Publications by authors named "Sonja Kytomaa"
Nutrition-associated chronic disease is an epidemic in the United States (US), yet most medical schools lack adequate nutrition education. We developed a six-session culinary medicine (CM) seminar entitled "Eat to Treat: A Nutrition Course for Future Clinicians" that teaches culinary skills, nutrition science, and counseling techniques to improve clinical nutrition management. The seminar was offered in-person to first-year medical students in a medical school-based teaching kitchen from 2017 to 2019.
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- The study investigates the link between rare damaging genetic variants and chromosomally normal pregnancy loss, aiming to measure the strength of this association.
- Researchers compared genetic data from 19 cases of pregnancy loss to controls from a larger autism database, finding a higher proportion of rare damaging variants in the loss cases (36.8%) compared to controls (22.9%).
- It concludes that rare genetic variants in embryos could contribute to normal pregnancy loss, suggesting that further research is required to accurately assess this relationship and explore underlying biological mechanisms.
Importance: Influenza is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events, but to our knowledge, few studies have explored the temporal association between influenza activity and hospitalizations, especially those caused by heart failure (HF).
Objective: To explore the temporal association between influenza activity and hospitalizations due to HF and myocardial infarction (MI). We hypothesized that increased influenza activity would be associated with an increase in hospitalizations for HF and MI among adults in the community.