Medical Bulletin 13/May/2023 - Video

Here are the top medical news for the day:

Daily vitamin D intake reduced cancer mortality: Study

Vitamin D intake could reduce cancer mortality in the population by twelve percent - provided the vitamin is taken daily. This was the result of an evaluation of 14 studies of the highest quality conducted at the German Cancer Research Center with a total of almost 105,000 participants.

Vitamin D deficiency is widespread worldwide and is particularly common among cancer patients. In contrast, in a study of colorectal cancer patients, researchers diagnosed vitamin D3 deficiency in 59 percent of participants, which was also associated with unfavorable prognosis.

Reference:

Ben Schöttker, et al,Ageing Research Reviews, DOI 10.1016/j.arr.2023.101923

Risk of long COVID higher for people living in underprivileged areas: Study

New research led by the universities of Southampton and Oxford has found that the risk of long COVID is strongly associated with area-level deprivation, with the odds of having long COVID 46 percent higher for people from the most deprived areas, compared to those in the least deprived areas.

Published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, the study analysed over 200,000 working-age adults and is the first to quantify the association between long COVID and socioeconomic status across a range of occupation sectors.

Reference:

Socioeconomic inequalities of long COVID: a retrospective population-based cohort study in the United Kingdom,Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine,DOI 10.1177/01410768231168377

Healthier diet may improve fitness: Study

A healthy diet is associated with greater physical fitness in middle-aged adults, according to research published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

The study included 2,380 individuals in the Framingham Heart Study. The average age was 54 years and 54% were women. Participants underwent a maximum effort cardiopulmonary exercise test on a cycle ergometer to measure peak VO2.Participants also completed the Harvard semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire to assess intake of 126 dietary items during the last year ranging from never or less than once per month to six or more servings per day.

Reference:

Dr. Michael Mi et al,JOURNAL European Journal of Preventive Cardiology