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PASADENA, Calif. – Receiving the herpes zoster vaccine was associated with a 55 percent reduced risk of developing shingles, according to a Kaiser Permanente study of 300,000 people that appears in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. STUDY HIGHLIGHTS There are more than 1 million episodes of shingles every year in the ...

PASADENA, Calif. – Cigarette smoking is widespread among children and young adults with diabetes yet few health care providers are counseling children and young adults with diabetes to not smoke or stop smoking, according to a new report from the SEARCH Study Group, published online in the Journal of Pediatrics. Children and young adults with diabetes ...

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 ...

PASADENA, Calif. – There is an increased risk of recurring gestational diabetes in pregnant women who developed gestational diabetes during their first and second pregnancies, according to a Kaiser Permanente study appearing online in The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Gestational diabetes mellitus, known as GDM, is defined as glucose intolerance that typically occurs ...

PASADENA, Calif. – Extremely obese children have a 40 percent higher risk of gastroesophageal reflux disease and children who are moderately obese have a 30 percent higher risk of GERD compared to normal weight children, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published online in the International Journal of Pediatric Obesity. This large population-based study establishes an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...