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Diuretics are better for treating blood pressure problems than newer medicines

...aid that diuretics based treatment resulted in the lowest rate of heart failure due to hyper tension in both the groups of African-Americans and Americans. Drug chlorthalidone had more pronounced effect on some conditions of the African-Americans. However for the initial treatment of hypertension and high ...

Have green tea to prevent prostate cancer

...ommon beverage for the Chinese people who have the lowest incidence of any kind of cancer. The researchers had presented their report in the 96th Annual Meeting of American Association for Cancer Research. , Green tea catechins, GTC, antioxidants, cancer of prostate gland, EGCG, pre-malignant lesions, pro...

New kidney test a better predictor of health

...rdiac attack and stroke compared to those who have lowest levels of the cystatin-C. The same participants when were tested with creatinine, only about 10% were detected to have similar high risks. Kidney function is very closely related to cardiac disease and even loss of a small part of kidney function ca...

Heavy drinking may not be good for the mental health

...p to five drinks a week may be associated with the lowest rates of anxiety and depression in women in their ...r women in their twenties and forties. In them the lowest levels of poor mental health were found in those who did not drink any alcohol at all. Scientists o...

Water pills for diabetic with high blood pressure

...ics or water pills based treatment resulted in the lowest rate of heart failure due to // hypertension in both the groups of African-Americans and Americans. Now the same researchers are saying that the same drugs can benefit the patients with diabetes who suffer from high blood pressure and related cardiov...

Women who had stopped HRT get back their symptoms

...sterectomy, or estrogen along with progesterone in lowest effective dosage for a very short time. Reference: Journal of the American Medical Association, July 2005...

Calcium and Vitamin D help in relieving PMS.

...ad 40% less likely to have PMS then those with the lowest intake. Calcium intake was also found to be effect...ound between women with highest calcium intake and lowest intake. The authors said that high levels of calcium and vitamin D reduced the fluctuation of calci...

Over Six Million HIV Infected People In South Africa- Finds A Survey

... highest figures (40 percent) and Western Cape the lowest (15.4 percent). The report was published on the department's official website Friday just days after the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) party tried to obtain the report using the Promotion of Access to Information Act. DA health spok...

Identifying What Consumers Look For On Food Stuff Labels

...per cent) and North Americans (37 per cent) and of lowest priority to the Asians (28 per cent) and Europeans (24 per cent). Awareness of the GI diet was found to be much higher in the AsiaPacific region compared with other countries confirming that a major part of the world’s consumers are still more inte...

Dairy Products Reduce Risk Of Type 2 Diabetes In Men

...to have type 2 diabetes compared with those in the lowest quintile of diary intake. Each serving of dairy per day is associated with a 9 percent lower risk of type 2 diabetes. Low-fat diary intake lowered the risk by 11 percent while high fat diary intake did not seem to lower the risk for type 2 diabetes....

Hyderabad To Have Asia’s First Catheter Making Uni

..., which presently produces only IV sets. "From the lowest level we are jumping to the sixth level," he said. Krishna Reddy hoped the facility would cut the prices of catheters by 50 to 70 percent. India imports catheters at prices ranging from Rs.400 to Rs.3,000. "This facility can not only cater to the ...

Yet Another Reason To Celebrate Drinking

...ce as likely as occasional drinkers to achieve the lowest scores. This does not necessarily show moderate alcohol use is good for our brains - there may be other reasons we haven't measured to explain the poor performance of non-drinkers.However the results may be a reflection of the fact that alcohol can ...

Blood Test May help Heart Prediction

...levels of apoB, the bad protein, combined with the lowest levels of apoA-1, the good protein, were nearly fo...suffer a fatal heart attack than those who had the lowest concentrations of the bad protein and the highest of the good protein. A similar pattern was seen fo...

Pancreatic cancer risk

...sk of pancreatic cancer compared with those in the lowest quintile of moderate physical activity (relative risk 0.45; p Pancreatic cancer...could be prevented through behavioral and lifestyle changes," Drs. Gapstur and Gann conclude....

Vitamin E Found To reduce bladder cancer risk

...d just half as much bladder cancer as those in the lowest quarter. The actual difference in the amount of vitamin-rich food the two extremes ate was small, however, the equivalent of a single daily serving of spinach or a handful of almonds. The reduction was roughly the same, regardless of whether people ...

Gene Decides How Much Exercise In Needed For The Elderly People

...o inherited a gene combination associated with the lowest ACE production were 45 percent more likely to develop difficulties with climbing stairs or walking a quarter-mile than exercisers with gene combinations associated with higher levels of ACE. ACE genotype seems to be associated with how well activity...

Success Of Preventable High-Risk HPV Infections With Vaccines May Vary

... highest in Europe (and perhaps North America) and lowest in sub-Saharan Africa . . . Heterogeneity in HPV type distribution among women from different populations should be taken into account when developing screening tests for the virus and predicting the effect of vaccines on the incidence of infection.”...

Arthiritis: Brightly-coloured fruit and vegetables offer protection

... only half as likely to develop IP as those in the lowest third. The findings appear to confirm previous evidence that a modest increase in fruit and vegetables containing beta-cryptoxanthin and vitamin C, equivalent to one glass of freshly-squeezed orange juice each day, might help to protect against deve...

Fruits And Vegetables Have Arthritis Risk Reducing Property

... inflammatory polyarthritis than those who had the lowest intake. The study further found that consumption of two other carotenoids, lutein and Lycopene, did not seem to have a protective effect against arthritis. Source: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition...

Consumption of Soy May Reduce Risk of Fracture in Postmenopausal Women

...ategories, according to their soy intake, with the lowest intake group consuming less than 4.98 grams of soy...reduced relative risk for fracture compared to the lowest intake group. Women in the highest soy isoflavone group had a 35 percent reduced relative risk for f...

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