June 17, 2010
Oakland, Calif. – Kaiser Permanente Researchers in Northern and Southern California have launched the largest survey/research study of its kind to better understand the experience of people newly diagnosed with atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter.
Atrial fibrillation — a problem with the rate or rhythm of the heartbeat — is the most common type of arrhythmia ...
Read more... May 18, 2010
PASADENA, Calif – Extreme obesity is affecting more children at younger ages, with 12 percent of black teenage girls, 11.2 percent of Hispanic teenage boys, 7.3 percent of boys and 5.5 percent of girls now classified as extremely obese, according to a Kaiser Permanente study of 710,949 children and teens that appears online in the ...
Read more... May 4, 2010
PASADENA, Calif. – The pneumococcal pneumonia vaccination is not associated with a reduced risk of heart attacks or strokes, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The five-year prospective cohort study, which followed 84,170 men aged 45 to 69, provides new insights about the association between pneumococcal vaccination ...
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