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Dave Roberts

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Computer guy, also loves to cook, photography, wine, travel, art, music.

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Dave Roberts @dcr20854.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Million Women Study recruited 542,778 UK women through breast-screening clinics and asked each of them about 97 different foods and nutrients. Over an average of 16.6 years, national cancer registry records, rather than self-reports, identified 12,251 cases of colorectal cancer. Researchers…

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Calcium, 542,778 UK Women and 16.6 Years of Cancer Registry Data

Dave Roberts @dcr20854.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A double-blind trial in New Zealand randomly assigned 1,054 women in their fifties, whose bone density ranged from normal to mildly thinned, to two infusions of a bone drug five years apart, a single infusion, or dummy infusions. Spine X-rays taken at the start, at five years and at ten years were…

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A 10-Year Trial of Bone Infusions in 1,054 Women in Their Fifties

Dave Roberts @dcr20854.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

England began offering HPV vaccination to girls aged 12 and 13 in 2008. Researchers pulled every cervical cancer death registered in the country across 24 years, in women aged 20 to 34, and set the first routinely vaccinated generation against what the pre-vaccination trends had predicted for them.

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HPV Vaccination and 24 Years of Cervical Cancer Records in England

Dave Roberts @dcr20854.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Helicobacter pylori is a common stomach bacterium that many people carry for years without knowing. Eight randomized trials, mostly in East Asia, assigned 58,628 infected adults to either a one- to two-week course of antibiotics and acid-suppressing medicine or to placebo. Registries and…

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Eight Trials of Treating a Common Stomach Infection in 58,628 Adults

Dave Roberts @dcr20854.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Nearly 940,000 post-9/11 U.S. veterans, median age 41, entered Veterans Affairs care with no insomnia, no sleep apnea, no high blood pressure, and no heart disease. Medical records then tracked who was later diagnosed with one sleep condition, both, or neither, and who went on to develop…

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Insomnia, Sleep Apnea and the Heart in 940,000 U.S. Veterans

Dave Roberts @dcr20854.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Low-carb or low-fat is the usual argument. Three long-running U.S. studies took a different angle, scoring the diets of nearly 200,000 adults on both counts and also on quality, separating plant-forward versions from ones built on animal products and refined carbohydrates. Over as long as 30…

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Low-Carb vs. Low-Fat Diet Quality and Heart Disease in 200,000 Adults

Dave Roberts @dcr20854.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Since the 1980s, more than 105,000 U.S. nurses and other health professionals—around 50 years old when they enrolled—have filled out diet questionnaires every few years. Up to 30 years later, those midlife diets were scored against eight established eating patterns, and researchers checked who…

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Eight Midlife Eating Patterns and Who Reached Age 70 in Good Health

Dave Roberts @dcr20854.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

More than 13,000 Swedish men aged 50 to 60 were randomly assigned to one of two prostate screening routes: a PSA blood test followed by systematic biopsy, or a PSA test plus an MRI scan with a biopsy only if the scan looked suspicious. Over a median of about four years, a pathologist examined the…

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Two Prostate Screening Routes Tested in 13,000 Swedish Men

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Dave Roberts @dcr20854.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Most exercise research on the heart looks at walking, running, and other aerobic activity. This one asked about lifting. In two long-running U.S. surveys, 117,025 women reported their resistance training habits every four years for an average of about 14.5 years, while researchers counted heart…

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Weight Training and 14 Years of Heart Records in 117,025 Women

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Dave Roberts @dcr20854.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In the UK Biobank, 141,848 adults without diabetes squeezed a hand-grip device and gave a DNA sample scored across 138 genetic markers tied to type 2 diabetes. About seven years later, 4,743 of them had been diagnosed with the disease. The analysis looked at how measured strength and inherited…

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Grip Strength, Diabetes Genes and Seven Years in 141,848 Adults

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Dave Roberts @dcr20854.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A trial in rural China randomly assigned 326 villages to either usual care or intensive blood pressure management, with trained community health workers coaching nearly 34,000 adults aged 40 and older. Over four years, it tracked something blood pressure trials rarely follow: new dementia…

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Blood Pressure Care and New Dementia Cases in 326 Chinese Villages

Dave Roberts @dcr20854.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Across two RSV seasons, from December 2023 through February 2025, U.S. hospitals enrolled adults aged 60 and older admitted with respiratory symptoms—268 who tested positive for RSV and 1,041 who tested negative. Researchers then compared how many people in each group had received an RSV vaccine.

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RSV Vaccination Among 1,309 Hospitalized Adults Aged 60 and Older

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Dave Roberts @dcr20854.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Between 2001 and 2004, 4,110 American men aged 20 and older answered a standard survey question about erectile function as part of a national health survey. Their records were then linked to national death files and followed for a median of about 16 years. In that time 1,226 of the men died, 419…

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A Survey Question on Erectile Function and 16 Years of Follow-Up

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Dave Roberts @dcr20854.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Two long-running U.S. studies followed 131,821 health professionals for as long as 43 years, with repeated questionnaires recording what they ate and drank, coffee and tea included. Over that span 11,033 of them were diagnosed with dementia, and researchers compared diagnosis rates across levels…

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Daily Coffee and Dementia Across 43 Years in 131,821 Adults

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Dave Roberts @dcr20854.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The federal survey What We Eat in America asks roughly 5,000 U.S. adults a year what they ate the day before. Covering 2001 through 2018, an analysis sorted people into groups by how similar their diets were, then compared body weight, BMI and waist size between the group eating about two servings…

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Bean Eaters and Non-Eaters Compared in a U.S. Diet Survey

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Dave Roberts @dcr20854.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Nearly 30,000 Chinese adults newly diagnosed with high blood pressure were each paired with someone the same age and sex whose blood pressure was normal. All of them were scored on eight habits and measures — diet, activity, smoking, sleep, weight, cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure —…

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Eight Habits Scored in 30,000 Adults With New High Blood Pressure

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Dave Roberts @dcr20854.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

In eastern England, 23,722 adults with an average age of 59 had their usual diets scored against a mostly plant-based pattern — more vegetables, fruits, whole grains, nuts and legumes, less meat and dairy. Over roughly 19 years, new cases of type 2 diabetes were identified through medical records…

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Diet Scores and 19 Years of Diabetes Records in 23,722 Adults

Dave Roberts @dcr20854.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A trial randomly assigned 129 university students — essentially a coin flip — to either twelve weeks of yoga, two 60-minute sessions a week, or to a comparison group that did no yoga. Everyone filled out standard questionnaires on perceived stress, anxiety and emotional wellbeing before the…

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A Twelve-Week Yoga Trial in 129 University Students

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Dave Roberts @dcr20854.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Wrist-worn fitness trackers captured more than four million nights of sleep from 14,689 physically active adults over a full year, logging heart rate and movement to gauge how hard each workout was and when it ended. The analysis lined up workout intensity and finish time against when people fell…

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Four Million Nights of Tracker Data From 14,689 Active Adults