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This research shows that a basophil activation test can support decision-making by clinicians when re-introduction of baked eggs in patients with allergies is a treatment being considered.
King’s College London Furthermore, racism strengthened the effect of PM 2.5 on conduct problems as they aged. At higher concentrations of PM 2.5, this effect differed by ethnicity, with White British and Black Caribbean adolescents experiencing an increase in conduct problems with age. The study published recently in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, by authors from King’s, Imperial College London, University College London, and Leeds Beckett university, explored for the first time in the UK the potential effect of exposure to PM 2.5 and NO 2 air pollution on the change in c...
King’s College London Pregnant women, non-binary people and trans men were less likely to have gone ahead with planned caesarean births during the first lockdown. The research showed that 14% of parents surveyed who had a scheduled caesarean altered this plan because of the pandemic, either because they changed their minds or the hospital cancelled the procedure. Many favoured home births where their partner could be with them. Dr Mari Greenfield, from the School of Life Course Sciences, surveyed 1,754 new and expectant parents in the UK in April 2020, during the early weeks of the first lo...
King’s College London New research shows that people who experience big dips in blood sugar levels, several hours after eating, end up feeling hungrier and consuming hundreds more calories during the day than others. A study published today in Nature Metabolism, from PREDICT, the largest ongoing nutritional research program in the world that looks at responses to food in real life settings, the research team from King’s and health science company ZOE found why some people struggle to lose weight, even on calorie-controlled diets, and highlight the importance of understanding personal meta...
Extending the list of symptoms that allow people to book a COVID-19 test could help detect around a third more cases, researchers have said.