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New Insight In Periodontal Disease In Postmenopausal Women

...falo had said that postmenopausal women would have lesser chance of losing their teeth if they can keep their periodontal disease at bay. Their research was published in the latest issue of Journal of Periodontology.// Researchers who had studied 106 postmenopausal women had found that in an average of 11 ...

Study Links Folic Acid With Increased Birth Weight

...of gestation. This is important as this could mean lesser birth weight for the newborns. Researchers had studied the pregnant ladies and their newborn babies and tested the blood samples of the women, who had also answered a questionnaire regarding their lifestyle information. The team had also collected d...

Calcium and Vitamin D reduces risk of Premenstrual syndrome

...oping PMS. Women with high intake of Vitamin D had lesser relative risk of developing PMS. Another point that was brought out by the study was that the intake of skim or low-fat milk was also associated with a lower risk of developing PMS. The role of calcium and vitamin D in reducing the risk of osteopo...

Physical activity improves survival in women with breast cancer

... that women with breast cancer who are active have lesser risk// of dying from breast cancer as compared to ...d endogenous estrogen exposure which explains the lesser risk The study concluded that women with breast cancer can improve survival with moderate exercise ...

Birth weight and adult body weight increases heart disease

...her the birth weight of the female newborn babies, lesser is their chance of having coronary heart disease. ... newborns. However, risk of stroke increasing with lesser birth weights are same for all weight levels for women in their adult life, saying that there exits ...

Cutting down on alcohol may reduce cigarette craving

...o abstain from drinking in order to experience the lesser effects of a withdrawal symptom. Limiting alcohol intake to one or two drinks per occasion will reduce the intensity of craving for smoke in smokers considerably. The study says not only moderate to heavy smokers but also the light smokers who don’...

Drug for osteoporosis can reduce memory loss in elderly women

... The result was not so evident for those who had a lesser dose of the drug raloxifene. In postmenopausal women, mild cognitive disability over the years develops into memory loss and other forms of dementia.The results of the study were published in the current issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry....

FDA Approves New Drug For Asthma In Children

... oral corticosteroids. These patients will require lesser doses of corticosteroids or stopping of the steroid based treatment after the start of the treatment with Asmanex Twisthaler. However, as a side effect of the treatment, usage of the inhaler may cause allergic reactions like rhinitis, conjunctivitis,...

Testing Of Saliva May Predict Dental Caries

...avoidance of sugar in diet has not been related to lesser dental problems. Similarly, even excess brushing your teeth can do more harm than good, by eroding the enamel cover of your teeth. Link: http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/11005.html...

Depression A Cause for Death in Elderly

...period compared with 17 percent of those with some lesser signs of depression. Researchers say, “After adjusting for various demographic factors, 18-month mortality was almost 70 percent higher in those depressive symptoms than in those with fewer symptoms.” Women were affected more than men. Depressed men...

Depression Found To Be A Major Cause for Death in Elderly

...period compared with 17 percent of those with some lesser signs of depression. Researchers say, “After adjusting for various demographic factors, 18-month mortality was almost 70 percent higher in those depressive symptoms than in those with fewer symptoms.” Women were affected more than men. Depressed men...

Vision Loss Due To Diabetic Retinopathy a Major Cause Of Concern

...nt, mobility, work, and leisure. Vision loss had a lesser effect on emotional reaction to vision loss and household and personal care areas. Based on their findings researchers conclude that , low-vision rehabilitation services with programs aiming to improve outdoor mobility, print reading, participation...

Depression a cause for Death in Elderly

...period compared with 17 percent of those with some lesser signs of depression. Researchers say, “After adjusting for various demographic factors, 18-month mortality was almost 70 percent higher in those depressive symptoms than in those with fewer symptoms.” Women were affected more than men. Depressed men...

Adding contrast improves ultrasound's ability to detect prostate cancer

... With contrast, however, the sensitivity and, to a lesser extent, the specificity improved to 93% and 87%, respectively. Of 10 positive cases of isoechoic zones, nine were detected by contrast-enhanced ultrasound, while only seven were detected by unenhanced US, the investigators point out. "Contrast-enha...

Artificial discs available as replacements for damaged discs

...aditional fusion surgery, inserting the disc takes lesser time at the operating table (about one and half years) and the patients are mobile right away contrary to those undergoing fusion surgery, who have their motion restricted for up to a year. The other major benefit that the artificial disc appears to ...

Vision loss could result due to MSG

...aired compared to those rats which were fed with a lesser dose of MSG. This study is the first to have shown that eating food containing MSG could lead to eye damage, though previous research has shown that MSG causes nerve damage when injected directly into the eye....

Spine Surgeries becoming less painful

...Ahmedabad are that there is less tissue damage and lesser blood loss and the patient can be discharged within two days of the procedure. This method, the Micro Endoscopic Discectomy Method (MED) is also being used in Bangalore and Delhi apart from Ahmedabad where it was recently introduced....

Caffeine fights Gallstones

...udy also suggested that coffeee drinkers had a 25% lesser chance of gallstones than non-drinkers. Dr. Leitzman, an investigator at the National Cancer Institute suggested that caffeine might be the protective ingredient in reducing risk of gallstones. He added that previous studies have proven that caffein...

Drinking wine beneficial in dementia

...t people who drink wine// now and again may have a lesser risk of developing dementia and Alzheimer's disease. People who drank wine weekly or monthly had the most benefit. The researchers are realistic about their research. They say people should not suddenly start consuming larger amounts of wine for hea...

Study on obesity and heart failure

...r heart failure.// However, it has been unclear if lesser degrees of obesity also pose a risk. Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine investigated the relationship between body mass index and heart failure. They used information collected on more than 4,200 participants in the Heart Study. A...

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