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The Focus of the blog is on Medical Librarianship, Library Science, Medicine, EBM, Epidemiology and Science. I've a PhD in Medical Biology and work as an information specialist in a Medical Library (3 days) and for The Cochrane Collaboration (1 day).
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- May 25, 2009
- 11:58 PM
- 1,305 views
CMV-infection, plaques and high blood pressure
by Laika in Laika's Medliblog
A recent experimental study shows that a common virus that hides (becomes latent) after infection can trigger high blood pressure, and hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis), both leading causes of cardiovascular disease.
The virus is cytomegalovirus (CMV). It belongs to the herpesviruses, hence it’s alternative name Human Herpesvirus 5 (HHV-5). The herpesviruses have in common that [...]... Read more »
Cheng, J., Ke, Q., Jin, Z., Wang, H., Kocher, O., Morgan, J., Zhang, J., & Crumpacker, C. (2009) Cytomegalovirus Infection Causes an Increase of Arterial Blood Pressure. PLoS Pathogens, 5(5). DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000427
- April 26, 2009
- 10:46 PM
- 1,203 views
Some Sugars Worse than Others? The Bittersweet Fructose/Glucose Debate.
by Laika in Laika's Medliblog
Excessive consumption of sugar has been associated with increased incidences of type 2 diabetes, formerly called adult-onset diabetes, obesity and tooth decay.
There are many sugars around. Natural sugars and refined sugars. The refined table sugar and sugar cubes would be called “sucrose” by a chemist. Sucrose consists of two simple sugars (monosaccharides): 1 fructose and [...]... Read more »
Stanhope, K., Schwarz, J., Keim, N., Griffen, S., Bremer, A., Graham, J., Hatcher, B., Cox, C., Dyachenko, A., Zhang, W.... (2009) Consuming fructose-sweetened, not glucose-sweetened, beverages increases visceral adiposity and lipids and decreases insulin sensitivity in overweight/obese humans. Journal of Clinical Investigation. DOI: 10.1172/JCI37385
Livesey, G. (2009) Fructose Ingestion: Dose-Dependent Responses in Health Research. Journal of Nutrition. DOI: 10.3945/jn.108.097949
White, J. (2009) Misconceptions about High-Fructose Corn Syrup: Is It Uniquely Responsible for Obesity, Reactive Dicarbonyl Compounds, and Advanced Glycation Endproducts?. Journal of Nutrition. DOI: 10.3945/jn.108.097998
Jones, J. (2009) Dietary Sweeteners Containing Fructose: Overview of a Workshop on the State of the Science. Journal of Nutrition. DOI: 10.3945/jn.108.097972
- April 12, 2009
- 07:53 PM
- 1,193 views
Still Confusion about the Usefulness of PSA-screening.
by Laika in Laika's Medliblog
Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer affecting older men and second-biggest cancer killer.
Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA), a protein mainly produced by the prostate gland, is often elevated in prostate cancer - and often proportional to the prostate cancer volume. Since more men are diagnosed with prostate cancer by using PSA screening, middle-aged [...]... Read more »
Andriole, G., Grubb, R., Buys, S., Chia, D., Church, T., Fouad, M., Gelmann, E., Kvale, P., Reding, D., Weissfeld, J.... (2009) Mortality Results from a Randomized Prostate-Cancer Screening Trial. New England Journal of Medicine. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa0810696
Schroder, F., Hugosson, J., Roobol, M., Tammela, T., Ciatto, S., Nelen, V., Kwiatkowski, M., Lujan, M., Lilja, H., Zappa, M.... (2009) Screening and Prostate-Cancer Mortality in a Randomized European Study. New England Journal of Medicine. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa0810084
Barry, M. (2009) Screening for Prostate Cancer -- The Controversy That Refuses to Die. New England Journal of Medicine, 360(13), 1351-1354. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe0901166
Lee, T., Kantoff, P., & McNaughton-Collins, M. (2009) Screening for Prostate Cancer. New England Journal of Medicine, 360(13). DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp0901825
- February 8, 2009
- 07:15 PM
- 1,128 views
Personalized Genetics: Too Soon, Too Little?
