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Women are at risk with raised cholesterol

...than 50 at the start of the study. The finding was especially marked for African-American women, who were at even higher risk than their white counterparts. As expected, the study also confirmed that diabetes and high blood pressure as well as smoking were significant stroke risk factors....

Gene glitches connecting pot with Schizophrenia

...ulnerable to schizophrenia, Ujike said. This holds especially true for a condition called hebephrenic schizophrenia, which is marked by deterioration of personality, senseless laughter, disorganized thought and lack of motivation. These symptoms are similar to psychotic behavior sometimes triggered by severe ca...

Drink more fluids during exercise

...ate. Avoid additives like caffeine, guarana, and - especially - ephedra (this herb is linked to known health problems). Don't go for carbonated drinks or those high in sugar either....

Air pollution hits heart patients during exercise

...g in an air-conditioned gym than in the outdoors - especially on a hazy day....

Many factors influence sexual potency

...ve a negative effect on sex drive and performance, especially as one ages. - Being in good shape physically can certainly affect sexual desire and performance. Those wishing to enhance their sex life should seek to restore physical fitness. - Worry, depression, excessive stress and dissatisfaction in life can...

Heart test may detect death risk

...three to four months after the procedure. This was especially true for patients with other risk factors such as advanced age, heart failure or kidney failure. Researchers examined data on more than 5,000 patients, average age 60, who had successful catheterization procedures and did not have heart attacks or r...

Tamoxifen reduces breast cancer risk

...to increased frequency of blood clotting problems, especially after surgery. The results suggest that tamoxifen use really should be considered in the context of the risk versus benefit balance for the individual woman....

Tamoxifen reduces breast cancer risk

...to increased frequency of blood clotting problems, especially after surgery. The results suggest that tamoxifen use really should be considered in the context of the risk versus benefit balance for the individual woman....

Suicide might be inherited

...o try to take their own lives as well. The link is especially strong among those who have been exposed// to sexu...dies have looked at the factors that put people at especially high risk. Researchers from the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic and St. Francis Medical Cen...

Resolving Autism

...lop throughout childhood and adolescence, could be especially compromised with disconnectivity of frontal circuitry. Hence, higher-order cognitive processes may be impaired in autism owing to a lack of functional integration of frontal regions in distributed systems that may reflect abnormality in brain maturat...

Magnesium no benefit of survival after heart attack

...tack. The improvement in survival is thought to be especially significant for those who have had a specific type of heart attack known as ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, USA, now report on a placebo-controlled trial of magnesium in 5,800 pat...

Eczema patients lack natural antibiotic in skin

...skin disease are so susceptible to skin infections especially in light of recent widespread concerns that they can develop severe infections after receiving a smallpox vaccination. Interestingly, these antimicrobial peptides are also needed to combat viral infections and therefore could account for the suscepti...

Women's stroke indications vary from men's

...symptom, and doctors should be aware that stroke - especially among women - won't always present in the conventional way....

Light therapy devotes new hope in advanced lung cancer

... in months, for the disease is very hard to treat, especially when it has spread// to the chest wall. In a new approach, doctors at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, have tried photodynamic therapy (PDT) alongside surgery in patients with this form of cancer. In PDT, a drug - in this case, ph...

Running delays disability in the aged

...g - and maybe aerobic exercise in general - may be especially important for older people, because it allows them many more years of disability-free life....

Mediterranean diet aids Asian masses

...major public health problem in South Asian people, especially if they move to the West. The high prevalence of CAD is not fully explained by conventional risk factors,// like diabetes and high blood pressure. Researchers in India and Israel have been experimenting with the effect of a Mediterranean type diet ...

Implication of virus in colon cancer

...l cellular processes, leading to malignant growth, especially in the context of colon cancer. Then the researchers went on to test colon tumour samples for CMV. They looked at colorectal polyp tissue, adenocarcinoma (a type of colon cancer) and adjacent cells. They found that CMV was present in around 80 per ce...

Cure for Bacterial Meningitis

...dults diagnosed with bacterial meningitis is high, especially in patients who also have pneumonia. Researchers from the Academic 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 bac...

Change in walking might indicate Dementia

... reduce the incidence of non-Alzheimer's dementia, especially vascular dementia," say researchers....

Discovering cholesterol-absorbing genes

...distinct regions of chromosomes 2 and 14. They are especially excited over chromosome 14, which is almost certain to harbour some significant genes. Meanwhile, another team at the Rockefeller is studying the population of Kosrae, an island in Micronesia. The Kosraeans have a very high prevalence of syndrome X...

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