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Children's Waistlines A Predictor Of Future Heart Disease

...st that it is a better indicator of risk than body mass index, a measurement combining weight and height. A large waist is said to be associated with metabolic syndrome - a combination of conditions including type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and raised levels of blood fats.The study measured the wai...

Use parathyroid hormone to fight brittle bone disease

...worked better than estrogen alone in boosting bone mass and preventing fractures among women with osteopor...her hormone dose seeing a greater increase in bone mass than those on the lower dose. However, the higher dose was more likely to cause side effects su...

Low bone mass in Postmenopausal Women

... is thinning of the bones with a reduction in bone mass due to depletion of calcium and bone protein. Peop...ne shape and have 5percent to 11 percent more bone mass than white women, according to Haney. Haney feels that men do not experience the same amount of bon...

Pancreatic cancer risk

...reatic cancer. In subjects from both cohorts, body mass index (BMI) was significantly associated with the risk of pancreatic cancer, the researchers report. "After adjusting for known risk factors, men and women with a BMI of 30 or higher had a 72% increase in risk of pancreatic cancer compared with men ...

Breakthrough In Stem Cell Work

...m become bone and cartilage. They then took that mass and molded it into the shape of a human ball structure found in the jaw known as the articular condyle. They watched the structure for a couple of weeks and found it retained the human shape. Tests also showed the structure continued to consist of h...

Hope For Patients With Muscular Dystrophy

...n the science and its potential to increase muscle mass in healthy people too. Thus researchers say , that...in activity in mice may be able to increase muscle mass in humans too....

Using Stem Cells To Treat Incontinence In Women

...uickly form new muscle tissue, and when the muscle mass reaches the appropriate size, the cell growth ceases automatically. However researchers say that the procedure does not appear to work well for men suffering from incontinence caused by prostate surgery as it often results in scar tissue formation...

Predicting The Risk Of Osteoarthritis

..., including genes, age, gender, hormones, and body mass index. Results of a recent study has shown that the condition acetabular dysplasia is a strong independent indicator for the development of osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip. For the study researchers studied 835 seniors. Over a follow-up period averag...

Exercise may be best defense against heart disease

...creation exercise (least, moderate, most) and body mass index (normal, overweight, obese). During 17 years of follow-up, 1,531 participants died of heart disease. Adjustment for BMI and physical activity was done and the researches found that caloric intake was unrelated to heart disease, while those w...

SARS (Bird Flu) spreading in the Asian continent

... Virus” announced that it’s high time to undertake mass vaccinations on poultry to prevent bird flu from becoming a human epidemic. The virus has managed to lurk in Asian countries and surface every so often and is quite capable of springing major surprises. Already it has taken a toll of 55 people in As...

Finding The Key To Weight Loss!

...eir appetite, caloric intake, body weight, and fat mass were measured throughout, and at the end of each p... decreased by between 4.4 and 5.4 kg and their fat mass decreased by 3.3 to 4.1 kg. Leptin levels 'significantly decreased' during this phase and ghrelin in...

Prime Minister Declares War on AIDS

...to tackle this on a war-footing. We need to have a mass movement to ensure that this disease is rapidly checked and its growth arrested." India with its vast population has an estimated 5.1 million AIDS patients, the second largest in the world after South Africa. The prime minister said that the govern...

Research Identifies The Causes Of Snoring

...t factor in the pathophysiology of snoring. Body mass index and age were also both higher in those who snored. Although 24 patients were found to have obstructive and/or subjective nasal breathing impairment, these impairments were only significant when associated with the loud snoring group, which impl...

Surgeons Perform Robotic Gastric Bypass Surgery

...ant differences in the general health, age or body mass index (BMI, calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters) of the two sets of patients. All patients were women. The researchers compared surgical times as well as the ratio of the procedure time to the patient’s BMI. ...

Exposure To Greenery And Graffiti May Affect Obesity

... and weight, which was then used to calculate body mass index, and level of physical activity. Surveyors then assessed the immediate residential environment, including the amount of graffiti, litter, and dog mess, as well as the level of vegetation and greenery visible on the dwelling and streets immedi...

"An Armour against pleasure, and a cobweb against infection" – Has the condom withstood the test of time

...d Hancock revolutionized condom manufacturing and mass manufacturing started. Vulcanisation is a process, which turns the rubber into a strong elastic material. (3) 1900's - Until the 1920's, manufacturing involved hand-dipping method . These condoms were thicker and also aged quickly and quality was a...

MRI, To Detect Remodeling Of Heart and Help Preserve Function

...rt disease or remained healthy. Changes in heart mass and volume, linked to early signs of left ventricl...n and shortening fraction, blood pressure and body mass index. Deterioration in heart function was observed with changes in the structural pattern of the he...

Uganda Reports Failure To Contain Sleeping Sickness

...en January 2000 and December 2003 and consisted of mass treatment of livestock with long-acting drugs to k...e undiagnosed. Dr Fevre states: “To be effective, mass treatment interventions need to cover enough of the livestock population to prevent the transmission...

Pepsi, Coke Join Hands To Spread AIDS Awareness

...oked at by NACO as potential vehicles for creating mass awareness and promotion of condoms. Source: Indo-Asian News Service...

Africa Is Not The Only Continent Struggling Against AIDS

...make the campaign against AIDS synonymous with the mass of other Africa focused anti-poverty efforts. The reports of WHO/UNAIDS on the need of antiretroviral treatment required worldwide is very much dramatic in which it reports. India is the country with the highest number of HIV infected patients who ne...

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