Each daily one-hour increment of digital screen time associated with 21 percent higher odds of myopia
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Physical Activity Shows Dose-Response Relationship to Kidney Function Decline in Older Adults
High-intensity interval training significantly cuts risk for rapid estimated glomerular filtration rate decline
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Risk particularly heightened in men, but seen across kidney disease stages
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Type 1 diabetes associated with less myocardial infarction, percutaneous coronary intervention, stroke, and limb ischemia
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Among former smokers, menthol versus nonmenthol smoking linked to increased mortality risks from all-causes, CVD, heart diseases
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Differential association also seen in subgroup analysis of proximal colon cancer
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Melatonin intervention linked to borderline significant increase in urinary 8-OH-dG, which is indicator of oxidative DNA damage repair capacity
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Incidence rates generally higher in children aged younger than 2 years
Read More »States That Adopted Abortion Bans Have Higher Infant Mortality
Second study shows that states that adopted abortion bans have greater-than-expected fertility
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Majority of cases presenting in unvaccinated individuals; at least 16 patients hospitalized
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