university news release. “That’s how prevalent it is.”While her previous research had shown that exercise could have an immediate and long-lasting impact on blood pressure, this new study set out to learn whether moderately increasing walking -- popular in this age group -- could do the...

New Antibiotic Could Help Fight Resistant Staph Infections

28 September 2023
New Antibiotic Could Help Fight Resistant Staph InfectionsTHURSDAY, Sept. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- New research shows that an antibiotic effective for bacterial pneumonia also appears to fight treatment-resistant staph infections.The drug is ceftobiprole. It appeared successful in fighting methicillin-resistant staph infections, sometimes called MRSA. It showed similar benefit when tested against the antibiotic daptomycin to treat complicated Staphylococcus aureus infections.This means it could offer another option against this common and often deadly bacterial infection, according to the research led by Duke Health in Durham, N.C.“This is an area of true need,” Dr. Thomas Holland, associate professor at Duke University School of Medicine and chair of the study's data review committee, said in a Duke Health news release. “There has...

Estrogen Could Be Key to Women's Brain Health

28 September 2023
Estrogen Could Be Key to Women`s Brain HealthTHURSDAY, Sept. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Being exposed to more estrogen throughout life -- or a longer reproductive life span -- may be good for the brain, according to new research that found a lower risk of cerebral small vessel disease in women who had more cumulative exposure. Cerebral small vessel disease happens from damage to small blood vessels in the brain. It can increase the risk of thinking impairments and dementia.“Previous research has shown that rates of cerebrovascular disease increase after menopause, which is often attributed to the absence of hormones,” said study author Kevin Whittingstall, of the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec. “It remains unknown whether the amount of exposure to hormones before menopause extends that window of protection to after...

Fast-Acting Nasal Spray May Ease Rapid Heartbeat

27 September 2023
Fast-Acting Nasal Spray May Ease Rapid HeartbeatWEDNESDAY, Sept. 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Up to 2 million people in the U.S. experience rapid-fire heartbeats from time to time, and many end up in the hospital for treatment.But an investigational nasal spray may help folks with paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT) safely and quickly slow their heart rate on their own.“Currently, PSVT is treated with intravenous medication administered in the emergency room or by paramedics when vagal maneuvers are not effective, which is the majority of cases,” said study leader Dr. James Ip, an associate professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City.Vagal maneuvers are physical actions such as bearing down that make the vagus nerve slow your heart down.At 160 to 250 heartbeats a minute, Ip said...

FDA Adds Warning to Ozempic Label About Risk for Blocked Intestines

27 September 2023
FDA Adds Warning to Ozempic Label About Risk for Blocked IntestinesWEDNESDAY, Sept. 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Ozempic, a type 2 diabetes drug that has increasingly been used to help with weight loss, will now be labeled as having the potential to block intestines.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently made the label update for the drug made by Novo Nordisk, without directly citing Ozempic as the cause for this condition. "Because these reactions are reported voluntarily from a population of uncertain size, it is not always possible to reliably estimate their frequency or establish a causal relationship to drug exposure," the label reads.The side effect, known by the medical term “ileus,” is also listed on labels for the weight-loss drug Wegovy, also made by Novo Nordisk, and in the diabetes medication Mounjaro, made by Eli Lilly, CBS...

Stem Cell Treatment Halts MS for Some Patients

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A new study is strengthening the evidence that stem cell transplants can be highly effective for some people with multiple sclerosis -- sending the...

Emotional Issues Could Be Early Sign of MS

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A newer understanding of multiple sclerosis (MS) suggests that psychiatric conditions like anxiety and depression may emerge long before classic MS...
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