by Laika in Laika's Medliblog
Personalized Medicine is the concept that managing patient’s health should be based on the individual patient’s specific characteristics instead of on the standards of care. Often the term ‘personalized medicine’ is restricted to the use of information about a patient’s genotype or gene expression profile to further tailor medical care to an individual’s needs (see [...]... Read more »
Ioannidis JP. (2009) Personalized genetic prediction: too limited, too expensive, or too soon?. Ann Intern Med, 150(2), 139-141. DOI: 19153414
- November 2, 2009
- 08:37 PM
- 1,091 views
Hot News: Curry, Curcumin, Cancer & Cure
by Laika in Laika's Medliblog
*Hot* News via Twitter and various news media a few days ago. Big headlines tell the following in respectively The Sun, Herald, Ireland, BBC News / NHS Health and Reuters:
Curry is a ‘cure for cancer‘
Spices in curry may help cure cancer
Curry spice ‘kills cancer cells‘
Scientists say curry compound kills cancer cells
The message of these headlines [...]... Read more »
O'Sullivan-Coyne, G., O'Sullivan, G., O'Donovan, T., Piwocka, K., & McKenna, S. (2009) Curcumin induces apoptosis-independent death in oesophageal cancer cells. British Journal of Cancer, 101(9), 1585-1595. DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6605308
López-Lázaro, M. (2008) Anticancer and carcinogenic properties of curcumin: Considerations for its clinical development as a cancer chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic agent. Molecular Nutrition . DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.200700238
Castedo, M., Perfettini, J., Roumier, T., Andreau, K., Medema, R., & Kroemer, G. (2004) Cell death by mitotic catastrophe: a molecular definition. Oncogene, 23(16), 2825-2837. DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1207528
- September 14, 2009
- 03:38 AM
- 1,066 views
The Trouble with Wikipedia as a Source for Medical Information
by Laika in Laika's Medliblog
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Do you ever use Wikipedia? I do and so do many other people. It is for free, easy to use, and covers many subjects.
But do you ever use Wikipedia to look up scientific or medical information? Probably everyone does so once in a while. Dave Munger (Researchblogging) concluded a discussion on Twitter as [...]... Read more »
Clauson, K., Polen, H., Boulos, M., & Dzenowagis, J. (2008) Scope, Completeness, and Accuracy of Drug Information in Wikipedia. Annals of Pharmacotherapy, 42(12), 1814-1821. DOI: 10.1345/aph.1L474
Laurent, M., & Vickers, T. (2009) Seeking Health Information Online: Does Wikipedia Matter?. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 16(4), 471-479. DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M3059
Hughes, B., Joshi, I., Lemonde, H., & Wareham, J. (2009) Junior physician's use of Web 2.0 for information seeking and medical education: A qualitative study. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 78(10), 645-655. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2009.04.008
Lee, C., Teo, C., & Low, A. (2009) Fulminant dengue myocarditis masquerading as acute myocardial infarction. International Journal of Cardiology, 136(3). DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2008.05.023
Halavais, A., & Lackaff, D. (2008) An Analysis of Topical Coverage of Wikipedia. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(2), 429-440. DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2008.00403.x
DEVGAN, L., POWE, N., BLAKEY, B., & MAKARY, M. (2007) Wiki-Surgery? Internal validity of Wikipedia as a medical and surgical reference. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 205(3). DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2007.06.190
Mühlhauser I, & Oser F. (2008) [Does WIKIPEDIA provide evidence-based health care information? A content analysis]. Zeitschrift fur Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualitat im Gesundheitswesen, 102(7), 441-8. PMID: 19209572
Amichai–Hamburger, Y., Lamdan, N., Madiel, R., & Hayat, T. (2008) Personality Characteristics of Wikipedia Members. CyberPsychology , 11(6), 679-681. DOI: 10.1089/cpb.2007.0225
Butler, D. (2008) Publish in Wikipedia or perish. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/news.2008.1312
Daub, J., Gardner, P., Tate, J., Ramskold, D., Manske, M., Scott, W., Weinberg, Z., Griffiths-Jones, S., & Bateman, A. (2008) The RNA WikiProject: Community annotation of RNA families. RNA, 14(12), 2462-2464. DOI: 10.1261/rna.1200508
