Written by Taylor Woosley, Staff Writer. 500 mg oregano supplementation in healthy male soldiers immediately after completing the army combat readiness test showed a significant time x group interactions for SOD (p < 0.0001), TAC (p < 0.0001) and GPX (p < 0.0001) compared to placebo.
Written by Taylor Woosley, Staff Writer. While all social conditions (acts of kindness, social activities, and cognitive reappraisal) showed a significant linear improvement from baseline to follow-up for the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), only participants in the acts of kindness group exhibited a significant linear increase in the Social Connectedness Scale (SCS-R).
Written by Taylor Woosley, Staff Writer. 6-month Mediterranean dietary intervention resulted in a lower dietary inflammatory index and improved anti-inflammatory activity compared to the habitual diet group.
Written by Taylor Woosley, Staff Writer. Results for Cox models (participants without depression at baseline and adjusting for age, sex, and years of education) show that with each unit increase in the MedDietScore, indicating greater MeDi adherence, was associated with a 6.2% decrease in the risk for depression (p = 0.001).
Written by Taylor Woosley, Staff Writer. Results from this observational prospective study using 123 adult COVID-19 patients and 48 controls shows that a moderately negative correlation was observed between serum zinc levels and the severity of COVID-19 infection.
Written by Taylor Woosley, Staff Writer. 4-week administration of psyllium husk resulted in a significant reduction of IBS-SSS and 43.9% entered remission compared to 9.7% achieving remission in the placebo group.
Written by Taylor Woosley, Staff Writer. Centenarians with three risk factors (low serum 25(OH)D and higher PTH and β-CTX levels) and those with two risk factors had, respectively, had a 2.02-fold and 1.49-fold increase in risk of all-cause mortality in comparison with centenarians with no risk factors.
Written by Taylor Woosley, Staff Writer. Results of the study using data from the TILDA cohort shows that subjects with lower plasma lutein and zeaxanthin concentrations at baseline were cross-sectionally associated with frailty.
Written by Taylor Woosley, Staff Writer. Post-analysis of serum myokine levels shows that there was a significant elevation of SPARC (P=0.048), OSM (P=0.001), IL-6 (P=0.02), and IL-15 (P=0.023) in serum collected immediately after exercise compared to serum collected at baseline.
Written by Taylor Woosley, Staff Writer. 10-week intervention using the probiotic BB68S resulted in significantly greater changes in total RBANS score and in 4 domains: immediate memory (p < 0.0001), visuospatial/constructional (p<0.001), attention (p < 0.001), and delayed memory (p < 0.0001) compared to the control group.
