Credit: Lars Neumann/Getty Images Healthier midlife behaviors lead to better outcomes for age-related brain diseases even in people with genetic predisposition, research using data from the U.K. Biobank showed. A team led by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston found that after about 12 years of follow-up, each 5-point improvement in subjects’ Brain…
Descriptive characteristics of NUTRiMDEA population Participants’ phenotypic characteristics in the NUTRiMDEA study were categorized by sex (female and male) and age (< 40 years and ≥ 40 years), whose data are shown in Tables 1, 2 and 3. Regarding the analysis of factorial interactions between sex and age, significant differences were found in education, home situation, number of…
Credit: Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images Regular mobile phone use is linked to increased cardiovascular disease risk, especially in current smokers and individuals with diabetes, according to a new large-scale cohort study that used UK Biobank data. This association, the researchers say, was partly attributed to poor sleep, psychological distress, and neuroticism. The team is led by…