News
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Damage to small blood vessels in prediabetes (mumc+ news).
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What factors can help prevent warring parties from reverting to violence and instead create a sustainable peace? This is the central question at the heart of the PhD thesis ‘Sustainable Peacebuilding in Divided Societies’ defended by Ayokunu Adedokun on 20 December 2016.
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Children of parents with a mental illness or substance abuse problems (abbreviated as COPMI and COSAP, respectively) have a high risk (50–66%) of developing the same problems. This has an impact on their health, wellbeing, social network and overall functioning.
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People with impaired kidney function have a higher risk of developing memory problems and even dementia, according to an analytic study by researchers Kay Deckers and Sebastian Köhler. Both researchers work at Maastricht University's Alzheimer Centre Limburg (ACL).
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Walking, strolling and standing more during the day is better for sugar regulation in diabetics than an hour of high-intensity exercise.
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People who travel to distant destinations often import multidrug-resistant intestinal bacteria known as ESBL-producing bacteria, which are resistant to common antibiotics.
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Students at Maastricht University have developed a device that can detect the presence of certain bacteria. This device may help to prevent bacterial outbreaks in the future.
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Serious gaming can help prevent obesity in children and young adults (MUMC+ news).
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Matthijs Cluitmans, PhD researcher and a doctor at the Hart + Vaat Centrum at Maastricht UMC+, successfully created a three-dimensional image of a patient's beating heart using non-invasive electrocardiographic imaging (ECGI)
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Paradoxical discovery in chronic pain research (MUMC+ news)