A new study hints that regular consumption of cocoa flavanol might improve cognitive function in older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), perhaps by improving glucose-insulin metabolism.
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Dott. Luigi Vicari on 16 agosto 2012
Data from two prospective cohort studies have identified the ABO blood group as a risk factor for the development of coronary heart disease. Individuals with blood groups A, B, or AB were 5% to 23% more likely to develop coronary heart disease compared with subjects with O blood type, and the associations were not altered by multivariate adjustment of other risk or dietary factors.
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Dott. Luigi Vicari on 10 agosto 2012
Giving prophylactic antibiotics within 1 hour before cesarean incision instead of after umbilical cord clamping reduced surgical site infections by 48%, according to a 96-month retrospective cohort study.
The study, by Nupur D. Kittur, PhD, MPH, from the Department of Medicine and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, and colleagues, included of 8668 women who underwent cesarean delivery from January 2003 to December 2010 in a US tertiary-care hospital. The results are published in the August issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
Systemic corticosteroid monotherapy appears to have no benefit in patients with acute rhinosinusitis, according to new research.
Roderick P. Venekamp, MD, PhD, from the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands, and colleagues published their findings online August 7 in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Extended-cycle dosing of an ultralow-dose contraceptive vaginal ring decreases the frequency of migraine aura and largely prevents menstrual-related migraine headache, results of a pilot observational study suggest.