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Like pebbles dropped in a pond, incoming medical students create ripples that widen far beyond the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Sleep architecture is essential for metabolic and cardiovascular health, yet the impact of day-to-day dietary variation on objective sleep physiology remains unclear. Using an observational causal-inference framework on 4,793 person-nights with real-time dietary logs and multi-stage wearable sleep recordings, we examined how daily nutritional choices relate to that same night’s sleep under free-living conditions, using…

People with MASLD have an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease, cognitive decline, and other metabolic complications, yet the biological mechanisms connecting these conditions remain incompletely understood. In a new study published in the journal Aging, researchers investigated whether lipocalin-2 (LCN2), a protein involved in inflammatory and metabolic signaling, is associated with early vascular dysfunction, cognitive…