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Insulin Resistance Linked To Difference In Gender

... 307 healthy children 4 or 5 years old who will be followed until they are 16 years old. Researchers are keeping track of each child’s height, weight, physical activity, resting energy expenditure, and insulin resistance. Researchers have found, at 5 years old, insulin resistance was 35-percent higher in gi...

Exercise The Best Treatment For Low Back Ache

...or discomfort. All the workers in the study were followed for six months. Those who participated in the exercise program missed only 58 days of work, compared to 87 missed days of work for those receiving usual care....

PET Scans Found To Reveal Hidden Cancers

... Researchers say the unexpected abnormalities they followed up on were significant. Typically, these cancers were not symptomatic and were unrelated to the primary cancer for which the scan was performed. Researchers say follow-up is important when PET scans reveal new findings. Researchers also say that if...

Blood Marker Found To Predict Colon Cancer

...brief health questionnaire. The patients were then followed up with additional questionnaires and tracking data. Researchers compared the health records of volunteers who developed colon or rectal cancer from the time of the initial blood draw through December 2000 to volunteers who did not develop cancer. ...

HRT Found To Increase Recurrence of Breast Cancer

...ars. After the initial 345 women in the study were followed for about two years, however, results showed 26 of those randomized to receive HRT experienced a new or recurring cancer, compared to just seven in a placebo group. The risk was deemed unacceptable, and the study was halted on December 17, 2003. No...

New Way to Detect Spread of Skin Cancer

...ity of lymph vessels surrounding a skin cancer and followed which patients went on to develop secondary cancers within eight years. Of the 21 patients with malignant melanoma, 13 later had their cancers spread and eight were still free of any form of clinically detectable distant cancer. Results of the stud...

Elderly Women With Depression More Prone to Heart Disease

...for depression and cardiovascular disease and were followed for about four years. Researchers found nearly 16 percent of women reported experiencing symptoms of depression. They say depression was significantly linked to cardiovascular disease risk. Women with depression were 12 percent more likely to have h...

Estrogen Found To Protect the Colon Against Cancer

...gators fed five different diets to female mice and followed their progress for one year. The diets were designed to compare the effects of specific ingredients. Diet one contained milk protein, and diet two had soy protein. Both diets lacked any kind of estrogen. The other three diets contained soy protein wi...

A Combination Of Drugs Effective In The Treatment Of Hormone-Refractory Prostate Cancer

...sisted of 10 to 12 mg/m2 of mitoxantrone on day 1, followed by 20 mg/m2 of vinorelbine on days 1 through 8. This cycle was repeated every 3 weeks. The patients also received 12.5 mg daily of prednisone. A total of 95 cycles were given, with a median of 7 cycles per patient and a range of 5 to 9 cycles per pat...

Groundbreaking Study Gives Hope For Patients With Kidney Cancer

...ed no additional treatment .The patients were then followed for five years. Among the 379 patients for whom follow up data were available, 77 percent of those who received the vaccinations were still alive without a recurrence of the disease. This compares to 68 percent of those who did not receive the inject...

Study On Self Measurement Of Blood Pressure

... visits to a physician’s office. The patients were followed for a year. Researchers found 25 percent of home blood pressure patients had stopped the high blood pressure drug treatment compared to 11 percent of the office blood pressure patients by the end of the study. The study’s authors also found that th...

Childhood Weight Gain Found To Increase The Risk of Diabetes

...ly had a low body mass index up to 2 years of age, followed by an increase in weight gain. However, despite the increase in weight gain, none of the participants were obese at age 12. Researchers conclude there is an association between impaired glucose tolerance and diabetes in young adulthood for children b...

The Possibility Of Fighting HIV with Another Virus Questioned

...ency Syndrome Cohort Study, in which investigators followed a large group of HIV-infected men in the United States for more than 15 years. The study shows patients infected with the two viruses actually do better than those infected with only HIV. GBV-C was significantly associated with prolonged survival amo...

Anger Hard on the Heart

...e at the start of the study. The participants were followed for 10 years looking for development of coronary heart disease, atrial fibrillation and death. Researchers found that men who were angry and hostile were more likely to develop atrial fibrillation. Specifically, men with higher feelings of hostilit...

The Answer To Prevent Osteoporosis

... 20 milligrams of the drug for two years. That was followed by 5 milligrams of the drug for three years and then a placebo for the next five years. Researchers say 247 women stayed with the study for the entire 10 years. The study showed women on 10 milligrams of alendronate daily increased their bone densi...

Lack of Smell And Its Potential Risks

... most common problem was cooking-related incidents followed by ingestion of spoiled food, inability to detect a gas leak, and inability to detect a fire. Researchers say patients with an impaired sense of smell need to be diagnosed properly and also counseled about these potential risks....

A Slight Increase In BP Can Mean big Risks

...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 pressure reading....

The Link Between Childhood Vaccinations And Diabetes Questioned

...tion may play a role. For the study researchers followed the entire population of children born in Denmark between 1990 and 2000 to assess the real risk to kids. Results showed no increased risk of type 1 diabetes among children who received the normal childhood vaccinations. Thus researchers say based o...

A Reduction In Calories Found To Yield More Benefits

... nutrition by consuming nutrient-dense foods. They followed their restricted diet for three to 15 years. The second group included individuals who followed a normal diet. Those in the restricted calorie group consumed between 1,100 calories and 1,950 cal...

Triglyceride Drug Found To Lower The Risk Of Diabetes

...e-lowering drug bezafibrate or a placebo. All were followed for about six years. Men taking bezafibrate, which also lowers LDL (or “bad”) cholesterol and increases HDL (or “good”) cholesterol, were about 30-percent less likely to develop diabetes. If they did develop diabetes, it was about a year later than t...

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