News tagged with general population
Hodgkin lymphoma survivors have increased risk of stroke and transient ischemic attack
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Patients treated for Hodgkin lymphoma with radiation therapy have a substantially higher risk of stroke, according to a new study published June 17 online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
tTGA: Is it more essential in diagnosis of gluten sensitive enteropathy?
Mar 24, 2009 |
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CD is a highly prevalent disease (1:100 to 1:300) which fulfils most of the criteria favoring mass screening. Despite this, screening for gluten sensitive enteropathy (GSE) is still controversial due to its dubious benefits ...
Gene mutations increase risk for aggressive prostate cancer
Jan 29, 2009 |
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Men who develop prostate cancer face an increased risk of having an aggressive tumor if they carry a so-called breast cancer gene mutation, scientists from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva ...
New research links genetic variant, poor glycemic control to coronary artery disease
Nov 25, 2008 |
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A new study led by researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School has found that a common genetic variant associated with an increased risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) in the general population ...
Individuals with HIV have higher risk of non-AIDS cancers
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 18, 2008 |
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The risk of non-AIDS cancer is higher for individuals infected with HIV than for the general population, according to a meta-analysis presented here at the American Association for Cancer Research's Seventh Annual International ...
Liver transplant recipients have higher cancer risk
Nov 03, 2008 |
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A new Canadian study comparing cancer rates of liver transplant patients to those of the general population has found that transplant recipients face increased risks of developing cancer, especially non-Hodgkin's lymphoma ...
Mentally ill smoke at 4 times the rate of general population
Oct 07, 2008 |
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Australians with mental illness smoke at four times the rate of the general population, says a new study from the University of Melbourne.
Large reservoir of mitochondrial DNA mutations identified in humans
Aug 11, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Newcastle, England, and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech in the United States have revealed a large reservoir of mitochondrial DNA mutations present in the general population. ...
Since introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy, HIV death rate has decreased
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 01, 2008 |
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In industrialized countries, persons infected sexually with HIV now appear to experience mortality rates similar to those of the general population in the first 5 years following infection, though a higher risk of death remains ...
