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UCLA Health researchers identified four distinct diagnostic pathways leading to Alzheimer’s by analyzing data from 25,000 patients. These include mental health, encephalopathy, mild cognitive impairment and vascular disease routes.

Having more copies of the AMY1 gene – which normally controls the production of a saliva enzyme – may be protective against Type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests.

Study adds to growing evidence that social and psychological factors uniquely affect women’s heart health, offering new insights into why heart disease presents and progresses differently in women.

New research has shown how boys being overweight in early childhood or having chickenpox or another infectious disease in infancy may increase their risk of having chronic disease in later life.

People who have survived cancer as children are at higher risk of developing severe COVID-19, even decades after their diagnosis. This is shown by a new study from Karolinska Institutet.

The research, led by Johns Hopkins University and funded by the federal government, focuses on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a genetic heart condition that can lead to sudden cardiac death, particularly in young individuals and athletes.

Writing in the latest edition of the journal, the editors argue that the Trump administration’s recent dismantling of public health and research infrastructure “pose[s] immediate and long-term risks to the health of neighboring countries”.

In the early 2000s a clinical trial showed that lifestyle modification was better than metformin at preventing Type 2 diabetes. In a follow-up study, health benefits from lifestyle intervention persisted for more than 20 years later.

A CU Anschutz study also identified the presence of a bacterium that causes gum disease in joint tissue, meaning it may play a role in the development of rheumatoid arthritis.

A new sensor technology, utilizing VOC detection in bodily fluids, could rapidly identify bacterial infections and resistance. The sensors offer a solution to the lengthy lab processes currently used.