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High Job Strain Linked to Increased Blood Pressure

...ory blood pressure," the researchers conclude. The increases in blood pressure linked to high job strain may not seem large on the individual level. However, from a public health perspective they could be very significant—especially since blood pressure reductions of similar magnitude can lead to substantial r...

Sleep Disorder Linked to Heart Failure Patient Deaths

...d activate the sympathetic nervous system, causing increases in blood pressure, heart rate and other disturbances. This, in turn, contributes to the progression of heart failure and mortality. However, as Dr. Bradley pointed out, most heart failure patients don’t have the usual symptoms linked to OSA, which...

Lithium Increases Gray Matter in Bipolar Brains

...hium, the standard treatment for bipolar disorder, increases the amount// of gray matter in the brains of patie...r brain.” Although other studies have measured increases in the overall volume of the brain, Bearden said, this imaging method allowed the researchers to see...

Restless Legs Syndrome Poses Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

... suffering ‘Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS). The risk increases in the elderly patients. For the study, conducted at the University of Montreal’s Sacré-Coeur Hospital, ten people with untreated RLS spent the night in a sleep laboratory, where researchers monitored periodic leg movements and blood pressure chang...

Smoking on Television is Harmful to the Health of the Nation's Youth: BMA

...e cause of death in Wales, and the risk of disease increases the earlier in life smoking begins. The prevalence of smoking among Welsh adolescents continues to rise, especially amongst teenage girls. The percentage of 15 to 16 year old boys in Wales who smoked was 19% higher in 2004 than in 1986. This is al...

Drug Used to Prevent HIV Transmission from Mother to Child Damages DNA

...d AZT. At birth, the researchers observed ten-fold increases in the frequencies of micronucleated reticulocytes...fants whose prenatal drug regimen included AZT. No increases were detected in the women and infants who did not receive prenatal AZT. The frequency of MN-RET in ...

Obese People Face More Risk for Cancer of Colon

...BBC news. "These results may explain why obesity increases a person's risk of colon cancer," said lead researcher Kim Barrett. "The fact we have shown how leptin stimulates these cells means that drug companies may be in a better position to develop new treatments against the disease." Source-IANS/L...

Drug Used to Prevent HIV Transmission from Mother to Child Damages DNA

...d AZT. At birth, the researchers observed ten-fold increases in the frequencies of micronucleated reticulocytes...fants whose prenatal drug regimen included AZT. No increases were detected in the women and infants who did not receive prenatal AZT. The frequency of MN-RET in ...

Stress Increases Inflammation in Pregnancy, Putting Women at Risk

...These inflammatory immune system responses involve increases in two proteins - cytokines and C-reactive protein... Preeclampsia, symptoms of which include sudden increases in blood pressure, excessive weight gain and severe headaches, can affect the mother’s kidney, liver...

Tai Chi may Be Useful to Prevent Shingles in Older Adults

... later in life, usually after age 50, and the risk increases as people get older," says NIA Director Richard J. Hodes, M.D. "More research is needed, but this study suggests that the Tai Chi intervention tested, in combination with immunization, may enhance protection of older adults from this painful conditio...

Eritrea Bans Female Circumcision

...glass are used, often on more than one girl, which increases the risk of infection. Anesthesia is rarely used. Some girls die as a result of hemorrhaging, septicemia and shock. It can also lead to long-term urinary and reproductive problems. However, girls who have not been circumcised are consider...

Amphetamine, Cocaine Use Increase Risk of Stroke in Young Adults

...se. “Using amphetamines or cocaine significantly increases an individual’s risk for a stroke,” said Dr. Arthur Westover, an instructor of psychiatry at UT Southwestern and the study’s lead author. “If we decrease the number of people who are using these substances, then we likely can decrease the number of s...

Cochlear Implantation Increases Meningitis Risk

...y has found that the presence of cochlear implants increases the risk of bacterial infections that can cause me...t physicians have long speculated. The discovery increases the need to educate the public on the need for meningitis vaccinations in potential cochlear implant...

Sunburnt Holiday-makers Boost Their Chances of Fatal Skin Cancer

...Research UK dermatologist, said: "Getting sunburnt increases the risk of skin cancer in general. But the kind o...osure to the sun, leading to burning, particularly increases the risk of malignant melanoma. And each year in Britain almost 2000 people die from this form of sk...

Breast Cancer and Bra Wearing: Possibly Linked

...king, running, etc. gently massages the breast and increases lymphatic flow and thus cleans the breast of toxins and wastes that arise from cellular metabolism. If you are a woman, next time think twice, before you splurge on that fashionable tight bras, or corsets for that matter, which models and celebriti...

Sultans of Suntans Warned

...lian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, the increases in people going in for tanning sessions are alarming. This is particularly so when considered in the light of accumulating evidence of the association between sunbed use and increased risks of melanoma, as well as common misconceptions that solariu...

Asthma Incidence Shows a 50 Percent Increase in Fat People

...ght and obese individuals, the incidence of asthma increases by 50 percent,// as compared to those of normal weight, according to a meta-analysis of seven studies on severe asthma involving 333,102 patients.The results appear in the first issue for April 2007 of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical...

Gender Linked to Development of Skin Cancer

...ave shown that the risk of squamous cell carcinoma increases with greater exposure to the sun. For years, investigators assumed that lifestyle had a lot to do with the disparity in the incidence of SCC – believing that men spend more time outside and are less likely to use sun protection than women. While th...

New Study in SLEEP Finds That Sleep Disturbance Increases Spontaneous Pain in Women

...ce impairs endogenous pain-inhibitory function and increases spontaneous pain in women//. This supports a possible pathophysiologic role of sleep disturbance in chronic pain, according to a study published in the April 1st issue of the journal SLEEP. The study, conducted by Michael T. Smith, PhD, and colleagu...

Switching Genes to Overdrive Improves Muscular Dystrophy Symptoms in Mice

... perhaps more accurately, like a light dimmer that increases or decreases the activity of genes under its contr...n that exercise builds stronger muscles is that it increases PGC-1alpha activity. Conversely, disease or lack of exercise reduces PGC-1alpha activity, causing a ...

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