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Risk of Dementia Increased With Secondhand Smoke

Exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke increases the risk of developing dementia, according to research . For the study, researchers evaluated 3,602 people age 65 and older in the Cardiovascular Health Study. Of those, 985 people had no cardiovascular disease, no dementia, and were never smokers....

Women Unaware of When Breast Cancer Risk is Greatest

...t from what most women believe. Breast cancer risk increases with age and is highest in women over 80." Julie...t cancer. Women need to understand that their risk increases with age. If older women wrongly think they are at a lower risk, they may be less likely to attend s...

FDA Advisory Against Anti-depressants to Be Expanded to Cover Young Adults too

...t the beginning of therapy or when the dose either increases or decreases. Although FDA has not concluded that these drugs cause worsening depression or suicidality, health care providers should be aware that worsening of symptoms could be due to the underlying disease or might be a result of drug therapy. T...

Gene Responsible for Ageing Process Discovered and Calorie Restriction Could Help

...ene is linked with a hormone called glucagon which increases levels of glucose in the bloodstream to maintain the body's energy balance especially during fasting. Scientists from Louisiana State University are monitoring a group of 48 overweight men and women aged between 25 and 50. The study found that thos...

Doctors Warned Against Encouraging Elective Caesareans

...acenta attaching low down in the womb or rupturing increases by almost 50 percent, accordingly. In mothers who had their first baby by caesarean, the risk of placental previa - a condition where the placenta attaches over or near the internal opening of the cervix - was 47 percent higher in their second pre...

Cats at Home Poses Allergy Risk in Young Children

... cat hair within or outside the parental household increases the frequency of allergic sensitisation on the basis of the detection of IgE-specific antibodies against cat allergens. The study is based on data of the multicentric LISA study. LISA stands for Lifestyle Immune - System Allergy and is intended t...

Indoor Air Pollution Biggest Health Threat

...houses are airtight without much ventilation. This increases the pollution level. In the rural areas some 3.5 billion people still depend on traditional fuels such as firewood, charcoal, cow dung etc for cooking and heating. This produces a large amount of smoke and other air pollutant within the confines of...

American Cancer Society Launches Major New Study

...rette smoking and lung cancer, showed that obesity increases the risk of several cancers, and linked aspirin use to a lower death rate from colon cancer. The current study, CPS-II, began in 1982 and is still ongoing. But changes in lifestyle and in the understanding of cancer in the more than two decades since...

National Eye Institute Targets Mexican-Americans for Glaucoma Awareness

...aucoma, the most common form glaucoma. The rate increases to 8% among those in their 60s and to 15% for those in their 70s. Hispanics are the least likely of all racial and ethnic groups to be aware of the disease, with 61% reporting having heard of glaucoma, compared with 72% of Asians, 94% of blacks and 9...

New, Less Painful Wound Treatment for Pediatric Patients

... contraction, decreases wound and tissue swelling, increases local microcirculation, provides a closed, moist healing environment and stimulates the formation of granulation tissue, an important indicator of healing tissue. Ninety-three percent of the children given the treatment showed decreased wound volu...

Cause of Gender Differences in Blood Pressure, Kidney Damage Under Study

...blood pressure remains unchanged but kidney injury increases slightly. There are fundamental differences, I believe, in the physiology. They are going to end up at the same point but the way there could be very different. So shes comparing in males and females some major players in blood pressure regulat...

Cancer Risk High Among Obese People

...centimetres for men and 85 for women significantly increases cancer risk. The Cancer Council suggests that people measure their waist and look at implementing changes to reduce their cancer risk if they have the above waist measurements. Weight gain occurs when the energy you take into your body exceeds ...

Life Expectancy Increased by Eating Less

...are related to glucagon, a pancreatic hormone that increases blood sugar concentration and maintains the body's energy balance, particularly during fasting, reports the health portal News-Medical. The researchers say the pinpointing of the worm gene might lead to drugs being developed that imitate the effec...

Genetic Variation is Linked to Substantial Risk in Heart Attack

...to a major biological mechanism that substantially increases the risk," explains Emory cardiologist Arshed A. Quyyumi, MD, one of the study authors. "Discoveries like this one greatly heighten our understanding of the role genetics plays in heart disease."...

Diabetes Drug Dramatically Boosts Potency of Platinum Chemotherapy

...ur finding that PPAR-gamma activation dramatically increases the efficacy of carboplatin, potentially causing tumor stasis or even tumor shrinkage could represent a significant advance in chemotherapy," the researchers wrote....

Brooding Could Kill, Warn Psychologists

...ch finds that dwelling on an unpleasant experience increases the release of chemicals that can weaken the immune system over time; this may hamper someone's ability to fight illness, psychologist Nicholas Christenfeld of the University of California-San Diego.Christenfeld says. Increases in the stress hormone ...

Army Training Regimen Brutal in US, Needs Overhauling

...appointed a special committee, and his 2008 budget increases VA health spending by 9 percent. But the problem is far more deep rooted to be tackled with such tentative efforts, it is pointed out. Perhaps the trainers have to be trained first, it is felt....

Burnt Brits Don't Feel Hot

...n cause permanent and irreversible skin damage and increases the risk of malignant melanoma, the deadliest form... have shown that this type of sun exposure greatly increases your risk of melanoma. "Some people are more likely than others to get skin cancer. They tend to h...

UCLA Researchers Discover Link Between Parkinsons and Narcolepsy

...lion worldwide. (The percentage of those afflicted increases with age.) Narcolepsy affects approximately one in 2,000 individuals about 150,000 in the United States and 3 million worldwide. Its main symptoms are sleep attacks, nighttime sleeplessness and cataplexy, the sudden loss of skeletal muscle tone w...

Exposure to CT Scan Radiation may Be Equivalent to That of Nuclear Bomb

...unnecessarily because the use of X-ray technology increases the risk of cancer. They suggest that the amount of radiation that patients are exposed to during CT scans may in some cases be equivalent to that received by some survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs. According to some estimate...

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