Health topic bookmarking indices by formerly prolific usenet poster

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His research is exhaustive, so I thought I'd drag this over here...


I used to post a lot of studies and news articles in health related
usenet newsgroups including this one, but I always felt that an
organized way to store these links was needed. Social bookmarking is one
way to archive this kind of links in an organized way. Now since the
fall of 2006 I've used social bookmarking site Magnolia (a.k.a.
ma.gnolia) <http://ma.gnolia.com> for this purpose. Why Magnolia? It
has a nice group feature, you can very easily create topic related
groups, and it uses comma (,) as a tag separator, so you can use space
in the tags. It also has a pretty user interface :-) .

I've created public groups for nutrition, anti-aging and life extension,
cancer, cardiovascular diseases, vitamin D, herbs and for some other
topics. I invite everyone interested to register at the Magnolia home
page <http://ma.gnolia.com> and then join to any or all the groups
mentioned. After joining a group you can also start posting your own
bookmarks into it, if you wish, or just use it for searching links that
may interest you.

Nutrition group now has over 3700 bookmarks, cancer group,
cardiovascular diseases group and herbs group over 1000 bookmarks, and
vitamin D group over 350 bookmarks. Anti-aging and life extension group
has only just over 100 bookmarks, so clearly more contributors are
needed for this group :-) .

A couple of tips about searching and posting in these groups:

- I divide the the bookmarks into three categories: scientific articles
published in scientific journals, news articles (usually about
scientific articles) and bookmarks, which are neither scientific
articles nor news articles. For the articles in the first category I use
the tag STUDY (for the sake of clarity I write the tags in upper case,
although in practice i usually use lower case; case does not matter in
searches), for the news articles the tag NEWS, and for all the others
both tag INFO and INFORMATION. Thus I am able to choose only one type of
these three types of bookmarks for the search, if I so wish. In searches
you of course need to use only INFO or INFORMATION, not both.

- If the bookmark has a publication date like studies and news articles
usually have, I use publication year as a tag. Usually this is my first
tag of a bookmark, followed by STUDY, NEWS, or INFO, INFORMATION. The
year of publication is useful in many cases in limiting searches.

- I divide studies in two categories: original research articles and
review articles. For the former I use the tag RESEARCH and for the
latter the tag REVIEW. Usually I place either the RESEARCH or REVIEW
immediately after the tag STUDY. Thus you can look for only original
research articles or review articles, if you so wish. The first three
tags in the bookmark of a scientific article therefore often look for
example like

2008, STUDY, RESEARCH

or

2007, STUDY, REVIEW


Other study (STUDY) related tags:

INVITRO: In vitro study (I write it together without space, because I
started this social bookmarking in del.icio.us, which uses space as tag
separator and therefore it was not possible to use space in tags, and
now it's too much work to edit all the old bookmarks; there is a
"replace all" command, but in my experience it does not seem to be very
reliable).

CLINICALTRIAL: Clinical trial (see the explanation for INVITRO above)

RCT: Randomized controlled clinical trial.

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL: Epidemiological study.

ANIMAL STUDY: Animal study.

HUMANS: A study with humans. I started to use this tag only fairly
recently, so it does dot give that many hits in searches. Leave it out
from the searches, if you get too few hits, but it may be useful to use
it, when posting a study with human subjects.

MEDLINE: The study is in Medline

PEER-REVIEWED: The study is peer-reviewed

For the studies I always post a Medline reference into the description
field including also the PMID. An example:

Kimmie Ng, Jeffrey A. Meyerhardt, Kana Wu, Diane Feskanich, Bruce W.
Hollis, Edward L. Giovannucci, Charles S. Fuchs.
Circulating 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Levels and Survival in Patients With
Colorectal Cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol 26, No 18 (June
20), 2008: pp. 2984-2991.
PMID: 18565885

If DOI is available you may want to include also that into the
description field. For example, the DOI line for the above study would be

DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2007.15.1027

In case someone is interested, the link for the abstract of the above
study is

http://jco.ascopubs.org/cgi/content/abstract/26/18/2984

and link to my bookmarks for this study in cancer, nutrition and vitamin
D groups are, respectively,

http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/Cancer/bookmarks/tukostucush
http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/Nutrition/bookmarks/frusumaku
http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/Vitamin-D/bookmarks/brushik

The description field and title field are also searchable (this is a
second search mode in addition to the tag search), and including the
Medline reference will allow for example a search for any of the authors
or for PMID or for any word in the title and description fields. PMID
search is useful for example in checking whether a new study just about
to be posted is already in the group; you can also use PMID to locate
the abstract in the PubMed Medline database (<pubmed.gov>), for example
in case the link provided in the bookmark no longer works.

There are detailed instructions about how to create a Medline reference
for a study in the discussion column of the nutrition group.

Some general tags:

DIRECTORY: a major site containing information about several items or
topics, used usually with tags INFO and INFORMATION. Very useful, when
searching for important informational sites from a group. Similar to tag
PORTAL. When posting I sometimes use both DIRECTORY and PORTAL, if I
can't decide which one to use. In searching use only one of them at the
time.

