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
Comments to USTR Show the Real ‐World Harms of the Trump‐Biden China Tariffs
Clark Packard and Alfredo Carrillo ObregonIn recent weeks, about 1,500 comments were filed with the United States Trade Representative (USTR) concerning the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration —and maintained by the Biden administration—on imports from China as a result of the recent trade war. The majority of the comments paint a bleak picture: the tariffs have—contrary to unsupported assertions you may have read elsewhere—caused very real pain for domestic firms, their workers, and the U.S. economy. These facts, coupled with the fact that the tariffs have not forced Beijing to change its troublesome econo...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 2, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Clark Packard, Alfredo Carrillo Obregon Source Type: blogs
How to get real advice from your artificial careers advisor
Bots, such as the now well-known ChatGPT, are really just sophisticated autocomplete machines…instead of suggesting the next word for your text message though they generate the most statistically likely set of words to follow your prompt. Indeed, even ChatGPT agrees: “Yes, that’s a simple way to describe what language models like ChatGPT do. They use statistical patterns learned from large amounts of text data to generate text that is coherent and consistent with the input prompt. The goal is to generate text that resembles human-like language and can be used for various natural language processing tasks,...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - February 1, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Artificial Intelligence Source Type: blogs
Alto Neuroscience raises $60M (equity + credit) to help fix the “trial and error” approach to psychiatric medication
Alto Neuroscience bags $25M for four Phase II drugs (Endpoints News):
Another $25 million is flowing the way of a California biotech attempting to fix the “trial and error” system in neuroscience drug R&D.
Alto Neuroscience picked up the capital from Alpha Wave Ventures via an extension to its Series B, bringing total equity raised to $100 million since the startup’s 2019 founding.
… The approximately 50-employee startup hopes to move past the “trial and error” approach of neuroscience drug development, perhaps most recognizable by the lengths patients have to go through to find the depression meds that act...
Source: SharpBrains - January 31, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Alpha Wave Ventures Alto Neuroscience behavioral task measurements cognition depression meds EEG activity emotion Genetics K2 HealthVentures sleep Source Type: blogs
The dark side of cannabis: increased risk of psychosis
Psychosis is a broad term that describes a change in the perception of reality. It can be caused by various conditions, including metabolic, psychiatric, neurologic, genetic, and other medical conditions, as well as licit and illicit substances, particularly cannabis. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) states that abnormalities define these
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The dark side of cannabis: increased risk of psychosis originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 31, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Ken Finn, MD Tags: Conditions Medications Source Type: blogs
The Startling Truth About Loneliness: How Wisdom Can Protect You
The shocking loneliness statistics show that 75% of people suffer. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - January 30, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Loneliness Source Type: blogs
The “Antebellum Paradox”: What is it and why it matters.
BY MIKE MAGEE
I recently made the case that “Health is foundational to a functioning democracy. But health must be shared and be broadly accessible to be an effective enabler of good government.” I also suggested that the pursuit of good health is implied and imbedded in the aspirational and idealistic wording of our U.S. Constitution, and that the active pursuit of health as a nation is essential if we wish to rise to Hamilton’s challenge in Federalist #1 and prove that we are “capable of establishing good government from reflection and choice.” So why are native white males lagging behind in health?
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Source: The Health Care Blog - January 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy antebellum paradox health informatics Mike Magee Population Health Source Type: blogs
Who cares? The experience of social care workers, and the enforcement of employment rights in the sector
This report finds that social care workers have higher levels of job satisfaction and stronger job attachment than those in other low-paying sectors, but many have to contend with unsafe working conditions and unlawful under-payment of the minimum wage. This report combines new statistical analysis with findings from a series of focus groups with frontline social care workers, to shine a light on the nature of the jobs they do, the challenges they face, and the priorities for improvement.ReportPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 30, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Social care Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
If a rose is a rose by any other name, how should we study treatment processes in pain management & rehabilitation?
A new instalment in my series about intensive longitudinal studies, aka ecological momentary assessment (and a host of other names for methods used to study daily life in real time in the real world).
Daily life is the focus of occupational therapy – doing what needs to be done, or a person wants to do, in everyday life. It’s complex because unlike a laboratory (or a large, well-controlled randomised controlled trial) daily life is messy and there is no way to control all the interacting factors that influence why a person does what they do. A technical term for the processes involved is microtemporality, o...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - January 29, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Assessment Clinical reasoning Professional topics Research Science in practice intensive longitudinal research Occupational therapy Pain rehabilitation research methods single case experimental design Source Type: blogs
3 shocking health care statistics for 2023
As the New Year begins, a trio of health care statistics cast an intense and unflattering light on a nation in crisis. These figures, all of them unimaginable just a generation ago, set the stage for a financial reckoning in 2023 and beyond. Shocking stat #1: the number of Americans on Medicaid Without looking it
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3 shocking health care statistics for 2023 originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 27, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Robert Pearl, MD Tags: Policy Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Has your knowledge stopped updating?
Some years ago I read an article – I forget where – describing how our general knowledge often becomes frozen in time. Asked to name the tallest building in the world you confidently proclaim “the Sears Tower!”, because for most of your childhood that was the case – never mind that the record was surpassed long ago and it isn’t even called the Sears Tower anymore. From memory the example in the article was of a middle-aged speaker who constantly referred to a figure of 4 billion for the human population – again, because that’s what he learned in school and had never mentally ...
Source: What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate - January 27, 2023 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: nsaunders Tags: education R statistics readr read_csv rstats tidyverse Source Type: blogs
What is this Rhythm?
==================================My Comment by KEN GRAUER, MD (1/26/2023):==================================While reading ECGs — Dr. Smith came across the intriguing tracing shown in Figure-1. No history was available. However, the rhythm is indeed challenging — and illustrates a number of important principles in rhythm interpretation of interest to all emergency care providers.How would YOU interpret the ECG in Figure-1? Can you come up with a definitive rhythm diagnosis?Figure-1: 12-lead ECG and simultaneously-recorded 3-lead rhyth...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - January 26, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
A Multi ‐State Wealth Tax Carries Budgetary Risks
Marc JoffeHaving been thwarted at the federal level, Progressives are now turning to states to implement a wealth tax, with California taking the lead. But whether Progressives can repeat their success with state and local level $15 minimum wage laws remains to be seen.During the 2020 Presidential primary campaign, SenatorsBernie Sanders andElizabeth Warren both proposed federal taxes on the assets of high ‐net‐worth individuals. Sanders and Warren bowed out of the primaries in favor of now‐President Biden, who did not propose a wealth taxper se, but insteadoffered a minimum income tax on hous...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 25, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Marc Joffe Source Type: blogs
COVID-19 update
It has been a while since I added anything to the site about COVID-19. My periodic monitoring of the stats put out by the ZOE app suggests the disease is currently somewhat on the wane in the UK…for now. During the last few months of 2022, the figures for number of people active cases bounced up and down between around 2.5 million and 3.5 million in a couple of waves.
Today, when I check, the estimate is very much lower, 1.6 million. This figure is based on PCR and LFT tests and symptoms reported by the app’s almost 5 million users and is a statistical extrapolation from that data to the whole UK population. It...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - January 25, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: COVID-19 Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 23rd 2023
This study explored the association between tap drinking water and longevity in Cilento, Italy, to understand whether trace elements in local drinking water may have an influence on old, nonagenarian, and centenarian people and promote their health and longevity.
Data on population and water sources were collected through the National Demographic Statistics, the Cilento Municipal Archives, and the Cilento Integrated Water Service. Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression and a geographically weight regression (GWR) model were used to study the spatial relationship between the explanatory and outcome variables of long...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 22, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
