According to experts, individuals with prehypertension have got a 55 % greater risk of having a future stroke than those without. Prehypertension is a clinical class formed by experts in 2003 to identify people whose blood pressure was raised, yet still regarded as inside normal range. Hypertension or high blood pressure is a huge risk… Read More »
Increasing severity of sleep-disordered breathing and sleep disruption are associated with epigenetic age acceleration, according to preliminary results of a new study. Results show that each standard deviation increase in the apnea-hypopnea index, a measure of sleep-disordered breathing severity, was associated with the equivalent of 215 days of biological age acceleration. Similarly, each standard deviation… Read More »
By LUKE OAKDEN-RAYNER I’ve been talking in recent posts about how our typical methods of testing AI systems are inadequate and potentially unsafe. In particular, I’ve complainedthat all of the headline-grabbing papers so far only do controlled experiments, so we don’t how the AI systems will perform on real patients. Today I am going to highlight… Read More »
What does it mean to be in the weight maintenance phase? We hear so much about weight loss and weight gain — whether it’s how to do it or when to do it, it seems like everyone is talking about it. But what about weight maintenance? We’ve all had our bouts of desire to change… Read More »