Kenny Walter is an editor with HCPLive. Prior to joining MJH Life Sciences in 2019, he worked as a digital reporter covering nanotechnology, life sciences, material science and more with R&D Magazine. He graduated with a degree in journalism from Temple University in 2008 and began his career as a local reporter for a chain of weekly newspapers based on the Jersey shore. When not working, he enjoys going to the beach and enjoying the shore in the summer and watching North Carolina Tar Heel basketball in the winter.
Investigators Find 3 Novel Loci to Better Understand Genetic Factors of Sleep Apnea
June 7th 2023CCDC3 has shown to repress inflammatory activity of TNF-alpha, a cytokine postulated involved in sleep regulation and MARCHF1 has shown to inhibit cellular insulin sensitivity and promotes NF-KB, with degree of activation positively correlating with OSA severity.
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People at Risk of Developing OSA Commonly Withhold Reporting Trouble Sleeping
June 5th 2023Risk factors for trouble sleeping identified, including female sex, former smoking, and diabetes, obstructive lung disease, daytime sleepiness, insomnia, nocturia, and/or snorting/gasping/breathing cessation during sleep.
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More Research Needed Focusing on Circadian Preferences and Mental Health of Student-Athletes
June 4th 2023A preference for eveningness was significantly associated with worse overall sleep difficulties, longer sleep latency, reduced sleep satisfaction, more prolonged sleep inertia, more daytime naps, and more severe depressive symptomatology.
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Substance Use Disorder Rates Higher in Patients With Comorbid SLE, Major Depressive Disorder
May 31st 2023Patients with comorbid major depressive disorder were more likely to have a diagnoses of tobacco, alcohol, opioid, cannabis, stimulants, hallucinogens, sedatives-hypnotics, or anxiolytic use disorders compared to patients with only systemic lupus erythematous.
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Symptom Checklist Helps Primary Care Clinicians Assess SUD Severity
May 30th 2023The results show 26.3% of patients in the daily cannabis use only group endorsed 2 or more items on the symptom checklist, consistent with DSM-5 SUD, compared to 30.2% of the other drug use group and 51.8% of the daily cannabis and other drug use group.
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Diversity and Composition of Gut Microbiota Vary Between Healthy Individuals and HBV Patients
May 26th 2023A beta diversity analyses revealed a distinct clustering pattern between healthy controls and patients with HBV-related liver disease and the composition of bacteria from the phylum level to the genus level varies across the stages of liver disease.
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Individuals who sought outpatient mental health and addiction services were generally younger, proportionately more female, more likely to have a psychiatric comorbidity, and more likely to have had their index alcohol-related hospitalization attributed to than to other diagnoses such as harmful alcohol use or alcoholic liver disease.
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