A new global study finds that physical inactivity is a major, preventable driver of serious diabetes complications worldwide. Analyzing data from more than 2.3 million adults with diabetes, researchers estimate that up to 10% of strokes, diabetic retinopathy, and heart failure cases could be avoided if recommended physical activity levels were met. The burden was disproportionately higher among women, people with lower educational attainment, and in several high- and middle-income regions.

Can we be conscious without language? Does language influence our conscious experience? These questions, which are central to understanding the human mind, have been shed new light on thanks to the work of researchers at the University of Liège. Their study shows the complex links between language and consciousness.

While heart rate variability (HRV) is a standard measure of the autonomic nervous system activity, its real-time monitoring is often compromised by inter-patient variability and data contamination from procedural artifacts. Addressing these challenges, researchers from Fujita Health University developed a computational framework for robust and personalized real-time HRV analysis, adapted for clinical applications. The framework integrates each patient’s HRV indices with a mechanism to manually annotate artifact-prone periods, making the analysis accurate and patient-specific.

Rice researchers and collaborators have developed a system to camouflage heart rate from radar-based surveillance.

New study results could lead to mRNA therapeutic to reduce the risk of cardiac damage