According to a research study published in the European Journal of Cancer, cardiovascular health calculators can be repurposed to predict a person’s odds of developing cancer. A few small calibration tweaks allowed statisticians to use widely used heart health prediction tools QRISK-3, SCORE-2, SCORE-2OP and pooled cohort equations to highlight people in danger of developing…
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Oil & Gas industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The International Energy Agency has warned of a growing risk to energy supplies following the escalation of the war in the Middle East, with the renewed shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz once…
Black living kidney donors who carried high-risk apolipoprotein LI1 (APOL1) genotypes had a substantially increased risk for long-term kidney dysfunction than donors without these variants, according to a new study. Nearly two decades after nephrectomy, donors with these genotypes were more than twice as likely to have an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) < 45…
