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Occupational Sitting Time, Leisure Physical Activity, and All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality
Time to read: 1 min. The 2020 World Health Organization guidelines emphasized reducing sedentary behaviors, prompting a study in Taiwan to explore the health risks associated with prolonged occupational sitting.
Source: JAMA Network Open
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Trial of Botulinum Toxin for Isolated or Essential Head Tremor
Time to read:1 min. Limited evidence supports botulinum toxin use for head tremor, and it was this clinical gap that the researchers Marques &., Pereira et al, set out to investigate.
Source: New England Journal of Medicine
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Risk factors for cognitive impairment and dementia after stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Time to read:1 min. The study conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis until Sept 15, 2023, examining risk factors for post-stroke cognitive impairment (PSCI) and dementia (PSD)
Source: Lancet Healthy Longevity
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Low-Dose Aspirin and the Risk of Stroke and Intracerebral Bleeding in Healthy Older People:Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial
Low-dose asprin has long been used in stroke prevention. In older adults however, the balance between the reduction of ischemic stroke events and the increased risk of intracranical bleeding had yet to be established.
Source: JAMA Open Network
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Omega-3 Fatty Acid Biomarkers and Incident Atrial Fibrillation
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
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Genetically proxied lean mass and risk of Alzheimer’s disease: mendelian randomisation study:
Researchers of this mendeline randomisation study set out to examine whether there is an association between lean mass (genetically proxied) and an increase risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
Source: BMJ Medicine
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