Mons, B., Ashburner, M., Chichester, C., van Mulligen, E., Weeber, M., den Dunnen, J., van Ommen, G., Musen, M., Cockerill, M., Hermjakob, H.... (2008) Calling on a million minds for community annotation in WikiProteins. Genome Biology, 9(5). DOI: 10.1186/gb-2008-9-5-r89
Huss, J., Orozco, C., Goodale, J., Wu, C., Batalov, S., Vickers, T., Valafar, F., & Su, A. (2008) A Gene Wiki for Community Annotation of Gene Function. PLoS Biology, 6(7). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060175
- December 18, 2009
- 05:15 PM
- 1,065 views
Overproduction of Th1 and Th17 Cytokines may be the Clue to why some H1N1 Patients get very ill
by Laika in Laika's Medliblog
The present H1N1 influenza virus (nvH1N1, nv=new variant) behaves very differently from other influenza strains. The majority of nvH1N1 infections are mild and self-limiting in nature, but a small percentage of the patients require hospitalization and sometimes emergency care. Unlike the seasonal flu virus, the people who seem to suffer serious complications from this [...]... Read more »
Bermejo-Martin, J., Ortiz de Lejarazu, R., Pumarola, T., Rello, J., Almansa, R., Ramirez, P., Martin-Loeches, I., Varillas, D., Gallegos, M., Seron, C.... (2009) Th1 and Th17 hypercytokinemia as early host response signature in severe pandemic influenza. Critical Care, 13(6). DOI: 10.1186/cc8208
Wynn, T. (2005) TH-17: a giant step from TH1 and TH2. Nature Immunology, 6(11), 1069-1070. DOI: 10.1038/ni1105-1069
Park, H., Li, Z., Yang, X., Chang, S., Nurieva, R., Wang, Y., Wang, Y., Hood, L., Zhu, Z., Tian, Q.... (2005) A distinct lineage of CD4 T cells regulates tissue inflammation by producing interleukin 17. Nature Immunology, 6(11), 1133-1141. DOI: 10.1038/ni1261
- May 16, 2009
- 06:02 PM
- 1,060 views
One Third of the Clinical Cancer Studies Report Conflict of Interest
by Laika in Laika's Medliblog
While many of us just recovered from the news that Elsevier was paid to produce fake Journals to promote pharmaceutical products, another news item has appeared about “conflicts of interests in scientific publications”
This news is based on a new journal article from researchers from the University of Michigan’s Comprehensive Cancer Center in Ann Arbor, published [...]... Read more »
Jagsi, R., Sheets, N., Jankovic, A., Motomura, A., Amarnath, S., & Ubel, P. (2009) Frequency, nature, effects, and correlates of conflicts of interest in published clinical cancer research. Cancer. DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24315
- July 6, 2009
- 08:05 PM
- 1,013 views
Does the insulin Lantus (glargine) cause cancer?
by Laika in Laika's Medliblog
Last week my eyes were caught by a post of Kevin MD at his blog entitled
“Does insulin cause cancer, and should you stop taking Lantus?”.
Kevin linked to the blog of Dr. Mintz, a board-certified internist, who had a strong opinion on this. Dr. Mintz posted 3 blog articles on the matter, entitled: [...]... Read more »
Hemkens, L., Grouven, U., Bender, R., Günster, C., Gutschmidt, S., Selke, G., & Sawicki, P. (2009) Risk of malignancies in patients with diabetes treated with human insulin or insulin analogues: a cohort study. Diabetologia. DOI: 10.1007/s00125-009-1418-4
Jonasson, J.M., Ljung, R, Talbäck, M, Haglund, B, Gudbjörnsdòttir, S, & Steineck, G. (2009) Insulin glargine use and short-term incidence of malignancies—a population-based follow-up study in Sweden. Diabetologia. DOI: http://www.diabetologia-journal.org/cancer_files/090776Jonassonacceptedpaper.pdf
SDRN Epidemiology Group. (2009) Use of insulin glargine and cancer incidence in Scotland: A study from the Scottish Diabetes Research Network Epidemiology Group. Diabetologia. DOI: http://webcast.easd.org/press/glargine/download/090818Colhounacceptedpaperadjusted.pdf
Smith, U., & Gale, E. A. M. (2009) Does diabetes therapy influence the risk of cancer?. Diabetologia. DOI: http://webcast.easd.org/press/glargine/download/090831Smith2ndproofs.pdf
- February 22, 2009
- 05:55 PM
- 1,010 views
MnSOD, Carotenoids & Prostate Cancer - “You are what you eat” depends on who you are.
by Laika in Laika's Medliblog
When you type Cancer Food Prevention in Google you get about 9 million hits, many of them dotcom sites telling you which nutrients, pills or extracts you should take to prevent cancer. Much of this information is unreliable at least.
