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Too Little Sleep Destroys DNA?
I talk to my patients about the danger of not sleeping all the time. Unfortunately, it’s a common problem that affects 75 million Americans.
People who don’t sleep, or sleep poorly, have up to 400% more accidents that those who get a good night’s rest. Not getting enough sleep also increases your risk of developing chronic diseases.
Studies, including a large meta-analysis of 470,000 adults, found that those who slept less than six hours developed a:1,2,3,4,5
48% increase in the incidence of coronary heart disease
30% increased risk of dementia
15% increase in the incidence of stroke
50% cancer risk
17% higher risk ...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - August 25, 2023 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Jacob Tags: Anti-Aging Health Source Type: news
The final puff: Can New Zealand quit smoking for good?
Smoking kills. Ayesha Verrall has seen it up close. As a young resident physician in New Zealand’s public hospitals in the 2000s, Verrall watched smokers come into the emergency ward every night, struggling to breathe with their damaged lungs. Later, as an infectious disease specialist, she saw how smoking exacerbated illness in individuals diagnosed with tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. She would tell them: “The best thing you can do to promote your health, other than take the pills, is to quit smoking.”
Verrall is still urging citizens to give up cigarettes—no longer just one by one, but by the thousands. As New...
Source: ScienceNOW - December 9, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
Outcomes of carotid sparing intensity-modulated radiotherapy for early stage glottic cancer in 201 patients: Multicenter study of Turkish Radiation Oncology Society/TROD-01-007
CONCLUSION: Oncologic outcomes of patients treated with carotid sparing IMRT were excellent; comparable with historical series, with acceptable side effects. Longer follow-up is needed to estimate long term effect on stroke.PMID:35596585 | DOI:10.1002/hed.27101
Source: Cancer Control - May 21, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Beyhan Ceylaner Bicakci Teuta Zoto Mustafayev Oguz Cetinayak Sefik Igdem Sumerya Duru Birgi Deniz Meydan Fatih Demircioglu Banu Atalar Enis Ozyar Fadime Akman Source Type: research
Tube feeding in patients with dementia is associated with a longer palliative care unit stay
CONCLUSION: The present study showed that, in patients with an established diagnosis of dementia, TF is common and independently associated with a longer length of PCU stay. Nevertheless, the study was underpowered and the results deserve confirmation in larger studies.PMID:34971282 | DOI:10.1002/alz.052919
Source: The Journal of Alzheimers Association - December 31, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Hilal Zengin Ilker Tasci Source Type: research
New Analyses Suggest Favorable Results for STELARA ® (ustekinumab) When Used as a First-Line Therapy for Bio-Naïve Patients with Moderately to Severely Active Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis
SPRING HOUSE, PENNSYLVANIA, October 25, 2021 – The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced data from two new analyses of STELARA® (ustekinumab) for the treatment of adults with moderately to severely active Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC).1,2 In a modelled analysisa focused on treatment sequencing using data from randomized controlled trials, network meta-analysis and literature, results showed patient time spent in clinical remission or response was highest when STELARA was used as a first-line advanced therapy for bio-naïve patients with moderately to severely acti...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - October 25, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Innovation Source Type: news
Noncommunicable disease incidences in 2012-2017, Turkey
ConclusionsRegardless of the difficulties in comparing incidence of NCD with other countries, we think our results show that hypertension, diabetes, stroke and CHD have higher incidence than Western European countries. We also showed that these metrics can be obtained through data linkage of National Health Records for the first time in Turkey.Key messagesThe NCDs needs to be monitored by surveillance using the current data sources for health services.This data can provide very useful information regularly to monitor and control NCDs if necessary actions are taken to adjust data management.
Source: The European Journal of Public Health - October 20, 2021 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
Indications, effectiveness and safety of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy: A single center experience and literature review
CONCLUSIONS: The results of our study showed that long-term enteral feeding with PEG is an effective and safe method that provides improvement in nutritional status.PMID:33787039 | DOI:10.6133/apjcn.202103_30(1).0006
Source: Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition - March 31, 2021 Category: Nutrition Authors: Bulent Saka Cansu Zirtil Sebile Nilgun Erten Timur Selcuk Akpinar Mustafa Altinkaynak Filiz Akyuz Bilger Cavus Bahar Ozmen Serpil Buyukdemir Cemil Tasc ıoglu Source Type: research
