Study confirms link of processed meat to cardiovascular disease, early death ANI | Updated: Apr 01, 2021 07:44 IST
Ontario [Canada], April 1 (ANI): A global study led by Hamilton scientists has found a link between eating processed meat and a higher risk of cardiovascular disease. The same study, however, did not find the same link with unprocessed red meat or poultry.
The information comes from the diets and health outcomes of 1,34,297 people from 21 countries spanning five continents, who were tracked by researchers for data on meat consumption and cardiovascular illnesses.
After following the participants for almost a decade, the researchers found consumption of 150 grams or more of processed meat a week was associated with a 46 per cent higher risk of cardiovascular disease and a 51 per cent higher risk of death than those who ate no processed meat.
Young adults shed light on what matters for mental health of ethnic diverse youth ANI | Updated: Mar 17, 2021 08:07 IST
Washington [US], March 17 (ANI): A study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP), reports on the young adult assessment of the now 20-year longitudinal Boricua Youth Study (BYS), a large cohort that brings much-needed insight about development and mental health of children from a diverse ethnic background growing up in disadvantaged contexts.
The results of the study were published by Elsevier in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
The present article, with its companion report on the prevalence of conditions and associated factors, provides an update on the study s fourth wave, which follows-up two probability-based population samples of children of Puerto Rican heritage. Unique to the study is its two-site design, which allows for comparison of
Developing game-changing test to diagnose Parkinson s ANI | Updated: Mar 14, 2021 23:43 IST
Washington [US], March 14 (ANI): A team of scientists at The University of Manchester discovered in recent research that it is possible to identify Parkinson s based on compounds found on the surface of the skin.
The findings offer hope that a pioneering new test could be developed to diagnose the degenerative condition through a simple and painless skin swab.
Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed a technique that works by analysing compounds found in sebum - the oily substance that coats and protects the skin - and identifying changes in people with Parkinson s Disease. Sebum is rich in lipid-like molecules and is one of the lesser-studied biological fluids in the diagnosis of the condition. People with Parkinson s may produce more sebum than normal - a condition known as seborrhoea.
Researchers find silkworm silk may help better treatment of muscle atrophy ANI | Updated: Mar 14, 2021 15:13 IST
Washington [US], March 14 (ANI): In a step to discover the method to improve on traditional methods of cell culture, the researchers at the Utah State University recently used the silk from silkworm to grow skeletal muscle cells. The results of the study may hopefully lead to better treatments for muscle atrophy.
When scientists are trying to understand the disease and test treatments, they generally grow model cells on a flat plastic surface (think petri dish). But growing cells on a two-dimensional surface has its limitations, primarily because muscle tissue is three-dimensional.
Cancer cells may evade chemotherapy by going dormant, suggests study ANI | Updated: Mar 13, 2021 11:24 IST
Washington [US], March 13 (ANI): Cancer cells can dodge chemotherapy by entering a state that bears similarity to certain kinds of senescence, a type of active hibernation that enables them to weather the stress induced by aggressive treatments aimed at destroying them, according to a new study.
The study was led by scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine. These findings have implications for developing new drug combinations that could block senescence and make chemotherapy more effective.
In a study published Jan. 26 in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, the investigators reported that this biologic process could help explain why cancers so often recur after treatment. The research was done in both organoids and mouse models made from patients samples of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) tumours. T