Although it is true that numerous observational studies (cohort and case-control) do indicate a relationship between [...]... Read more »
B. Mikhak, D. J. Hunter, D. Spiegelman, E. A. Platz, K. Wu, J. W. Erdman, & E. Giovannucci. (2008) Manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) gene polymorphism, interactions with carotenoid levels and prostate cancer risk. Carcinogenesis, 29(12), 2335-2340. DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgn212
- November 29, 2009
- 10:05 PM
- 938 views
Complementary Medicine & Pharmacists
by Laika in Laika's Medliblog
I don’t know if the situation is the same in other countries, but in the Netherlands we can only get prescribed medications in pharmacies. Drugstores are only allowed to sell over-the counter (OTC) medicines.
Most Pharmacies have a small shop of 5 square meters (besides a large storage room). What surprises me is that the counter [...]... Read more »
Downey, L., Tyree, P., Huebner, C., & Lafferty, W. (2009) Pediatric Vaccination and Vaccine-Preventable Disease Acquisition: Associations with Care by Complementary and Alternative Medicine Providers. Maternal and Child Health Journal. DOI: 10.1007/s10995-009-0519-5
- September 29, 2009
- 04:50 PM
- 900 views
Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 2
by Laika in Laika's Medliblog
Welcome to the latest edition of Grand Rounds, the weekly compilation of the best of the medical blogosphere! I presume you would rather take a tour through the Netherlands, visiting windmills and tulips, but we will save this for another time. Right now, let’s take a trip around the library.
Because you know what William [...]... Read more »
Andreas G. Anastasiou, & Athanasios Anastasiou. (2009) The effects of current dietary trends and consumption patterns on health: evidence from the UK. Int. J. Behavioural and Healthcare Research, 1(3), 318-333. info:/
- March 15, 2009
- 11:35 PM
- 891 views
An Antibiotic Past May Save Lives at the ICU.
by Laika in Laika's Medliblog
Respiratory tract infections acquired in the intensive care unit (ICU) are important causes of morbidity and mortality, the most significant risk factor being mechanical ventilation. It is thought that hospital pneumonia commonly originates from flora colonized in the patient’s oropharynx (the area of the throat at the back of the mouth). Therefore, reduction of [...]... Read more »
de Smet, A., Kluytmans, J., Cooper, B., Mascini, E., Benus, R., van der Werf, T., van der Hoeven, J., Pickkers, P., Bogaers-Hofman, D., van der Meer, N.... (2009) Decontamination of the Digestive Tract and Oropharynx in ICU Patients. New England Journal of Medicine, 360(1), 20-31. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa0800394
de Smet, A., Kluytmans, J., Cooper, B., Mascini, E., Benus, R., van der Werf, T., van der Hoeven, J., Pickkers, P., Bogaers-Hofman, D., van der Meer, N.... (2009) Decontamination of the Digestive Tract and Oropharynx in ICU Patients. New England Journal of Medicine, 360(1), 20-31. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa0800394
de Smet, A., Kluytmans, J., Cooper, B., Mascini, E., Benus, R., van der Werf, T., van der Hoeven, J., Pickkers, P., Bogaers-Hofman, D., van der Meer, N.... (2009) Decontamination of the Digestive Tract and Oropharynx in ICU Patients. New England Journal of Medicine, 360(1), 20-31. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa0800394
de Smet, A., Kluytmans, J., Cooper, B., Mascini, E., Benus, R., van der Werf, T., van der Hoeven, J., Pickkers, P., Bogaers-Hofman, D., van der Meer, N.... (2009) Decontamination of the Digestive Tract and Oropharynx in ICU Patients. New England Journal of Medicine, 360(1), 20-31. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa0800394
de Smet, A., Kluytmans, J., Cooper, B., Mascini, E., Benus, R., van der Werf, T., van der Hoeven, J., Pickkers, P., Bogaers-Hofman, D., van der Meer, N.... (2009) Decontamination of the Digestive Tract and Oropharynx in ICU Patients. New England Journal of Medicine, 360(1), 20-31. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa0800394
de Smet, A., Kluytmans, J., Cooper, B., Mascini, E., Benus, R., van der Werf, T., van der Hoeven, J., Pickkers, P., Bogaers-Hofman, D., van der Meer, N.... (2009) Decontamination of the Digestive Tract and Oropharynx in ICU Patients. New England Journal of Medicine, 360(1), 20-31. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa0800394
- June 8, 2010
- 11:45 AM
- 865 views
PubMed versus Google Scholar for Retrieving Evidence
by Laika in Laika's Medliblog
A while ago a resident in dermatology told me she got many hits out of PubMed, but zero results out of TRIP. It appeared she had used the same search for both databases: alopecea areata and diphenciprone (a drug with a lot of synonyms). Searching TRIP for alopecea (in the title) only, we found a Cochrane [...]... Read more »
Anders ME, & Evans DP. (2010) Comparison of PubMed and Google Scholar Literature Searches. Respiratory care, 55(5), 578-83. PMID: 20420728
- August 29, 2010
- 11:32 PM
- 848 views
Does the NHI/FDA Paper Confirm XMRV in CFS? Well, Ditch the MR and Scratch the X… and… you’ve got MLV.
