29%
The increase in teen driver crash rates in a county with earlier high school start times than a neighboring county, according to a study in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. Over the one-year study, students in Chesterfield County, Virginia, where high school classes began at 7:20 a.m., were more likely to get in crashes than students in adjacent Henrico County, Virginia, where classes started at 8:45 a.m.
40%
The percentage of patients treated in community mental health clinics for a first episode of schizophrenia who received medications that do not comply with recommended guidelines for first-episode treatment, according to a study in the American Journal of Psychiatryopens in new window. Patients received higher-than-recommended doses of antipsychotics, more than one antipsychotic, and other problematic prescriptions.
$157 billion
The annual cost of disease-associated malnutrition in the United States, according to a study in the Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. Disease-associated malnutrition results from illness rather than poverty, and is due to factors such as appetite loss and higher metabolic requirements in some sick patients. The study found that more than 80 percent of the societal cost came from patients with depression, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, coronary heart disease and dementia.