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...drug that breaks down collagen bonds in the body's blood vessels significantly decreases the stiffness of v...s the medication could be a new treatment for high blood pressure, heart failure, and certain complications of diabetes. The drug, ALT-711, snips bonds or cr...Angiotensin-II-receptor blockers - Treat kidney failure
Drugs used to treat high blood pressure have been found to also help slow the progress of kidney failure. Three separate drug trials reveal that the angiotensin-II-receptor blockers, which include losartan and irbesartan, can be used to treat kidney failure, one of the commonest c...Hepatitis G May Boost HIV Survival
...not thought to cause illness. Nearly 2% of healthy blood donors test positive for the virus, and more than one third of HIV-positive individuals may carry the virus. The findings may open the door to new types of HIV treatment with hepatitis G, researchers suggest. "We are working to try to understand th...Gastrointestinal ills more common in diabetics
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...failure, which is usually caused by diabetes, high blood pressure or infection. Kidney failure often leads to neurological complications like fatigue, apathy, emotional instability and even convulsions and coma. // Researchers at the University of California at Irvine have learned more of the origin of t......ccess. The first two groups are patients with high blood pressure and prostate cancer, respectively, and these will be followed by experiences of cancer of the breast, bowel and cervix. The site will also have lots of other useful and up-to-date information, as well as links to other relevant sites, incl......erent types of cells including muscle, bone, skin, blood vessel and fat cells. "Our wound healing complex has more universal application than other systems," he says.While initial trials will focus on skin grafting for burn and accident victims, the researchers also hope to use the wound-healing complex i...Aggressive blood pressure treatment needed
Those who are most at risk from high blood pressure have the most to gain from treatment - ye...tors are often reluctant to treat people with high blood pressure when they have other risk factors, like high cholesterol or diabetes. Maybe they believe li...Relating heart protection and antihypertensive drugs
Maintaining a normal blood pressure is essential in the prevention of heart d...ties of antihypertensive drugs or the reduction of blood pressure that accounts for the cardiovascular outcome in hypertensive patients. // As part of a me...... proven that these risks can be reduced by keeping blood glucose levels in good control. "With adequate medical support and careful planning of the pregnancy, women with diabetes will further minimise the risks to their pregnancy."...High-Carbohydrate diet plus exercise !
A low-fat high-carbohydrate diet raises blood fats, unless it is combined with moderate exercise...-carbohydrate diet raises levels of triglycerides, blood fats also linked to heart disease risk.// But researchers at Loughborough University, England, hav...Smoking can depreciate intellegence
...ns which narrow and harden the arteries and impair blood supply to all parts of the body, including the brain. The researchers suggest that this may explain why smoking has an impact on intellect. The study also found that people who drank moderately before the age of 65 were marginally less likely to hav...Blood transfusions beneficial after heart attacks
...any elderly heart attack victims by quickly giving blood transfusions to those who have even mild anemia, a U.S. study found. Researchers said this advice, if widely adopted, could save thousands of people each year. Taking care of anemia is probably as important as giving aspirin, beta blockers or clot-di......revent fatty deposits building up and blocking the blood vessels. A team of Swiss researchers examined 367 people with heart disease. Blood tests revealed significantly reduced levels of paraoxonase activity among current smokers and ex-smokers who had stopped for less than three months. However, the resea...Depression disturbs heart rate
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