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UIC Study Throws Light On Sexual Assaults

...was queried, 35.4 percent were likely to have been impaired at the time of the sexual assault. "This study demonstrated the need for toxicological analysis in sexual assault cases," Negrusz said, noting the high percentage of subjects who tested positive for drugs. "It also demonstrated that sexual assault ...

Medication Abuse In Chronic Migraine May Cause Hormonal Abnormalities

...olves a "chronic stress condition," and could have impaired hormonal activity in the study patients. However Rainero said that the findings do strengthen the belief that abuse of anti-migraine drugs is a "serious medical condition. They also support the use of preventive medications, he added, as these drugs ...

Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Sets Cognitive Problems After 10 Years

...er of domains of cognitive functioning that can be impaired even in the face of a relatively normal IQ, including academic achievement (especially arithmetic), adaptive functioning, and executive functions (the ability to problem solve and learn from experiences). Deficits in intellectual, achievement, adapti...

Undetected Cases Of Diabetes Boom In The US

...rcent of adults age 20 and older continued to have impaired fasting glucose (IFG), a form of pre-diabetes. IFG...develop. People with pre-diabetes may have IFG or impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) or both. * In IFG, blood glucose is high (100 to 125 milligrams per dec...

UV Rays Affects the Power of Vision

...s show that about nine million people are visually impaired in India and 16 million people worldwide suffer blindness every year due to loss of transparency in the lens. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that about 20% of the cataracts may be due to the over-exposure to UV radiations. The lead aut...

Autoimmune Diseases – Newer Preventive Measure

...thymus, spleen, liver and bone marrow and severely impaired maturation of those cells in mice missing the Aire gene. And the mice given alpha-GalCer had significantly reduced autoantibody production. In 2001, Dr. Terry L. Delovitch and his colleagues at Canada’s Robarts Research Institute, including Dr. Mi,...

Adult Diabetics Were Unaware Of Their Condition

...like atherosclerosis and stroke. Pre-diabetes – impaired fasting glucose (IFG) exists in about 26 percent o...betes. People with pre-diabetes may have IFG or impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) or both. In the future 10 years, pre-diabetes will put forth people into typ...

Fatigue After Liver Transplantation Does Not Lessen With Time

...n inactive lifestyle, which in turn may lead to an impaired quality of life. Neither the condition necessitati...ve, novel drug therapies may need to be tested and impaired cognitive function may also need to be examined as a possible cause of fatigue. Source: Eurekalert...

Yoga Along with Treatment for Breast Cancer Improves Quality of Life

...atments are associated with considerable distress, impaired quality of life and reduced physical function. This is particularly true for women with breast cancer who receive multi-modality treatment over an extended period of time,' Cohen says. 'With our studies, we think that we could help ameliorate the tre...

Abnormal Glucose Metabolism May Contribute to Chronic Nerve Disorder

...level alone does not always identify patients with impaired glucose tolerance and neither does the two-hour or...glucose tolerance test always detect patients with impaired glucose metabolism," the authors write. "Both tests are, however, useful to detect hyperglycemia [h...

Hunt for Chromosomal Errors Which Cause Genetic Diseases

... 22q11.2 deletion syndrome may have heart defects, impaired immunity and developmental delay. Deletions of several genes in Prader-Willi syndrome may cause obesity and mental retardation. To seek out miniscule rearrangements in chromosomes, the Children’s Hospital team employed the types of gene chips, or m...

Clue to Link Between Obesity and Long-Term Memory Discovered

...plaques believed to cause Alzheimer’s disease, and impaired learning and memory were “super sensitive” to leptin, Farr adds. “In the older mice that have Alzheimer’s disease, leptin worked even better and at a lower dose than it did in younger mice.” Established in 1836, Saint Louis University School of M...

A Carrier Protein Associates With Human Insulin Resistance

...de up of people who had normal glucose metabolism, impaired glucose metabolism or type 2 diabetes. The final group included non-obese people with a strong family history of type 2 diabetes. First group lean people got an average of 24 micrograms per milliliter (mcg/ml), while the obese non-diabetics scored ...

A herbal delight for athletes in solving cramp and pain problems

...on of NO is the common denominator responsible for impaired blood flow in vascular disease." Strenuous exercise is known to involve muscle damage which may be followed by symptoms of inflammation. In separate studies published this year and in 2004 and 2005, Pycnogenol demonstrated its anti-inflammatory eff...

Stress Affects Fertility

...l ovulate and have periods, but whose fertility is impaired by the effects of stress. Professor Sarah Berga, of Emory University in Atlanta, who led the study said, "We think there are women who have sub-clinical forms of stress and who are infertile as a result, though they are hard to recognise, Some have...

Research Identifies Osteoporosis Controlling Protein

...ed that augmented osteoblast activity, rather than impaired osteoblast activity, was responsible for the elevated bone mass. Osteoblasts are cells that form new bone. Jones, Wein and their colleagues found that Shn3 formed a complex with a protein known as WWP1; together, the pair degrades Runx2, a transcript...

Mental Stress Linked To Higher Risk Of Heart Disease

...triuresis) than their counterparts. For those with impaired natriuresis, EDAD was lower than for those with normal natriuresis. Lower EDAD scores were linked with higher pre-stress sodium excretion, higher pre-stress diastolic blood pressure and greater increase of blood pressure during stress. In other words...

Fat Cell Hormone Could Trigger Diabetes, Heart Disease

...bjects progressed from normal glucose tolerance to impaired glucose tolerance to diabetes, we found increases in fasting glucose, insulin, and c-peptide levels, while ADIPO levels decreased” The research included 53 obese African American women, ranging in age from 38-58 years, mean body mass index at 34.5±5...

Early Diagnosis and Treatment Slows Progression of Dementia

...ts Disorientation with time and place Poor or impaired judgment Problems with abstract thinking Putting everyday items in illogical places Mood, behavior or personality changes. Forgetfulness and confusion also can be caused by diabetes, thyroid disease, depression, drug interaction or even vi...

Fluctuating BP and Stroke Lowered Patient Survival Rate

...stolic blood pressure, which again is rooted to an impaired autoregulation of blood pressure. The researcher...sed mortality of patients in this study was due to impaired autoregulation of blood pressure and that those who had a more constant blood pressure had better fl...

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