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UCLA faculty voice: Body mass index perpetuates stigmas and indicates little about health
UCLA A. Janet Tomiyama A. Janet Tomiyama is assistant professor of psychology in the UCLA College. Jeffrey Hunger is a doctoral candidate of psychology at UC Santa Barbara. This op-ed appeared March 7 in Zócalo Public Square. You’ve just returned from your morning run and you’re rustling through your snail mail when you receive some shocking news — an official memo from your employer informing you that your health insurance premium is increasing by 30 percent. You’ve been deemed a health risk, and you are being charged accordingly. Yet you’re the picture of health: A run is part of your daily routine, you passe...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - April 1, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo after Dental Procedures: A Population-Based Case-Control Study
Conclusions Our results demonstrated a correlation between dental procedures and BPPV. The specialists who treat patients with BPPV should consider dental procedures to be a risk factor, and dentists should recognize BPPV as a possible complication of dental treatment.
Source: PLoS One - April 3, 2016 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Tzu-Pu Chang Source Type: research

Diabetes Mellitus in Peru
Conclusions Diabetes is a major health care issue in Peru that exposes difficult challenges and shortcomings. The national strategy for tackling diabetes includes promotion of healthy lifestyles; training primary care physicians and providing them with evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, safe and effective medications, and tools for monitoring treatment; and, finally, construction of a comprehensive health care network for early referral in order to prevent, detect, and treat diabetic complications.
Source: Annals of Global Health - April 22, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research

Survival and cardiovascular events in men treated with testosterone replacement therapy: an intention-to-treat observational cohort study
Publication date: Available online 7 May 2016 Source:The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Author(s): Christopher J D Wallis, Kirk Lo, Yuna Lee, Yonah Krakowsky, Alaina Garbens, Raj Satkunasivam, Sender Herschorn, Ronald T Kodama, Patrick Cheung, Steven A Narod, Robert K Nam Background Conflicting evidence exists for the association between testosterone replacement therapy and mortality and cardiovascular events. The US Food and Drug Administration recently cautioned that testosterone replacement therapy might increase risk of heart attack and stroke, based on evidence from studies with short treatment d...
Source: The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology - May 7, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: research

What The Government's Latest Asian-American Health Report Got Wrong
Asian-Americans fare better than the general population on five different measures of health, according to a new national study.  But though it may appear that the "model minority" myth about the 15 million Asians in America extends even to physical and mental health, experts say this finding obscures the truth about vast disparities between Asian subgroups -- and that the study's methodology may have prevented the elderly, immigrants and people who don't speak English from contributing to a more nuanced picture of the health status of Asians in America.  The report, published by the U.S. Center fo...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - May 20, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news

Health status of populations living in French overseas territories in 2012, compared with metropolitan France: An analysis of the national health insurance database.
CONCLUSION: This study highlights the utility of administrative database to compare and follow population health status considering healthcare use. Specific Public Health policies are justified for FOT, taking into account the specific context of each FOT, the necessity of prevention initiatives and screening to reduce the frequency of the chronic diseases. PMID: 27238162 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Revue d Epidemiologie et de Sante Publique - May 31, 2016 Category: Epidemiology Tags: Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique Source Type: research

The use of proton pump inhibitors decreases the risk of diabetes mellitus in patients with upper gastrointestinal disease: A population-based retrospective cohort study
Conclusions: Our results demonstrated a decreased risk of DM in UGID patients who used PPIs; the risk appeared to be significantly dose-dependent.
Source: Medicine - July 1, 2016 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Research Article: Observational Study Source Type: research

Incidence and Risk Factors for Atrial Fibrillation in Korea: the National Health Insurance Service Database (2002-2010).
CONCLUSION: Incidence of AF increased with age and was higher in men than in women. A larger proportion of AF events was attributable to hypertension than to other co-morbidities. PMID: 27482260 [PubMed]
Source: Korean Circulation Journal - August 4, 2016 Category: Cardiology Tags: Korean Circ J Source Type: research

The Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Austrians Disease Management Program in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus - A Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study
by Regina Riedl, Martin Robausch, Andrea Berghold AimTo evaluate the effectiveness of the Austrian Disease Management Program (DMP) ‘Therapie aktiv—Diabetes im Griff’ for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus concerning patient-relevant outcomes (mortality, myocardial infarction and stroke) and costs. MethodsBased on routine health insurance data, we conducted a population-based retrospective cohort study using a propensity score (PS) matched control group design. The DMP-group consists of participants enrolled in the program during 2008 and 2009 (n = 7181). Out of 208.532 patients with no participation in the DMP u...
Source: PLoS One - August 16, 2016 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Regina Riedl Source Type: research

Economic and public health benefits: the result of increased regular physical activity
Conclusion Only a 10% increase in physical activity would result in more than 28 billion HUF (ca. 73.7 million GBP) savings for the Hungarian economy.
Source: European Journal of Integrative Medicine - November 8, 2016 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research

Perioperative medicine and Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database.
Abstract "Big data", characterized by 'volume', 'velocity', 'variety', and 'veracity', being routinely collected in huge amounts of clinical and administrative healthcare-related data are becoming common and generating promising viewpoints for a better understanding of the complexity for medical situations. Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD), one of large and comprehensive nationwide population reimbursement databases in the world, provides the strength of sample size avoiding selection and participation bias. Abundant with the demographics, clinical diagnoses, and capable of linking divers...
Source: Acta Anaesthesiologica Taiwanica - November 17, 2016 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Chang CC, Liao CC, Chen TL Tags: Acta Anaesthesiol Taiwan Source Type: research

Polypharmacy and Polymorbidity in Older Adults in Brazil: a public health challenge
CONCLUSIONS Older adults with specific diseases have risk factors for polypharmacy modifiable by actions aimed at the rational use of medicines. With the current population aging and successful drug access policy, the trend is an increase in drug use by older adults, which should feature as a priority in the planning agenda of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS).RESUMO OBJETIVO Analisar as varia ções da prevalência do uso crônico de medicamentos por idosos no Brasil segundo sua possível associação com as doenças crônicas mais prevalentes, fatores sociodemográficos e de saúde, e identificar fatores de risco...
Source: Revista de Saude Publica - December 13, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research

Association Between Subtotal Gastrectomy with Billroth II Anastomosis and Coronary Heart Disease
ConclusionsWe found SGBIIA is associated with a reduced risk of CHD for PUD patients.
Source: Obesity Surgery - January 10, 2017 Category: Surgery Source Type: research

Increased risk of Parkinson disease with diabetes mellitus in a population-based study
Abstract: This nationwide population-based study investigated the risk of Parkinson disease (PD) in relation to diabetes mellitus (DM) through the National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan. A retrospective study was conducted, consisting of 36,294 patients who were newly diagnosed with DM between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2006 and 108,882 individuals without DM as healthy controls from insurance claims data from Taiwan's National Health Research Institutes Dataset. The subjects were followed up until December 31, 2011 or until the first manifestation of PD. The hazard ratio (HR) of DM for PD incidence w...
Source: Medicine - January 1, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Research Article: Observational Study Source Type: research

Factors related to receipt of non-cancer-related transurethral prostatectomy: findings from a large prospective study of 106 769 middle-aged and older Australian men
Conclusions TURP rates were most strongly related to baseline LUTS and age, consistent with appropriate health services targeting. Lower TURP rates in men experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage and with poor health/disability, after accounting for baseline LUTS, suggest inequity and factors such as frailty and risks related to surgery.
Source: BMJ Open - February 7, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Joshy, G., Soga, K., Korda, R. J., Patel, M. I., Banks, E. Tags: Open access, Epidemiology, Health services research, Surgery, Urology Source Type: research