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NT-proBNP Not Predictive in Healthy Normal People
Conclusions: The investigators concluded that these findings do not support the use of NT-proBNP as a cardiovascular biomarker in healthy normal subjects, and have important implications for NT-proBNP–based strategies for early detection and primary prevention of cardiovascular disease.
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Falling and Excess Mortality
Meta-analysis: Excess Mortality After Hip Fracture Among Older Women and Men — Ann Intern Med
Conclusion: Older adults have a 5- to 8-fold increased risk for all-cause mortality during the first 3 months after hip fracture. Excess annual mortality persists over time for both women and men, but at any given age, excess annual mortality after hip fracture is higher in men than in women.
Alcohol Comsumption Behavior in Large Groups
The Spread of Alcohol Consumption Behavior in a Large Social Network — Ann Intern Med
Conclusion: Network phenomena seem to influence alcohol consumption behavior. This has implications for clinical and public health interventions and further supports group-level interventions to reduce problematic drinking.
So…it’s your friends…
Positive Press?
May Is National Arthritis Awareness Month
Sleep is Good
BBC News – Lack of sleep ‘linked to early death’
Getting less than six hours sleep a night can lead to an early grave, UK and Italian researchers have warned.
They said people regularly having such little sleep were 12% more likely to die over a 25-year period than those who got an “ideal” six to eight hours.
Stress Increases IHD Risk in Women
On-the-job pressure significantly increases the likelihood that women will develop ischemic heart disease, a large Danish study found.
Compared with women who felt their workplace pressure was suitable, those who reported that the pressure was much too high had a nearly 50% increased risk of developing ischemic heart disease (HR 1.47, 95% CI 1.14 to 1.88), according to Karen Allesøe, PhD, and colleagues from Glostrup University Hospital.
OA in One Large Joint Means OA in the Other
The diagnosis of radiographic osteoarthritis in one knee or hip likely signals the involvement of the contralateral joint, a cross-sectional analysis determined.
In a patient with moderate-to-severe osteoarthritis in one knee, the odds ratio for having a similar degree of involvement of the other knee was 62.7 (95% CI 42.3 to 93.1), according to Eric C. Sayre, PhD, of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and colleagues.
Ouch.
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