Page 2 – NCAL Research Spotlight

More metastatic prostate cancers found after change in screening guidelines

December 10, 2019
Cancer, Men’s health
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In the years after the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended against PSA-based screening in all men, many fewer men were diagnosed with prostate cancer but more were found to have advanced cancers, according to a large Kaiser Permanente study published today in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Kaiser Permanente reduces racial disparities in who gets minimally invasive hysterectomies

December 6, 2019
Disparities, Health disparities, Women’s health
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Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California hospitals significantly increased minimally invasive surgery for hysterectomy and found the change also reduced racial disparities in the types of hysterectomies patients get.

Study in pregnant women suggests maternal infection, not antibiotics, associated with childhood obesity

December 5, 2019
Children’s health, Infectious disease, Maternal/infant health, Perinatal health, Press Release, Women’s health
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Women who had an untreated infection during pregnancy were more likely to have a child who later went on to be obese than pregnant women who never had an infection, new research from Kaiser Permanente finds.

Body fatness affects chemo dosages, contributing to increased risk of breast cancer death

December 5, 2019
Cancer, Obesity
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Women with greater adiposity, or body fatness, were significantly less likely to receive all of the recommended chemotherapy dose to treat their breast cancer, and they were subsequently 30% more likely to die from the disease as a result, according to research published in JAMA Oncology.

Kaiser Permanente reduces hospitalizations even as sicker patients are admitted

December 4, 2019
Biostatistics, Delivery Science, Health Policy, Hospital systems, Press Release, Uncategorized
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Kaiser Permanente's Northern California hospitals reduced hospitalizations and readmissions even as patients' conditions increased in severity, a new analysis shows.

Chronic disease prevalence varies by Asian subgroup, Kaiser Permanente research finds

November 25, 2019
Cardiovascular, Diabetes, Disparities, Health disparities, Press Release
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Asian-Americans from different parts of Asia have very different cardiovascular risk factors and chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease, Kaiser Permanente research concludes.

Division of Research findings contribute to change to national hepatitis C treatment guideline

November 18, 2019
Infectious disease, Pharmacoepidemiology
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Black patients being treated for hepatitis C can take 8 weeks of certain direct-acting antiviral drugs rather than the previous recommendation of 12 weeks, updated guidelines say.

Division of Research remembers Bernard Tyson

November 12, 2019
Uncategorized
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Tyson attended the 2016 celebration honoring Kaiser Permanente participants in CARDIA, a landmark national study of cardiovascular health and disparities.

Adult ADHD diagnoses rise sharply over a decade

November 1, 2019
Behavioral health, Disparities, Health disparities, Mental health, Press Release
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The rate at which adults were diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder doubled over ten years, increasing much faster than the diagnosis rate for children.

KP Research Radio: Epidemic of deaths due to heart failure underway in U.S.

Deaths due to heart failure are increasing in the United States, particularly among the over-age-65 population, according to Kaiser Permanente research published today in JAMA Cardiology.