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Obesity may cause frailties in elderly women

... is also associated with diabetes, heart failures, peripheral vascular occlusive disease and osteoarthritis. Reference: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, July 2005...

New insight for dopamine transporter

...the hypothalamus and some areas of the central and peripheral nervous system. Dopamine and its agonists play an important role in hormonal, cardiovascular, renal and central nervous system regulations. The dopamine transporter mediates the acceptance of dopamine into neurons and is often the target of various d...

Obese children may have abnormalities of lipoproteins

...increased risk of coronary heart diseases, stroke, peripheral vascular diseases and diabetes type 2. In a current study, children who are overweight and obese have been shown to have abnormalities of the lipoproteins. Low levels of HDL are found in 46% of the white obese children and 29% of the black obese chi...

Air travel reduces oxygen level in the blood

...day. The researchers have taken the measurement of peripheral oxygen saturation and pulse rate of 84 passengers, aged from 1 to 78 yrs. This was measured by pulse oximetry at ground level and at higher altitude during a flight. The results show that there exists reduction in oxygen saturation in all passengers...

New Drug Shows Significant Improvement In HIV-related Heart Condition

...east one adverse side effect of the drug including peripheral edema, headache, abnormal liver function, muscle cramps, fluid retention, and vomiting....

Better Control Of Sugar Levels

...ase, including coronary heart disease, stroke, and peripheral artery disease. Also, diabetics are twice as likely to die from these types of disorders than non-diabetics. According to researchers, in type II diabetics, it is estimated that for every 1-percent rise in glycated hemoglobin levels, there is an 18-...

Heart Drug Also Effective In Preventing Specific Causes Of Death

...as ischemic heart disease, nondebilitating stroke, peripheral arterial disease, or diabetes. Originally, subjects were randomly assigned to take the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor ramipril (Altace), vitamin E, or a placebo to see if either the ACE-inhibitor or vitamin E would prevent heart attacks or ...

Evaluating The Risk Factors Of Osteoporosis

... women who had a previous fracture; a T-score at a peripheral site, such as the forearm, of -1.8 or less; self-rated poor health status and poor mobility. The classification system developed by the researchers correctly identified 74 percent of women who suffered from a future fracture. Researchers say they ho...

Evening,the best time to take Cholesterol Drug

... prevention of coronary heart disease, stroke , or peripheral vascular disease.Patients were randomized to take the drug in the mornings or in the evenings. Fifty-seven patients completed the trial. Most manufacturers of statins recommend the drugs be taken at night, but doubt has been cast on whether that is t...

Older women's heart health depends on location of fat

...of lean women, women with low central fat and high peripheral fat, women with high central fat and low peripheral fat, and obese women with high levels of both kinds of fat. Central fat is carried around the abdome...

Exercise helps people with cramping leg pain

...patients who have cramping leg pain symptomatic of peripheral arterial disease(PAD) may benefit from walking a little// while longer, even as the pain persists. Kerry J. Stewart, Johns Hopkins University, Director of Clinical Exercise Physiology said that patients with PAD often experience pain during exercise...

Gene connected to Multi-System disorder discovered

...mber of inherited conditions involving deafness or peripheral neuropathy because of their widespread presence in cells during critical developmental periods. Researchers, during the course of this study, have also helped identify a faulty connexin gene as the cause of a skin and deafness disorder known as "KIDS...

Exercise helps with leg cramps

...e, even though painful, is the best way forward in peripheral arterial disease. Around five per cent of those aged 55// or over will be affected by peripheral arterial disease (PAD), a condition where fatty build up, or plaque, in the leg arteries leads to pa...

Gene variant foretells diabetic neuropathy

...iant which makes people more likely to suffer from peripheral neuropathy if they have diabetes. The gene varia...eople with diabetes were found to have more severe peripheral neuropathy, if they had the APOE4 variant, compared to those with other variants of APOE. It was as ...

Injection supports Heart Devices

...ion, which then might cause device malfunction and peripheral thromboembolism. He added , however, that this serious complication can be treated dynamically and an exchange of the device would not be essential....

Support for patients with Leg Pain

...oves circulation and reduces pain in patients with peripheral artery disease. Peripheral artery disease is a narrowing of the arteries that supply the legs with blood.// It affects an estimated 5 million to 10 million people in the United States alone. While the disease can have no symptoms, one of the major si...

Bone marrow transplants for limbs

... transplanted into limbs with poor circulation. In peripheral arterial disease, circulation in the legs is sever...nsplantation is a safe and effective treatment for peripheral arterial disease....

Cholesterol lowering drugs increase neuropathy risk

...rugs called 'statins' could elevate the risk of peripheral neuropathy. Previous research has shown the benefi...veal that the drugs might// increase their risk of peripheral neuropathy, a condition marked by weakness, numbness and pain in the hands and feet. The research t...

Plavix Gets FDA Okay for New Indication

...for patients with a recent heart attack, stroke or peripheral artery disease. It is marketed worldwide by Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Synthelabo. Plavix reduces the "stickiness" of platelets, a type of cell that plays a key role in blood clot formation. It is usually given in addition to aspirin. To get FD...

Wake-up call for peripheral artery disease

...osed and treated in many cases, say US doctors. In peripheral artery disease (PAD), the arteries in the legs and arms become blocked with the same kind of fatty deposits - plaque - which cause coronary artery disease. The best way of treating it is very simple - keep walking. While the disease makes walking pai...

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