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Function of genes in heart failure

According to a research, genes may partially determine the percentage of developing the most common form of heart failure among people.// Researchers from Wake Forest University and other universities studied more than 500 groups of siblings. They used ultrasound to measure the efficiency of participants...

Osteoarthritis and Estrogen are connected

... growth factors, but further research is needed to determine the relationship between estrogen use and osteoarthritis....

Stroke risk might be linked to antibody

...th Science Center researchers conducted a study to determine the connection of aPL and stroke in young healthy women. Investigators evaluated frozen blood samples that were collected in the Stroke in Young Women study. The samples were from 650 women age 12 to 40. One hundred twenty of the women had suffered a...

Emotional intelligence in Cancer

...sity of Texas performed a unique Internet study to determine the role of emotional intelligence in how cancer p...larity of feeling and mood repair. The goal was to determine which components of emotional intelligence is most important and how they relate to the other catego...

Laser may stop macular degeneration

... treatment for everyone? And, second, they hope to determine whether the laser keeps the dry form from turning into the wet form, which is associated with more rapid vision loss. Dr. Friberg felt that they know the laser is effective at getting rid of the drusen and in some cases, vision improves. They hope to...

Cure for Bacterial Meningitis

...c Medical Center in Amsterdam conducted a study to determine if treatment with a corticosteroid could be beneficial for patients. Research has shown it is beneficial in animals with bacterial meningitis. The study included 250 patients who were either given dexamethasone or placebo 15 to 20 minutes before, or...

Personality Impacts Arthritis

...oked at the role of personality characteristics to determine who is best able to cope with a diagnosis. Researchers studied 78 patients who were diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. The patients were assessed for anxiety and depressed mood at the time of the diagnosis and again after three and five years. Res...

Renal problem increased

...er’s disease. “However, more studies are needed to determine if this could be useful in humans,” he said. The researchers are hopeful that antioxidants might be used in the future to treat, or even to prevent, cognitive dysfunction. An estimated 100,000 people in the UK suffer from some form of kidney disease...

Combating insomnia with warm feet

... and a wristwatch-like activity monitor is used to determine when sleep occurs. Study participants will follow the procedure with the booties for a week and then, after a break, will repeat the measurement procedures with unwarmed booties as a comparison control. The protocol has been tested and researchers at...

Hormones do not guard against heart failure

... in the United Kingdom.The aim of the study was to determine whether a combination// of oestrogen and progesterone reduced the risk of future heart attack in post menopausal women who had already sufferd a previous attack. A daily dose of HRT or a placebo was given to these women and the frequency of a recurr...

Juices are Best! but which one?

...ith iron. Researchers from Cornell are set out to determine if different juices offer varying amounts of iron intake. Fruit juices usually contain Fe uptake inhibitors and also ascorbic acid. Cereal fortified with iron were mixed to Juices from a supermarket .Iron intake was boosted with pear, apple, grapefr...

Restless Legs Syndrome - Help at hand

...rs suggested that extensive studies were needed to determine the long-term implications of the drug....

Myostatin gene could hold the key to treatment for DMD

... gene in mice with DMD at different time points to determine if the treatment is still effective at late stages of the disease....

Glaucoma & Ocular Hypertension more likely in patients with refractive errors

...le need to get comprehensive, dilated eye exams to determine if they are at risk for glaucoma or ocular hypertension, what their exam frequency should be, and whether they require individualized management plans, instead of just refractive eye exams for glasses or contacts....

Research on Celiac Disease in children

...iac children and oats. The aim of the study was to determine the safety of adding a moderate amount of commercially-available oats to the diet of celiac children. Quaker Oats provided their standard product for the study as there were no GF oats available in the market. 14 children, aged 8 to 16, with normal g...

Immune function could benefit from exercise

...d in saliva, which is often used by researchers to determine the role of stress on immune function, was tested before training and at 4 and 12 months after training. Researchers found that the levels of SIgA increased with exercise and as the time of exercise increased, so, too, did the levels of SIgA. The res...

Heart problems detected better with a Cardiac MRI

...s. Most receive an ECG and other standard tests to determine if they are having a heart attack or other serious heart problems. However, ECGs can be completely normal even when a heart attack is taking place. ECGs are also sometimes unable to identify unstable angina, or chest pain. Researchers suggest// that ...

Miscarriage during pregnancy and heart disease linked

...earchers used hospital discharge and death data to determine the risk of death// or hospital admission due to h...e researchers, is that these same factors may also determine pregnancy complications. The study however, need not alarm women, because, according to experts, th...

Gene defect linked to dilated cardiomyopathy(DCM)

...ecoming swollen. Scientists used tests on mice to determine if a defect in this gene is enough to trigger DCM. They found that a mouse with a defect on the phospholamban gene also suffered severe damage to its heart. Further laboratory tests also showed that this defect disrupts the calcium pump in heart musc...

Germs to blame for bad breath

...ecent study, which is part of an ongoing effort to determine genetic sequences for all species of bacteria in the oral cavity, researchers reported finding just 92 species of bacteria, 29 of which had never before been described in scientific literature. Dr Israel Kleinberg, chairman of the oral biology and pa...

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