Job strain linked to increased risk of premature death for men with cardiometabolic disease

Having a demanding job and little control over it is associated with an increased risk of premature death in men with coronary heart disease, stroke, or diabetes, according to an observational study tracking more than 100000 men and women with and without cardiometabolic disease from Finland, France, Sweden, and the UK for almost 14 years, published in The Lancet Diabetes […]

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Colon cancer cells use mysterious RNA strands to avoid cell death

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have discovered how unusually long strands of RNA help colon cancer cells avoid death, allowing unregulated growth. Unlike other RNAs, the intriguing strands do not appear to encode proteins and are termed “long non-coding RNAs” or “lincRNAs.”A new study showed some lincRNAs could be targeted by drug developers to halt colon […]

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High incidence of sudden and/or arrhythmic death in CHD

(HealthDay)—Among patients with coronary heart disease without severe systolic dysfunction, sudden and/or arrhythmic deaths (SAD) account for a considerable proportion of deaths, according to a study published online May 2 in JAMA Cardiology. Neal A. Chatterjee, M.D., from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and colleagues conducted a cohort study involving 135 clinical sites with 5,761 participants with coronary heart […]

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