This long-term study (from 1984 until May 31, 2010, and from 1986 until January 31, 2010) of more than 100,000 subjects (63 443 women and 38 603 men, aged 50 years or older) found that having higher amounts of carotenoids in the blood is associated with up to a 25% lower risk for Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD).
This large, prospective, epidemiological study conducted by French scientists shows a 25% decrease in overall cancer risk from relatively high levels of organic food consumption, compared to little or no organic food consumption, due to the reduced exposure to dietary pesticides.
The authors discovered that low-intensity aerobic training reduced the circulating levels of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) by 9% and improved insulin sensitivity by 20%.
This UK study analyzed blood samples from almost 400,000 participants and discovered that a higher level of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) was associated with a higher risk for colorectal cancer because it is involved in activating multiple pathways that determine how aggressive a colorectal tumor may be.
The authors investigated the health effects of two soy phytoestrogens (i.e. genistein and daidzein) and found that soy consumption can suppress the development of prostate cancer.
This meta-analysis found that soy isoflavones lowered the risk of breast cancer in both pre- and postmenopausal women. However, this effect was found only in Asian populations and not in women in Western countries, probably because Asian women eat a lot more soy than Western women.
By conducting a biopsy-based clinical study with 164 arthritis patients, the authors found that genes may predict how well people respond to treatments for arthritis and the molecular profiling of diseased joint tissue may considerably influence whether certain drug treatments for rheumatoid arthritis patients will work.
The authors found a new potential treatment option for heart failure with a common gout medication called colchicine (i.e. among more than 1,000 patients, patients taking the medication had a survival rate of 97.9% compared with a 93.5% survival rate for patients who did not take it).
The authors discovered new ways to treat cardiovascular diseases by identifying the underlying process of how a certain protein in blood vessel cells contributes to the development of vascular and cardiovascular diseases.
This study showed that the oral drug zanubrutinib can help most patients who had a slow-growing type of cancer known as marginal zone lymphoma as 80% of patients with a specific type of lymphoma had their tumors shrink in a clinical trial with this drug.
In this first-of-its-kind clinical trial, the authors show that robot-assisted surgery for bladder cancer removal and repair enables patients to recover much faster and spend considerably (20%) less time in the hospital.
The authors show that ruminative thinking (i.e. the thoughts we think about the thoughts we think) and thinking about how much we ruminate strengthens depressive symptoms.
The authors have mapped how the brain changes throughout depression treatment, that is, what occurs in the brain when a person gets the depression treatment known as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS).
The authors identified new mechanisms for chronic inflammation and wound healing issues as they found that after only one week of dieting the inflammatory response can be restored to normal without necessarily losing weight.
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