Charlotte Brontë and her father, Patrick, survived the tuberculosis epidemics that ravaged the rest of their family because of natural immunity, research suggests.TB bacteria can remain dormant in the
A new paper in
JNCI Cancer Spectrum, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that several non-genetic factors including greater red meat intake, lower educational attainment, and heavier alcohol use are associated with an increase in colorectal cancer in people under 50.
In the United States, incidence rates of early-onset colorectal cancer have nearly doubled between 1992 and 2013 (from 8.6 to 13.1 per 100,000), with most of this increase due to early-onset cancers of the rectum. Approximately 1 in 10 diagnoses of colorectal cancer in this country occur in people under 50.
Researchers have observed the rise particularly among people born since the 1960s in studies from the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japan. During the same period there have been major changes in diets among younger generations across the developing world. Such changes include decreases in consumption of fruits, non-potato vegetables, and calcium-rich dairy sources. This is coupled with an incre
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A history of migraine was linked to an increased risk of hypertension among menopausal women, a large longitudinal cohort study found.
The incident rate of hypertension was 19.2 per 1,000 person-years among menopausal women with migraine, compared with 14.3 per 1,000 person-years in those without migraine (adjusted HR 1.29, 95% CI 1.24-1.35), reported Gianluca Severi, PhD, of Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale and Université Paris-Saclay in France, and colleagues.
Women who had been on menopausal hormone therapy had a particularly strong link between migraine and hypertension (
P=0.02 for interaction). However, age at menopause and menopause type did not modify the association, they noted in their findings published online in
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