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Mashup Score: 7Walking 'Teabag style' for a few minutes a day could help adults meet physical activity targets - 1 year(s) ago
Adults could achieve global physical activity targets by walking inefficiently for just a few minutes each day, finds a study in the Christmas issue of The BMJ.
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Mashup Score: 2Another PROM That Children as Well as Adults Can Use to Monitor Their Chronic Disease - 1 year(s) ago
Chronic urticaria is a complex disease that frequently exhibits a fluctuating clinical course. Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are highly valuable tools with which the activity of the target disease can be serially assessed.1 However, medical diagnostic instruments are often developed and available for adult patients only, as they are not validated for all age groups. A study of 52…
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If you’ve ever had the feeling that your elementary school kids were “smarter” than you—or at least capable of picking up new information and skills faster—a new study in Current Biology on November 15 suggests you’re absolutely right. The new study also offers a reason: kids and adults exhibit differences in a brain messenger known as GABA, which stabilizes newly learned material.
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Vaping by adolescents and young adults is a legitimate concern as there is a risk that some may start smoking and that electronic cigarette (EC) use may have adverse effects in the developing lungs of adolescents. This commentary provides updated information on vaping patterns among adolescents and young adults in the United States, as well as the impact of EC usage on respiratory health.EC use…
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Mashup Score: 0Can Adults Get RSV? - 2 year(s) ago
MONDAY, Nov. 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) — As health experts warn about RSV infections in infants and toddlers, adults should know that they, too, can become severely ill from the virus.Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is not always the mild respiratory illness people think it is but can lead to symp…
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Mashup Score: 0Acculturation and asthma in Asian American adults - 2 year(s) ago
Limited evidence suggests that the prevalence of asthma is lower in non-Hispanic Asian American (heretofore referred to as Asian American) adults than in non-Hispanic White or Hispanic American adults. However, this finding may be due to ethnic differences in diagnostic patterns, because Asian American individuals have more frequent visits to the emergency department and urgent care visits for…
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Exacerbations have a major impact on the well-being of patients with uncontrolled asthma. This study evaluated lung function, healthcare resource utilization (HCRU), and productivity loss following asthma exacerbations. This single-center, observational, prospective cohort study recruited US patient …
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Mashup Score: 2Increased versus stable doses of inhaled corticosteroids for exacerbations of chronic asthma in adults and children - PubMed - 2 year(s) ago
Evidence from double-blind trials of adults and children with mild to moderate asthma suggests there is unlikely to be an important reduction in the need for oral steroids from increasing a patient’s ICS dose at the first sign of an exacerbation. Other clinically important benefits and potential har …
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Mashup Score: 3Anxiety Screening Now Being Recommended for Adults - 2 year(s) ago
A federal task force is now recommending that all adults under 65 be screened for anxiety disorders so they can get the assistance they need
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Mashup Score: 0High Prevalence of Gastrointestinal Symptoms and Undiagnosed Eosinophilic Esophagitis among Allergic Adults - 2 year(s) ago
Adults with atopic disease seen in a tertiary care Allergy Clinic report high rates of solid food dysphagia, food impaction and other abdominal symptoms. These findings suggest that EoE may be several times more prevalent in patients with allergic disease than the general population.
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