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Elevated Blood Sugar Levels A Risk Factor Of Heart Disease

...tors found a 21-percent increase in cardiovascular events for every percentage point increase in HA1c above ... glycosylated hemoglobin was associated with these events even in people who did not have diabetes and who had HA1c levels within normal range. An analysis o...

The Benefits Of Chemotherapy For Women With Ovarian Cancer

...nts chemotherapy would lead to unnecessary adverse events with no survival benefit for the majority of patients. For the study researchers analyzed data from 13 trials. They found patients who received any adjuvant chemotherapy had a lower risk of death and recurrence than those who did not receive chemo. ...

Understanding The Risks Of Hormone Therapy

...gen plus progestin, the estimated excess number of events is 18 for VT, six for coronary heart disease, eight for invasive breast cancer, and eight for stroke. Thus researchers say their findings may be important for the use of postmenopausal hormone therapy in the treatment of menopausal symptoms among you...

The Side 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....

The Impact of Stress Early In Life

...re. Studies in the past have shown that stressful events early in life can cause social and behavioral problems that carry on into adulthood. The new research suggests this is not necessarily the case, but that the timing of the event can make the difference. For the study researchers studied 15 monkeys, a...

Stress A Precursors Of Asthma In Kids

...xperience worsening symptoms of asthma due to life events like moving or family relationships. // 60 childr...s were interviewed regularly to identify stressful events in the children’s lives, including births, deaths, illnesses and hospitalizations not involving asth...

Preventing Bone Metastasis In Patients With Breast Cancer

...ent group had a decreased rate of skeletal-related events compared to those in the placebo group. Patients who received clodronate were less likely to need radiation, less likely to develop skeletal fractures, and less likely to need bone surgery.Those treated with oral clodronate also had a 2.5-year increa...

Negative Emotions Could Lead To Stroke

...30 percent of the group reported experiencing such events within a couple of hours before having their stroke. Thus it was observed that anger or strong negative emotions could increase the risk of stroke by about 14-times and a sudden change in body position after a startling event was linked to a 24-fold ...

Another Cause of Thyroid Cancer Discovered

...t a major breakthrough in the knowledge of genetic events involved in the cause of papillary thyroid tumors....

Raising Good Cholesterol Levels Found To Improve Heart Health

... coronary stenosis, and may prevent cardiovascular events in some people who exercise regularly and eat low-fat diets....

Better Treatment For Hypertension

...l blocker and ACE inhibitor.” Fatal heart disease events were reduced by 10 percent for those on the newer ... Of patients on the newer treatment, all coronary events were reduced by about 15 percent. Strokes and cardiovascular mortality were reduced by about 25 perc...

More Errors From Computerized Prescriptions

...o even more errors. It is known that adverse drug events injure or kill more than 770,000 people in hospitals each year. One way hospitals are trying to cut back on that number is with computerized physician-order entry systems. But according to a new study, use of computerized systems may actually be lead...

Aspirin For Treating Blocked Brain Arteries

...farin treatment had an increased number of adverse events like myocardial infarction or sudden death, death ...ed with aspirin the rate of incidence of all these events were lower than warfarin treatment. The study called Warfarin–Aspirin Symptomatic Intracranial Dis...

Drinking too much water during racing may be harmful

...letes who drink water during long distance running events may be putting their health in jeopardy. Drinking too much water // is almost as bad for health as drinking too little water during strenuous sports activity, says the study researchers of UT Southwestern Medical Center, US. Drinking too much water...

Lower risk of cardiovascular disease from tight glucose control

...ost fifty percent less incidence of cardiovascular events like heart attacks, stroke, angina and coronary heart disease that requires coronary bypass surgeries than those who were under conventional treatment methods. Reference: National Institutes of Health (NIH), press release, June 2005...

Developmental Origins of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

...lapping symptoms." Dr Davies also mentioned that events occurred by even the grandmother could affect the ...reproductive consequences of metabolic programming events that occur during foetal development; we may need to look further back up the generations and look a...

New Combination Therapy Option for HIV Patients

...n patients with liver disease. Some of the adverse events seen in clinical trials include skin rashes and raised cholesterol and triglycerides levels. Specialists also say that patients using Aptivus with low-dose ritonavir should report the use of any concomitant medication due to the possibility of pote...

FDA Issues Public Health Advisory on Tysabri, a New Drug for MS

... and the manufacturer evaluate two serious adverse events reported with its use. Tysabri, which received ac...onducted an intensive analysis of possible adverse events that might be related to effects of the drug on the immune system. No cases of PML were seen in the ...

Blood Test May be Able To Predict Heart Attack Risk

...in the blood to see if this reduces cardiovascular events like heart attacks and strokes,...

Experimental Blood Test May Spot Heart Attack Risk, Study Says

...in the blood to see if this reduces cardiovascular events like heart attacks and strokes". ...

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