Viral Infection in Middle Age Correlates with Later Dementia Risk
A range of evidence suggests that persistent viral infection contributes to the risk of suffering neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease. This may be due to mechanisms relating to amyloid-β accumulation, in its role as an anti-microbial peptide, a part of the innate immune system. It may have more to do with lasting chronic inflammation subsequent to infection. Researchers here note another addition to the epidemiological data on this topic, in this case linking severe infections requiring hospitalization with later dementia risk. The effect sizes here are large and last for a long time following infecti...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 10, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Three Ways Enterprise Visibility and Automation Benefit Staff and the Patient Experience
The following is a guest article by Scott Hondros, Vice President of Professional Services at CenTrak.
It’s often said that necessity is the mother of invention. This theory has been tested within the healthcare industry over the last few years as the COVID-19 pandemic aligned with, and expedited, the retirement of many employees in the Baby Boomer generation. Nearly 29 million Baby Boomers retired in 2020, three and a half million more than in 2019. While their increased retirement has been anticipated, the associated timing compounded staffing challenges within the healthcare industry and left leadership seeking soluti...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Artificial Intelligence Burn Out CenTrak Enterprise Visibility Equipme Source Type: blogs
How occupational therapy can help the anxiety epidemic [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! In this episode, we have Taylor Gurley, a professor of occupational therapy as our guest. She will be discussing the new recommendation by the United States Preventive Services Task Force for primary care physicians to screen their patients for mental health concerns, specifically anxiety.
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How occupational therapy can help the anxiety epidemic [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 9, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Considering a Role for Infectious Disease in the Evolution of Aging
If interested in the evolution of aging, today's open access paper opens with a very readable tour of the history of thought on this topic, as well as the more recent debate between different classes of hypotheses that seek to explain the evolution of aging. The authors are opinionated, and the path leads to their favored theory, involving population-wide effects driven by infectious disease that do not require group selection, but it nonetheless covers a lot of ground and makes for an educational read. Theories of aging are much debated, perhaps in part because there are so many exceptions to the rule that must be explain...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 8, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
COVID-19 myocarditis illusions: A new cardiac MRI study raises questions about the diagnosis
BY ANISH KOKA
One of the hallmarks of the last two years has been the distance that frequently exists between published research and reality. I’m a cardiologist, and the first disconnect that became glaringly obvious very quickly was the impact COVID was having on the heart. As I walked through COVID rooms in the Spring of 2020 trying to hold my breath, I waited for a COVID cardiac tsunami. After all social media had been full of videos from Wuhan and Iran of people suddenly dropping in the streets. My hyperventilating colleagues made me hyperventilate. Could it be that Sars-COV2 had some predilection for heart...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Anish Koka COVID-19 Misinformation myocarditis Vaccine Source Type: blogs
Little Association Between Height and Longevity in a Large Study Population
This study investigated whether taller Polish adults live longer than their shorter counterparts. Data on declared height were available from 848,860 individuals who died in the years 2004-2008 in Poland. To allow for the cohort effect, the Z-values were generated. Separately for both sexes, Pearson's r coefficients of correlation were calculated. Subsequently, one way ANOVA was performed.
The correlation between adult height and longevity was negative and statistically significant in both men and women. After eliminating the effects of secular trends in height, the correlation was very weak (r = -0.0044 in men and ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 6, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 6th 2023
In conclusion, our study reveals that aging enhances atherosclerosis via increased inflammation of visceral fat. Our study suggests that future therapies targeting the visceral fat may reduce atherosclerosis diseaseburden in the expanding older population.
Is the Gut a Significant Source of Amyloid-β in Alzheimer's Disease?
