Articles Tagged With: inflammation
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Age Is Not a Risk Factor for the Oldest Patients with COVID-19
Are patients hospitalized for COVID-19, who are younger than 65 years of age, at less risk of serious outcomes than are similar patients who are older than 85 years of age? New research provides an answer that may surprise many clinicians: Metabolic syndrome measures are a major predictor of outcomes, but chronological age is not a relevant risk factor for poor outcomes attributed to COVID-19.
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Healthcare Workers, CDC at Odds Over COVID Precautions
Inundated with criticism from healthcare workers, highly vulnerable patients, and those with long COVID, advisors to the CDC must make a Solomonic decision. At a time when the CDC is trying to simplify and normalize community precautions for SARS-CoV-2, initial efforts to do so in the hospital have backfired spectacularly.
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The Connection Between Bereavement, Sleep, and Inflammation
This study of the association of sleep disturbance with more markers of inflammation in widows and widowers compared to controls revealed self-reported sleep disturbances are more strongly correlated with increased markers of inflammation in bereaved individuals.
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Persistent Asthma Patients Show More Plaque Buildup, Inflammation
Pulmonary ailment could speed carotid artery damage, create more inflammatory biomarkers.
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Inflammatory Foods Could Accelerate Brain Aging
In the Framingham Offspring cohort of subjects, those with a higher index of inflammatory foods recorded smaller brain volume, less grey matter.
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Persistent Inflammation and Post-COVID Syndrome
Ongoing inflammation may contribute to long COVID.
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Diet and the Risk of Dementia
This prospective cohort study demonstrated an association between a high inflammatory potential diet and increased risk for incident dementia.
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Dietary Modifications with Linoleic Acid Can Have an Effect on Gut and Brain Inflammation
This study will widen the scope of discussion on the treatment of neurological disorders. Nutritional supplements need to be discussed with caution until clear recommendations can be given based on clinical trials and other strong evidence of efficacy without significant side effects.
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Tailoring Dietary Recommendations to Protect Cognitive Health
Preventing inflammation as patients age is becoming key focus of lowering dementia risk.
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Dietary Modifications with Linoleic Acid Can Have an Effect on Gut and Brain Inflammation
This study evaluated the use of dietary conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) supplementation to modulate the disease outcome in a spontaneous mouse model of central nervous system autoimmunity and also studied patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis receiving CLA supplementation. CLA may act as a modulator of the gut-brain axis by targeting immune cells in the gut, with a subsequent effect in the brain.