Healio Minute Monday, March 10, 2014 Edition: Attitude key to gestational weight, psychiatric effects of paternal age re-visited, boomer HCV focus urged

What just happened in medicine and why do you care?

Attitudes about diet during pregnancy may affect gestational weight gain

Healio.com/Endocrinology: Nearly all participants who exceeded target weight gain exercised less during pregnancy and did not meet federal exercise guidelines. Read more.

Advanced age of father linked to psychiatric illnesses in children

Healio.com/Psychiatry: Design of previous studies may have created contradictory results, which this research sought to overcome by virtue of study size and in-family analysis. Read more.

Increased baby boomer hepatitis C prevalence spurs focus on detection, treatment

Healio.com/Infectious Disease: Findings indicate that among those in the 1945 to 1965 birth group, the incidence of anti-HCV antibodies was 3.2%, significantly higher than other adults (0.9%). Read more.

Enrollment completed for feasibility study of tissue growth device in children

Healio.com/Cardiology: Xeltis is developing implantable device intended to cause the spontaneous growth of natural heart valves and vessels in children with congenital heart defects. Read more.

Afternoon exercise linked to next-day hypoglycemia in adolescents with diabetes

Healio.com/Endocrinology: Findings also indicate that those adolescents who are more physically fit have a greater risk for next-day hypoglycemia after afternoon exercise than their less-fit peers. Read more.