Change to Diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes Helped Women
Latest Pregnancy News By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Aug. 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) Using a lower threshold to diagnose pregnancy-related diabetes does not seem to reduce the risk of having a big baby, on average — but some women do benefit, a new clinical trial suggests. Gestational diabetes is diagnosed when a pregnant woman’s […]
Can Lower Gestational Diabetes Cutoff Improve Outcomes in Kids?
Using a lower threshold for diagnosing gestational diabetes in mothers didn’t reduce the risk of large-for-gestational-age infants, according to the GEMS trial. After randomizing over 4,000 pregnant women, 15.3% were diagnosed with gestational diabetes using lower, and commonly recommended, glycemic criteria versus 6.1% using a higher threshold, Caroline Crowther, MD, of the University of Auckland […]
How Service Dogs Help Vets with PTSD
Latest Mental Health News MONDAY, Aug. 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) A service dog can lower the severity of a U.S. military veteran’s post-traumatic stress disorder, according to past research. Hoping to learn more about this therapeutic bond, researchers worked with 82 vets and their trained service dogs. Their study was published July 27 in the […]
Maternal milk tied to better school-age outcomes for children born preterm
Children who were born preterm are at heightened risk of lower academic achievement in math, reading and other skills and are also at greater risk for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). But a new study suggests that an intervention in the first weeks and months of a preterm infant’s life may lead to better neurodevelopmental outcomes in […]
Fewer Complications With Robotic Nephrectomy in Complex Kidney Tumors
Robotic-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) led to a lower rate of complications compared with open partial nephrectomy (OPN) in patients with intermediate- or high-complexity kidney tumors, the randomized OpeRa trial found. Among over 200 patients, 36.6% of those who underwent RAPN had a postoperative complication of any kind within 30 days — the trial’s primary endpoint […]
Social Isolation Tied to Higher Risk of Subsequent Dementia
Social isolation was linked with lower volume in brain areas related to cognition and associated with a higher risk of subsequent dementia as well, a longitudinal study showed. Among more than 460,000 participants in the U.K. Biobank, social isolation at age 57 was tied to a 26% increased risk of dementia 12 years later, independent […]
Exercise’s Stroke Reduction Holds Up With Accelerometer Data
People who fit in roughly half an hour of exercise a day tended to be at lower risk of stroke, according to a cohort study adding to the evidence that physical activity is protective for cardiovascular health. Based on accelerometer measurements, the most sedentary individuals in the REGARDS study cohort carried a 44% increased risk […]
Does Sugar Make Coffee’s Benefits Less Sweet?
Drinking a few cups of coffee a day — even with sugar — was linked to a lower risk of death, new research showed. People who drank a moderate amount of coffee every day, either plain or sweetened with around a teaspoon of sugar, were about 30% less likely to die from any cause during […]
A Child’s Pet Dog May Shield Them From Crohn’s Disease
Latest Digestion News TUESDAY, May 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) Add a lower risk of Crohn’s disease to the many benefits of having a dog during childhood, a new study suggests. Sorry, cat lovers, researchers didn’t find a similar benefit for you. “We did not see the same results with cats, though we are still trying […]
Urinary Symptoms Linked to Increased Mortality Risk in Men
Moderate and severe lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) may be risk factors for mortality in men, according to a Finnish population-based cohort study. In multivariable-adjusted analyses of moderate and severe symptoms (disregarding bother), voiding and storage LUTS were each associated with increased mortality (HR 1.19, 95% CI 1.00-1.40, and HR 1.35, 95% CI 1.13-1.62, respectively), […]