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Study Examines Hispanic Youth Exposure To Food, Beverage TV Ads

Date: Jun-20-2013
Hispanic preschoolers, children and adolescents viewed, on average about 12 foods ads per day on television in 2010, with the majority of these ads appearing on English-language TV, whereas fast-food represented a higher proportion of the food ads on Spanish-language television, according to a study published Online First by JAMA Pediatrics, a JAMA Network publication...

Parental Cultural Attitudes And Beliefs Associated With Child's Media Viewing And Habits

Date: Jun-20-2013
JAMA Pediatrics Study Highlights Differences in parental beliefs and attitudes regarding the effects of media on early childhood development may help explain increasing racial/ethnic disparities in child media viewing/habits, according to a study by Wanjiku F. M. Njoroge, M.D., of Seattle Children's Hospital and the University of Washington, Seattle, and colleagues...

Eating More Red Meat Associated With Increased Risk Of Type-2 Diabetes

Date: Jun-20-2013
Eating more red meat over time is associated with an increased risk of type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in a follow-up of three studies of about 149,000 U.S. men and women, according to a report published Online First by JAMA Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication. Red meat consumption has been consistently related to an increased risk of T2DM, but previous studies measured red meat consumption at a baseline with limited follow-up information...

Research Links Two Genes To Obesity And Health Disorders

Date: Jun-20-2013
Family DNA may influence development of Metabolic Syndrome Two genes may be linked to obesity and health disorders according to new research by the TOPS Obesity and Metabolic Research Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin. The study of obese individuals from four generations of families shows that hereditary DNA may influence development of Metabolic Syndrome, a cluster of conditions effecting one in five Americans, which dramatically increases the risk for heart disease and diabetes...

Earlier Treatment Following Stroke Onset Associated With Reduced Risk Of In-Hospital Death, Higher Rate Of Discharge To Home

Date: Jun-20-2013
In a study that included nearly 60,000 patients with acute ischemic stroke, thrombolytic treatment (to help dissolve a blood clot) that was started more rapidly after symptom onset was associated with reduced in-hospital mortality and intracranial hemorrhage and higher rates of independent walking ability at discharge and discharge to home, according to a study in the June 19 issue of JAMA. "Intravenous (IV) tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) is a treatment of proven benefit for select patients with acute ischemic stroke as long as 4.5 hours after onset...

Study Of Dietary Intervention Examines Proteins In Brain

Date: Jun-20-2013
The lipidation states (or modifications) in certain proteins in the brain that are related to the development of Alzheimer disease appear to differ depending on genotype and cognitive diseases, and levels of these protein and peptides appear to be influenced by diet, according to a report published Online First by JAMA Neurology, a JAMA Network publication. Sporadic Alzheimer disease (AD) is caused in part by the accumulation of β-amyloid (Aβ) peptides in the brain...

Study Finds Need For Improvement On State Health Care Price Websites

Date: Jun-20-2013
"With rising health care costs and 30 percent of privately insured adults enrolled in high-deductible health care plans, calls for greater health care price transparency are increasing. In response, health plans, consumer groups, and state governments are increasingly reporting health care prices...

Study Evaluates Procedures For Diagnosing Sarcoidosis

Date: Jun-20-2013
Among patients with suspected stage I/II pulmonary sarcoidosis who were undergoing confirmation of the condition via tissue sampling, the use of the procedure known as endosonographic nodal aspiration compared with bronchoscopic biopsy, the current diagnostic standard, resulted in greater diagnostic yield, according to a study in the June 19 issue of JAMA. Sarcoidosis, a disease that causes granulomas (usually small masses) due to chronic inflammation in body tissues, has an estimated lifetime risk of 1 percent to 2 percent...

Markers Of Beta-Cell Dysfunction Associated With High Rate Of Progression To Type 1 Diabetes

Date: Jun-20-2013
The majority of children at risk of type 1 diabetes who developed 2 or more diabetes-related autoantibodies developed type 1 diabetes within 15 years, findings that highlight the need for research into finding interventions to stop the development of multiple islet autoantibodies, according to a study in the June 19 issue of JAMA. "Type 1 diabetes is a chronic autoimmune disease that often manifests during childhood and adolescence. The lifelong requirement for insulin injections and the many complications that follow the diagnosis can be difficult for those affected...

MRI Screening May Help Identify Spinal Infections From Contaminated Drug Injections

Date: Jun-20-2013
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at the site of injection of a contaminated lot of a steroid drug to treat symptoms such as back pain resulted in earlier identification of patients with probable or confirmed fungal spinal or paraspinal infection, allowing early initiation of medical and surgical treatment, according to a study in the June 19 issue of JAMA. "Fungal contamination of methylprednisolone [a steroid] prepared by a compounding pharmacy resulted in an unprecedented multistate outbreak of meningitis in the fall of 2012," according to background information in the article...