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2023

Fitter Folks Need Fewer Psychiatric Meds, Study Finds

Fitter Folks Need Fewer Psychiatric Meds, Study FindsWEDNESDAY, Sept. 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Being fit doesn’t just help your body -- it also helps your mind, a new study reports.People in better physical condition appear to have less need for drugs to treat mood disorders, Norwegian researchers have found.“We find that people who are in better shape fill fewer prescriptions for anxiety and depression medications,” said senior author Linda Ernstsen, an associate professor of public health and nursing at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.For the study, researchers analyzed data from the Trøndelag Health Study, which has gathered health data since 1984 for more than 250,000 residents of that Norwegian county.The research group compared that data with information from the Norwegian Prescribed Drug...

Mountain Biking May Not Be as Risky as You Think

1 September 2023
Mountain Biking May Not Be as Risky as You ThinkFRIDAY, Sept. 1, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- If mountain biking is your exercise of choice, go for it.A new study finds that the benefits of this sport outweigh the risks, dashing a common view that it's always dangerous, injury-inducing and meant for thrill seekers.“Mountain biking and hiking are some of the fastest growing recreation activities in the world, so understanding the spectrum of injuries becomes paramount for effective medical care,” said lead author Paul Braybrook, a doctoral candidate at Curtin University School of Nursing in Western Australia.His team analyzed data from dozens of studies across the world that included more than 220,000 injured mountain bikers and more than 17,000 injured hikers to try to pinpoint injury types.For mountain bikers, injuries were...

Autopsy Study of Athletes Who Died Young Shows Many Had...

29 August 2023
Autopsy Study of Athletes Who Died Young Shows Many Had Signs of CTETUESDAY, Aug. 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The degenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) may be striking some at much younger ages than thought possible: New research has uncovered early signs of the condition in amateur athletes who died young after playing contact sports.The troubling finding was discovered during the brain autopsies of 152 athletes. All had engaged in the type of sports, such as football, where head impacts are routine. And all had died before turning 30.Investigators determined that roughly 4 in 10 had developed early signs of CTE while still in their teens and 20s. And the vast majority of those with CTE — more than 70% — were just young amateurs, not professional players.“CTE is a neurodegenerative disease caused by...

'Couch Potato' Childhoods Could Mean Heavier, Less...

23 August 2023
`Couch Potato` Childhoods Could Mean Heavier, Less Healthy Hearts LaterWEDNESDAY, Aug. 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Children need to get up off the sofa and move more, according to a new study that linked childhood sitting time with heart damage in young adulthood. That was true even when the adult's blood pressure and weight were healthy, according to researchers.“All those hours of screen time in young people add up to a heavier heart, which we know from studies in adults raises the likelihood of heart attack and stroke,” said study author Dr. Andrew Agbaje, of the University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio. “Children and teenagers need to move more to protect their long-term health,” he explained in a news release from the European Society of Cardiology. This was the first study to investigate the cumulative effect of smartwatch-assessed sedentary...

Stay Fit to Avoid A-Fib and Stroke

22 August 2023
Stay Fit to Avoid A-Fib and StrokeTUESDAY, Aug. 22, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- People can help reduce their odds of developing atrial fibrillation or stroke through one piece of standard medical advice: stay fit.According to a new study in 15,000 people, physical fitness was found to have a lower likelihood of these conditions. The findings will be presented this weekend at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2023, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. “This was a large study with an objective measurement of fitness and more than 11 years of follow-up. The findings indicate that keeping fit may help prevent atrial fibrillation and stroke,” study author Dr. Shih-Hsien Sung, of the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taipei, Taiwan, said in a meeting news release.Research participants did not have atrial...
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