Physical activity may matter more than diet for longevity
Physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness may be more strongly associated with living longer than diet quality, according to a new review co-authored by a Kaiser Permanente physician. The review, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, compared decades of research on diet quality, physical activity ...
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Blended prenatal care shows similar outcomes with fewer in-person visits
A blended prenatal care model that combined virtual and in-person visits was associated with similar birth outcomes compared with traditional in-person care, according to new Kaiser Permanente research. ...
Good news for people newly diagnosed with MOGAD: Study finds low relapse risk
People newly diagnosed with myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease, or MOGAD, generally had a low risk of relapse and lasting disability, according to a Kaiser Permanente study. ...
Ultraprocessed foods linked to body fat gain in children
Children who ate more ultraprocessed foods showed stronger activity in a part of the brain involved in reward, and that brain response was linked to greater gains in body fat over the following year, ...
New protocol allows teen to go home same day as chest surgery
July 27, 2021About 5 years ago, John Connell, now 16, was at a water park when a friend pointed his index finger at John’s bare chest and asked, “Were you in a car accident or something?” John looked down at his chest, and then at the chests of the other boys around him, and realized for the first ...Read more...Risk of blood clots more than 3-fold higher in hospitalized adults with COVID-19
July 23, 2021Hospitalized adults who have COVID-19 are more than 3 times as likely to develop a blood clot than adults who do not have COVID-19, according to new research from Kaiser Permanente Southern California and Kaiser Permanente Northern California. The study published July 20 in CHEST found Black patients as well as patients who had obesity, liver ...Read more...5 questions for … Dr. Erin Hahn
June 28, 2021Erin E. Hahn, PHD, MPH, is a health services researcher and implementation scientist. Her primary research interests are quality of care in oncology and the implementation of evidence-informed practices. She is particularly interested in the care of cancer survivors after their initial cancer treatment. Dr. Hahn joined the Department of Research & Evaluation as the ...Read more...Rates of heart failure deaths lower at Kaiser Permanente Southern California than U.S.
June 28, 2021A Kaiser Permanente Southern California research study found lower rates of heart failure mortality within the integrated health care system compared to the country as a whole. “In our study, we analyzed the overall rates of death attributable to heart failure throughout the state of California and United States, and then compared that to what we ...Read more...Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center joins COVID-19 vaccine trial for children
June 11, 2021Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center is participating in a clinical trial for the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in children ages 6 months to less than 12 years. The KidCOVE study will evaluate the safety and efficacy of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine (mRNA-1273), which is the same vaccine that was given Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) in December ...Read more...Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center to study experimental stroke drug
June 4, 2021Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center will conduct a multi-centered, randomized, Phase 3 research study to learn if the experimental drug recombinant Factor VIIa (rFVIIA), a protein that our body makes, can be used to decrease bleeding in the brain of patients who suffer sudden bleeding in the brain, also called intracerebral hemorrhage. The study entitled ...Read more...Marking Clinical Trials Day 2021 with gratitude
May 20, 2021On this day—May 20, 2021, aka Clinical Trials Day—we have more reasons than ever to celebrate the Kaiser Permanente Southern California clinical trials team. We began our COVID-19 clinical trials research with the remdesivir trial in March 2020. We were a top enroller in that study. Since then, our clinical trials program has participated in 9 ...Read more...Kaiser Permanente members have higher survival rate after cancer diagnosis
May 14, 2021Among insured cancer patients in Southern California, those who were diagnosed and treated at Kaiser Permanente, an integrated health care organization, had better survival rates, especially Black and Latinx patients, according to Kaiser Permanente research published in The American Journal of Managed Care. “Kaiser Permanente is committed to finding and addressing health care inequities,” said the ...Read more...COVID-19 outcomes are more severe for people of color
May 4, 2021A new Kaiser Permanente study published in Annals of Internal Medicine found that people of color were more likely to be hospitalized and to receive intensive-level care for COVID-19 compared to white patients even after adjusting for known health risk factors such as obesity, diabetes, and other conditions The study was among the first to show that these ...Read more...Celebrating our extraordinary nurses: During Nurses Week, all month, and throughout the year
May 4, 2021For National Nurses Week (May 6 to 12), Nurses Month, and Year of the Nurse, we celebrate the dedicated nurses who work in the Kaiser Permanente Southern California Department of Research & Evaluation. Nurses are a vital part of our research program. Most support clinical trials, where their relationship-building skills play an important part in helping ...Read more...