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Weekly Health Quiz: Exercise, Memory and Sleep
Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.
Sleep Duration and Mortality
I read the paper by Khan et al1 with great interest. The authors conducted a long-term survival study to evaluate…
How Do We Analyze Effects of Low Diastolic Blood Pressure?
Lee and colleagues “sought to determine whether the development of diastolic hypotension during treatment was associated with adverse outcomes”.1 They…
Frailty could make people more susceptible to dementia
New research suggests that frailty makes older adults more susceptible to Alzheimer’s dementia, and moderates the effects of dementia-related brain…
The democratization of scientific publishing
Where should I submit my paper? This is a question that young scientists and trainees frequently ask. In this Commentary,…
Anticoagulation therapy in patients with liver cirrhosis is associated with an increased risk of variceal hemorrhage
The belief that cirrhotic patients are “auto-anticoagulated” often results in anticoagulation therapy being withheld in these patients. We aimed to…
Real-life benefits of statins for cardiovascular prevention in elderly subjects: a population-based cohort study
The benefits of initiating statins in the elderly remains debated. We evaluated the effects of initiating statins in the elderly,…
Salad, soda and socioeconomic status: Mapping a social determinant of health in Seattle
Seattle residents who live in waterfront neighborhoods tend to have healthier diets compared to those who live along Interstate-5 and…
Bioethicists call for oversight of consumer ‘neurotechnologies’ with unproven benefits
The marketing of consumer ‘neurotechnologies’ can be enticing: apps that diagnose a mental state, and brain devices that improve cognition…