U.S. Kids Drink Too Little Water: Study
The results of this study should not be surprising. 
Emphysema on CT Significantly Correlated With Mortality
Click through for the abstract. There is a link on the page for a PDF version.
CT Scan Findings of Emphysema Predict Mortality in COPD — CHEST
Results: Of the 251 patients, 79 died, with 40 classified as respiratory deaths not involving lung cancer. Univariate Cox analysis revealed that emphysematous change as assessed by CT scan, lung function, age, or BMI were significantly correlated with mortality. Multivariate analysis revealed that emphysematous change as assessed by CT scan had the best association with mortality.
Conclusions: Emphysematous change as assessed by CT scan predicts respiratory mortality in outpatients with various stages of COPD.
Train Your Brain
Underwriters love stuff like this!
In the business world, it’s a distinct advantage to have a brain that anticipates future demands and negotiates them well. Accurate predictions typically translate to success. Being able to envision future scenarios helps foster strategic planning and resist immediate rewards in favor of longer-term gains. The proactive brain flexibly recombines details from past experiences that, by analogy with your current surroundings, help you make sense of where you are, anticipate what will come next, and successfully navigate the transition.
Depression + CHD = Bad
The risk of all-cause mortality was elevated 67% for patients with coronary heart disease (P<0.05) and 2.10 times for those with depressive symptoms (P<0.001) in the long-running Whitehall II study of British civil servants.
But patients who had both conditions had a nearly five-fold risk compared with those who had neither (hazard ratio 4.99, P<0.001), Hermann Nabi, PhD, of the University of Versailles, France, and colleagues reported online in Heart.
Scary Charts of the Day – 09.20.2010
Official Google Reader Blog: A welcome and a look back
These charts should be extremely scary especially to folks in the newspaper and media businesses. If you wanted some hard evidence on consumer preferences for news outlets shifting to the Internet, here you go. The top chart is the number of people who use Google Reader at least once a week. The bottom chart is the number of items read on Google Reader.
Personally, we still buy a daily newspaper.
Fish Kill Update 09.18.2010
Guest Post: What’s Going On In The Gulf? « naked capitalism
Oil? What oil?
There are two links near the bottom of this article concerning possible human health consequences from the spill. We now know about the respiratory and possible cancer issues of 9/11 survivors and workers having inhaled lots of stuff. Pay attention to your Gulf Shore applicants for unusual rashes or symptoms.
The New US Economy
Lost Decade for American Income – WSJ.com
For your Scary Charts check out the article link below.
Or see what Yves Smith is writing about real estate.
Krystexxa (pegloticase)
Medical News: FDA Approves New Gout Drug – in Product Alert, Prescriptions from MedPage Today
Say that five times fast.
Cocaine and CHF
Almost one-fourth of patients hospitalized for heart failure had a history of cocaine use as a potential contributing factor, a retrospective chart review showed.
Pay Attention to Vitamin D Levels
Medical News: HFSA: Vitamin D Marker for HF Deaths – in Meeting Coverage, HFSA from MedPage Today
Heart failure death occurred two to three times more often in people with vitamin D insufficiency or deficiency compared with those who had normal levels of the vitamin, according to data from a government survey.
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