Men With RA Have Double the Rate of All-Cause Mortality | Medpage Today.
all-cause mortality
Elderly people who exercise ‘live five years longer’ – BBC News
PodMed – Johns Hopkins 05.09.15 Medpage Today
PodMed: A Medical News Roundup From Johns Hopkins | Medpage Today.
Digoxin and mortality at the six minute mark of the podcast is a must listen.
Inactive Seniors Can See Heart Gains With Light Exercise | Medpage Today
Early Death in T1D More Common in Women than Men | Medpage Today
Women with type 1 diabetes have a roughly 40% greater risk of all-cause mortality compared with men with type 1 diabetes, researchers reported.
via Early Death in T1D More Common in Women than Men | Medpage Today.
Many U.S. Workers Sacrificing Sleep for Work
“The evidence that time spent working was the most prominent sleep thief was overwhelming,” said lead author Dr. Mathias Basner, assistant professor of sleep and chronobiology in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia.
Nap anyone?
Body Mass Index and the Risk of All-Cause Mortality Among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
Body Mass Index and the Risk of All-Cause Mortality Among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
Conclusions—The current study indicated a U-shaped association of BMI with all-cause mortality risk among African American and white patients with type 2 diabetes. A significantly increased risk of all-cause mortality was observed among African Americans with BMI<30 kg/m2 and BMI ≥35 kg/m2, and among whites with BMI<25 kg/m2 and BMI ≥40 kg/m2 compared with patients with BMI 30-34.9 kg/m2.
Fruit, Veg Intake Has Dose-Response Link With CV Death
The inverse association between increased fruit and vegetable consumption and mortality was particularly noticeable for cardiovascular mortality; higher consumption was not significantly linked with reduced risk of cancer mortality
All of the pitfalls of the component studies are present in the meta-analysis, the authors warn, including the fact that fruit and vegetable intake is typically self-reported. Not all studies adjusted for other types of foods consumed, including saturated fats, processed meats, etc. The definition of “portions” may also have been different across studies, the authors caution.
via Fruit, Veg Intake Has Dose-Response Link With CV Death.
Vegans and radical vegetarians take note. Bold in quote above is my emphasis.
Sleep Apnea Linked to Cancer
Moderate-to-severe OSA was associated with a 2.5-fold higher likelihood of incident cancer (95% CI 1.2-5.0) after adjustment for obesity and a full range of other factors, Nathaniel Marshall, PhD, of the University of Sydney Nursing School in Australia, and colleagues found.
Cancer mortality was 3.4 times more common (95% CI 1.1-10.2) in those with sleep apnea than with no sleep apnea during 20 years of follow-up, they reported in the April 15 issue of theJournal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.
Higher BMI May Be Better for Older Adults
The association between all-cause mortality and BMI created a U-shaped curve with a broad base (P-nonlinearity <0.001). The “nadir of the curve for BMI and mortality was between 24.0 and 30.9, with the lowest risk being between 27.0 and 27.9 (HR 0.90, 95% CI 0.88-0.92),” wrote Caryl A. Nowson, PhD, of Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, and her co-authors, in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
They said that mortality risk did not increase with excess weight in this population until BMI was ≥33 (HR 1.08 for BMI of 33.0-33.9, 95% CI 1.00-1.15).
Risk of mortality was highest at a BMI lower than 23, the authors said. Using a BMI of 23.0 to 23.9 as the reference, there was a 12% greater risk of mortality for those with a BMI in the range of 21.0-21.9 (HR 1.12, 95% CI 1.10-1.13) and a 19% greater risk for those with a BMI in the range of 20.0-20.9 (HR 1.19, 95% CI 1.17-1.22), the authors said.
via Higher BMI May Be Better for Older Adults.
BMI and all-cause mortality in older adults: a meta-analysis.
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