Feb 10, 2021
Lower LV diastolic function in adulthood tied to increased childhood adiposity, decreased physical activity
Body-fat status and the level of physical activity in childhood were independently linked with left ventricular (LV) diastolic function in adulthood, according to a study from Finland and published in
In the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study (YFS), which included 1,871 participants (mean age: 41.8; 45.9% male), elevated systolic blood pressure (BP) and increased adiposity in childhood were associated with worse adulthood LV diastolic function, while higher childhood physical activity levels were tied to better adulthood LV diastolic function (
P 0.001 for all), reported Jarkko S. Heiskanen, MD, of the University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland, and co-authors.
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MONTGOMERY Schools went into lockdown this afternoon after a man was found shot at a grocery store in Montgomery. At about 12:25 p.m. police were called to Sylvester’s Market on Main Street for a report of an adult male suffering from what police describe as a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Data breaches at UPMC, Nebraska Medicine affect 250,000+ individuals
Providers are the most common targets for cyber criminals attacking the healthcare industry, and now, two major health systems have added their names to the list of recent data breach victims. The recently divulged information breaches affected 255,000 individuals.
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Even as the novel coronavirus was raging in the U.S. last year, providers were concurrently fighting a different scourge: hackers.
Several major providers experienced IT incidents in 2020, including the 26-hospital Universal Health Services and University of Vermont Medical Center. Last week, Pittsburgh-based UPMC and Omaha-based Nebraska Medicine announced that they too are on the list.