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/02/is-the-gut-a-significant-source-of-amyloid-%ce%b2-in-alzheimers-disease/
The early stages of Alzheimer's disease are characterized by rising levels of amyloid-β in the brain and the formation of misfolded amyloid aggregates. It is present...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 5, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Expanding Real World Datasets
How are you working to advance research and improve patient outcomes? Are you precisely matching records across disparate datasets? Find out at a Webinar TODAY Feb 1st 1pm ET Sponsored by LexisNexis Risk Solutions Health Care
Healthcare’s fragmented data silos and strict but necessary privacy restrictions make it difficult to link real-world datasets. Legacy tokenization technology has helped link records across disparate data sources, but it lacks the accuracy required to uncover actionable insights that can truly improve patient outcomes. Next-generation tokenization technology leveraging a Referential Data Layer is...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Camille Cook Chirag Parghi DataSets Lexis Nexis Token Matching Source Type: blogs
Obesity Considerably Raises the Risk of Later Life Frailty
This study suggests an increased likelihood of pre-frailty/frailty among those with baseline obesity. Increased likelihood of pre-frailty/frailty was also observed among those with high or moderately high waist circumference (WC) at baseline.
Participants with baseline obesity (adjusted odds ratio [OR] 2.41), assessed by body mass index (BMI), were more likely to be pre-frail/frail than those with normal BMI. Participants with high (OR 2.14) or moderately high (OR 1.57) baseline WC were more likely to be pre-frail/frail than those with normal WC. Participants in the 'overweight to obesity' or the 'increasing obesity...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 31, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Bonfire of the Vanities
Here ' s Anne Lutz Fernandez onthe epidemic of book banning, which is affecting not only schools and public libraries but even commercial bookstores and publishers. There are some complexities here which she doesn ' t really address, so I ' ll give it a try. Obviously there can be legitimate debate about what books schoolchildren should be assigned to read, and also what should be available to them in the school library, although these are certainly not the same question. Assigned readings need to be age appropriate, and they need to include what is acceptable to a wide range of the community. Children are...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 30, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The unspoken epidemic: Why health care professionals aren ’ t talking about burnout
We don’t talk about burnout. I recently reunited with a former medical school classmate for lunch and realized that I talked more to him in two hours about my experiences over the past few years than with my hospitalist colleagues at work or my closest friends. I’ve only ever dared to mention anything to my
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The unspoken epidemic: Why health care professionals aren’t talking about burnout originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 29, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Varun Verma, MD Tags: Physician Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Pediatric mental health is a growing epidemic. Here ’ s how Illinois is leading the way to solve that.
One of my friends in middle school was known for her uncanny ability to brighten up any space she walked into. But when we hit high school, she had become more withdrawn and dejected, and her self-esteem plummeted. She was clearly struggling, but at the time, I didn’t know what the signs of depression were
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Pediatric mental health is a growing epidemic. Here’s how Illinois is leading the way to solve that. originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 27, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Nitin Vidyasagar Tags: Policy Pediatrics Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Vaccine Contracts in the Context of Pandemics and Epidemics
Ana Santos Rutschman (Villanova University), Vaccine Contracts in the Context of Pandemics and Epidemics, N.Y.U. J. Int ' l L.& Pol. (Forthcoming): This symposium essay explores the architecture of vaccine contracts, as well as the allocation of resulting vaccines in preparation... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 27, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Faced with yet another variant, epidemiologists must act more like silicon valley start-ups
With yet another highly contagious COVID variant sweeping the East Coast, it’s never been more clear that we need a systems approach to reforming epidemiology in the U.S. Several legislative approaches, including the PREVENT Pandemics Act and public health loan forgiveness, offer a promising start, but as a scientist who was on the ground during COVID, it
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Faced with yet another variant, epidemiologists must act more like silicon valley start-ups originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 22, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Henry Olaisen, PhD, MPH Tags: Policy Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Pandemic Liability: The Nature of the Obligations Under the World Health Organisation's International Health Regulations
Fatima Castro Moreira (Universidade Portucalense), Pandemic Liability: The Nature of the Obligations Under the World Health Organisation ' s International Health Regulations (2022): The International Health Regulations (IHR) are the core international legal instrument in the preparation for and response to epidemics... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 22, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
