Survey finds Americans may delay medical appointments, emergency care during pandemic ANI | Updated: Jan 12, 2021 11:47 IST
Florida [US], January 12 (ANI): A new national survey by the Orlando Health Heart & Vascular Institute has found that many Americans would delay doctor s appointments and even emergency care when COVID-19 rates are high.
The survey found 67 per cent of Americans are more concerned about going to medical appointments when COVID-19 rates are high in their area and nearly three in five (57 per cent) are hesitant to go to the hospital even for an emergency.
In a time when every trip out of the house and every person we come in contact with poses a threat of contracting COVID-19, it can be difficult to weigh the risks and benefits of venturing out. However, experts say hospitals and doctor s offices are some of the safest public spaces and that delaying medical care can be very dangerous.
Study finds fragmented sleep patterns can predict vulnerability to chronic stress ANI | Updated: Jan 12, 2021 11:32 IST
Abu Dhabi [United Arab Emirates], January 12 (ANI): New research from NYU Abu Dhabi s Laboratory of Neural Systems and Behavior for the first time used an animal model to demonstrate how abnormal sleep architecture can be a predictor of stress vulnerability.
These important findings have the potential to inform the development of sleep tests that can help identify who may be susceptible or resilient to future stress.
In the study, Abnormal Sleep Signals Vulnerability to Chronic Social Defeat Stress, which appears in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience, NYUAD Assistant Professor of Biology Dipesh Chaudhury and Research Associate Basma Radwan describe their development of a mouse model to detect how disruptions in Non-rapid Eye Movement (NREM) sleep result in increased vulnerability to future stress.
Youth using e-cigarettes three times as likely to become daily cigarette smokers: Study ANI | Updated: Jan 11, 2021 11:24 IST
California [US], January 11 (ANI): Starting tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, before the age of 18 is a major risk factor for people becoming daily cigarette smokers, suggests a new study.
This was reported in the analysis of a large nationally representative longitudinal study by the University of California San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science.
Reporting in the online edition of Pediatrics, researchers found that in 2014 people age 12 to 24 who used e-cigarettes were three times as likely to become daily cigarette smokers in the future. Among those who reported using a tobacco product, daily use increased with age through age 28. Daily cigarette smoking nearly doubled between 18 to 21-year-olds (12 percent) and 25 to 28-year-olds (21 percent).
New form of drug to help treat osteoporosis, calcium-related disorders ANI | Updated: Jan 10, 2021 14:15 IST
Indiana [US], January 10 (ANI): A new form of the drug to treat osteoporosis that comes with the potential for fewer side effects and may provide a new option for patients, suggest the findings of a new study led by a team of researchers from Purdue University.
Supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and published in Biophysical Journal, the innovators developed a stabilized form of human calcitonin, which is a peptide drug already used for people with osteoporosis. Researchers created a prodrug form of the peptide hormone to increase its effectiveness as an osteoporosis treatment.
New online tool identifies COVID-19 patients at highest risk of deterioration ANI | Updated: Jan 09, 2021 07:35 IST
London [UK], January 9 (ANI): A new risk-stratification tool that can accurately predict the likelihood of deterioration in adults hospitalised with COVID-19 has been developed by researchers.
The research was led by the UK Coronavirus Clinical Characterisation Consortium (known as ISARIC4C).
Researchers say the online tool, made freely available to NHS doctors from today (Friday 8 January 2021), could support clinicians decision making - helping to improve patient outcomes and ultimately save lives.
The tool assesses 11 measurements routinely collected from patients, including age, gender, and physical measurements (such as oxygen levels) along with some standard laboratory tests and calculates a percentage risk of deterioration, known as the deterioration-score >4C Deterioration Score .