Social determinants of health impact poststroke mortality risk
May 20, 2024
The strongest associations were seen for educational and income attainment.
Prehospital reduction in BP does not improve stroke outcomes
May 20, 2024
The findings were seen in patients with suspected acute stroke with elevated systolic blood pressure.
Income, healthy food access linked to life expectancy
Jul 12, 2023
Life expectancy at birth was lower in high-income/low access, low-income/high-access and low-income/low-access tracts.
High telehealth use tied to increased healthcare utilization, cost
May 14, 2024
Areas of high telehealth use also had more ambulatory care-sensitive hospitalizations.
Food insecurity in seniors linked to increased risk for dementia
Nov 21, 2023
Lower memory levels and faster age-related memory decline also were seen in association with low or very low food security.
Mortality reduced with adherence to low-carb diet in type 2 diabetes
Mar 24, 2023
Lower mortality was seen with increases in total, vegetable and healthy low-carbohydrate diet scores.
Cardiorespiratory fitness tied to reduced cancer incidence, mortality in men
Jul 03, 2023
Moderate and high cardiorespiratory fitness was linked to lower colon cancer incidence; low, moderate and high CRF was linked to lower prostate cancer mortality.
Residential greenness tied to increased bone density, lower osteoporosis risk
Mar 06, 2024
The risk for osteoporosis was lower for those exposed to high normalized difference vegetation index and low genetic risk.
AHA: Lowering TGs with pemafibrate does not cut cardiovascular risk in type 2 diabetes
Nov 08, 2022
In patients with type 2 diabetes, hypertriglyceridemia and low HDL cholesterol levels, the risk for cardiovascular events was not lower with pemafibrate versus placebo.
Pandemic-linked decline in cancer screening persisted Into 2022
Feb 06, 2023
Low-dose computed tomographic scan rates and mammography rates were lower than expected during March 2021 to February 2022.