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Weight Of Child A Predictor Of Heart Disease Later In Life

...rch shows women who smoked during pregnancy had an offspring with higher blood pressure than women who did not smoke. Researchers say they also found that the mother’s age, weight and height affected the child’s blood pressure. Thus researchers say they believe that quitting smoking during pregnancy could hav...

Alcoholism Influenced By Both Genetics & Family Environment

...antly more likely to exhibit alcoholism than those offspring of nonalcoholic fathers. Researchers also state that the occurrence of alcohol use is at its highest during the adolescent to young-adult year, so the minors interviewed may not have passed through this high-risk period. However with the passing of ...

Key to Long Life

...her life expectancies than men. In looking at the offspring of long-living individuals, the researchers found LDL and HDL particle sizes are significant predictors of having longevity, even after taking into account absolute level of lipids, lipoproteins and body mass index. They also say LDL particle size ma...

HDL - Key to Longevity

...her life expectancies than men. In looking at the offspring of long-living individuals, the researchers found LDL and HDL particle sizes are significant predictors of having longevity, even after taking into account absolute level of lipids, lipoproteins and body mass index. They also say LDL particle size ma...

Dad's Age Affects Baby

...older. Researchers found the same link whether the offspring had a family history of schizophrenia or not. These findings lend support to the theory that de novo mutations, possibly linked to the X chromosome and associated with increased parental age, may be responsible for some cases of schizophrenia. The X...

Myostatin gene could hold the key to treatment for DMD

...later bred with mice with DMD. They found that the offspring had significantly larger, stronger muscles than diseased mice with an intact myostatin gene and the offspring also had less fibrosis (the replacement of muscle by fat and connective tissue). Another similar st...

Role of wives of Alcoholics

...g causes of the disease and to be able to help the offspring of these men. The earlier phase of the study uncovered that half of male alcoholics have alcohol-dependent fathers and grew up with perceived low levels of nurturing. Based on the findings of this research, Schuckit says the next step is to look at t...

Suicide might be inherited

.... Francis Medical Center in Pittsburgh studied the offspring of two groups: people with mood disorders who had ...y-two percent of the suicidal behavior seen in the offspring occurred in the context of a mood disorder, and suicide was also linked to increased impulsive aggre...

Link between birth weight and Insulin Resistance

...dy also shows women with the lightest and heaviest offspring had the highest risk of developing diabetes.// More than 4,100 women ages between 62 and 75 years participated in the study. Researchers found, as birth weight increased every 2.2 lbs, women had a 12% risk of being among those with the highest insul...

Sniff to compatibility

...lls may be a safe gamble for a woman to ensure her offspring gets a tried and tested immune system....

Choose your mate

...ide variety of age groups. The scientists measured offspring in terms of their viability, their wing size, asym...d to purport females. The main difference between offspring was that those whose mothers had been able to pick their mate were more likely to live longer. Dr Pr...

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