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Older Mothers Pass on Infertility Risk to their Daughters

...nfertility patients." Fertility in women usually declines with age because damage accumulates in a woman's eggs and some of this genetic damage that builds up in older eggs is passed on to daughters, reducing the quality of their own eggs according to researchers. Dr Nagy said, "In previous generations, p...

Longer-Lived Rodents Have Lower Levels of Thyroid Hormone

...r living strains,' the authors wrote. 'Significant declines in thyroid hormone correlate well with enhanced maximum lifespan.' The study compared the levels of these thyroid hormones among four groups of rodents with different life spans: mice, guinea pigs, Damara mole-rats and naked mole-rats. Mice live to...

Omega-3 May Slow Cognitive Decline in Some with Very Mild Alzheimer’

...ects thinking, learning and memory, beginning with declines in episodic memory (including memory about events in one’s own life), according to background information in the article. Medications are available to treat the symptoms, but these drugs do not affect the underlying cause and progression of the disea...

Levels of Thyroid Hormone Forecasts Life Span

...ntrations than shorter living strains. Significant declines in thyroid hormone correlate well with enhanced maximum lifespan."...

Sexual Attitudes Help Explain Narcissists’ Relationship Problem

...rcissism peaks at about 15 or 16 and then steadily declines as people get older, Shrira said. He attributed this partly to the “reality principle.” “When you’re in high school or college, you’re at the peak of your physical condition and the world is your oyster,” he said. “But when you get out in the world...

Menthol cigarettes harder to quit than regular cigarettes

...ette smoked in terms of coronary calcification and declines in lung function. However, it is possible that switching from menthol cigarettes to non-menthol cigarettes might facilitate subsequent smoking cessation, especially in African Americans, and thereby reduce tobacco-related health disparities," the stu...

Anemia Affects Both Body and Mind

...t because previous studies showed that age-related declines in the brain's so-called executive function - prob...rs, following up on important activities - lead to declines in self-sufficiency. "Executive function impairment, which happens often before memory loss occurs...

Deadly Lung Disease Sends Patients on ‘Quest for Breath

...ring of the lungs in which patients’ lung function declines and they develop shortness of breath with minimal activity, and even at rest during the late stages of the disease. There is no cure; IPF took the lives of Galvin’s father (at age 45), an uncle, an aunt and a grandmother, and about 40,000 lives a yea...

Hearing May be affected by Certain Hormone Replacement Therapies

...nths thereafter. The researchers report, "Sensory declines in elderly women, in this case exacerbated by progestin, can significantly interfere with communication abilities, including speech and hearing, professional and economic productivity, family relations, and quality of life." Dr Robert D Frisina and...

Survivors of Childhood Polio Do Well Decades Later As They Age

... childhood polio, most survivors do not experience declines greater than expected in their elderly// counterparts, but rather experience only modest increased weakness, which may be commensurate with normal aging. “Other researchers have suggested that polio is a more aggressive condition later in life, but...

Cystatin C Test- A Reliable Test to Detect Chronic Health Risks

...s. "This is also telling us that kidney function declines much more with age than we realized before," adds Shlipak. He terms this syndrome "pre-clinical kidney disease," or pre-CKD. "We have the tools to slow kidney disease," he notes, including blood pressure control, sugar control for diabetes, and spe...

Respiratory Problems In 9/11 Rescuers

.../11. Banauch and her team found the lung-capacity declines were steepest in those who were either present when the twin towers collapsed or arrived later that morning. The findings showed that those exposed in the fist couple of days after the collapse of the twin towers had more severe respiratory symptoms...

Loss and damage to the brain cells possible with lead exposure in years ahead

... people with occupational lead exposure experience declines in their thinking and memory skills years after their exposure. "The effect of lead on the brain is progressive," Stewart said. "These effects are the result of persistent changes in the structure of the brain, not short-term changes in the brain's n...

Morning-After Pill At The Local Pharmacy Could Prevent Unwanted Pregnancies

...But as the effectiveness of the morning-after pill declines significantly with time - it works best if taken within 24 hours - it's essential that it can be obtained as soon as possible. "We believe that the females in our study were able to access the pill much more quickly from local pharmacists as they t...

Dissatisfied Marriage Have a Bad Effect on the Health of Older Adults

...eptible to these health effects due to age-related declines in immune function. Umberson and her colleagues focused on 1,049 men and women who were interviewed at three points over eight years and remained married throughout that time. Study participants answered questions on marital quality including whet...

Rates of HIV infection shows a sharp decline in south India

...ation and Research in Chandigarh, India, says, The declines in young women in the south are broad based -- for... and among educated or illiterate women. Moreover, declines in the south are seen also among young men who visit STI clinics and these men represent those who a...

Cardiac Aging Can Be Contained

...mpared to the Western diet. The diastolic function declines as a person gets older, and a restricted calorie diet serves to counteract this. The aging mechanism can now be modified as it is now being properly defined. Cardiac aging is in effect restricted by a low calorie diet, as it has been proved by the si...

Soft Drinks Can Strengthen Memory Power

...as the hippocampus, which creates new memories but declines with the onset of dementia. Dr Riby used a series of memory tests and brain- imaging techniques to assess how volunteers responded after guzzling sugary drinks. He found the hippocampus lit up with activity after participants had a sweetened drink...

US life expectancy climbs to a new high

...including advances in medicine and sanitation, and declines in unhealthy habits, such as smoking. Those trends may increase life expectancy despite the rises in obesity and blood pressure. Half of all Americans closing in on their Medicare years have high blood pressure, while two out of five are obese, t...

Important parameters of life: Longevity and quality: both improved by exercise

...," McAuley said. "Our data would suggest that such declines are likely to lead to subsequent reductions in health status and, ultimately, quality of life." Source: Annals of Behavioral Medicine....

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