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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 study emphasizes the need for preventive measures and management of risk factors associated with chronic...

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.