HealthDay (4/24, Norton) reports that investigators “found that when they gave 18 healthy volunteers choline supplements, it boosted their production of a chemical called TMAO.” According to HealthDay, “That, in turn, increased their blood cells’ tendency to clot.”
Reuters (4/24, Boggs) reports that research (4/24, Boggs) published in Circulation suggests “consuming too much choline, a nutrient sold in over-the-counter dietary supplements,” may increase “the risk for blood clots.”
HealthDay (4/24, Norton) reports that investigators “found that when they gave 18 healthy volunteers choline supplements, it boosted their production of a chemical called TMAO.” According to HealthDay, “That, in turn, increased their blood cells’ tendency to clot.”
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The New York Times (4/17, Brody, Subscription Publication) reports, “Nonadherence to prescribed medications” is “an out-of-control epidemic in the” US “that costs more and affects more people than any disease Americans currently worry about.” The article suggests that nonadherence “explains why so many patients don’t get better, suffer surprising relapses or even die when they are given drug prescriptions that should keep their disorders under control,” cites research on how widespread the problem is, and also outlines why the problem may be so common.
Reuters (4/17, Rapaport) reports, “More than eight million American adults suffer from serious psychological distress, and they’re less likely to access health care services than other people,” researchers found after examining “survey data on health care use from 2006 to 2014 for a nationwide sample of 207,853 US adults ages 18 to 64.” The study revealed that “people with serious psychological distress, which includes any mental illness severe enough to require treatment, are three times more likely to be too poor to afford care and 10 times more likely to be unable to pay for medications.” The findings were published online in Psychiatric Services, . CNN (4/17, Scutti) reports, “The study may help explain why the suicide rate is up to 43,000 people each year, said” lead study author Judith Weissman, PhD, JD, a research manager at New York University’s Langone Medical Center. Please Copy and Paste the link below to find out the top 5 saltiest foods in our diet.
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http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN12X2QB Reuters (10/12, Doyle) reports that research suggests “keeping sodium intake low may prolong life according to a new study that set out to clarify the long-term risk of eating too much sodium and the benefits of cutting down.” After “following more than 3,000 people with elevated blood pressure for over 24 years,” investigators “found that risk of death from any cause rose in a straight line along with sodium intake.” The findings were published online in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Please copy and paste link for article https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/13/the-5-8-billion-argument-for-getting-your-flu-shot/ Overall use of dietary supplements remains steady as product preferences shift, study finds10/31/2016 CNN (10/11, Christensen) reports that a study published in JAMA suggests that “the majority of American adults use dietary supplements,” a rate which has “remained steady for about the past decade...despite an increase in the number of studies” showing they produce little to no health benefits. According to CNN, the National Institutes of Health “has spent $250 million to $300 million to study the health effects of supplements, and ‘most of the larger NIH-supported clinical trials of DS (dietary supplements) failed to demonstrate a significant benefit compared to control groups.’” While the research has not deterred Americans from using supplements altogether, it may have caused some to stop “using some of the products and been drawn to others” instead.
HealthDay (10/11, Norton) reports that the study found that “multivitamins and many individual vitamins and minerals are less popular, as are botanicals such as echinacea, ginseng and garlic extracts.” However, more Americans “are using vitamin D, omega-3 fatty acids and probiotics.” In “Science Now,” the Los Angeles Times (10/10, Kaplan) reports, “In a head-to-head comparison,” 230 “real human physicians outperformed a collection of 23 symptom-checker apps and websites by a margin of more than 2 to 1,” researchers found. What’s more, “even when the contestants got three chances to figure out what ailed a hypothetical patient, the diagnostic software lagged far behind actual” physicians.
The CBS News (10/11, Marcus) website reports, “The online symptom checkers were more likely to make a correct diagnosis of simpler health conditions than the more complex ones,” researchers found. Nevertheless, “experts stressed that they aren’t dismissing technology’s medical benefits.” In some cases, they can help patients learn more about their conditions after receiving their physicians’ diagnoses. The findings were published online in JAMA Internal Medicine. More nursing home residents with advanced dementia being connected to ventilators, study shows10/31/2016 Reuters (10/10, Rapaport) reports the “number of nursing home residents with advanced dementia” connected to ventilators has increased significantly in recent years although it “doesn’t appear to help them live longer,” according to a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Researchers found that in 2000 only 39 of every 1,000 nursing home residents with dementia who were hospitalized were connected to ventilators, but in 2013 that had increased to 78 of every 1,000.
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