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Research on causes for falling helps develop preventive strategies

... The researchers studied volunteers of various age groups as they were made to walk on a treadmill which was gradually made slippery by introducing a fluid on the walking surface. The researchers attached sensors to the feet, legs, hips, ankles and arms to analyse the walker's gait as he or she slips and re...

Breast Cancer risk for women on dopamine antagonists

...antagonists and 55,000 women who were not. The two groups were compared for breast cancer rates. It was found that women who were on anti-psychotics had about a 16 per cent increased risk of breast cancer and those who took larger doses of the drugs had a greater risk. The researchers believe that the stud...

Stroke risk factors:how informed are we?

...ducation efforts must continue and should focus on groups at the highest risk of stroke as the knowledge of stroke risk factors had not improved significantly since the last survey....

Children exposed to smoke show decreased levels of Vitamin C

...oles per litre than unexposed children. Both these groups of children had consumed the same amount of Vitami... difference of ascorbate concentrations in the two groups was small, researchers say the overall effect may be substantial. Though researchers do not have suf...

Progression of Glaucoma could be controlled with early detection

...er half of the patients were not treated. Both the groups were checked by doctors every three months. The researchers, at the end of six years, found that 53 percent of the patients had progression of their glaucoma. They reported that the progression risk was cut in half in patients who were treated as co...

Children! Protecting them from medical mistakes

...will be distributed to 57,000 pediatricians and to groups representing children and parents. Medicine-related medical errors can occur when a child is given the wrong medicine or is given the wrong dose of medicine for the child's weight....

Unfavourable Lipid-Lipoprotein profiles in older adults has been linked to abdominal visceral fat

...over the age of 60. The subjects were divided into groups based on high or low abdominal visceral fat, fat mass and abdominal visceral fat corrected for fat mass. The researchers found that there were differences in very-low-density lipoprotein (VLDL), triglycerides (TG), VLDL-TG, apo-B, apo-B LDL and high...

Children who used anaesthesia drugs could suffer brain damage

...e and isoflurane and divided the rats// into three groups after they recovered from anaesthesia. The first group of rats were killed and their brains were examined the next day. The second group was kept alive until they were about a month old while the third group grew into adulthood. Researchers tested t...

Blood pressure control with ACE inhibitor or diuretic?

...there will be specific recommendations for various groups of patients like the elderly, the diabetics, and the ethnic groups. He also stated that irrespective of the studies, the choice of agent that best suits the patient and the agent with which they are most compliant and comfortable would be the agent o...

Hypertensives could benefit regular alcohol consumption

...hat the former were comparable across these intake groups while the latter(log lipoprotein(a)) were inversely and independently correlated with alcohol consumption in hypertensives of both sexes. Researchers concluded that lipoprotein(a) is inversely and dose-dependently related to alcohol intake in hypert...

Older women's heart health depends on location of fat

...n// the arteries. The women were divided into four groups which consisted of lean women, women with low central fat and high peripheral fat, women with high central fat and low peripheral fat, and obese women with high levels of both kinds of fat. Central fat is carried around the abdomen while peripheral f...

Adult stem cells in treatment for Multiple sclerosis (MS)

...to halt research on embryonic stem cells. Pro-life groups object to research on ESCs because this involves t...e destruction of embryos aged up to 14 days. These groups argue that adult stem cells are just as promising for medical research....

Diabetes could become an epidemic

...5pc, in people from Southern Asia and other ethnic groups and we have a significant number of those people living here. Once diabetes has developed there is no cure, it is just a case of managing it, and managing it everyday. People who have diabetes are not aware of the problems caused by the condition. Bu...

Hypertension lowered by Bedtime Dosing

... The patients were then sub-divided into different groups according to their evening blood pressure. The researchers assessed the evening/morning ratio to assess the duration of action of the two drugs. The researchers found that evening dosing with guanabenz and clonidine lowered morning blood pressure s...

Suicide reduced by anti-depressants

...tantial reduction in suicide occurrence in the age groups with the highest exposure to antidepressants. However doctors still argue that, it is the medical treatment, and not necessarily the use of anti-depressants that reduces suicide....

Breast Cancer in Men Often Underestimated and Under-treated

... disease." The respective median survival in these groups was 139 months and 136 months. Breast cancer is rare in men; there were about 1,600 cases in the US in 2002, accounting for about 1% of all breast cancer cases. Thus all men should be aware that they can develop breast cancer. "A man who has a breas...

Shorter infants have lower incomes in later life

... census. The researchers divided the men into six groups according to their length at age one. Men in the lowest group -- under 72 centimetres, or 28 inches, at one year earned an average annual salary equivalent to only about 75% of what men in the highest group, longer than 80 centimetres or 31 inches at...

Night Time Aspirin Regimen Found to Reduce Blood Pressure

...ghly significant changes to blood pressure between groups after the 3-month treatment period. The subgroup following a regimen of evening aspirin administration showed a reduction in the 24 hour mean of 6.2 mm Hg in systolic blood pressure and 4.1 mm Hg in diastolic blood pressure. While 85% of this subgrou...

Breaking up Dangerous Clots

...re were no significant differences between the two groups in clinically significant bleeding, although those in the fondaparinux group did trend towards more major bleeding than those in the placebo group. Finding ways to prevent dangerous blood clots in hip surgery patients is a major concern among doctor...

Restricted Activity Predicts Disability

... functioning. The subjects were divided into three groups according to their risk for disability in activities of daily living (ADL), such as bathing, cooking, etc. Monthly telephone interviews were conducted to determine the occurrence of restricted activity. Assessments to determine their degree of disabi...

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