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Researchers find that healthy, younger adults could be at risk for heart disease

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Even younger adults who have few short-term risk factors for heart disease may have a higher risk of developing heart disease over their lifetimes, according to new findings by a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher.





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Novel breast tissue feature may predict woman's cancer risk

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mayo Clinic researchers have found that certain structural features within breast tissue can indicate a woman's individual cancer risk. The findings appear online today in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.


New tool finds best heart disease and stroke treatments for patients with diabetes

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Researchers from North Carolina State University and Mayo Clinic have developed a computer model that medical doctors can use to determine the best time to begin using statin therapy in diabetes patients to help prevent heart ...


Using relative utility curves for risk prediction

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A relative utility curve is a simple method to evaluate risk prediction in a medical decision-making framework, according to a commentary published online October 20 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.


Nature or nurture? New epigenetic model blurs the line in the debate

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A research report published in the July 2009 issue of the journal Genetics complicates the debate over whether nature or nurture plays the most important role in complex diseases such as psychiatric disorders, heart diseas ...


New family care model aids at-risk families

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Many families struggle on a day-to-day basis with insufficient in-home care or problematic out-of-home care for their emotionally or behaviorally troubled children and adolescents. Researchers have recently shown that an ...


Prediction model superior to traditional criteria in bladder treatment decision

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A statistical model can accurately predict which patients will have poor outcomes after bladder surgery and can determine the need for chemotherapy. The analysis, to be published in the December 1, 2009 issue of CANCER, a peer ...


'Nature' and 'nurture' variables early predictors of AMD

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Like many diseases, causes for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) can be categorized as either "nature" or "nurture". Researchers think these factors, when used in the proper model, can be strong predictors of the disease.


New American College of Surgeons risk calculator determines colorectal surgery risk

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research published in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows that a risk calculator developed by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) can help surgeons provide patients with more detail ...


Gene data tool advances prospects for personalized medicine

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A sophisticated computational algorithm, applied to a large set of gene markers, has achieved greater accuracy than conventional methods in assessing individual risk for type 1 diabetes.


New heart disease risk score should be recommended in the UK, say experts

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created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new score for predicting a person's risk of heart disease performs better than the existing test and should be recommended for use in the United Kingdom by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), ...



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