MEDICINE

MORTALITY

PORTAL: a major site containing information about several items or
topics, used usually with tags INFO and INFORMATION. Very useful, when
searching for important informational sites from a group. Similar to tag
DIRECTORY. When posting I sometimes use both DIRECTORY and PORTAL, if I
can't decide which one to use. In searching use only one of them at the
time.

PREVENTION

RISK

RISK FACTORS

SCIENCE

THERAPY

TREATMENT


Some commonly used topic related tags:

AGING
ANTI-AGING
ANTIAGING
LIFE EXTENSION
LIFE SPAN

ALCOHOL

ALLERGY
ASTHMA
ATOPIC DERMATITIS


ANTI-INFLAMMATORY
ANTIINFLAMMATORY
5-LOX: 5-lipoxygenase enzyme
COX-2: Cyclooxygenase-2 enzyme
LOX: Lipoxygenase enzymeS
COX: Cyclooxygenase enzymes
INFLAMMATION
LOW GRADE SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION

ARTHRITIS
OSTEOARTHRITIS
RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
RA: Rheumatoid arthritis

BERRIES
BILBERRIES
BLUEBERRIES
BLACKBERRIES
CRANBERRIES
LINGONBERRIES
RASPBERRIES
RED RASPBERRIES
BLACK RASPBERRIES
STRAWBERRIES


CANCER
ANTI-CANCER
ANTICANCER
APOPTOSIS
BRAIN CANCER
BREAST CANCER
COLORECTAL CANCER
COLON CANCER
GASTRIC CANCER
GROWTH INHIBITION
GROWTH-INHIBITORY
HEAD AND NECK CANCER
HNCA: Head and neck cancer
HNSCC: Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
LEUKEMIA
LUNG CANCER
LYMPHOMA
MELANOMA
PCA: Prostate cancer
PROSTATE CANCER
PANCREATIC CANCER
SCC: Squamous cell carcinoma

CHD: Coronary heart disease
CVD: Cardiovascular disease(s)
CARDIOVASCULAR EVENTS
CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS
BLOOD PRESSURE
BP: Blood pressure
HYPERTENSION
DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS
DVT: Deep vein thrombosis
LIPID PROFILE
LIPIDS
CHOLESTEROL
CHOLESTEROL LOWERING FOODS
CHOLESTEROL LOWERING SUPPLEMENTS
HDL
HDL-C
HDL-C RAISING
LDL
TRIGLYCERIDES
MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
MI: Myocardial infarction
LYON DIET HEART STUDY
ENDOTHELIUM
ENDOTHELIAL FUNCTION
ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION
L-ARGININE
STROKE

CHOCOLATE
COCOA

CHROMIUM

CINNAMON

CRUCIFEROUS VEGETABLES
BROCCOLI
CABBAGE
CAULIFLOWER

DIABETES: either type 1 or type 2 diabetes or both
TYPE 1: type 1 diabetes, used together with the tag DIABETES
TYPE 2: type 2 diabetes, used together with the tag DIABETES
BLOOD GLUCOSE
GLYCEMIC CONTROL
HB1AC
INSULIN RESISTANCE
INSULIN SENSITIVITY
METABOLIC SYNDROME

DIETARY FAT
ALA: Alpha-linolenic Acid
ALPHA-LINOLENIC ACID
DHA
EPA
FAT
MUFA: Monounsaturated fat, monounsaturated fatty acids
OMEGA-3
OMEGA-6
PUFA: Polyunsaturated fatty acids
SATURATED FAT
SATURATED FATTY ACIDS
SFA: saturated fat, saturated fatty acids
TRANS FAT
TRANS FATTY ACIDS

DIETARY PATTERN

FISH
FISH OIL

GARLIC

GINKGO
GINKGO BILOBA

HERBS

HELICOBACTER PYLORI

LOW-CARBOHYDRATE DIET
LOW-FAT DIET
MEDITERRANEAN DIET
PORTFOLIO DIET

MILK THISTLE
SILYMARIN
SILIBININ
SILYBIN

NUTRITION

NUTS
ALMONDS
PECANS
PISTACHIOS
WALNUTS

OLIVE OIL

OSTEOPOROSIS
BMD
BONE HEALTH

POMEGRANATE

PROBIOTICS

PHYSICAL ACITIVITY
EXERCISE


SELENIUM

TEA
BLACK TEA
GREEN TEA

WINE
RED WINE
RESVERATROL

etc... etc...


Special tags:

FIND REMEDIES FOR A CONDITION
HEALTH CONCERNS

Both of these tags do the same thing: they give as a search result web
pages (currently four), which list a number of conditions. Chosing a
page and then clicking a condition in the list, gives that page's
suggestions for remedies for the clicked condition.


Links for the above mentioned groups:

Nutrition: http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/Nutrition
Cancer: http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/Cancer
Cardiovascular disease(s: http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/CVD
Vitamin D: http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/Vitamin-D
Herbs: http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/Herbs
Anti-aging and life extension: http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/Anti-aging


Welcome!


PS. These groups are open and unmoderated, there is no posting time
censorship, but spams and offensive or otherwise off-topic bookmarks
will be removed after posting, and spammers will be banned.

--
Matti Narkia
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