Clinical Research

Low Dietary Fiber Intake And Increased Cardiovascular Risk Linked

A new paper has found a significant association between low dietary fiber intake and cardiometabolic risks including metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular inflammation, and obesity.  In the study, investigators used surveillance data from 23,168 subjects in ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 20 2013 - 10:11am

Bone Marrow Transplants Linked To Negative Sexual Side Effects

Blood and bone marrow transplants have been done for decades and have always had risks of complications, like virtually any treatment for serious diseases, but a new study has found an additional one for the list: sexual health. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 24 2013 - 5:14pm

Sugar Doesn't Cause Liver Disease

Despite what you may have read in the New York Times and other mainstream media outlets jumping on the 'sugar is bad' fad, sugar intake is off the hook in one area; nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. High-calorie diets promote the progression of ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 1 2013 - 1:57pm

GLP-1 Gut Hormone Test Predicts Efficacy Of Gastric Bypass Surgery

Gastric bypass surgery has become one of the most commonly performed procedures in the treatment of obesity. In most patients, it quickly produces substantial body weight loss and improved glucose tolerance. However, the metabolic improvements vary consid ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2013 - 1:01pm

Osteoporosis Added To List Of Type 2 Diabetes Complications

Type 2 diabetes brings with it a long list of complementary issues: vascular and heart disease, eye problems, nerve damage, kidney disease, hearing problems and Alzheimer's disease. A new study in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research adds skeleta ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 13 2013 - 7:31am

Women Who Have Had Bariatric Obesity Surgery Should Be Classed As At-Risk During Pregnancy

In 2008, an estimated 500,000,000 people were obese globally, which could result in a 2-4 year shorter life span, which increases to 8-10 years in those morbidly obese. Obesity is also a risk factor for adverse pregnancy and perinatal outcomes (relating t ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 13 2013 - 7:31am

Rate And Outcomes Of Of Aortic Valve Replacement Up

Chicago – Jose Augusto Barreto-Filho, M.D., Ph.D., of the Federal University of Sergipe and the Clinica e Hospital Sao Lucas, Sergipe, Brazil, and colleagues assessed procedure rates and outcomes of surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) among 82,755,924 ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 17 2013 - 1:34pm

Retroviruses: New Tales Told By Old Infections

Retroviruses are important pathogens capable of crossing species barriers to infect new hosts, but knowledge of their evolutionary history is limited. By mapping endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), retroviruses whose genes have become part of the host organis ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 30 2013 - 1:26pm

Heart Attacks Are Not Different For Genders

Using chest pain characteristics (CPCs) specific to women in the early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI, heart attack) in the emergency department does not seem to be supported by the findings of a new study. While about 90 percent of patient ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 25 2013 - 6:12pm

Sex Shop Science? Skin Communicates With, And Affects, Metabolism In The Liver

Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark have discovered that the skin is capable of communicating with the liver. The discovery has surprised the scientists, and they say that it may help our understanding of how skin diseases can affect the r ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 6 2013 - 12:03pm