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Scientists also found that the spiritual path provided added benefits in the form of enhanced visual-spatial memory, which comes into play when recalling locations and navigating while walking or driving, and reduced anxiety.
Eating certain fruits and green vegetables could help teenagers and young women reduce the risk breast cancer in later life, a new study suggests.
The researchers found that high fruit consumption during adolescence was associated with a 25% lower risk of breast cancer diagnosed in middle age.
Greater consumption of apple, banana, and grapes during adolescence, as well as oranges and kale during early adulthood, was significantly associated with a reduced risk of the disease, they said in a report published in the BMJ.
A computer-generated “virtual heart” can accurately predict the risk of sudden cardiac death, say scientists.
The 3D simulation was developed to help doctors identify patients with life-threatening irregular heart beats, or arrhythmias.
The model is based on distinctive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) heart scans of patients left with damaged cardiac tissue after surviving heart attacks.
Spotting those at high risk of sudden death due to an arrhythmia could allow doctors to determine which patients might benefit most from a defibrillator implant.
Fitting the implants, which sense the onset of irregular heart beats and jolt the heart back to a normal rhythm, involves invasive, risky and costly surgery.
Lead researcher Professor Natalia Trayanova, from Johns Hopkins University in the US, said: “This non-invasive and personalised virtual heart-risk assessment could help prevent sudden cardiac deaths and allow patients who are not at risk to avoid unnecessary defibrillator implantations.”
The system, called VARP (Virtual-heart Arrhythmia Risk Predictor), uses MRI scan results to build patient-specific digital replicas of damaged hearts.
