A Mayo Clinic study found as many as 96 percent of chronic sinusitis patients are sensitized to inhaled fungal organisms, which antibiotics cannot treat. Mercola recommends keeping indoor humidity between 35 and 45 percent and lists home measures for acute sinusitis.
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High blood glucose levels may increase kidney disease in elderly populations (PR)
In 1,456 Asians aged 65 and older, metabolic syndrome predicted both the prevalence and the incidence of chronic kidney disease, researchers report in JCEM, and rapid decline in kidney function was more likely in those with insulin resistance and high blood sugar.
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The Guilty Pleasure that Could Save You From Heart Disease
Mercola argues the decades-long push to cut salt has little basis in science, citing a Cochrane meta-analysis of 6,250 subjects that found no strong evidence salt reduction prevents heart attacks or strokes, plus the 1988 Intersalt study. He separates processed table salt from unprocessed salt.
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Long-time diabetics have increased risk of stroke
In the Northern Manhattan Study of 3,298 stroke-free adults averaging age 69, diabetes raised ischemic stroke risk about 3% for each year a person had it and tripled the risk after 10 years or more, compared with people who did not have diabetes.
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Can Sudden Cardiac Death of the Young be Prevented?
Michigan health officials recount the 2011 collapse and death of high school basketball player Wes Leonard, whose school's AED was not charged and who received no CPR because onlookers doubted cardiac arrest. An estimated 66 U.S. athletes die suddenly of cardiac causes each year.
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Arm length linked to type 2 diabetes mellitus risk - study
Among 658 Japanese Americans, those with the shortest total arm length were 51 percent more likely and those with the shortest upper arms 44 percent more likely to have type 2 diabetes, once age, sex, abdominal fat and other factors were accounted for. Forearm, height and leg length showed no link.
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What Mystery Disease is Killing Thousands in Central America?
Chronic kidney disease is killing young sugar plantation workers in Central America, with rates in Nicaragua about 10 times those in the US. Agricultural chemicals, fructose and dehydration lead the theories, and the World Bank, a lender to the sugar industry, is funding an investigation.
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97% of Terminal Cancer Patients Previously Had This Dental Procedure...
Mercola argues a tooth cannot be sterilized during a root canal, and that bacteria left behind morph into toxic forms that migrate to other tissues and contribute to heart, kidney, bone and brain disease. He recommends asking a biological dentist about extraction.
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Opinion: H5N1 flu is just as dangerous as feared, now requires action (PR)
In an mBio commentary, Michael Osterholm and Nicholas Kelley argue H5N1 is very dangerous, that claims its human case-fatality rate is overestimated rest on flawed analysis, and that current vaccines and antivirals would not stop a pandemic. They urge focus on safe research.
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Majority of dairy-related disease outbreaks linked to raw milk
A CDC review of 121 dairy-related outbreaks from 1993 to 2006 found the outbreak rate for unpasteurized milk ran 150 times that for pasteurized, and states allowing raw milk sales had more than twice the outbreak rate. Raw milk products caused 60 percent of the outbreaks.
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Depression ups risk of hypertension - study
Chinese researchers pooled nine studies covering 22,367 people followed for 9.6 years and found depression raised the incidence of hypertension by 42 percent, a Journal of Hypertension paper reports. They suggest the association may be causal.
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Autism Awareness: Spotting the signs in a baby's brain
Ninety-two high-risk infants had diffusion tensor imaging at 6 months and behavioral assessments at 24 months, by which point 28 met criteria for autism. Fractional anisotropy trajectories differed in 12 of 15 fiber tracts, starting higher at 6 months and changing more slowly after.
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Older menopausal women with hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer more likely to die - study
A JAMA study of 9,766 patients in the TEAM trial found women diagnosed with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer at 65 to 74 were 25 percent more likely to die of it than those diagnosed before 65, and those 75 or older were 63 percent more likely.
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Be One in a Million this American Heart Month
Heart disease and stroke cause one in every three U.S. deaths, about 2,200 a day, with more than 2 million heart attacks and strokes a year, HHS says. An editor's note urges readers to try a plant-based diet first, arguing statins are not cost-effective without prior heart problems.
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HPV infections are common
A JAMA study of 5,579 Americans aged 14 to 69 found 7 percent carried an oral HPV infection, more than author Maura Gillison expected. Infection was nearly three times as common in men (10.1 percent) as in women (3.6 percent), and most cases traced to oral sex rather than kissing.
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Breast Cancer and Heart Attacks: A Deadly Side Effect of Calcium Supplements? (opinion)
Mercola argues elemental calcium supplements of 500 mg or more, with or without vitamin D, may raise relative heart attack risk by up to 27 percent. He says evidence that calcium safely prevents fractures is lacking and that calcium needs magnesium and vitamins D and K to be handled properly.
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The Facts About Diabetes: A Leading Cause of Death in the U.S.
Compiled CDC figures put 25.8 million Americans with diabetes, 7 million of them undiagnosed, and an estimated 79 million adults with pre-diabetes. Diagnosed cases rose from 1.5 million in 1958 to 18.8 million in 2010.
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Flu deaths reported in Vietnam, Mexico
Vietnam confirmed its first human bird flu death in nearly two years, an 18-year-old who worked on a duck farm, a day after a 2-year-old boy died in Cambodia. Both deaths were linked to poultry contact. Since 2003, 341 of 578 confirmed H5N1 cases worldwide have been fatal.
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