Aging

Statins Rethink: LDL Cholesterol Alone Has Very Weak Association With Heart Attack, According To A New Paper

What correlation giveth, correlation can taketh away. Statins, taken by some 40 million Americans, may not be helping a lot of them. Statins are used to lower cholesterol levels and reduce their risk of heart disease and stroke. They are endorsed by medica ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 20 2022 - 5:10pm

Grip Strength To Estimate The Pace Of Aging

Age is relative. If you put two people the same chronological age next to each other, one may look younger while one may nonetheless be biologically younger. Yet age is the biggest risk factor for most diseases even though it doesn't tell much of a he ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 13 2022 - 7:05am

Looking At Racial Differences In Older Patients Hospitalized For Heart Attacks

Very few people are average, that is the problem with using population level statistics in a clinical environment, and why few do it. Yet a population can show what questions to ask, like if there are racial differences in outcomes and why. A recent analy ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 26 2022 - 7:32am

Millennials Are Reversing A 40 Year Decline In Stroke Risk

Since 1975, stroke mortality plummeted from 88 to 31 per 100,0000 for women and 112 to 39 per 100,0000 for men, but since 2020 it has been creeping back up. Strokes haven't seen a huge resurgence yet because Baby Boomers, and soon Generation X, have ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2023 - 4:26pm

Why Aren't Older Women In California Getting More Cervical Cancer Screenings?

California gives free medical care to a lot of people but that doesn't mean they are getting access. Many doctors won't accept new patients at all due to the increased number of patients, while an alarming number of offices ask what kind of insur ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 16 2023 - 2:15pm

Just Correlation: Sleeping Pills Linked To Dementia

A new exploratory paper links sleeping pills to dementia but while the press release uses the term risk frequently, it minimizes a giant confounder; older people sleep less and people who have not yet received a dementia diagnosis may go on sleeping medic ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 1 2023 - 10:44am

Study Says Gen X Is 'Biologically Aging' Faster Than Boomers

People are living better lives for longer than ever but an EXPLORATORY study using a computer simulation says there is reason for concern; people are getting cancer younger than ever. The authors analyzed results of blood samples from 148,724 people ages 3 ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 8 2024 - 9:47pm

Study: Caloric Restriction In Humans And Aging

In mice, caloric restriction has been found to increase aging but obviously mice are not little people, and mice are weaned on a starvation diet. That cannot and will never happen in humans. Yet restricting calories even by 20 percent has been shown to pr ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2024 - 5:46pm

Is Hydroxychloroquine The Cure To Alzheimer’s?