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The new guideline on lower-extremity peripheral artery disease emphasizes the importance of managing care with a multispecialty team and implementing structured exercise programs for patients. High-intensity statin therapy and low-dose rivaroxaban are recommended treatments for patients with PAD. The guideline also highlights the need for comprehensive risk factor management, foot care, and revascularization. Disparities in…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new paper appearing in the British Journal of Surgery finds that care in hospitals with higher surgery team sex-diversity was associated with better post-operative outcomes for patients. In various industries, including business, finance, technology, education, and law, many observers believe gender and sex-diversity is important not only for equity, but…

A recent study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience reported that brain clearance is reduced during anesthesia and sleep. Sleep represents a state of vulnerable inactivity. Given the risks of this vulnerability, it is assumed that sleep may confer some benefit. It has been suggested that sleep clears toxins and metabolites from the brain via…

Hospitalized patients with dementia and dysphagia are often prescribed a “dysphagia diet,” made up of texture-modified foods and thickened liquids in an effort to reduce the risk for aspiration or other problems. However, a new study calls this widespread and long-held practice into question. Investigators found no evidence that the use of thickened liquids reduced…

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Scatter plots showing the relationships of (A) AHI, (B) RDI, and (C) ODI during REM sleep to RAVLT total learning scores while controlling for age, sex, time between assessments, years of education, BMI, and APOE4 status. Credit: Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy (2024). DOI: 10.1186/s13195-024-01446-3 A research team led by the University of California, Irvine has…

In a recent study published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, a team of researchers in China used an in vitro co-culture of adipocytes, cardiomyocytes, and sympathetic neurons to examine the independent associations of epicardial adipose tissue and the sympathetic nervous system with cardiac arrhythmia. They found that the adipose-neural axis plays an important role…

As the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care prepares to release its anticipated updated guidelines on breast cancer screening, University of Ottawa researchers are sounding an alarm: Breast cancer cases in young Canadian women, especially women in their 20s, have risen by as much as 45.5% in recent years. Study findings, which were published…

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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research being presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Venice, Italy (12-15 May) has for the first time quantified the impact of different aspects of childhood obesity on long-term health and life expectancy. The modeling by stradoo GmbH, a life sciences consultancy in Munich, Germany, presented by Dr….