Among 1,090 West Nile virus cases from 2008 through 2010, CDC researchers found chronic kidney disease, a cancer history, alcohol abuse, diabetes and hypertension each raised the odds of severe illness, kidney disease most of all. Only hypertension was tied to meningitis risk.
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Tattoo-Associated Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Skin Infections — Multiple States, 2011–2012
New York officials reported Mycobacterium chelonae skin infections in 14 residents tattooed between September and December 2011, all linked to the same prediluted gray ink. Investigators found nontuberculous mycobacteria in inks from two of five identified clusters.
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Psoriasis linked to stroke, myocardial infarction
A meta-analysis of seven cohort studies in the British Journal of Dermatology found people with psoriasis were about 20 percent more likely than others to have a stroke or heart attack, an increase the authors say is probably independent of conventional cardiovascular risk factors.
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Obesity, type 2 diabetes boost high-grade prostate cancer risk
Among 2,038 men with PSA below 10 ng/mL at a Tokyo hospital, those with both obesity and type 2 diabetes were four times as likely as diabetic men without obesity to have high-grade prostate cancer. Diabetes alone showed no significant link to overall prostate cancer risk.
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Diabetes mellitus ups sudden cardiac death risk in myocardial infarction survivors
Following 610 heart attack survivors for a mean five years, C.Y. Yeung and Hong Kong colleagues found the 236 with type 2 diabetes were 75 percent more likely to die during the study and 114 percent more likely to die from sudden cardiac events than those without diabetes.
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Outbreak of Influenza A (H3N2) Virus Among Persons and Swine in Indiana
An MMWR field note describes respiratory illness in swine and people at an Indiana county fair in July 2012, with H3N2v virus confirmed in four swine exhibitors or their family members. An editor's comment appended to the report suggests taking vitamin D3 supplements.
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Diabetics Have High Cancer Risk
In a Chinese cohort study, people with type 2 diabetes were nearly three times as likely as others to develop pancreatic cancer. The disease was also tied to higher risk of liver, kidney and breast cancer and leukemia, but showed no correlation with prostate cancer.
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CDC Reports Cases 18-29 of H3N2v Virus Infection; Continues to Recommend Interim Precautions When Interacting with Pigs
CDC background on swine influenza, issued as it reports cases 18-29 of H3N2v infection and keeps its interim precautions for people around pigs. Swine flu viruses rarely infect people; when they do the strains are called variant viruses, and H1N1v, H3N2v and H1N2v have been detected in the US.
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Tobacco use boosts colorectal cancer risk - study
A Carcinogenesis study of 480 colorectal cancer patients and 1,167 controls in the Singapore Chinese Health Study found tobacco raised risk only in people carrying at-risk GST genotypes. Those with two or three such genotypes had more than five times the risk of nonsmokers.
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Quitting tobacco use does not help rheumatoid arthritis
In a Journal of Rheumatology study, rheumatoid arthritis patients who stopped using tobacco showed no better Clinical Disease Activity Index than those who continued, though current users still had worse disease activity than former or never smokers. The authors call it a short-term finding.
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Obesity, diabetes raise breast cancer risk
In a Uruguayan case-control study of 912 women, those who were both obese and diabetic were more than nine times as likely as women with neither condition to develop breast cancer. A personal history of diabetes alone was tied to 64% higher risk, and 92% higher among postmenopausal women.
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Coeliac disease affects one in 141 Americans
Testing blood from 7,798 Americans in NHANES 2009-2010, Rubio-Tapia's team put coeliac disease prevalence at 0.71 percent, or one in 141, and 1.01 percent among non-Hispanic whites. Of the 35 cases found, 29 were undiagnosed, and the disease was rare in minority groups.
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Coeliac disease linked to high risk of pancreatitis
A Swedish study of 28,908 people with biopsy-confirmed coeliac disease and 143,746 controls found those with the disease were about three times as likely to be diagnosed with pancreatitis, with risk raised for both gallstone-related and non-gallstone-related acute forms.
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Ebola in Uganda
Uganda's health ministry reported an Ebola hemorrhagic fever outbreak in Kibaale District, with 38 cases and 16 deaths as of July 31 and five laboratory-confirmed. The CDC notice lists symptoms and hygiene precautions; there is no vaccine or specific treatment.
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Large Waistlines Linked to Erectile Dysfunction
Among 409 men treated for lower urinary tract symptoms, 74.5 percent of those with the largest waists had erectile dysfunction versus 32 percent of those with the smallest, and urination frequency followed the same pattern, a BJU International study found.
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Heart disease more likely in obese diabetes mellitus type 2 patients
Among 711 people under 65 with type 2 diabetes, body mass index tracked with ischemic heart disease and albuminuria but not with cerebrovascular disease, neuropathy, retinopathy or renal function, an Australian team reports in Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice.
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Tooth loss indicates higher risk of hip fracture
Among 9,992 male Japanese dentists aged 50 and over followed for six years, those who had already lost 15 or more teeth were four times as likely to suffer a hip fracture, though only 20 fractures occurred. Each additional lost tooth was tied to 6% higher risk.
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Women cohabiting with same sex partners more likely to develop fatal breast cancer
A Journal of Women's Health study of 136,865 women found those in same-sex couples were more than three times as likely as women in different-sex relationships to develop fatal breast cancer, though their overall mortality did not differ from women in conventional marriages.
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