The University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) Recently reviewed two important study results published by JAMA Internal Medicine as well as the results from a Chinese observational study. In the American study, several factors...
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Machine Learning Being Used to Analyze the Interaction of Breast Cancer Risk Factors
A new innovative use of machine learning to help understand the interplay of genetic and other breast cancer risk factors has been reported in a recently published article from University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital. Approaches capable of merging...
Fighting a 21st-century Disease with 20th-century Weapons
COVID-19 has exposed the deficiencies of national disease detection and prevention systems in many countries of Europe, and in the United States. In the UK, contact tracing was abandoned early due to lack of capacity. Just three weeks ago, the government was prepared...
Type 2 Diabetes Prior to Age 40 Tied to Mental Illness & Hospitalizations
A clinical team from the Chinese University of Hong Kong studied the connection between patients with type 2 diabetes prior to the age of 40 and mental health hospitalizations. Apparently, those under the age of 40 with type 2 diabetes are twice as likely to be...
Stanford COURAGE Trial Points to Criticality of LifeStyle Interventions
As reported in TCTMD, Yael Maxwell writes about the COURAGE trial and the finding that patients with stable ischemic heart disease and risk factors under control, the more likely they are to survive long-term. “This should emphasize what most of us already believe,...