Video Games

Healio and Cardiology Today have curated a list of the most-read news in cardiology of October 2022.

Children who played video games were shown to exhibit better cognitive function compared with those who didn’t, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

In a recent study, video games were found to be a trigger for arrhythmic conditions in children with a proarrhythmic cardiac diagnosis.

Electronic gaming can precipitate lethal cardiac arrhythmias in children with proarrhythmic conditions, though worldwide incidence appears to be low overall, researchers reported.

Approximately 75% of men reported losing sleep after staying up late to play video games, and 62% of men say they have lost sleep due to staying up to drink alcohol, survey results presented at SLEEP 2022 showed.

DENVER — Playing stereoscopic 3D video games could improve stereoacuity and potentially benefit patients with amblyopia, according to a study presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting.

Teenage boys with obesity gained more than 8 pounds on average vs. about 2.6 pounds for girls, during Italy’s first COVID-19 lockdown in the spring of 2020, primarily due to spending more time video gaming, according to study data.

A free video game titled Shadow’s Edge helps players cope with the isolation, desolation and fear caused by stressors like COVID-19, the game’s developer told Healio Primary Care.

College-aged men who played video games consumed less healthier foods than their nongaming peers, according to data presented at Nutrition 2020 Live Online.

A secondary analysis of survey data showed a small but not clinically relevant association between early exposure to video games and a higher BMI score in later years, which could be explained by irregularity of bedtime and a high consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, researchers reported.