Risk Factor

The results highlight post-traumatic stress disorders as a modifiable risk factor for psychosis conversion. The researchers said future studies should probe what PTSD symptoms affect psychotic symptom severity. Complex PTSD was significantly associated with the severity of psychotic symptoms among people who experienced developmental trauma though symptom severity had no relationship with the broader diagnosis of ICD-11 PTSD, data show.

Healio spoke with Erin Furr Stimming, MD, about risk factors that can be addressed early in Huntington’s disease.

The B-glucocerebrosidase protein was a novel risk factor for Parkinson’s disease in African or African admixed populations and may assist in targeted treatments for these populations, according to a study published in The Lancet Neurology.

After pooling individual-level data from 112 cohort studies, researchers determined that more than 50% of cases of CVD can be attributed to five modifiable risk factors — BMI, systolic BP, non-HDL, current smoking and diabetes.

Race, sequential organ failure assessment scores and cardiac arrhythmias are among the factors that raised the risk for mechanical ventilation following sepsis onset, according to results published in American Journal of Critical Care.

DANA POINT, Calif. — In this Healio video exclusive, Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, discusses resistant hypertension, which he said “is the most powerful and potent cardiovascular risk factor in women.”

Among patients with psoriasis, arthralgia should be considered a risk factor predicting progression to psoriatic arthritis, according to new EULAR points to consider for suspicious features in early PsA development.

Patients with rosacea, alopecia areata, psoriasis or atopic dermatitis all face an elevated risk for cardiovascular disease, according to a study.

Adults who are diagnosed with adrenocortical cancer have a 5-year overall survival of 54%, with overall survival higher among those with stage I or stage II cancer, according to study findings.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Treatment with ketamine may be an effective augmenter of risk mitigation for suicidality and effective modulator for suicide-related cognitive processing in adults, according to data presented here.