Beta blockers may be ineffective following heart attack
Beta blocker drugs have formed part of the standard treatment for heart attacks for over 30 years to reduce the risk of new attacks. However, a new study involving more than 43,000 Swedish heart attack patients now indicates that these drugs have no effect after one year in the vast majority of cases.
Junk food may impair our deep sleep
In a new study, researchers at Uppsala University have investigated how junk food affects sleep. Healthy participants consumed an unhealthier as well as a healthier diet in a randomised order. After the unhealthier diet, the quality of the participants’ deep sleep had deteriorated, compared with those who had followed the healthier diet. The results have been published in the journal Obesity.
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“Most people can relate to music”
Mattias Lundberg’s area of research is liturgical music from the Renaissance. However, as a professor of musicology, he is used to covering the history of music in its entirety, and in recent years he has done precisely this in radio broadcasts from Sveriges Radio.
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Uppsala University at Almedalen
AI, sustainability, gaming addiction, climate, precision medicine and human rights – these are a few of the topics to be discussed at Uppsala University’s seminars during Almedalen Week, 27 June – 1 July 2023.
