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Job Burn Out May Stoke Up Diabetes

...ess at work can contribute to high blood pressure, metabolic syndrome, flu, and heart disease. A study of 677 workers in Israel revealed that risk of Type 2 Diabetes was almost 1.8 times pronounced in people who experienced job burn out due to high stress. The finding did not change even after considering im...

Holiday Gluttony Can Spell Disaster for Undiagnosed Diabetics

...have diabetes and don’t even know it. Diabetes, a metabolic disorder linked with obesity, can be a silent killer because its symptoms aren’t sudden, but build up over time and lead to heart disease or other maladies. That’s bad news for those with undiagnosed diabetes. “The obesity epidemic is surging and...

Hypertension During Pregnancy Increases Later Heart and Kidney Disease Risk

...e that hypertension in pregnancy induces long-term metabolic and vascular abnormalities, which may lead to an increase in overall CVD risk later in life.' High blood pressure during pregnancy is an under-recognized risk factor for CVD, the researchers believe. 'When assessing a woman's overall risk profile f...

New Guideline for the Diagnostic Assessment of Children with Continuous Seizures

...ns should also consider infectious, toxicology and metabolic studies in children with status epilepticus when there are clinical indicators for concern or when the initial evaluation doesn’t reveal the cause of the continuous seizures. Neuroimaging may also be considered, after the child with status epilepticu...

Soy Protein Study Generates New Findings

... of results// pertaining to cholesterol reduction, metabolic syndrome, and recruitment for clinical trials. T...ed on their evaluations of women in the study with metabolic syndrome (MS) a clustering of at least three CVD risk factors: high blood pressure, high triglycerid...

'Origin Of Sex' Can Be Revealed By Sperm Proteome

...anogaster sperm proteome, including mitochondrial, metabolic and cytoskeletal proteins. 'Their work has great relevance to current debate on the evolutionary underpinnings of sperm characteristics, and may have application to mammalian sperm function. The Drosophila sperm proteins show substantial homology w...

An Alarming Increase in Diabetic Cases in youth in Asia

Diabetes is a metabolic disorder which leads to various other problems like hypertension, heart diseases, renal disoders to name a few. // Type 2 diabetes is a disease caused largely due to obesity and lack of exercise. According to researchers in South Korea, there has b...

British scientists create artificial stomach

...ally help treat diabetes. Stephen Bloom, head of metabolic medicine at Imperial College in London, agreed the model could be useful - but warned that it might have limitations. He said: "The stomach is an extraordinarily complex organ, so you cannot create a model that will undertake all of these functions...

Worldwide Diabetes Figures Alarmingly High

...ls go past a certain limit. Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disorder which affects the body's insulin sensitivity or ability to produce insulin . It can only be managed, not cured. Colin Sindall, short-term professional in non-communicable diseases of the World Health Organization, said: "The message is ve...

Indian radiologist spearheads cure for osteoarthritis sans surgery

...tly being built-up and broken down by a variety of metabolic and physical influences. The major stimulus for bone and cartilage formation is a piezoelectric signal generated when these structures are subjected to tension or compression. "Younger people also fall prey to osteoarthritis because of sedentary li...

Drug Prescribed for Migraines and Seizures Increases Risk of Kidney Stones

...term basis, or for about one year, caused systemic metabolic acidosis – a buildup of excessive acid in the blood – as a result of the inability of the kidney to excrete acid. Topiramate use also increased the urine pH and lowered urine citrate, an important inhibitor of kidney-stone formation. “These changes...

Obesity in Delhi school children on the rise

...a, director and head, department of diabetes// and metabolic diseases, Fortis Hospital and WHO expert in childhood obesity and his team conducted the study. Their findings revealed a drastic increase in the percentage of childhood obesity. It is 28% in 2006 while it was 16-18% in 2004. Students from governme...

Diabetes II May Be Controlled By Sanofi's New Obesity Pill

...lt to treat. Accomplia with its cardiovascular and metabolic effect could prove to be very useful , felt Scheen. It is generally well tolerated , the side effects being nausea, vomiting and anxiety. The drug has a potential sales of over $3 billion worldwide and Sanofi considers it as its most promising new d...

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome More Prevalent in Overweight Women

...egree of obesity or the presence or absence of the metabolic syndrome and related disorders,” the authors continue. “We conclude that physicians treating overweight and obese patients should be aware of the high prevalence of polycystic ovary syndrome among these women and that screening for polycystic ovary s...

Cinnamon extract in reduction of risk of metabolic syndrome

...daily basis helps in reduction of stress linked to metabolic syndrome, a condition associated// with increased risk of type-2 diabetes and heart disease. Metabolic syndrome causes central obesity, hypertension, and unstable glucose and insulin metabolism and affects approximately 32% of the Americans. The ...

Widely Prescribed Diabetes Drug Falls Short of Promise, Says New Review

...d not be postulated on the basis of improvement of metabolic parameters like HbA1c reduction alone but should refer to patient-oriented outcomes such as fewer diabetic complications or better health-related quality of life." Source-Newsise SRM...

Longer-Lived Rodents Have Lower Levels of Thyroid Hormone

...uthor. The thyroid releases hormones that regulate metabolic rate. “Thyroid hormones are key regulators of me...nstein, City College of New York. Thyroid key to metabolic rate The thyroid gland produces thyroxine (T4) which converts to triiodothyronine (T3) in the prese...

Levels of Thyroid Hormone Forecasts Life Span

...d levels and life-span, suggesting that higher the metabolic rate, shorter is the life-span//. Thyroid hormone in the body regulates the metabolic rate. The study engaged in a comparative study of the levels of thyroid hormones in rodents that be...

Hybrid Nanoparticles for Multimodal Medical Imaging

...m medical images, ranging from tissue structure to metabolic processes to molecular markers," said Paras Prasad, Ph.D., executive director of the Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics and SUNY Distinguished Professor of Chemistry. "We are aiming to provide them with such data by developing nanopar...

New Study Suggests Perchlorate Effects on Thyroid Function of U.S. Women

.... Prolonged reduction in thyroid hormone can cause metabolic problems in adults and abnormal neurodevelopment during gestation and infancy. The researchers examined 2,299 men and women, aged 12 and older, who participated in the CDC’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) during 2001–2002...

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