Osteoporosis Drugs: right time to take-off
...ual sufferers from it. It is estimated that at the age of 50, a woman has a 40 per cent chance of developing an osteoporotic fracture during her remaining lifetime. Drugs, which are used to treat osteoporosis, can be grouped into two classes. The first category comprises agents, which limit the rate of b......n a Swiss study looked at patients with an average age of 80 who suffered from chronic angina. Doctors either gave them medication, or referred them for an angioplasty - a treatment where a fine tube with a small inflatable balloon attached is inserted and the balloon inflated to widen the artery.Resul...New Drug ALT-711 decreases blood vessel stiffness
...U.S. clinical centers recruited 93 people over the age of 50 who showed evidence of vascular stiffening, including high systolic blood pressure and pulse pressure of at least 60 mm Hg. The participants were randomly divided into two groups-those who received daily doses of ALT-711 and those who were gi...Role of fats and oils in vision care
...pairment. As the name suggests, it gets worse with age and diet has been implicated in its development. // Researchers at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary carried out a study of 349 individuals aged 55 to 80 with AMD, and compared their diet to a control group with eye disease other than AMD. Th......he mean score, for a group of 340 women of average age 50, was 77.8 - as measured by researchers at the Loma Linda Medical Centre. // Women with high scoring diets ate a lot more fruit than those with low scores. They also had a greater variety of foods in their diet. The researchers found that those ...Gastrointestinal ills more common in diabetics
... a survey. After the researchers took into account age and sex, they found that diabetics were more likely than people without the disease to have had any of 16 gastrointestinal symptoms and five groups of symptoms. Three symptoms--fecal incontinence, nausea and difficulty swallowing--were much more comm...Smoking can depreciate intellegence
Smoking in old age appears to be linked to intellectual impairment over the age of 64, research has found. A team from the Institute of Psychiatry in London carried out a community...... our hearts' health up in smoke." Diabetes and old age are also associated with lower levels of paraoxonase. The research is published in the American Cardiac Association journal Circulation....... Indian health authorities is the relatively young age at which diabetes is being diagnosed in many patients. A study of complications in more than 3000 diabetics by the Diabetes Research Centre in Chennai showed that many had suffered eye, nerve or other tissue damage by the time diagnosis was made. M......smoothing out the wrinkles in your skin. Lines and age spots are an inevitable sign of ageing, especially... pulses can remove redness, dilated blood vessels, age spots and lines. As the targetted cells absorb laser light they are broken apart and absorbed by the...Breast Cancer Surgery Causes Psychological problems
...ge breast cancer. But women older than 50 years of age were less likely to be depressed than younger women, the researchers found....According to American doctors, there is no upper age limit to the effectiveness of colon cancer screeni...T), sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy - should start at age 50 and earlier in those with a family history of colon cancer. // But it has not been clear at what...Arterial stiffness prevented by light drinking
...lready know that arterial stiffness increases with age and that this is a risk factor in heart disease. T...ness of non-drinkers or heavy drinkers in the same age group was 12-33 per cent higher than for the moderate drinkers. The effect increased with age. But t...An effective way to treat angina
...ring EECP. Eleven individuals with angina, average age 60, took part and reported reduced chest pain alongside the increase in growth factors. EECP is non-invasive and safe and, if larger studies prove its effectiveness, offers new hope for people with angina who are not responding to current therapies....... the disease affects up to 12% of adults under the age of 40. Young smokers were particularly at risk, an...inci said: "This is a high figure, considering the age of the subjects, and it took the researchers by surprise."Moderate smokers were three-and-a-half tim......d vegetables . they help to protect the skin from age and sun-related damage which otherwise lead to wrinkling.In general a healthy diet helps in maintaining the skin....Allergies are related to mothers' menses
Researchers say that the age at which your mother started menstruation could af...than 4,740 pregnant women had been asked about the age at which they began menstruating. More recently, their their children in thirties were given allergy......sistance and high blood pressure begin as early as age 15, according to a recent study. Researchers measured obesity, insulin resistance, blood pressure and cholesterol levels of 267 boys and girls. Measurements were taken when the young people were 13 and again when they were 15. Obesity levels were mea......ges." Fifteen healthy volunteers with an average age of 25 and regular sleep patterns took part in the experiment, the results of which have been published in this week's Nature magazine. The volunteers were studied on three nights, on two of which they were told they would sleep until 9am. The researc......e begin to take their toll on the body as early as age 14, say researchers according to a recent study. The study was In adults, high blood pressure is linked to an increased risk of heart attack, stroke and kidney disease. Researchers wanted to determine if high blood pressure is related to other heart ...