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Hormone Deficiency Results In Miscarriage

A deficiency in a protective hormone may be behind some early miscarriages, preliminary research suggests. The hormone, called corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), is normally released by the mother and the embryo soon after it implants itself in the womb. Without it, the embryo may be left vulnerable to attack from the mother's immune system.// ....CRH triggers the production of a protein call...

Gestational Diabetes linked to Chromosomal defici

According to a new study, researchers, suggest that, some women who develop gestational diabetes during pregnancy may be prone to have children with certain chromosomal abnormalities However, researchers stress, gestational diabetes is not itself a risk factor for these types of defects since they form in the early stages of pregnancy--well before gestational diabetes typically develops.// ....Th...

Teens' vitamin D deficiency an epidemic

Those habits contributed to a vitamin D deficiency that has helped weaken the 18-year-old's bones and left him prone to fractures.//..Doctors say it's an often overlooked problem that may affect millions adolescents. Often undetected and untreated, vitamin D deficiency puts them at risk for stunted growth and debilitating osteoporosis later in life. ..There's even evidence that chronic deficiency...

Link Between Musculoskeletal Pain and Vitamin D Deficiency

A new study conducted by researchers say it is a misconception to believe vitamin D deficiency is only prevalent in older or housebound people.// ..Researchers examined 150 children and adults with non-specific musculoskeletal pain for their levels of vitamin D. Among the participants, all African-American, East African, Hispanic and Native American patients had vitamin D deficiencies, as were a...

Problems Associated With Iron Deficiency

Statistics show about 10 percent of women in their mid-20s and about 25 percent of pregnant women are iron-deficient. Women with poor memory // skills are also often iron deficient. According to researchers iron supplements may reverse memory loss in these women. ..Researchers studied nearly 150 women between ages 18 and 35. The women were either anemic, iron deficient, or iron sufficient. Duri...

Overweight Kids At Risk Of Being Iron Deficient

Iron deficiency remains the most common nutritional deficiency in the world. It has been linked to behavioral and learning problems among children and adolescents,// increased risks for pre-term and small infants among pregnant women, and problems with work and exercise capacity among adults. ..Overweight children and adolescents also appear to have an increased iron deficiency according to a new...

The Risks Of Vitamin D Deficiency

A new study conducted by researchers say it is a misconception to believe vitamin D deficiency is only prevalent in older or housebound people.// ..Researchers examined 150 children and adults with non-specific musculoskeletal pain for their levels of vitamin D. Among the participants, all African-American, East African, Hispanic and Native American patients had vitamin D deficiencies, as were a...

WHO hopes to wipe away Iodine deficiency diseases by 2005

Over the past decade the number of countries where iodine deficiency is a public health problem has halved according to a WHO Study on a new global report on iodine status.// The simple strategy to iodize common table salt has worked well. The number of countries where iodine deficiency is a public health problem was reduced to 54 in 2003, from 110 in 1993. ...."Iodine deficiency is a major threa...

Gene responsible for immune deficiency discovered

Expression of gene may be responsible for various immune deficiency syndromes, and researchers// have been able to find the genes that cause two different form of immune deficiency conditions called immunoglobulin A (IgA) deficiency and Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID). ....Immune deficiency syndrome may be hereditary or acquired. Hereditary or primary immune deficiency diseases are genera...

Vitamin B12 Deficiency In Vegans And Elderly

Generally people talk of vitamin overdose but with the case of vitamin B12 //it is just the opposite. Especially vegans and elderly subjects are most likely to suffer from this vitamin deficiency declares a study from the Harvard Medical School. .. ..The symptoms of B12 deficiency are subtle cognitive and neurological changes. A serious deficiency may cause dementia or anaemia. Breast-fed infants...

Smoking And Its Relation To Neurocognitive Deficits In Alcoholism

Impaired problem solving, visual spatial processing, memory, and cognitive proficiency are consequences of severe alcoholism. Smoking is much more prevalent among alcoholics than the general population,// yet the possible neurocognitive effects of cigarette smoking in alcoholism have not been studied, despite evidence that long-term smoking is associated with neurocognitive deficits. .....

Carnitine deficiency in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes

Carnitine is essential for the lipid and carbohydrate metabolism, and is known to increase the sensitivity of the cells to insulin.// The use of glucose by the peripheral tissues and proper metabolic control in Type 1 diabetes has potential impact on long-term complications. ..In diabetes, the metabolism of carbohydrate and fat is abnormal and an association between the proper metabolic control...

Prose Memory Deficits Found To Be Associated With Schizophrenia

There is a close relationship between language functioning and schizophrenia, and verbal memory is a legitimate and important// deficit with significantly negative consequences for real world social functioning. Over the past years, researchers have proposed that some forms of memory are selectively impaired in schizophrenia. ..To understand the nature of contextual verbal memory impairment that...