by Laika in Laika's Medliblog
The long awaited paper that would ‘solve’ the controversies about the presence of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-related virus (XMRV) in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) was finally published in PNAS last week [1]. The study, a joint effort of the NIH and the FDA, was withheld, on request of the authors [2], because it contradicted [...]... Read more »
Lo SC, Pripuzova N, Li B, Komaroff AL, Hung GC, Wang R, & Alter HJ. (2010) Detection of MLV-related virus gene sequences in blood of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and healthy blood donors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID: 20798047
Erlwein, O., Kaye, S., McClure, M., Weber, J., Wills, G., Collier, D., Wessely, S., & Cleare, A. (2010) Failure to Detect the Novel Retrovirus XMRV in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. PLoS ONE, 5(1). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008519
Groom, H., Boucherit, V., Makinson, K., Randal, E., Baptista, S., Hagan, S., Gow, J., Mattes, F., Breuer, J., Kerr, J.... (2010) Absence of xenotropic murine leukaemia virus-related virus in UK patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Retrovirology, 7(1), 10. DOI: 10.1186/1742-4690-7-10
van Kuppeveld, F., Jong, A., Lanke, K., Verhaegh, G., Melchers, W., Swanink, C., Bleijenberg, G., Netea, M., Galama, J., & van der Meer, J. (2010) Prevalence of xenotropic murine leukaemia virus-related virus in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome in the Netherlands: retrospective analysis of samples from an established cohort. BMJ, 340(feb25 1). DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c1018
McClure, M., & Wessely, S. (2010) Chronic fatigue syndrome and human retrovirus XMRV. BMJ, 340(feb25 1). DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c1099
Lombardi VC, Ruscetti FW, Das Gupta J, Pfost MA, Hagen KS, Peterson DL, Ruscetti SK, Bagni RK, Petrow-Sadowski C, Gold B.... (2009) Detection of an infectious retrovirus, XMRV, in blood cells of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5952), 585-9. PMID: 19815723
Enserink M. (2010) Chronic fatigue syndrome. New XMRV paper looks good, skeptics admit--yet doubts linger. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5995), 1000. PMID: 20798285
- March 13, 2011
- 07:48 PM
- 798 views
A New Safe Blood Test to Diagnose Down Syndrome
by Laika in Laika's Medliblog
The established method to prenatally diagnose chromosomal gross abnormalities is to obtain fetal cells from the womb with a fine needle, either by Amniocentesis (a sample of the fluid surrounding the foetus in the womb) or by Chorionic villus sampling (CVS, a sample of the placenta taken via the vaginal route). The procedures are not to be sneezed [...]... Read more »
LO, Y., CORBETTA, N., CHAMBERLAIN, P., RAI, V., SARGENT, I., REDMAN, C., & WAINSCOAT, J. (1997) Presence of fetal DNA in maternal plasma and serum. The Lancet, 350(9076), 485-487. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)02174-0
Chiu, R., Akolekar, R., Zheng, Y., Leung, T., Sun, H., Chan, K., Lun, F., Go, A., Lau, E., To, W.... (2011) Non-invasive prenatal assessment of trisomy 21 by multiplexed maternal plasma DNA sequencing: large scale validity study. BMJ, 342(jan11 1). DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c7401
Papageorgiou, E., Karagrigoriou, A., Tsaliki, E., Velissariou, V., Carter, N., & Patsalis, P. (2011) Fetal-specific DNA methylation ratio permits noninvasive prenatal diagnosis of trisomy 21. Nature Medicine. DOI: 10.1038/nm.2312
- May 7, 2009
- 10:41 PM
- 791 views
Merck’s Ghostwriters, Haunted Papers and Fake Elsevier Journals
by Laika in Laika's Medliblog
What is the purpose of publications? (…) The purpose of data is to support, directly or indirectly, the marketing of our product.” [1, 2]
It is well known that studies with significant positive results are easier to find than those with ‘negative’ results. This so called publication bias can arise from the tendency to submit or [...]... Read more »
Sismondo, S. (2007) Ghost Management: How Much of the Medical Literature Is Shaped Behind the Scenes by the Pharmaceutical Industry?. PLoS Medicine, 4(9). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040286
- March 14, 2010
- 07:59 AM
- 784 views
Sugar-Sweetened Beverages, Diet Coke & Health. Part I.
by Laika in Laika's Medliblog
At Medical and Technology of Joseph Kim, the upcoming Grand Rounds host, I saw the blog post “Need your help on Facebook to get Diet Coke to Donate $50,000 to the Foundation for NIH”.
