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Tag: "age" at medical news

Thirty minutes of work up per day reduces the risk of Diabetes

...ore than 3000 participants. Participants ranged in age from 25 to 85 and generally sustained a 5% weight loss throughout the 3-year study. In this era of life style modification , these kind of studies do help the population at risk to come out of it....

Big and Bright

...bia University have examined over 2500 children at age seven to study the relationship between birth weig...d intelligence.They found that on average,// IQ at age seven is directly related to birth weight, while factors such as the mother's age, race, education a...

Early detection of prostate cancer

... to justify a program of screening all men in this age group. Current guidelines, set by the NH&MRC, advise that only men with symptoms (such as problems with urinating, or blood in the urine) be tested. The first stage of testing includes both a rectal examination and a blood test for PSA levels. A di...

Young womens woes

...r decrease in age."The interaction between sex and age has an important effect on long-term mortality rate after myocardial infarction (heart attack)", the authors said. Cardiovascular disease kills more women than all cancers. The early warning signs of heart attack can vary greatly, experts say. While...

Young women's woes

...r decrease in age."The interaction between sex and age has an important effect on long-term mortality rate after myocardial infarction (heart attack)", the authors said. Cardiovascular disease kills more women than all cancers. The early warning signs of heart attack can vary greatly, experts say. While...

Increase in tobacco deaths

...ale deaths and 5% of female deaths in the 30 to 65 age group. When male smokers only are considered, tobacco causes half of the deaths in this group.// These risk are more than twice as large as has yet been seen in mainland China. But cigarette smoking peaked about 20 years ago in Hong Kong and has no...

Dental exam reveals stroke risk

... x-rays and medical records of 52 women of average age 70. Sixteen of these women had atheroma in the neck and their histories revealed a number of risk factors, like obesity, smoking and high cholesterol. Dental examination are an easy way of detecting the problem.These patients are at a higher risk o...

Estrogen lowers cancer risk

...one replacement therapy. Regular screening after age 50, regular exercise and maintaining a healthy weight are considered the best ways to reduce the chances of developing colorectal cancer, the author said....

Genetic influence in menopause

...robably started their menopause at around the same age as their mother or sister. But the link between th...lected data from twin sisters. They found that the age of reaching menopause is 85-87 per cent down to genetic factors in non-twins, and 70 to 71 per cent ...

Early puberty linked to nutrition

...tables in the diet between the 6th and 8th year of age took some of the participants of the research to an early puberty. The results of the research is of great importance to modify certain eating habits and to maintain a healthy weight throughout all life.// Because in a long term, the early menstrua...

Osteoporosis in men

... women and men, nearly half of all people over the age of 75. One in eight men over age 50 will have an osteoporotic fracture of some kind in his lifetime. Fractures due to osteoporosis ca...

Air pollution affects the heart

... boiler makers. This group of men with an average age of 38 were exposed to levels of pollution similar to that in the general environment. During the study they wore an air sampler -to check PM2.5 level - and a heart rate monitor. There was a 2.6 per cent decrease in heart rate variability for every mi...

Less drinking less stroke

... The research team studied 2,306 patients over the age of 65 who were enrolled in the Cardiovascular Health Study. Alcohol intake was measured according to how often 12 ounces of beer, 6 ounces of wine or shots of liquor were consumed. Each patient underwent Magnetic Resonance Imagining to measure the am...

Eating disorder... a survey

... episodes in the previous month. Almost 9% of this age group reported self-induced vomiting to lose weight. Dr Jones' who lead the team, recommends that girls aged 12-14 should be screened for eating disorders, with a particular focus on those who are overweight.The faster somebody with an eating disor...

Coronary heart disease bids Adieu

... the model also predicted that for men 45 years of age or older without CHD, folic acid and cyanocobalami...ted life-years. In addition, for women 55 years of age and older without CHD, the same strategy would result in 140,000 quality adjusted life-years saved, ...

Obesity shortens lifespan

...he American Heart Association that the the average age of the overweight patients was 61, and that of the most obese was 57.The researchers, led by Dr. Eric Eisenstein, also calculated the impact of the earlier onset of heart disease on life expectancy of patients with heart problems. They concluded that...

The effect of heart rate in middle aged men

...d from 2533 men who were between 40 to 69 years of age , who were followed up over 4 to13 years.During such follow up there were 393 deaths.Of these deaths , 38% were due to cardiovascular diseases, 39% were from cancer, 5% from violence and 14% from other causes. For the remaining 4%, the cause of death...

What we can learn from dogs?

...hey share our environment, and they have a similar age and body size range to humans (in relative, not absolute, terms). Vets have begun measuring blood pressure more routinely among dogs now (just as your physician should keep yours under observation if you are over 35). This has highlighted some differ...

Menopause considerations

...ween genetic and environmental factors influencing age at menopause.For non-twin sisters, it was estimated that age at menopause was 85 to 87 per cent due to genetic factors. In twins it was 70 to 71 per cent, which ...

Old are not weak

...tein turnover between older men and men of average age 28.// Yet decreases in muscle strength are commonly found as people get older. This study shows that the basic muscle tissue building process is not at fault. It may be that diet, lack of exercise, or hormonal factors contribute to a loss of muscle...

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