… the gap between rich/poor and black/white remains The comfortably off, white, and middle-aged are the most likely to participate in sporting activities, a new 10-year UK study has revealed. Furthermore, the gap between rich and poor — and black and white — appears to have widened rather than narrowed in a decade, as overall [...]
Dr Joanne Kitchen and Dr David Kane from AMNCH’s Department of Rheumatology explain how to treat patients with early onset arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, systemic, inflammatory disorder of unknown aetiology that primarily involves joints. It can be a disabling condition with a high incidence of morbidity and mortality in patients compared to age- [...]
More and more people are failing to recognise they are overweight, despite an actual rise in the number of people who are clinically overweight or obese, according to new research. Researchers from the Health Behaviour Research Centre at University College London, compared data taken from two household surveys carried out in 1999 and 2007. In [...]
Having a higher than normal level of the protein fetuin-A is associated with an increased risk of the development of diabetes, according to a new study. In the study, doctors examined whether higher fetuin-A levels are associated with the occurrence of diabetes in older persons. The study included 406 persons aged 70 to 79 years [...]
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