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Elderly Women Remain At Risk From Hypertension

...ension: Further information Hypertension: This means high blood pressure. When the systolic blood pressure is over 140 and the diastolic blood pressure is over 90 consistently, then the person is said to suffer from hypertension. Essential hypertension may be caused by genetics, diet, intake of salt, a...

Acupuncture May Be An Effective Treatment Against Tension-Headaches

...tive treatment to clinical conditions. Acupuncture means to puncture with a needle. In a broad sense the process includes traditional body puncturing with needles, as well as some variants like moxibustion, electric acupuncture or electro-puncture, laser acupuncture etc. Tension-headaches: People desc...

Size Of The Waist In Children Linked To Diabetes

... Waist circumference serves as a readily available means to estimate abdominal obesity in the office setting. Normative data specific for ethnic group need to be collected. The present study showed that children with abdominal obesity, as determined by WC, have increased metabolic risk factors for CVD and ...

Scientists Identify Cancer Pathway

...s to create a model system for cancer cells, which means its basic pathway exists in real-world systems while the actual proteins that act on the system may vary. In the model system, the researchers discovered critical differences between cancer cells and normal cells regarding a mechanism called endocy...

Consumers Becoming More Health Conscious Than Calorie Conscious

...emerging as the basis for a healthy diet, and as a means of losing weight. This is because the consumers are moving away from the deprivation model and becoming more interested in stabilizing blood sugar levels and controlling cravings than counting calories. The Primaliv yoghurt [marketed in Sweden] ...

Making Fortification Mandatory In Order To Reduce Birth Defects

...ed foods or implement mandatory fortification as a means of stemming its high rate of birth defects. A new study shows that milk could be another application for increasing intake of the vitamin, as well as the bread and cereal products that are already enriched with folic acid through fortified flour in...

Risk Of Heart Attack Increase From Pre-Hypertension

...ension: Further information Hypertension: This means high blood pressure. When the systolic blood pressure is over 140 and the diastolic blood pressure is over 90 consistently, then the person is said to suffer from hypertension. Essential hypertension may be caused by genetics, diet, intake of salt, a...

Children's Waistlines A Predictor Of Future Heart Disease

... Waist circumference serves as a readily available means to estimate abdominal obesity in the office setting. Children with abdominal obesity, as determined by WC (waist circumference), have increased metabolic risk factors for CVD (cardiovascular disease) and T2DM (type 2 diabetes mellitus). Source : DP...

Inflammatory bowel disease linked to genetic abnormality

... disease. However there is no cure treatment is by means of diet restrictions and medication to suppress the immune system and reduce inflammation. In sever cases, damaged portions of the intestine are surgically removed....

Pause as you please

...eir periods are identical to those of humans. This means the treatments should be available to women very soon, the researchers say. All animals treated, regardless of the dose given, remained in good health and returned to normal cylces 14 to 40 days after treatment stopped. "The modern woman is accustome...

DNA and clones

...he genome."We call these 'position effects', which means we really don't yet understand them," Dr Walter said. She gave the example of anirida, a hereditary condition in which individuals are born without an iris. Geneticists know it is caused by mutations within the PAX6 gene, and while there is nothing ...

Prostratin- Drug to eradicate HIV

...s in the blood. Prostratin therapy could provide a means by which to flag the furtive HIV in its hiding place. Then, by driving out the HIV, the HAART drugs and the body's own defenses can seek out and destroy it. This may be the first drug that might stimulate both T-cells and macrophages, both of which ...

New contact lens materials

...oxygen transmission of the lenses themselves. This means that there are really small amounts of increased bacterial binding seen with extended-wear, even up to 30 nights, with the novel contact-lens materials that transmit high amounts of oxygen to the eye as compared to presently available conventional ma...

The 'bitter' proteins

... suggest the interaction between the hAPP and hSYN means that drugs blocking these proteins could have broader benefits than previously thought. The study also helps explain the underlying mechanisms that destroy the cognitive and motor functions of Alzheimer’s patients who go on to develop Parkinson’s, th...

Soy, Omega 3s convalesce artery health

...wer among the omega 3 supplement groups. Lower TAG means reduced risk for heart disease. Keith Ayoob, a spokesman for the American Dietetic Association and a professor at Albert Einstein Medical College in New York felt that the greater the elasticity, the less likelihood of hypertension. Any benefit wou...

New insights into herbal supplements

...ey are not regulated by any government body, which means anyone can put anything on a bottle and put it on a health food store shelf. She added that this is a serious problem as very often it is found that the herbal remedies have virtually none of what is assumed to be the active ingredient, some have muc...

Arsenic in drinking water

...g. red and green) can be an effective and low cost means to rapidly reduce exposure to arsenic when accompanied by effective health education. Alternative low-arsenic sources such as rain water and treated surface water may be available and appropriate in some circumstances. Where low arsenic water is not ...

When it comes to health, all chocolates not the same.

... in chocolate have not been proven. "I guess this means to be healthy you should eat chocolate with red wine," said Andrew L. Waterhouse, a nutrition professor at the University of California at Davis. "That is, if you believe the antioxidant hypothesis. "No one has taken flavonoids, given them to people...

Aerobics- right choice for Cutting Blood Pressure

... lifting creates an oxygen debt in the body, which means the body must work harder to supply oxygen. Another may be that weight lifting stimulates more damaging free radicals and oxidants than aerobic exercise. It's also important to note that many studies have shown a benefit from weight lifting on every...

An Enzyme That Turns a One –time Experience into a long-time Memor

...ill continue her pregnancy. Investigators say this means the female memorizes her partner’s scent during the mating process. Researchers say norepinephrine is a chemical released in the brain during emotional or exciting situations. For the study, the scientists collected data from the mouse brain to see ...

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