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EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Diewertje Sluik, M.Sc., email Diewertje.Sluik@dife.de. To contact editorial author Mitchell H. Katz, M.D., call Michael Wilson at 213-240-8059 or e-mail micwilson@dhs.lacounty.gov. CHICAGO– Higher levels of physical activity were related to lower risk of death in patients with diabetes, according to a report published…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Frank B. Hu, M.D., Ph.D., call Marge Dwyer at 617-432-8416 or email mhdwyer@hsph.harvard.edu. CHICAGO – Weight training was linked with a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes in a study of male health professionals, and those men who engaged…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 2012 Archives of Internal Medicine Study Highlights Weight training was linked with a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes in a study of male health professionals, and those men who engaged in weight training and aerobic exercise for at least 150 minutes a week had the…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, JULY 23, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact author Arief Lalmohamed, Pharm.D., email a.lalmohamed@uu.nl. To contact commentary author Arthur W. Wallace, M.D., Ph.D., call Kristen Bole at 415-476-2743 or email kristen.bole@ucsf.edu. CHICAGO – Total hip replacement (THR) and total knee replacement (TKR) surgeries were associated with increased risk of…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, JULY 23, 2012 Archives of Internal Medicine Study Highlights Total hip replacement and total knee replacement were associated with increased risk of acute myocardial infarction (AMI, heart attack) in the first two weeks after the surgical procedures (Online First, see news release below). A study that describes intensive…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, JULY 16, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Ashish K. Jha, M.D., M.P.H., call Todd Datz at 617-432-8413 or email tdatz@hsph.harvard.edu. To contact editorial author Mitchell H. Katz, M.D., call Michael Wilson at 213-240-8059 or e-mail micwilson@dhs.lacounty.gov. CHICAGO – A study suggests that safety-net hospitals (SNHs), which…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, JULY 16, 2012 Archives of Internal Medicine Study Highlights A study suggests that safety-net hospitals (SNHs), which typically care for poor patients, performed more poorly than other hospitals on nearly every measure of patient experience, a situation that could have financial consequences as hospital payments are connected to…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, JULY 9, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Robert W. Yeh, M.D., M.Sc., call Ryan Donovan at 617-724-6433 or email rcdonovan@partners.org. To contact commentary author Peter W. Groeneveld, M.D., M.S., call Katie Delach at 215-349-5964 or email katie.delach@uphs.upenn.edu. CHICAGO – A study based on more than 1.5…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, JULY 9, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Holly G. Prigerson, Ph.D., call Anne Doerr at 617-632-4090 or email anne_doerr@dfci.harvard.edu. To contact corresponding commentary author Alan B. Zonderman Ph.D., call Megan Homer at 301-496-1752 or email nianews3@mail.nih.gov. CHICAGO – Better quality of life at the end of…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, JULY 9, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Chien-Chang Lee, M.D., M.Sc., email cclee100@gmail.com. CHICAGO– Use of cranberry-containing products appears to be associated with prevention of urinary tract infections in some individuals, according to a study that reviewed the available medical literature and was published by Archives…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, JULY 9, 2012 Archives of Internal Medicine Study Highlights A study that reviewed the available medical literature suggests that use of cranberry-containing products appears to be associated with prevention of urinary tract infections in some individuals (see news release below). Better quality of life at the end of…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, JULY 2, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Colleen G. Koch, M.D., M.S., M.B.A., call Wyatt DuBois at 216-445-9946 or email duboisw@ccf.org. To contact commentary author Victor A. Ferraris, M.D., Ph.D., call Allison Perry at 859-323-2399 or email allison.perry@uky.edu. CHICAGO– Jehovah’s Witness patients who undergo cardiac surgery…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, JULY 2, 2012 Archives of Internal Medicine Study Highlights Jehovah’s Witness patients who undergo cardiac surgery do not appear to be at increased risk for surgical complications or death when compared to patients who undergo cardiac surgery and receive blood transfusions (Online First; see news release below). According…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, JUNE 25, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Jose Gutierrez, M.D., M.P.H., call Karin Eskenazi at 212-342-0508 or email ket2116@columbia.edu. To contact corresponding invited commentary author Fiona Taylor, Ph.D., HonMFPH, email Fiona.Taylor@lshtm.ac.uk. CHICAGO– Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs appear to be associated with reduced risk of recurrent cardiovascular events in men…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, JUNE 25, 2012 Archives of Internal Medicine Study Highlights Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs appear to be associated with reduced risk for recurrent cardiovascular events in men and women, but do not appear to be associated with reduced all-cause mortality or stroke in women (see news release below). According to…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2012 Archives of Internal Medicine Study Highlights Loneliness in individuals over 60 years of age appears associated with an increased risk of functional decline and death in a study that included 1,604 participants from the Health and Retirement Study (Online First, see news release below). Living…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Deepak L. Bhatt, M.D., M.P.H., call Diane Keefe at 857-203-5879 or email diane.keefe@va.gov. CHICAGO– Living alone was associated with an increased risk of death and cardiovascular death in an international study of stable outpatients at risk of or with…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2012 Media Advisory: To contact Carla M. Perissinotto, M.D., M.H.S., call Leland Kim at 415-502-9553 or email leland.kim@ucsf.edu. To contact corresponding commentary author Emily M. Bucholz, M.P.H., call Karen Peart at 203-432-1326 or email karen.peart@yale.edu. CHICAGO– Loneliness in individuals over 60 years of age appears associated…