Why? Because according to a survey just presented as a poster presentation at the recent American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology annual meeting in New Orleans, doctors seem to remain especially slow about warning prospective parents in their practice of the latest advice about how to prevent, or at the very least, lower the risk for, […]
Yes and no. So in a review of several previous studies about using zinc supplements either to prevent or treat respiratory infections that was just published in BMJ Open, researchers concluded that if used widely, zinc supplements could reduce respiratory infections in the population at large at the rate of 5 fewer infections for every […]
So everyone knows that the more you run, the greater your risk of eventually ending up with degenerative arthritis (aka osteoarthritis or OA) in the knees or hips. But as happens so often these days, when subjected to a rigorous review, what everyone knows may not be right. So, in a review that included 5,065 […]
A new study just published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology concluded that people who’ve undergone cataract surgery, as so many aging folks have had to do, are significantly more likely to die of cardiovascular disease (CVD) compared to peers who haven’t undergone cataract surgery. Is it the surgery that leads to a higher risk of […]
A very small study (66 people) that was presented at the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) recent virtual meeting showed that in overweight people suffering from GERD and who were taking meds for that problem (most commonly a PPI such as Nexium) even a small weight loss (average in this study of roughly 6 pounds) helped them […]
Interesting study presented at the recent (virtual) Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association (the study was listed as Abstract 375) concluded something that makes eminent common sense. When examining post-mortem brain tissue (yes, the patients has all donated their brains to science), these researchers concluded that those brains in people who had been taking […]
Especially for frail seniors, it seems. In this study, frail older adults who kept their systolic blood pressure level over 130 mm Hg had a lower risk of dying over the 8 years of the study than did those seniors who were able to achieve the current standard systolic benchmark of getting under 120 mm […]
As all women no doubt know, or at least should know, their risk for a fracture goes up with age, and goes up especially after menopause. So is it menopause or age that’s more of a fracture risk factor? It’s both but perhaps menopause is more important, at least according to a recent study published […]
Study after study after study has confirmed that with small exceptions (early in pregnancy being one of the main ones), moderate intake of coffee is linked to better health outcomes Or, to be more accurate, I think, people who drink moderate amounts of coffee tend to have better health outcomes than people who don’t drink […]
Not too much, not too little. At least that’s the conclusion from a study that looked at the hours of sleep for 1000 elderly folks and followed them for roughly 5 years to see which ones developed cognitive decline and who didn’t. According to this research, those seniors who slept between 5.5 and 7.5 hours […]