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Overactive bladder prevalence in US men spikes by 28% over 15 years, study reveals

Researchers found that the prevalence of overactive bladder among US men increased significantly from 11.3% in 2005 to 14.5% in 2020, particularly affecting older men, non-Hispanic Whites, non-Hispanic Blacks, and those who are overweight or obese.

16 Jul 2024

Predicting Alzheimer's decline: New model offers personalized insights for patients

Researchers developed a model to predict cognitive decline in Alzheimer's patients using clinical and biomarker data, improving personalized treatment plans.

16 Jul 2024

Understanding the impact of tobacco smoking and smoking cessation on life expectancy of HIV patients in South Africa

Krishna Reddy, MD, MS, a physician-investigator at the Medical Practice Evaluation Center and the Tobacco Research and Treatment Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, is the senior author of a recently published paper in Journal of the International AIDS Society: Tobacco Smoking, Smoking Cessation and Life Expectancy Among People with HIV on Antiretroviral Therapy in South Africa: A Simulation Modelling Study.

16 Jul 2024

Study suggests switching from smoking to vaping indoors may reduce children’s secondhand exposure to nicotine

Researchers compared nicotine absorption among children exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke, secondhand vapor, and those with no exposure.

16 Jul 2024

Low-GI Mediterranean diet boosts quality of life but not sleep in diabetes-prone adults

Researchers found that a low-glycemic index Mediterranean diet improves some aspects of health-related quality of life but not sleep in adults at risk for type 2 diabetes.

15 Jul 2024

Long-term, 30-year CVD risk may help inform therapy for stage 1 hypertension

A comparison of two risk prediction tools used to calculate an individual's risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) suggests that the long-term, 30-year risk should be considered in addition to the short-term, 10-year risk to help inform when to begin medication therapy for stage 1 hypertension, or high blood pressure, according to new research published today in Hypertension, an American Heart Association journal.

15 Jul 2024

Sleep duration, chronotype, and lifestyle affect cognitive decline

Researchers explore the impact of lifestyle and health conditions on the prevalence and incidence of cognitive decline.

15 Jul 2024

40% of US cancer cases linked to lifestyle choices

Nearly 40% of cancer cases and 44% of cancer deaths in 2019 were due to modifiable risk factors, with cigarette smoking as the leading cause. This study highlights the potential to significantly reduce cancer burden through lifestyle changes.

14 Jul 2024

Lifestyle changes can greatly reduce heart disease risk in people with high genetic risk

Study highlights the significant impact of genetic risk and lifestyle on early- and late-onset cardiovascular diseases, showing that lifestyle improvements can notably reduce CVD risk, especially in high genetic risk individuals.

14 Jul 2024

Short and long sleep duration linked to microvascular disease in newly diagnosed diabetics

New research to be presented at this year's Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) (Madrid, 9-13 September) shows that people recently diagnosed with diabetes who experience short or long sleep duration are more likely to experience microvascular disease (damage to the small blood vessels), which could ultimately lead to more serious complications.

12 Jul 2024

Lifesaving drugs and police projects mark first use of opioid settlement cash in California

Sonja Verdugo lost her husband to an opioid overdose last year. She regularly delivers medical supplies to people using drugs who are living — and dying — on the streets of Los Angeles. And she advocates at Los Angeles City Hall for policies to address addiction and homelessness.

12 Jul 2024

Nicotine absorption is much lower from second-hand vaping than from second-hand smoking

Children exposed to vaping indoors absorb less than one seventh the amount of nicotine as children who are exposed to indoor smoking, but more than those exposed to neither, according to a new study led by UCL researchers.

11 Jul 2024

Study: 40% of cancer cases in the U.S. attributable to modifiable risk factors

A new study led by researchers at the American Cancer Society (ACS) finds four in 10 cancer cases and about one-half of all cancer deaths in adults 30 years old and older in the United States (or 713,340 cancer cases and 262,120 cancer deaths in 2019) could be attributed to modifiable risk factors, including cigarette smoking, excess body weight, alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, diet, and infections.

11 Jul 2024

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Overactive bladder prevalence in US men spikes by 28% over 15 years, study reveals

Predicting Alzheimer's decline: New model offers personalized insights for patients

Understanding the impact of tobacco smoking and smoking cessation on life expectancy of HIV patients in South Africa

Study suggests switching from smoking to vaping indoors may reduce children’s secondhand exposure to nicotine

Low-GI Mediterranean diet boosts quality of life but not sleep in diabetes-prone adults

Long-term, 30-year CVD risk may help inform therapy for stage 1 hypertension

Sleep duration, chronotype, and lifestyle affect cognitive decline

40% of US cancer cases linked to lifestyle choices

Lifestyle changes can greatly reduce heart disease risk in people with high genetic risk

Short and long sleep duration linked to microvascular disease in newly diagnosed diabetics

Lifesaving drugs and police projects mark first use of opioid settlement cash in California

Nicotine absorption is much lower from second-hand vaping than from second-hand smoking

Study: 40% of cancer cases in the U.S. attributable to modifiable risk factors

Prevalence of nicotine pouch use found to be low among U.S. adults

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