The Washington Post (12/2, Searing) reports that during “a 20-year period, scores on standardized tests of cognitive function, given periodically, fell among nearly everyone, but the decline was 19 percent greater among those with diabetes.”
The New York Times (12/2, Bakalar) “Well” blog reports that research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggests that individuals “diagnosed with diabetes in their 50’s are significantly more likely than others to suffer mental decline by their 70’s.” Researchers “examined 13,351 black and white adults, aged 48 to 67, for diabetes and prediabetes using self-reported physician diagnoses and glucose control tests.”
The Washington Post (12/2, Searing) reports that during “a 20-year period, scores on standardized tests of cognitive function, given periodically, fell among nearly everyone, but the decline was 19 percent greater among those with diabetes.”
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The New York Times (12/2, Bakalar) “Well” blog reports that according to a study published online Nov. 24 in The Lancet Psychiatry, “short-term psychotherapy may be an effective way to prevent repeated suicide attempts.” Researchers arrived at this conclusion after studying “5,678 people who had attempted suicide and then received a program of short-term psychotherapy based on needs, including crisis intervention, cognitive therapy, behavioral therapy, and psychodynamic and psychoanalytic treatment,” then comparing “them with 17,034 people who had attempted suicide but received standard care, including admission to a hospital, referral for treatment or discharge with no referral.”
The New York Times (12/3, Bakalar) “Well” blog reports that according to research published Dec. 2 in the BMJ, the Mediterranean diet “is associated with longer telomeres.” For the study, researchers evaluated “data on 4,676 healthy women...whose diets were ranked on a scale of one to nine for similarity to the ideal Mediterranean diet.” Next, investigators “measured their telomere lengths with blood tests and followed them for more than 20 years with periodic examinations.”
Forbes (12/3) contributor Larry Husten writes that those “who more closely followed a Mediterranean diet had longer telomeres on the end of their chromosomes.” The Boston Globe (12/3, Kotz) “Daily Dose” blog reports, “Mediterranean diet components such as vegetables, fish, and wine are rich in antioxidants and have anti-inflammatory effects that could protect against cell aging.” Still, the study authors “didn’t find that any single food offered more benefits than another.” Instead, “it was the combination of dietary components...that predicted telomere length.” NPR (12/2) “Shots” blog reports that “a joint task force of allergists” has “published guidelines...in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, reinforcing that” emergency departments “should be using epinephrine ‘first and fast’ to treat a severe allergic reaction.” The blog points out that one recent study indicated that only “half of internal medicine” physicians “know that epinephrine should be the first treatment” for severe allergic reactions. A separate study indicated that “up to 80 percent of the time, a person experiencing anaphylaxis” in the ED “isn’t receiving epinephrine when they should.”
HealthDay (12/3, Preidt) reports, “There is virtually no reason not to use epinephrine on people believed to be suffering a severe allergic reaction, according to the guidelines from the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI).” The New York Times (12/3) “Well” blog reports that a study suggests that “running may reverse aging in certain ways while walking does not.” According to the blog, these “findings raise interesting questions about whether most of us need to pick up the pace of our workouts in order to gain the greatest benefit.”
The Los Angeles Times (12/4, Kaplan) “Science Now” blog reports that according to a report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), approximately “one in 13 Americans was suffering from depression at some point between 2009 and 2012, yet only 35% of people with severe depression and 20% of those with moderate depression said they had sought help from a mental health professional.” The report’s findings come from “interviews with a nationally representative group of American adults and teenagers who participated in the federal government’s ongoing National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.”
The New York Daily News (12/4, Engel) points out that the report, called “Depression in the US Household Population, 2009-2012,” also reveals that “depression was most common among women and people ages 40 to 59.” Other findings from the report: “Women of all ages were more likely to be depressed than men — 9.5% of females reported moderate or severe symptoms, whereas only 5.6% of men did,” and “rates of depression” did not differ much “across racial lines.” The CBS News (12/4) website reports that “people living below poverty level were two and half times more likely to suffer from depression,” and that “nearly 90 percent of Americans with severe depression said their illness disrupted their work and social life,” the report found. TIME (12/4, Park) reports that NCHS epidemiologist Laura Pratt, PhD, said, “People with severe depression should be getting therapy from a mental health professional, and they should also in a lot of cases be on a more complicated medication regimen that requires a psychiatrist to treat them. The New York Times (11/26, Tavernise, Subscription Publication) reports that the FDA asked “a panel of medical experts” to weigh in on “whether the agency should require labels for the injections to carry the toughest federal warning,” a contraindication, on the general use of steroid injections for neck and back pain. The contraindication “essentially would have signaled to doctors that the risks of use outweighed any possible therapeutic benefit.” The panel of experts decided the wording of the warning “was too broad.”
Eating a 28 g serving of yogurt every day was associated with an 18% lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes in a meta-analysis of 14 prospective cohorts with 459,790 participants and 35,863 incident type 2 diabetes cases. Other dairy foods and consumption of total dairy were not appreciably associated with diabetes incidence. The BMC Medicinefindings suggest that randomized clinical trials are warranted to examine the causal effects of yogurt consumption on diabetes as well as the potential of probiotics to affect body weight and insulin resistance.
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