Anti-Aging Nutraceutical Improves Muscle Remodeling and Glucose Metabolism in Older Women
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April 27, 2021
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Obesity and aging decrease levels of a metabolic factor found in all living cells and vital in keeping us healthy: nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+). The bioavailability of nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) is the rate-limiting factor in the production of NAD+.
In a small-scale clinical trial (NCT03151239) and the first clinical trial on NMN, scientists at the Center for Human Nutrition at the Washington University School of Medicine found NMN supplementation enhances the ability of insulin to increase glucose uptake in skeletal muscles and improves expression of genes involved in muscle structure and remodeling in postmenopausal prediabetic women who are overweight or obese.
COVID-19 survivors including those not sick enough to be hospitalized have an increased risk of death in the six months following diagnosis with the virus, researchers report.
As the COVID-19 pandemic has progressed, it has become clear that many survivors even those who had mild cases continue to manage a variety of health problems long after the initial infection should have resolved.
The researchers have catalogued the numerous diseases associated with COVID-19, providing a big-picture overview of the long-term complications of COVID-19 and revealing the massive burden this disease is likely to place on the world’s population in the coming years.
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Adults should continue undergoing routine hypertension screening, according to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), which specified office blood pressure (BP) measurements for initial screening.
It is reasonable for adults 40 years and older and those at increased risk for hypertension to undergo screening every year. Young people not at risk, or those with a prior normal BP reading, may get screened every few years instead, said Alex Krist, MD, MPH, of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, and colleagues of the task force.
Thus, the USPSTF reaffirms its 2015 grade A recommendation for hypertension screening citing its potential to reduce cardiovascular events, with few major harms while clarifying that this should be performed with office readings, leaving measurements outside the clinical setting (i.e., ambulatory BP monitoring [ABPM] or home BP measurement [HBPM]) for diagnostic confirmation before starting treatment.
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