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Step Aerobics Increases good cholesterol

...ins and colleagues at Basket University in France, followed 40 sedentary college women over 6 weeks. Fifteen took step aerobics and 12 took traditional aerobic dance, 3 days a week for 40 minutes each day. The rest of the women remained sedentary.Aerobic dance involves continuous movement designed to get the ...

Excess vitamin A increases fracture risk

...rses' Health Study, which covers over 60,000 women followed for 15 years, suggests that retinol, an active ingredient of vitamin A, could be harmful. Women with the highest retinol intake from their daily diet plus any vitamin supplements - were nearly 30 per cent more likely to have a hip fracture linked t...

Diet plays a role in kidney stones

... calcium diet (12 mmol a day) and both groups were followed up for five years. After this time, 10 of the men on the normal calcium diet had suffered recurrences compared to 23 on the low calcium diet. Analysis of the urine showed that levels of calcium dropped in both groups. But excretion of oxalate incre...

Particulate matter affects lung development

...of Medicine of USC.Preventive medicine researchers followed more than 100 children through their teen years and compared those who moved away to other communities in the West.Resulting changes in air pollution exposure, on average, affected annual rates of lung function growth, the team reported in the Ameria...

Take care of constipation

... at 5,324 patients aged between 50 and 80 who were followed for 22 years. Constipation was defined as having less than one bowel movement a day - approximately 7% of the population are thought to be affected to this degree. Men who were constipated were 2.7 times more likely to develop Parkinson's as men who...

Depression hurts the heart

...Brenda Penninx, a US gerentologist, and colleagues followed 2847 people over the age of 55//- both with and without heart disease- for four years to trace the effects of depression. They then found that people with major depression were at least three times as likelyto die of heart disease as were patients w...

Additional Radiotheraphy for Breast Cancer

...es of recurrence were cut by 54%. Patients will be followed up for many years to see whether booster doses will also cut mortality. These impressive results mean that a boost should now be considered the standard treatment for early breast cancer, particularly in younger women....

Lifestyle variation can cut diabetes hazard

...to 150 minutes a week. All the participants were followed up for an average of 2 years, during which time the incidence of diabetes was 10 cases per 100 person years in the placebo group. In the metformin group, the corresponding case number was 7 and in the lifestyle modification group it was just 4 cases....

Prescription Drug Use Varies Widely Between States

...riation was found for cough/cold/allergy products, followed by stimulant therapy for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and antibiotic cephalosporins. Overall, children exhibited greater variation than adults for most therapy classes. Whether greater variation is warranted for children or whether...

Processed Meat, Diabetes connection Found

...eart disease or cancer. The men in the study were followed for 12 years, and the researchers compared the dietary patterns of those who developed type 2 diabetes with eating habits of those who did not. Hu said the results were adjusted for known effects of activities such as smoking, obesity, fat intake and...

Acupuncture to bring relief to patients with dry mouth

...nter in San Diego. In the study, Johnstone's team followed 75 patients undergoing acupuncture. Most had received radiation for head and neck cancers and had dry mouth that did not respond to treatment with the saliva-inducing compound pilocarpine. The researchers found that 70 percent of the patients improve...

Tongue piercing leads to bacterial infection

...vel was the body site most often reported pierced, followed closely by the ear (not including earlobes). Seven...rial infection was the most reported complication, followed by bleeding and injury or tearing at the site."If our prevalence and complication rates are represen...

Heart Surgery Is Getting Safer for the Old

...New York City between a few years. The researchers followed up with the patients an average of two years later to determine their outcome and whether their condition had been improved by the operation. The researchers found that all 100 patients survived their operations and half lived another 40 months or l...

Fluoride proves effective against fractures

...ing agent over the course of a 42-month study that followed 85 women who were 65 years and older and had one or more nontraumatic fractures. The study group was treated with sustained-release sodium fluoride combined with calcium citrate and vitamin D while a control group received the calcium citrate and v...

Interference helps Heart Patients

... costs.// The study involved 300 patients who were followed for six months after being sent home from two hospitals in the San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare network. Patients received either usual follow-up care or printed educational material and an average of phone calls from a nurse checking on their heal...

Treadmill test displays hidden heart disease

...n and 3,000 women given treadmill testing and then followed up for 20 years. In the treadmill test, the person runs on the treadmill while their heart rate, blood pressure, and the electrical activity of the heart are measured. In other words, the heart's functioning when challenged is assessed. They found ...

Stem Cell Transplants May Be Effective For MS Patients

...gous stem cell transplantation. Their results were followed for an average of 1 year. Conventional treatments had previously been unsuccessful for all of the patients, either because they had no improvement or were not able to tolerate the side effects. 16 of the patients had tried multiple treatments with no...

Acute Measles Supresses HIV Replication

... Health.For the study, Dr. Moss and his colleagues followed 100 children diagnosed with measles and HIV. The children’s HIV levels were measured from blood samples taken when they were admitted to the hospital for measles treatment. More samples were taken when the children were discharged from the hospital,...

Young women prone to heart attack

...rs from Emory, Yale and Massachusetts Universities followed 6000 patients for two years after they were discharged from hospital after a heart attack. They found that 28.9 per cent of the female patients had died within two years, compared with 19.6 per cent of the male patients. Age had a dramatic impact, w...

Breast cancer risk doubles by high sex hormone levels

...uded in the analysis, women who donated blood were followed for an average of 2 to 10years. During that time 763 women developed breast cancer. Hormones in their blood were compared with the hormones of 1,567 women who were the same age when blood was donated as the women who developed breast cancer. The re...

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