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Exercise During Chemo Shows Benefits for Cardiorespiratory Fitness

Exercise During Chemo Shows Benefits for Cardiorespiratory Fitness

Physical exercise during chemotherapy is not only safe, but helps to prevent declines in cardiorespiratory fitness and to facilitate a faster return to normal daily activities, compared with waiting until after chemotherapy is completed, the prospective ACT trial showed. Among 266 patients with mostly breast, testicular, or colon cancer who were randomized to a 24-week …

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Importance of HDL Cholesterol Overstated for Black Adults

Importance of HDL Cholesterol Overstated for Black Adults

Longstanding assumptions about HDL cholesterol being predictive of coronary heart disease (CHD) didn’t hold up for Black adults, according to an analysis of the large REGARDS cohort. While high plasma HDL cholesterol levels were not protective for either race, low HDL cholesterol was linked to increased CHD risk in white people (adjusted HR 1.22, 95% …

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Gabapentin, Opioid Prescriptions More Likely to Overlap in Recent Years

Gabapentin, Opioid Prescriptions More Likely to Overlap in Recent Years

Overlapping prescriptions of gabapentin and opioids grew over a 12-year period, pharmacy claims data showed. Concurrent prescriptions increased from 1.9% in 2006 to 7.6% in 2018, a relative increase of 344%, reported Evan Peet, PhD, of the RAND Corporation in Washington, D.C., and co-authors, in a research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine. “As the …

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TNF Receptor 1 May Drive Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Phenotype

TNF Receptor 1 May Drive Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Phenotype

New data reported in a presentation at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) annual meeting showed that tumor necrosis factor (TNF) receptor 1 (TNFR1) rather than TNFR2 is responsible for TNF-mediated pulmonary endothelial and stromal pathology that causes pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), in a mouse model of connective tissue disease-associated PAH. In this exclusive MedPage …

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How F1 Driver Alex Albon Went From an Induced Coma Back to Racing

How F1 Driver Alex Albon Went From an Induced Coma Back to Racing

It’s the final week of September, just days before the Singapore Grand Prix, a race circuit dreaded for its high track temperatures and long lap times and said to be one of the most physically demanding races on the F1 calendar. Williams Racing driver Alex Albon is halfway through a treadmill pyramid workout—one minute on, …

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