Iron Supplementation Aid In Relief From Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

In what is claimed to be of the first of its kind, French researchers report of the effectiveness of iron supplementation in a young child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder//. .. The authors, writing in the November issue of the journal Pediatrics, present the case report of a 3-year-old child, who was referred to consultation for hyperactivity, attention deficit, impulsivity, and...

Iron deficiency found in children with prolonged bottle feeding

Prolonged bottle-feeding may impose an increased risk of iron deficiency and cognitive problems in children (more seriously in Mexican American children) according to // a new study by researchers at the Medical College and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. .. .."This is the first study that we are aware of to report an association between prolonged bottle-feeding and iron deficiency, among a nat...

Incidence of iron deficiency reduced by nutrient enhanced cereal- rice

A cereal and health correlation study confirms that fortified rice reduces deficiency of iron in subjects. This has become possible by techniques of plant breeding that have incorporated traits// and made rice that has higher levels of iron in it. ..The study was conducted by Philippine and American scientists. This study is important as iron deficiency is a major health problem around the world....

Sunny Side Up - Vitamin-D deficiency linked to Schizophrenia

Australian Mental Health Research is on the verge of path breaking news that suggests possible links between Vitamin D deficiency and schizophrenia. // Reduced vitamin D levels in the mother during pregnancy and conception could spark off the onset of this disorder, according to the research report, although it remains to be proved conclusively. ..Decade long frozen Danish samples hold t...

Vitamin D Deficiency On Rise Among Europeans

According to a Belgian researcher, nearly half of the British population are affected by vitamin D deficiency, which may lead them to an increased risk of osteoporosis or some other forms of cancer.// ..Roger Bouillon of the University of Leuven in Belgium told the European Congress of Endocrinology in Glasgow, Scotland, he had been studying 20 years of data -- and found that about half the popul...

PTSD Risk Enhanced With Mild Neurologic Deficits

A study conducted on identical male twins has revealed that Vietnam war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and their non-combat exposed, identical twins portrayed// slight neurologic deficits that veterans without PTSD and their twins did not have, suggesting that the existence of deficits may actually predispose individuals to PTSD, according to an article in the May issue of Ar...

Prostate cancer risk pronounced with selenium-protein deficiency

Selenium, which is known for its antioxidant properties in conjunction with proteins, is also becoming popular due to its contribution in bringing down incidence// of cancers, especially lung, colorectal and prostate. ...."The problem is, nobody seems to know how the mechanism works, and that's not trivial," said Alan Diamond, professor of human nutrition at the University of Illinois at Chicago...

Teens, Deficient in Vitamin D, May Not have Healthy Lungs and Bones

A new study has suggested that teenagers who are not taking the necessary quantities of Vitamin D in their diets may end up causing damage to their lungs and bones.// .. ..Egg yolks, salt water fish, and milk are some of the natural sources of Vitamin D.Vitamin D helps the body to absorb calcium, which is instrumental in ensuring strong bones. This is an already established theory, but now resear...

Birth Defects Caused By Deficiencies In Cell Signaling Pathway

Cell signaling pathways are particularly essential for proper embryo development and disorders in these cellular pathways// can lead to birth defects such as cleft palate, spina bifida, reports a new study. The research is a collaborative effort of the University of Colorado, Health Sciences Center, and the Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute. ....The findings of the research report, titled...

UK Government Plans On Tackling Health Service Deficits

The deficit faced by the NHS in the last financial year is to be announced by the health ministers it is expected. Many prominent health advisors //feel that they would try to convince that what seems to be a serious financial problem was seemingly only related to a small number of NHS organisations and that the books would be balanced during the current financial year. ....But they warn that th...

Already Short Staffed And In Deficit NHS Fails To Supply Staff For IT Project

Reports that the NHS, which is already running in a loss would have to pay the private sector up to ￡19m has been confirmed as they are not in a position // to fulfil the commitment to supply staff to help design a new IT system for the health services. ....The trusts in the south of England were expected to second 50 full-time employees to help develop the ￡20bn scheme under a deal with Japanes...

Vitamin A Deficiency Subsequent to Intestinal Surgery

A recent study has revealed that major intestinal surgery, including stomach reduction for obesity, may increase the possiblity of subsequent vitamin A deficiency//. The results of the study have been published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology. ....The researchers base their findings on three patients with increasingly poor eyesight or night blindness, who attended a specialist eye clinic...

Gastric bypass can cause deficiency of Vitamin A

New York: A study initiated by U.S. researchers on the medical histories of patients not genetically disposed to blindness //, but were either blind or suffered weak eyesight, revealed that they had undergone stomach/intestine related surgeries, which could have caused Vitamin A deficiency, leading to poor eyesight or even blindness. This report is available in the latest issue of the British Jou...

Iodine Deficiency affects IQ of Children

Insufficent iodine in the diet of some Irish women has put them at risk of having children with a lower IQ or even attention problems//, according to the preliminary results of a new study published in Irish Journal of Medical Science. ....A team of researchers at University College Dublin (UCD, have said that Irish women of childbearing age are not consuming enough iodine. This could adversely...

