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Study discovers handgrip strength as potential tool to identify people at high risk of type 2 diabetes

Washington [US], September 5 (ANI): To identify the patients at risk of Type 2 diabetes, health care professionals have identified a simple test, such as the strength of your handgrip, as a quick low cost, screening tool.

2020-09-05T13:39:54.768716+00:00 IST

Study finds common cold combats influenza

Boston [US], September 5 (ANI): Rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of common colds, can prevent the flu virus from infecting airways by jumpstarting the body's antiviral defences, suggest the findings of a recent study.

2020-09-05T07:49:40.047882+00:00 IST

Study reveals why people with knee osteoarthritis experience different kinds of pain

Boston [US], September 5 (ANI): To better understand why the change in the Osteoarthritis pain experience occurs, researchers from the Boston University Schools of Medicine (BUSM) and Public Health reviewed data from the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study about the pain experience of 2,794 older adults with or at risk of knee osteoarthritis.

2020-09-05T07:47:26.283468+00:00 IST

Diabetes can be prevented, or even be reversed by losing weight

Sophia Antipolis [France], September 5 (ANI): A late-breaking research has found out that diabetes can be prevented or even be reversed by losing weight.

2020-09-05T07:40:57.515114+00:00 IST

Trendy intermittent, keto diets help in losing weight, increases cardiovascular risks

Washington [US], September 5 (ANI): Researchers have found that trendy ketogenic and intermittent fasting diets help people lose weight in the short-term, and modest evidence suggests that they may contribute to cardiovascular health.

2020-09-05T06:10:14.898091+00:00 IST

How we sleep today may forecast when Alzheimer's disease begins

Washington [US], September 4 (ANI): Neuroscientists have found a way to estimate, with some degree of accuracy, a time frame for when Alzheimer's is most likely to strike in a person's lifetime, based on their sleep patterns. Their findings suggest one defence against this virulent form of dementia - for which no treatment currently exists - is deep, restorative sleep, and plenty of it.

2020-09-04T06:09:09.692031+00:00 IST

Cellular roadmaps predict body's coronavirus vulnerability

Washington D.C. [USA], September 4 (ANI): New research from Cornell University developed potential roadmaps for how the coronavirus infects organs and identifies what molecular factors could help facilitate or restrict infection.

2020-09-04T05:43:42.039713+00:00 IST

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Study finds antibiotics affect breast milk microbiota in mothers of preterm infants

Washington [US], September 4 (ANI): A team of researchers has found that mothers of preterm babies have highly individual breast milk microbiomes and that even short courses of antibiotics have prolonged effects on the diversity and abundance of microbes in their milk.

2020-09-04T05:43:29.104501+00:00 IST

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A new model to predict survival in colorectal cancer

Washington D.C. [USA], September 4 (ANI): A team of researchers from South African universities in collaboration with the University of South Carolina-Upstate, have developed a method which relies on a hybrid signature (based on patterns in DNA mutation and RNA expression) and assessed its predictive properties for the mutation status and survival of CRC patients.

2020-09-04T05:22:38.949482+00:00 IST

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UIC research discovers links among poor sleep, high blood pressure, gut microbiome

Washington [US], September 3 (ANI): In the first study of its kind, the University of Illinois Chicago researchers have found associations among disrupted sleep, elevated blood pressure, and changes in the gut microbiome.

2020-09-03T06:45:57.804200+00:00 IST

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Children can have COVID-19 antibodies, virus in their system simultaneously

Washington [US], September 3 (ANI): Children's National Hospital researchers, who set out to improve the understanding of how long it takes pediatric patients with the virus to clear it from their systems and at what point they start to make antibodies that work against the coronavirus, have found that the virus and antibodies can coexist in young patients.

2020-09-03T05:46:37.449102+00:00 IST

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Minimal SARS-CoV-2 diversity suggests global vaccine is feasible: Study

Washington [US], Sept 2 (ANI): Genetic analysis of sequences from more than 27,000 individuals infected with the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 reveals that the virus has mutated minimally since December 2019, suggesting one vaccine would be sufficient to combat global infections.

2020-09-02T05:39:49.266192+00:00 IST

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Study tracks human milk nutrients in infant microbiome

Washington D.C. [USA], September 2 (ANI): A new study in mice helps explain why gut microbiomes of breastfed infants can differ greatly from those of formula-fed infants.

2020-09-02T05:33:47.292475+00:00 IST

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Handgrip strength shown to identify people at high risk of type 2 diabetes

Washington D.C. [USA], September 2 (ANI): A simple test such as the strength of your handgrip could be used as a quick, low-cost screening tool to help healthcare professionals identify patients at risk of type 2 diabetes.

2020-09-02T05:03:07.182683+00:00 IST

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People with less body response to stress task had more PTSD signs after COVID-19 began

Washington D.C. [USA], Sep 1 (ANI): People who did not have a large heart rate response to a stress task surprised researchers when they showed more symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder related to the crisis than others who also did the stress task and COVID-19 stress ratings.

2020-09-01T06:47:07.275000+00:00 IST

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Unravelling mother to baby transmission of Zika virus

Washington D.C. [USA], Sep 1 (ANI): A new study has shown that Zika virus can establish a persistent, replicating infection in the placenta, which is present months after the onset of the acute infection.

2020-09-01T06:02:04.712722+00:00 IST

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Large study finds no link between blood pressure medication and cancer

Paris [France], Aug 31 (ANI): There is no evidence that blood pressure-lowering drugs increase the risk of cancer, according to the most extensive study conducted on the topic.

2020-08-31T08:43:05.968309+00:00 IST

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Study provides hope for young women after heart attack

Paris [France], Aug 31 (ANI): Premenopausal women have good long-term outcomes after a heart attack, according to late-breaking research.

2020-08-31T04:51:10.659758+00:00 IST

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Study finds obese people at higher risk of COVID-19 complications

Washington [US], Aug 30 (ANI): A troubling connection between two health crises: coronavirus and obesity have been explored in a novel review of COVID-19 studies.

2020-08-30T17:25:12.733575+00:00 IST

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Study probes whether people with heart disease can exercise safely

Sophia Antipolis [France], Aug 30 (ANI): Regular exercise not only prevents heart disease, but also reduces premature death in people with established heart disease, according to a study by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

2020-08-30T07:18:09.001476+00:00 IST

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Intensive lifestyle intervention focused on weight loss lowers obesity-related cancer risk: Study

Baltimore (Maryland) [US], Aug 29 (ANI): The findings of a novel study suggest that an intensive lifestyle intervention (ILI) aimed at weight loss lowered incidence of obesity-related cancers in adults with overweight or obesity and type 2 diabetes.

2020-08-29T17:58:29.632337+00:00 IST