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Osteoporosis could be caused by irregular periods

... a way in which they studied nearly 40 women under age 45 with a condition called premature ovarian failure. //This occurs when the ovaries stop producing eggs and reproductive hormones before natural menopause takes place. Most women in the study reported a history of amenorrhea. Amenorrhea occurs whe...

Exercise for patients with cancer

.... Dr. Roubenoff reports 60 percent of people over age 55 in the healthy American population don't exercise at all and 75 percent over age 65 don't exercise. He felt that, although cancer patients may be weaker than healthy individuals, fr...

Mild Depression may guard aged women

... rate only 60 percent of that of women of the same age showing either no signs of depression or suffering... the regressive health problems that accompany old age and sometimes depression itself can contribute to these ailments. Gallagher-Thompson said that depre...

Possible benefits of Hormone Replacement Therapy

...stroke or transient ischemic attack. Their average age was 75. Ischemic strokes, the more common type of stroke, occur when a clot blocks blood flow to part of the brain. Transient ischemic attacks, or TIAs, occur when the blood flow is only briefly interrupted. Most TIA symptoms disappear within an hour...

Surgery a safety in senility

...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.Res...

A high carbohydrate diet good for health

...duals (CSFII) 1994-1996 studied 10,000 adults over age 20, dividing them into four levels of carbohydrate intake. These include the very-low-carbohydrate group (less than 30 percent), low-carbohydrate group (30-45 percent), moderate-carbohydrate group (45-55 percent), and a high-carbohydrate group (great...

Guard against heart attacks

...s. The study evaluated all patients in Quebec over age 65 who had been hospitalized between 1995 and 1998 for a heart attack. Researchers found naproxen had a protective effect against AMI when compared with other NSAIDs. The effect was strongest in chronic users. The antiplatelet effect of naproxen app...

Role of Diet in Oral Cancer

...nd an equal number of control subjects matched for age and gender, among other factors. They assessed dietary information for each of the study participants using an extensive food frequency questionnaire. Participants indicated the frequency of consumption of approximately 100 foods over a one-year peri...

A new genetic label for stroke

Some researchers have found out that people under age 48 who suffer a stroke are about four times more l...and traveling to the brain, happen in people under age 44. Identifying which people are at increased risk could help prevent some of these strokes. Invest...

Putting cancer risk with a vision

...re current smokers. Each chart contains a row for age along with columns including two types of vascular...e the chart, an individual simply finds his or her age and then reads across to the condition. The number found there represents the number of women or men...

Hormone therapy provides no heart benefit

...300 women with coronary heart disease and average age 60. They were assigned either estrogen plus progestin or placebo. After seven years of follow up there was no difference in the rate of heart attacks between the two groups. Moreover, those on hormone replacement were more likely to develop blood clo...

No connection between breast cancer and pill

...on. The early Pill users are now reaching the peak age at which breast cancer develops - so the question acquires a new emergency. Researchers at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and elsewhere, reported on a new study showing that the Pill is safe. They studied nearly 8,000...

Gene glitches connecting pot with Schizophrenia

... Prior studies also show that cannabis used before age 20 raises the risk of schizophrenia six-fold. Acc...apanese patients with schizophrenia and an average age of 40.When they compared this gene in schizophrenics with the same gene in 130 normal men and woman ...

Dangers from lead

...ded to lower mental functioning of the children at age 2.Experts believe that lead builds up in the bones when people are exposed to the metal over a period of time. It can they stay in the bones for at least 15 years. So their prediction is that even if women were exposed when they were teenagers, they...

Heart attack risk starts at 20

...lood pressure and cholesterol levels, beginning at age 20, the American Heart Association recommended Mon..., medication may be appropriate for people at that age with high blood pressure or high cholesterol, he said. The recommendations advise doctors to measure...

Mental illness a key factor in suicide

...atched to a random sample of 50 people of the same age and gender who served as controls. Findings from ...nd the number of suicides increases similarly with age in both sexes. Factors considered less significant in determining suicide are dysfunctional family ...

Suicide risk high in 12-17 Age Group

...ousehold Survey, approximately 3 million Americans age 12 to 18 considered suicide in 2000 and more than ...n all, the study showed that 9 percent of children age 12-13 considered or tried to commit suicide in 2000. The percentage for teenagers 14-15 and 16-17 wa...

Stop and think before you eat

...lt weight gain--30 pounds more over 25 years up to age about 60 years. However, "being a restrained eater also helps offset the effect of disinhibition," Roberts added. "Restrained eaters are those who count calories (and) tend to shop for low-fat foods. So these behaviors seem to help some, but not as ...

Air pollution hits heart patients during exercise

...ise. A group of 40 heart patients, whose average age was 65, exercised on a treadmill while being monitored on an electrocardiogram. Exposure to both fine (diameter less than 2.5 micrometers) and ultra-fine (diameter less than 1 micrometer) particles reduced the oxygen supply to the heart muscle during...

Many factors influence sexual potency

...f that all sexual activity will cease at a certain age can become a self-fulfilling prophecy, but it is an unnecessary and even unhealthy belief. Some experts on human sexuality believe there is a correlation between longevity and sexual activity. The old saying ``use it or lose it'' applies here. Thera...

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