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Rani Zierath, Amil Shah, MD, MPH, and colleagues have published a novel finding that economic food insecurity is a risk factor for new-onset coronary heart disease and new-onset heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.
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Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers recently reviewed 33 studies that reported how yoga affected individual metrics of frailty. They found that practicing yoga improved known predictors of longevity, such as walking speed and leg strength.
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Recent U.S. legislation requires clinical trial sponsors to submit a diversity action plan for pivotal studies of new drugs. Still, Thomas J. Hwang, MD, and a colleague propose a combination of federal incentives and regulations to advance clinical trial equity and resolve gaps in participant representation.
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Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers used the Physicians’ Health Study I to study the relationship between long-term aspirin use and self-reported walking speed. They report men who started aspirin use in middle age had greater probability of faster walking speeds in late life than men who reported low aspirin use.
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Brigham and Women’s Hospital is honored to participate in the 2023 Digestive Disease Week (DDW) annual meeting on May 6-9 in Chicago, IL. This is the world’s premier meeting for physicians, researchers, and industry in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery.
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Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital recently conducted a scoping review to evaluate the characteristics of papers published in the field of geriatric traumatology. They say the overall quality of the existing literature is poor.
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Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have linked endoscopic gastric plication (also called distal primary obesity surgery endoluminal, or POSE) to significant improvement in liver-related outcomes in patients with obesity, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and clinically significant hepatic fibrosis.
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Leaders from the Division of Urology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital will present their latest research to international urologists at the American Urological Association’s (AUA) 2023 Annual Meeting, held April 28 – May 1 in Chicago, IL.
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On April 22–27, 2023, the American Academy of Neurology hosts its 75th annual meeting in Boston, MA and virtually. Leaders from the Department of Neurology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital will present their latest research at the meeting alongside international colleagues.
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Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital are the first to study the long-term trajectory of lung ultrasound findings after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). They conclude that quantification of B-lines could facilitate early detection, quantification, and monitoring of pulmonary congestion in AMI patients.
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