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Link Between Alcohol Consumption And Cardiovascular Disease

... predictors of heart attacks and other poor health outcomes in middle-aged and older adults.The American Heart Association cautions individuals who do not currently consume alcohol to avoid starting to drink alcohol. Thus researchers say their results suggest there may be a biological explanation for the li...

New Treatment To Raise Good Cholesterol

... good cholesterol. Statins have helped improve the outcomes of patients at risk for heart disease. They are commonly used to lower low-density lipoprotein (LDL) or bad cholesterol. One potential therapeutic target is a low level of good cholesterol. In fact, a low level of good cholesterol is the most commo...

A Drug Used To Treat Heat Problems May Benefit Stroke Patients

...he drug. For the study, researchers evaluated the outcomes of 167 stroke patients. Thirty had been treated with statins and 137 had not. The independence and functional level was about the same for all patients at the time of their stroke. Three months after having a stroke, the patients on the statins had ...

A Loving Relationship Found To Improve Heart Health

...n was not found to be associated with heart attack outcomes and deaths, the high prevalence of depression among the study participants, one in four, points to the importance of it as a risk factor for heart attacks. The research involved 600 patients, average age 60. They were screened three to four days aft...

Laproscopic Surgery As Effective As Open Surgery

...ducted a trial comparing the two surgeries and the outcomes of the patients. The team enforced qualification requirements for the 66 surgeons who were part of the study. The patients were randomly assigned to one procedure or the other and then followed for eight years. The study reports the cancer returned ...

The Use Of Steroids for Dizziness Questioned

...cause. In fact, the steroid-alone group had better outcomes than the steroid-antiviral combination group. Researchers conclude saying that methylprednisolone alone significantly improved the extent of recovery of patients with vestibular neuritis....

Multi-Drug Therapy Found To Be More Effective in Lowering B.P

...vidual drugs. The study found patients had similar outcomes when they took beta-blocker therapy or a calcium antagonist-based therapy. The research included 22,576 hypertensive patients with coronary artery disease. The study was conducted over five years at 862 sites in 14 countries. The blood pressure goal...

Predicting The Risk Of A Heart Attack

... that PIGF blood levels are valuable predictors of outcomes in patients with known or suspected ACS. They also...cal biomarker of vascular inflammation and adverse outcomes in patients with ACS.” Thus Measuring PIGF levels may extend the predictive and prognostic informa...

Water Exercise Found to be Effective for Patients with Osteoarthritis

...otherapy interventions produce positive functional outcomes for patients with osteoarthritis. However, it seems that hydrotherapy may be more suitable for aerobic based exercise programs. Hydrotherapy provides the optimal environment for patients with osteoarthritis to exercise aerobically, and at higher inte...

Elevated Blood Sugar Levels A Risk Factor Of Heart Disease

...mprovements in glycemic control may improve health outcomes in people who do not have diabetes....

Hydrotherapy Could Be Effective For Osteoarthritis

...otherapy interventions produce positive functional outcomes for patients with osteoarthritis....

Activity Found To Improve Sleep In The Elderly

...res of sleep quality in the participants. Positive outcomes were noted for both the morning and evening sessions, although participants scored higher on more measures after the evening sessions. It was observed that many of the health changes associated with aging, including the decline in sleep and cogniti...

Diabetes A Common Problem In The Elderly

...evious studies have shown hyperglycemia can worsen outcomes for patients. Researchers investigated more than 1,800 consecutive patients admitted to the hospital for various causes.Overall, mortality rates rose as average glucose levels rose, with the lowest rate of death (9.6 percent) seen for those with glu...

The Risks Of Fast Food Consumption

...t food consumption can be linked to adverse health outcomes . Thus in view of the high and increasing rates of fast food consumption, researchers suggest further study into the effects of this dietary pattern on public health ....

Body Weight Found To Influence PSA Levels

...h lower BMIs. Other studies have also shown poorer outcomes for obese men diagnosed with prostate cancer. Hence researchers believe their present study suggests one reason why obese men with the disease fare worse than their thinner counterparts the reason being that low PSA levels mean they are diagnosed at...

The Addition Of Radiation Therapy Found To Improve Survival In Breast Cancer Patients

...nd radical mastectomy // leads to better survival outcomes among women with high-risk breast cancer with few long term side effects. Ina study done between 1979 and 1986, 318 patients were randomly assigned to receive radiation therapy or no radiation at all. In a 20-year follow-up, researchers found the c...

Aerobic Exercise Beneficial In Treating Depression

...ecline in depressive symptoms, which is similar to outcomes seen for people treated with antidepressants or cognitive therapy. Twelve percent of the group had a complete remission of symptoms. The other groups also saw a decline in depressive symptoms, but they were not considered statistically significant. ...

Steroids Effective For Treating Carpel Tunnel Syndrome

...eroid injections. Results showed no difference in outcomes between the groups over the long term, and in the short term, people who received the injections actually reported better relief of symptoms....

The Effectiveness Of The Flu Vaccine For Kids Questioned

...say that further study should be done to study the outcomes of vaccinating children for the flu before making it a health policy ....

The Benefits of Alcohol Consumption Questioned

... predictors of heart attacks and other poor health outcomes in middle-aged and older adults.The American Heart Association cautions individuals who do not currently consume alcohol to avoid starting to drink alcohol. In conclusion researchers say their results suggest there may be a biological explanation f...

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