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Hormones A Predictor Of Heart Problems

...heart disease, or other causes. Specifically, they looked at the levels of natriuretic peptides, a group of hormones that regulate blood volume, arterial pressure, and cardiac and vascular function. At the five-year follow-up, 119 participants had died and 79 had a first cardiovascular event. The study sh...

Latest Findings On The Deadly Disease - SARS

...t explains why some people got SARS even though it looked as if they’d never been around anyone who had the disease. Investigators at the University of Hong Kong conducted laboratory studies on blood taken from healthy people who donated blood during the outbreak, patients who were in the hospital at the ...

The Harmful Effects Of Cigarette Smoke

... on children in utero as well as after birth. They looked for these airway disorders: allergic sensitization to inhalant allergens (like pollen), allergic rhinitis, wheezing and respiratory infections. In children whose parents had allergies, smoke exposure in the womb that continued after birth significa...

Soaking In The Sun May Give You More Than Just a Tan

... against some other kinds of cancer. Researchers looked at the results of more than 900,000 Pap tests done in southern Holland between 1983 and 1998. The test does not detect papilloma virus directly. But it reveals abnormal cells that are typically caused by the infection. It was found that the sunnier t...

Antidepressants Late In Pregnancy Harmful to Unborn Baby

Researchers looked at what effect antidepressants taken late in pregnancy have on the birth of the baby. The study included 997 infants.// All of the babies’ moms took antidepressants during their third trimester.Researchers found that maternal use of antidepressants l...

A Seizure Late In Life Could be A Stroke Warning

...n of high risk for a future stroke.// Researchers looked at 4,700 patients who had a seizure after age 60 and 4,700 people around the same age who did not have a seizure. They compared the two groups for subsequent occurrence of stroke. Researchers found that those who had a seizure were three-times more ...

Problems Of a Growing Company

...ital admissions. For the research, investigators looked at personnel changes from 1991 to 1996 in 24,000 e...od employment record and under age 65. Researchers looked at changes in personnel, long-term sickness absence, and hospital admissions. Researchers say thei...

Is Obesity Preventable ?

...on of soda among children ages 7 to 11.Researchers looked at the number of carbonated drinks consumed over a three-day period and body mass index of children at six and 12 months in intervention and control groups.In the intervention group, consumption of carbonated drinks over the three days decreased by 0...

Blood Tests Can Help Detect Osteoporosis Early In Life

... of interventions to prevent fractures. One study looked at the circulating homocysteine level and the risk of incident osteoporotic fractures in 2,406 participants. The men and women in the study were 55 years or older. Researchers found in all of the different groups they studied there was an association...

Complications Of Diabetes

...aluations including cognitive testing. Researchers looked at five different types of memory tests. During the study, 151 of the participants were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, including 31 who had diabetes. Researchers report a 65-percent increase in the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease among t...

Women not Getting Screened Adequately

...t. To compare cancer-screening tests, researchers looked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2001 Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance Survey. It asked more than 54,000 women over the age of 50 what cancer checks they’ve had. Researchers then compared this data to the American Cancer Socie...

A Benefit In Disguise

...-narrow within a year. For the study, researchers looked at 650 patients with PAD who underwent angioplasty. The patients were asked if they smoked and if they did, how many cigarettes a day. At six months and 12 months, the treatment sites were measured to check for re-narrowing of the arteries. Research...

The Usage Of Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Questioned

... associated with heart complications. Researchers looked more closely at the risks of COX-2 inhibitors comp...s on more than 130,000 older people. Investigators looked at the risk of heart failure in 14,500 people using the COX-2 inhibitor rofecoxib, around 19,000 peo...

Urine Test for Kidney Cancer

...mined specific genes in more than 100 patients and looked for a defect in their tumor. At the same time, he looked at urine samples. "When they had that defect in their tumor, they had it in their urine as well," sa...

Leveling Lupus Lesions

...erybody was looking at me, and you know, when they looked at me, all they looked at was my face," says Gibson. Doctors say sun exposure can trigger the lesions. "It doesn't have to...

Evaluating The Risk Factors Of Osteoporosis

...ates an increased risk. In one study, researchers looked at different levels of T-scores and fracture incid... indicated by a T-score of -2.5 to -1.0. The study looked at data on 57,421 women. Researchers looked at 32 risk factors for a fracture and it was found that ...

The Importance Of Vitamin D Supplements

...sion, multiple sclerosis and cancer. Researchers looked at the vitamin D levels in 307 adolescents during ...ients were considered lacking vitamin D. When they looked at other factors, researchers found vitamin D deficiency was highest in African American teenagers a...

Fruits found To Be Good For Eyes

...hose already diagnosed with it. Thus researchers looked at fruit and vegetable intake and vitamin-supplement use among about 77,500 women and 41,000 men taking part in larger health studies. All were at least 50 years old at the beginning of the studies and were followed regularly for more than 12 years. ...

A Likely Use For Estrogen Therapy

...trogen plus progestin in women aged 65 to 79 years looked at associated risk for dementia. In the estrogen-only trial, researchers found 47 participants were diagnosed with probable dementia, of whom 28 were assigned to receive estrogen. During follow-up, the incidence of dementia was 49-percent higher amon...

High-Protein Diet Found To Reduce Fertility

...of a recent study .// For the study researchers looked at how the maternal diet prior to conception affects subsequent embryo implantation in the womb and development of the fetus. They found that a diet consisting of 25 percent protein disrupted normal gene imprinting patterns in mice embryos at an earl...

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