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<p><em>New study finds that adolescent obesity significantly heightens the risk of developing early chronic kidney disease in young adulthood. Even those with high-normal BMI are at risk. Severe obesity poses the highest risk, but even mild obesity and being overweight contribute significantly to this increased risk for both males and females. Lowering obesity rates in adolescents is crucial to better managing the risk of kidney disease and subsequent cardiovascular issues. This stud...

In a large Israeli cohort, adolescent hypertension was associated with a more than twofold increased risk for stroke by midlife, even after adjustment for BMI, baseline sociodemographic factors and diabetes.An analysis linking the Israeli Defense Forces conscription center database with the Israeli National Stroke Registry was published in Stroke.

As war rages in Ukraine, Boris Zakharov and a network of human-rights activists stretching from Kyiv to Brooklyn are organizing rescue missions

Since the invasion of Ukraine, Jewish writers from the former Soviet Union watch with alarm as war returns to the places their families fled.

Jewish writers from the former Soviet Union share their reactions to the invasion of Ukraine.

Kevin Birmingham explores Fyodor Dostoevsky’s inspiration for Crime and Punishment

Review: "For all the talk of bread lines and communal apartments, the Soviets made things well, too - the knives are still sharp and the pots are still worthy 30 years after my family left the USSR. And the things the Soviets made were sometimes beautiful, too. We may have needed Communism to fall in order to see it - or just the publication of a book as gorgeous and necessary as this one."― Boris Fishman, author of A Replacement Life "Explores a period in the history of design that has been ...

 E-Mail DALLAS, May 13, 2021 -- Higher body mass index (BMI) in adolescence is associated with a significantly higher risk of first ischemic stroke in adults under age 50 regardless of whether they had Type 2 diabetes, according to new research published today in Stroke, a journal of the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association. While rates of adolescent obesity and stroke among adults under the age of 50 years continue to rise around the world, the precise li...