Deprived neighbourhoods linked to faster biological ageing across adult life
A large UK study finds that people living in more deprived areas show faster biological ageing, poorer cognitive performance and ...
Tag: Observational study
Anti-CGRP Migraine Drugs Cut Monthly Headache Days by Nearly Half in Catalan Cohort
A Catalan registry study of 5438 patients found anti-CGRP antibody treatment cut monthly migraine days by about 45 percent while ...
Loneliness may link campus relationships to student mental distress, German panel study finds
A three-wave German panel study of 3014 university students finds that peer integration and perceived faculty relationships were associated with ...
Stronger pre-pandemic institutions linked to lower COVID-19 deaths and faster vaccination
A cross-country study finds that stronger pre-pandemic governance was associated with fewer reported and excess COVID-19 deaths per million and ...
Early Epidural Analgesia Tied to Higher Maternal Fever Risk in Retrospective Cohort
A retrospective cohort study of nulliparous women found that early epidural analgesia, started at 0 to 2 centimeters of cervical ...
Automated oxygen monitors reveal hospitals may be undercounting oxygen use
A five-month study in 21 Brazilian hospital beds found automated oxygen monitoring recorded far higher oxygen use than manual electronic ...
Medication Problems Affect Most Diabetes-Hypertension Patients in Southwest Ethiopia, Study Finds
A prospective observational study of 168 patients at a tertiary hospital in southwest Ethiopia found that 79.2 percent experienced medication ...
Oligomenorrhea study finds mood and sleep differences that fall short of significance
A comparative study of 100 young women in Delhi found higher average depression and poor-sleep scores among those with oligomenorrhea, ...
Small share of ED patients drives one-fifth of visits and testing costs
A 12-month single-center study found that 5.8% of adult emergency department patients accounted for 20.4% of visits and about one-fifth ...
Methotrexate shows real-world skin benefits in early systemic sclerosis
A real-life observational study finds that methotrexate monotherapy is associated with meaningful skin improvement in many patients with early systemic ...
Ramadan fasting lowered blood pressure and raised heart rate in Syrian adolescents
A repeated-measures study of 120 Syrian adolescents found that by the third week of Ramadan, systolic and diastolic blood pressure ...
Hepatitis E Vaccine Well Tolerated in Women of Childbearing Age
A two-hospital observational study in Karachi found the Hecolin hepatitis E vaccine produced only mild, transient side effects among 375 ...
Simple Blood Ratio Linked to Short-Term Death Risk After Heart Attack
A study of 4,213 critically ill heart attack patients in the MIMIC-IV database found that a higher hemoglobin-to-red cell distribution ...
Weekly tocilizumab dosing linked to lower rheumatoid arthritis activity in real-world study
A 52-week retrospective observational study of 58 Japanese rheumatoid arthritis patients found that disease activity declined after escalating subcutaneous tocilizumab ...
Five-Year Serum Urate Patterns Tied to Faster Kidney Function Decline
A five-year cohort study of 628 Chinese adults found that sustained high serum urate, rapidly increasing urate, and high visit-to-visit ...
Kidney Transplant Improves Erectile Function, But Recovery Hinges on Baseline Severity
A study of 41 male renal transplant recipients found mean IIEF-5 scores rose significantly at six months, with recovery shaped ...
Epilepsy Drug Carbamazepine Tied to Falling Vitamin D and Calcium Levels
A retrospective study of 226 adults with epilepsy in Saudi Arabia found that at least one year of carbamazepine treatment ...
Adjunct Therapies Tied to Higher Odds of Opioid Discontinuation in German Primary Care
A claims-data study of 94,125 German primary care patients found adjunct therapy prescriptions were associated with higher odds of opioid ...
Large Cohort Study Links Statin Use to Higher Dementia Risk
A two-cohort observational study found statin users had roughly doubled dementia hazard after weighting-based adjustment, with an exploratory mediation analysis ...
Metabolic BMI phenotypes reveal sex-specific diabetes and heart risks in Chinese adults
Clustering seven biomarkers in 175,642 Chinese adults revealed sex-specific metabolic profiles linked to type 2 diabetes, kidney disease and cardiovascular ...
