medicine Friday March 24, 2023 Stockholm – According to a Mendelian randomization study, people with high levels of caffeine in their blood have a lower BMI, less body fat and a lower risk of type 2 diabetes. This is reported by researchers in BMJ Medicine (2023; DOI: 10.1136/bmjmed-2022-000335). Previous studies have suggested that 3-5 cups … Read more
/roger ashford, stock.adobe.com – Dallas, Texas – Starting statin therapy can make it difficult to control blood sugar in type 2 diabetes. The consequence may be an increase in the number of prescribed antidiabetic drugs or even the need for insulin therapy, as a study in JAMA Internal Medicine (2021; DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.5714) shows. It is … Read more
/peterschreiber.media, stock.adobe.com – New Haven / Connecticut – An illness with COVID-19 not only leads to the formation of antibodies that neutralize the virus and prevent future infections. A US team sensed in with a new method Nature (2021; DOI: 10.1038 / s41586-021-03631-y) many patients have a number of autoantibodies that, according to animal studies, … Read more
/nobeastsofierce, stock.adobe.com – Dallas, Melbourne and Tel Aviv – 2 research groups from the USA and Australia have succeeded in producing artificial blastocysts from human stem cells, which according to their reports in Nature (2021; DOI: 10.1038 / s41586-021-03356-y and 03372-y) resemble a 5 to 6 day old embryo just before implantation in the uterus. … Read more
/Nekrasov, stock.adobe.com – New York – Even in optimally equipped clinics, COVID-19 diseases are often fatal. At 2 clinics in Manhattan, more than 1/3 of all patients who had to be treated in intensive care died. According to a cohort study, the most common complications included im Lancet (2020; DOI: 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (20) 31189-2) … Read more