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Cardiac diseases develop early

... insulin resistance in adolescents was linked to a decrease of "good" HDL cholesterol and an increase of triglycerides. In addition, the correlation between high blood pressure and insulin resistance was directly affected by levels of obesity. While researchers were unable to determine the reason why the boy...

Too much coffee is too bad

...n,lifestyle and genetics may all contribute to the decrease in bone mineral density (BMD) that comes with aging and leads to osteoporosis, a major cause of fractures in the elderly. Previous research implicated cafeine in increased risk for hip fracture and poor clacium retention. As part of a larger long-t...

Teens listen to parents about smoking

...s study offers hope by suggesting that parents can decrease the chances their children will smoke by communicating that they feel strongly their children should not smoke and doing this consistently over time. Teens who believed that their parents would strongly disapprove of smoking were less likely to bec...

A new treatment for liver cancer

...t the researchers have found they can dramatically decrease side effects by better targetting of the beads and by splitting the dose, so that only certain sections of liver are irradiated. It is also easier on the patient that TheraSphere is an outpatient treatment requiring no surgery. Given that fewer than ...

Music in link with epilepsy

... bursts of Mozart's Sonata K448 have been found to decrease epileptic attacks.Professor John Jenkins, who has reviewed the international research on music therapy, said it was very probable that work by other musicians could also trigger the "Mozart Effect." Patients who had been exposed to 10 minutes of the...

Red Wine Helps Fight Heart disease

...one type of red grape juice. Researchers found the decrease in endothelin-1 levels was related to the amount of polyphenols in the wines. The white and rose wines -- which contain little or none of the pigment -- had no effect on endothelin-1 levels. Red grape juice, which has plenty of the pigment, was marke...

Miraculous Salads

... diet could be an effective and inexpensive way to decrease the incidence of osteoporosis." The next stage for the researchers is to identify which compounds in the onions has the positive effect, and to see if it will work in humans."We hope we have opened up a new field and that this will be a possibility...

Defence against free radicals

...ld be developed. “For example, we might be able to decrease cellular ageing by using chemicals that switch these proteins on,” he said. “However, we need to do more research to find practical or medical applications of these exciting new findigs.”...

Less sodium,less pressure

...ing these dietary guidelines// could lead to a 20% decrease in the prevalence of heart disease and a 35% decrease in the prevalence of strokes. The DASH-Sodium study included 342 people. More than half of the par...

Recovery from lung injury

...in intensive care. And the survival rate tended to decrease with each decade of age. The researchers conclude that age should not be a factor in deciding whether a patient needs a ventilator....

Get, set, go...

...can increase bone mass by 10% by adulthood, we can decrease the incidence of fractures by 50%."The young volunteers took part in a circuit training programme lasting 15 minutes just three times a week. Children in this group were to skip and do box jumps, side-to-side jumps and other high-impact exercises.O...

Relief from common back pain

...side the disk. Dr.Chen feels that the goal is to decrease disk pressure so it doesn’t pinch the nerve and so the pain is taken away.Lower back pain is one of the most common ailments affectig adults; as many as four out of five Americans experience significant back problems during their lives. Back pain is ...

Robots craft medical history

...(MIS).According to Computer Motion, Zeus will help decrease patient pain and trauma, and shorten convalescent periods. The company says using the Zeus system, surgeons have greater dexterity and precision. The system includes two holding instruments and another containing a laparoscope, or a tiny camera embe...

Older Men Surviving Coronary Bypasses

...ery fell by 37 percent among men 65 and older. The decrease found in women in the same age range was not large enough to be statistically significant. Pell suspects this was probably due to the smaller number of procedures performed on women. "The main improvement has been in cardiac surgery, with the incre...

New swift therapy limits stroke damage

...ed and its hoped that this advance may turn out to decrease mortality and disability after a stroke....

Creams may not reverse aging

...re are three antioxidants that have been proven to decrease the effect of the sun on the skin and actually prevent further damage: selenium, vitamin E, and vitamin C." But the problem with applying antioxidants to the skin to fight aging is that they aren't very well absorbed or only have short-term effects. ...

Lifestyle variation can cut diabetes hazard

...e latter subgroup, the target was a seven per cent decrease in body mass and an increase of physical activity to 150 minutes a week. All the participants were followed up for an average of 2 years, during which time the incidence of diabetes was 10 cases per 100 person years in the placebo group. In the met...

Medications linked to xerostomia and caries

...“Use of albuterol to control acute asthma tends to decrease as kids get older and as many as 75 percent of children who had asthma when they were younger than age 5 will outgrow it.” ...

Gel pares inflammatory activity throughout body

... not only lower levels of oral bacteria but also a decrease in the amounts of C-reactive protein and fibrinogen in the blood stream, according to the study results. These two markers of inflammatory activity are associated with the development of atherosclerosis and other chronic diseases. The reduction in C-...

Smokers children likely to develop caries

...cularly vulnerable to cavities despite the overall decrease in dental caries throughout the rest of the population over the last few decades Fifty eight percent of the children involved in the study had cavities in deciduous teeth and 28 percent had cavities in permanent teeth. passive was most ...

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