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People With HIV at Higher Odds of Sudden Cardiac Death
MONDAY, May 14 (HealthDay News) -- People with HIV/AIDS are four times more likely to die of sudden cardiac arrest than those in the general population, a new study finds. The findings held true even for people with well-controlled HIV, according to researchers from the University of California, San ...
Speed Drawing Ability May Predict Subsequent Stroke Death Risk
Stroke remains one of the leading causes of mortality and disability, even though there have been advances in treatment. Older men who have impaired cognitive function prior to a stroke are at increased risk of subsequent disability and mortality. According to a study published in the online journal BMJ Open, ...
Pneumonia and preterm birth complications are the leading causes of childhood death
Pneumonia is the leading cause of death among children under 5, according to a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. They examined the distribution of child deaths globally by cause in 2010 and found that 64 percent were attributable to infectious causes ...
Screening Children For Sudden Cardiac Death Not Feasible As Costs Outweigh Benefits
An article, published in Circulation by Laurel K. Leslie, MD, MPH from the Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and colleagues from Tufts Medical Center and Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center, has evaluated the lifesaving benefits and costs of screening programs for the prevention of sudden ...
Heart Attack Death Rates Higher When Patient Lives Near Highway
Major highways pose a considerable risk to heart attack survivors living in close vicinity. Findings of the study, published in the May 7 issue of Circulation, report that researchers from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center conclude that housing developments need to be isolated from areas with heavy traffic. The ...
Predicting Risk Of Death In End-Stage Kidney Disease, New Equation More Accurate
A study in the May 9 edition of JAMA reveals that fewer people were classified as having chronic kidney disease, and more accurate predictions of the mortality risk and end-stage renal disease were made under a newer equation of risk prediction. Glomerular filtration rate (GRF) is a test used to ...
Exercise Reduces Breast And Colon Cancer Death Rates
A study in the May 8 edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute reveals that physical activity is linked to lower rates of breast and colon cancer deaths. However, there is not enough evidence to link physical activity to other types of cancer. Cancer survivors are able to ...
CKD-EPI equation may provide more accurate risk prediction of death, ESRD
Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., principal investigator at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed), is the author of an invited editorial in JAMA. The editorial accompanied a study that included data from more than 1 million adults, and indicated the use of a newer ...
Death Risks Higher For Heart Attack Survivors Living Near Major Roadways
Heart attack survivors who live about 100 meters (328 feet) or less from a major U.S. roadway face increased risk of death from all causes, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation. In the Determinants of MI Onset Study of 3,547 heart attack survivors (average age ...
Costs of screening children for sudden cardiac death outweigh its benefits
(Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute) An article in Circulation by Laurel K. Leslie, MD, MPH, from Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute and colleagues from Tufts Medical Center and Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center, reports that screening for sudden cardiac death in children and adolescents can ...
Heart attack survivors living close to highways face higher 10-year death risk
BOSTON Living close to a major highway poses a significant risk to heart attack survivors, reinforcing the need to isolate housing developments from heavy traffic areas, a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center study concludes. Writing in the May 7 edition of Circulation , researchers found ...