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute has started a national campaign in the US, The Heart Truth®. They issued a challenge in [...]... Read more »
Litsa K Lambrakos, Pamela Coxson, Lee Goldman, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo. (2010) Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption and the Attributable Burden to Diabetes and Coronary Heart Disease. Circulation. info:other/
Malik VS, Schulze MB, & Hu FB. (2006) Intake of sugar-sweetened beverages and weight gain: a systematic review. The American journal of clinical nutrition, 84(2), 274-88. PMID: 16895873
Wolff E, & Dansinger ML. (2008) Soft drinks and weight gain: how strong is the link?. Medscape journal of medicine, 10(8), 189. PMID: 18924641
Forshee RA, Anderson PA, & Storey ML. (2008) Sugar-sweetened beverages and body mass index in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis. The American journal of clinical nutrition, 87(6), 1662-71. PMID: 18541554
Gibson S. (2008) Sugar-sweetened soft drinks and obesity: a systematic review of the evidence from observational studies and interventions. Nutrition research reviews, 21(2), 134-47. PMID: 19087367
Janssen I, Katzmarzyk PT, Boyce WF, Vereecken C, Mulvihill C, Roberts C, Currie C, Pickett W, & Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Obesity Working Group. (2005) Comparison of overweight and obesity prevalence in school-aged youth from 34 countries and their relationships with physical activity and dietary patterns. Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 6(2), 123-32. PMID: 15836463
- May 11, 2010
- 01:18 PM
- 733 views
What One Short Night’s Sleep does to your Glucose Metabolism
by Laika in Laika's Medliblog
As a blogger I regularly sleep 3-5 hours just to finish a post. I know that this has its effects on how I feel the next day. I also know short nights don’t promote my clear-headedness and I also recognize short-term effects on memory, cognitive functions, reaction time and mood (irritability), as depicted in the [...]... Read more »
Donga E, van Dijk M, van Dijk JG, Biermasz NR, Lammers GJ, van Kralingen KW, Corssmit EP, & Romijn JA. (2010) A Single Night of Partial Sleep Deprivation Induces Insulin Resistance in Multiple Metabolic Pathways in Healthy Subjects. The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism. PMID: 20371664
Donga E, van Dijk M, van Dijk JG, Biermasz NR, Lammers GJ, van Kralingen K, Hoogma RP, Corssmit EP, & Romijn JA. (2010) Partial sleep restriction decreases insulin sensitivity in type 1 diabetes. Diabetes care. PMID: 20357381
Nielsen LS, Danielsen KV, & Sørensen TI. (2010) Short sleep duration as a possible cause of obesity: critical analysis of the epidemiological evidence. Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity. PMID: 20345429
Monasta L, Batty GD, Cattaneo A, Lutje V, Ronfani L, van Lenthe FJ, & Brug J. (2010) Early-life determinants of overweight and obesity: a review of systematic reviews. Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity. PMID: 20331509
Cappuccio FP, D'Elia L, Strazzullo P, & Miller MA. (2010) Quantity and quality of sleep and incidence of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Diabetes care, 33(2), 414-20. PMID: 19910503
- June 22, 2010
- 06:07 PM
- 723 views
Will Nano-Publications & Triplets Replace The Classic Journal Articles?
by Laika in Laika's Medliblog
“Libraries and journals articles as we know them will cease to exists” said Barend Mons at the symposium in honor of our Library 25th Anniversary (June 3rd). “Possibly we will have another kind of party in another 25 years”…. he continued, grinning. What he had to say the next half hour intrigued me. And although [...]... Read more »
van Haagen HH, 't Hoen PA, Botelho Bovo A, de Morrée A, van Mulligen EM, Chichester C, Kors JA, den Dunnen JT, van Ommen GJ, van der Maarel SM.... (2009) Novel protein-protein interactions inferred from literature context. PloS one, 4(11). PMID: 19924298
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