Deficient 'Scout Cells' Causes Cancer in Transplant Patients

According to a new study, a serious form of cancer that arises in a few transplant patients indicates the weakening of cells that normally serve as ‘scouts’ for the immune system. //....The cancer is caused by a herpes virus, the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), which is usually kept under check by the immune system. In people whose immune system is compromised, the control is lost and the transplanted...

Americans Deficient In Dietary Intake Of Choline Needed for Fetal Brain Development

Women in US are not getting ample amounts of a nutrient that is essential for the promotion of normal fetal brain development.// ....A new study sponsored by the National Institute of Health, that has been conducted by three of the top universities in America has suggested that the women in US aren’t getting sufficient amounts of a nutrient, which is required to promote normal fetal brain develo...

Study Suggests Vitamin K Deficiency as an Osteoporosis Risk Factor

A new study by Jane Lukacs of the University of Michigan School of Nursing suggests that the impairment of vitamin K function// could compromise bone health and contribute to the development of osteoporosis. The study found that one of the early effects of declining estrogen is the impairment of vitamin K function in bone even before any bone loss that could be attributed to menopause can be meas...

Elderly People May Have Vitamin B12 Deficiency, Not Mental Deterioration

It has been discovered that symptoms of vitamin B12 deficiency manifest themselves as depression, sleeplessness, numbness, pins and needles and other nervous// disorders, which are taken as signs of mental decline. In elderly people these problems are often mistaken for Alzheimer's disease. ....Vegetarians are particularly at risk of developing the deficiency, as the vitamin is found in meat pro...

Iodine Deficiency: A Global Initiative to Weed Out the Problem

The earliest reports of iodine deficiency emerged from China, almost 5000 years ago. Nature came to the rescue in the form of sea weeds and many of those who ate sea weeds// actually weeded out the problem of iodine deficiency. Perhaps it is due to the consumption of seaweeds that the Japanese do not suffer from iodine deficiency. ....Initially iodine deficiency did not get the attention it des...

Iron Deficiency can Cause Dark Circle Under Eyes

Dark rings around eyes can be caused by iron deficiency, says Britain's leading nutritionist Jane Clarke//. ....Anaemia is a sign that not enough oxygen is getting to the body tissues. There are several types of anaemia, but iron deficiency is the most common. ....This can be treated easily in many cases by eating right food, the online edition of Daily Mail quoted him as saying. ...."Our bodi...

Vitamin B deficiency may lead to poor athletic performance

A recent research has correlated the effect of nutrient rich diet and athletic performance. //According to the study highly energetic athletes may fail to excel in rigorous and demanding exercise simply because of a lack in Vitamin B complex in their diet. Studies prove that its Vitamin B complex in the diet that enhances the growth and repair of muscles. ..The study was conducted at Oregon State...

Gene Therapy for Hereditary Immunodeficiency Diseases

Since the late 1980s, gene therapy has given rise not only to high expectations of treatment success but also great concerns regarding health risks//. Since the German Research Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) issued its first memorandum in 1995; this field of research has developed enormously. ..The second memorandum, which has just been presented by the DFG Senate Commission...

Improved Wheats Could Reduce Magnesium Deficiencies: Research

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have reported that the newly developed low-phytate breeding// lines of wheat have been found to produce flour with 25% more magnesium than commercial varieties. ....Edward J. Souza, research leader of the ARS Soft Wheat Quality Research Unit at Wooster, Ohio and colleagues Mary J. Guitteri and Karen M. Peterson at the University of Idaho Research a...

Food Hampers Deficient in Calories, Study Says

Food hampers from food banks were found to be deficient in nutrients or calories,// and may not do much to promote the health of the deprived in the province, researchers from University of Ontario said. .. ..The study available in Canadian Journal of Public Health, examined 180 food hampers, sourced from a well established food bank located in southwestern Ontario. The finding revealed that 99...

Vitamin D Deficiency Observed in Breast Feeding Mothers

In a study published in Clinical Pediatrics, it is reported that breast feeding mothers may be deficient in vitamin D. If this deficit is taken care of, their children// may not be affected by vitamin D deficiency disorders. ..Joyce M. Lee and his team belonging to University of Michigan conducted a study among forty healthy women, majority of them black and their children. Twenty of the mothers...

Vitamin D Deficiency Widespread During Pregnancy

Even regular use of prenatal multivitamin supplements is not adequate to prevent vitamin D insufficiency, according to a report in the current issue// of the Journal of Nutrition, the publication of the American Society for Nutrition. A condition linked to rickets and other musculoskeletal and health complications, vitamin D insufficiency was found to be widespread among women during pregnancy, p...

Vitamin A Deficiency Leads to Large-scale Blindness in North East

Vitamin A deficiency has resulted in blindness among children in a big way in the North Eastern parts of India, a study has found.// ..As much as 51.6 per cent of the children in the schools for the blind in that region have become blind over a period of time only because of vitamin-related problems. Effective primary eye care intervention can certainly prevent such a fate befalling the poor o...