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Wearing a surgical face mask provides a high protective effect against aerosols while posing low airflow resistance, in contrast to plastic face shields which offer little to no protection, a study reveals.
Intake of dietary carbohydrates interacts with genetic changes in the AMY1 gene to influence the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in adult women, a Korea study has found.
Among individuals with low physical activity, excess leisure sedentary time of at least 8 hours daily translates to a heightened long-term stroke risk, as suggested in a study.
Visit-to-visit and sustained high within-visit blood pressure variability (BPV) are significantly associated with all-cause mortality, according to a study.
Incomplete resection of colon segments is significantly associated with a higher risk for future neoplasia and advanced neoplasia than those with complete resection, a study has found.
Dietary intake of sodium and potassium can control short-term blood pressure variability (BPV) in addition to BP, reveals a recent study. Combined Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet and low sodium intake may also lower systolic and diastolic average real variability (ARV) through various mechanisms.
Though skin cancer incidence is low, liver transplant recipients may still benefit from long-term dermatological surveillance to help monitor malignancies and infections, according to a recent Singapore study.
Using deep-learning and natural-language models, words and sentences were directly decoded from cortical activity during attempted speech in an individual with anarthria (ie, inability to articulate speech) and spastic quadriparesis.
Among individuals who self-harm, those who present with cuts or stabs to the neck, in particular, are at greater risk of subsequent suicide, a study has found.
Starting rhythm control early – either with ablation or antiarrhythmic drugs – reduced the risk of cardiovascular events in patients with heart failure (HF) and atrial fibrillation (afib) in a prespecified subanalysis of the EAST AFNET 4 trial
