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Old theory of adaptation confirmed by new study

...p in 1971 argued that people react to good and bad events in their life, but they eventually return to a sta...h people initially reacted strongly to good or bad events they then returned to their baseline stable emotional state. The study also revealed various other f...

Marriage does not have much impact on life satisfaction

...g before marriage. The same is true for other life events like winning a lot of money or suffering from illness. Levels of happiness go up or down at first, then return to their previous level. The researchers call this 'hedonic leveling' and it's a measure of people's overall life satisfaction. Widows and ...

Electrocardiograms plays a limited role

...ult showed that, predictor of either death or hard events (death, myocardial infarction) was a positive stress echocardiography provided more predictive information on clinical evaluation. But in assessing four-year event-free echocardiography. On further analysis, stress survival, the negative predictive v...

Drugs Deter Heart Disease for Transplant Patients

...istically significant difference in cardiovascular events overall in the two groups, those in the fluvastatin group did experience fewer fatal and nonfatal heart attacks -- 70 vs. 104. This finding is similar to results from studies of statin use in other populations. Researchers conclude fluvastatin may b...

Changes in cabin pressure pose risks for moms-to-be

...ates that may sometimes appear after major weather events are more likely the result of stress or other factors than they are the result of air pressure changes....

The Downside of Asthma Medication

...ng, “Understanding the panoply of beta2AR-mediated events in airway smooth muscle might lead to the design o...tive effects of beta2AR activation while enhancing events that lead to relaxation.”...

Reducing Medication Errors

... mistakes.// Studies show in adults, adverse drug events occur in five of every 100 medication orders. A ne... population because the potential for adverse drug events is three-times more likely in children than adults. The computerized process was used on two medica...

Troubled Childhood found to affect your Liver

...udy of its kind and say understanding the chain of events that eventually lead to liver disease may one day lead them to better methods of intervention....

Cholesterol Drugs Prevent Breast Cancer

...cant difference in the percentage of breast cancer events between women who used lipid-lowering drugs and those who did not, and these findings have important public health implications given the widespread used of the medications today." Authors of the study say more research is needed to confirm their fi...

Risk of Heart Attack Can Now Be Predicted

...hree-times more likely to experience these cardiac events than patients without elevated levels. In patients with acute chest pains, those with high PIGF levels were also at significantly increased risk compared with patients with low PIGF levels. Researchers conclude that PIGF blood levels are valuable p...

The Best Way To Relieve Chest Pain

...ise training had no heart attacks or other adverse events while 70 percent of the men treated with stents had the same results. The men in the exercise group also improved oxygen uptake by 16 percent compared to the stenting group....

Hormones A Predictor Of Heart Problems

...method of predicting the risk of cardiovascular // events and death in people with no symptoms. Researchers found excess risk was apparent at levels well below the current standards used to diagnose heart failure. Investigators studied 3,346 people without heart failure. They tested the participants’ blood...

A Slight Increase In BP Can Mean big Risks

...le health professionals who all had cardiovascular events in the past were followed for about six-and-a-half years. During that time, researchers found a 9-percent increased risk for another cardiac event for every 10 millimeters of mercury increase in systolic blood pressure -- the top number in a blood pr...

The Effects Of Estrogen Therapy

...with progestin would reduce coronary heart disease events in mostly healthy women. Postmenopausal American women use CEE more frequently than any other hormone therapy.The estrogen-alone trial was halted because researchers found it had no significant effect on reducing the risk of coronary heart disease bu...

Troubled Childhood found to affect your Liver

...udy of its kind and say understanding the chain of events that eventually lead to liver disease may one day lead them to better methods of intervention....

Adding An Additional Drug May Help Patients With Glaucoma

...perienced pigmentation changes had no more adverse events than those without pigmentation changes and the drug was also found to be just as effective in reducing ocular pressure in patients with pigmentation changes as it was in those without, lowering ocular pressure by about 25 percent. Thus researchers ...

Pain-Free Heart Attacks Often Misdiagnosed

...e their findings will remind physicians that these events do occur in the absence of chest pain and will prompt them to make the diagnoses and institute the appropriate treatment more rapidly....

Good News For Individuals Suffering From Frequent Throat Infections

...articipants to provide assurance that rare adverse events are not associated with vaccination ....

Predicting The Risk Of A Heart Attack

...hree-times more likely to experience these cardiac events than patients without elevated levels. In patients with acute chest pains, those with high PIGF levels were also at significantly increased risk compared with patients with low PIGF levels. Researchers conclude that PIGF blood levels are valuable p...

The Adverse Effects Of Asthma Medication

...that understanding the panoply of beta2AR-mediated events in airway smooth muscle might lead to the design o...tive effects of beta2AR activation while enhancing events that lead to relaxation....

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