{"id":34913,"date":"2015-08-05T09:51:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T08:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=34913"},"modified":"2015-08-05T09:51:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T08:51:51","slug":"the-bmj-today-chillies-and-mortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/08\/05\/the-bmj-today-chillies-and-mortality\/","title":{"rendered":"The BMJ Today: Chillies and mortality, informed consent, and healthcare for Syrian refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/08\/chillis_heart_feature1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-34918 \" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/08\/chillis_heart_feature1.jpg\" alt=\"chillis_heart_feature\" width=\"205\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/08\/chillis_heart_feature1.jpg 429w, https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/08\/chillis_heart_feature1-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><strong>\u2022\u00a0Is chilli good for your health?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jun Lv and colleagues report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/351\/bmj.h3942\">a large cohort study assessing the associations between the regular consumption of spicy foods and total and cause specific mortality<\/a>. They found that the habitual consumption of spicy foods was inversely associated with total and certain cause specific mortality (cancer, ischemic heart diseases, and respiratory diseases), independent of other risk factors of death.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/351\/bmj.h4141\">an accompanying editorial<\/a>, Nita G Forouhi asks should people eat spicy food. She answers herself: &#8220;It is too early to say, but the debate and the research interest are certainly hotting up.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0A therapeutic intervention in deceased patients<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Richard Lehman points out an unusual title of a paper in <a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/08\/03\/richard-lehmans-journal-review-3-august-2015\/\">his weekly review of medical journals<\/a>. The title in question is:\u00a0Therapeutic Hypothermia in Deceased Organ Donors and Kidney-Graft Function. It\u2019s the first time he has seen the word \u201ctherapeutic\u201d used to describe something done to a person who is already dead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/08\/ecg_people.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-34915\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/08\/ecg_people-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ecg_people\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><strong>\u2022\u00a0Informed consent in emergency medical trials<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seriously ill patients requiring emergency treatment are unlikely to be able to give full informed consent for a clinical trial, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/351\/bmj.h3791\">Neal W Dickert and Franklin G Miller argue that this does not mean that<\/a> they shouldn\u2019t be involved in enrolment decisions at all in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/351\/bmj.h3791\">this analysis paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/08\/syrian_refugees.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-34916\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/08\/syrian_refugees-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"syrian_refugees\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><strong>\u2022\u00a0Healthcare for refugees<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Syrian conflict has generated 4.1 million refugees. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/351\/bmj.h4150\">Jonathan Gornall reports on\u00a0the struggle to<\/a> provide healthcare for them when promised aid money has not materialised.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Georg R\u00f6ggla<\/strong> is an associate editor for <\/em>The BMJ<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022\u00a0Is chilli good for your health? Jun Lv and colleagues report a large cohort study assessing the associations between the regular consumption of spicy foods and total and cause specific mortality. 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