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Sleep Disorder,The Likely Cause Of Most Road Accidents

...ng who has sleep apnea. The study was done to help predict which commercial drivers are at risk of sleep apnea and could fall asleep at the wheel. Sleep apnea is a serious sleep disorder in which a person pauses in breathing during sleep for 10 seconds or longer and then resumes breathing. It results in exc...

Predicting The Risk Of A Heart Attack

A certain biomarker in the blood may predict the risk of heart attack or death for patients wit...blood levels of placental growth factor (PIGF) can predict risk for death or non-fatal heart attack in patients with acute chest pain. PIGF is a member of the ...

Identifying Those At Risk For Diabetes

...isk factors known as metabolic syndrome is able to predict type 2 diabetes independently of other risk factors. // Metabolic syndrome has been shown to lead to the development of cardiovascular and coronary heart disease. Metabolic syndrome includes looking at factors such as weight, cholesterol, glucose a...

Effective Diagnosis Of Spinal Cord Injuries

...hat trauma-induced spinal cord compression on MRIs predict a poorer neurological recovery. Surgery can relieve spinal cord compression. However, unless surgeons are fairly certain the procedure will benefit the patient, they are generally reluctant to operate because of the risks. Thus researchers say this ...

Growth Patterns In Childhood Could Predict Breast Cancer Later In Life

... study finds growth patterns in childhood can help predict which women will develop breast cancer later on.// Specifically, researchers link a high birth weight, reaching peak growth at an early age, being tall for one’s age at age 14, having a low body mass index (BMI) at age 14, and having a high growth r...

Reducing The Rate Of Amputations Among Diabetics

...ve changes in the retina may provide a good way to predict which diabetic patients are most at risk for amputation....

Predicting Severity Of Appendicitis With Computed Tomography

...cal tool called computed tomography can be used to predict the severity of acute appendicitis, // according t...tudy showed CT, which uses various measurements to predict the severity of acute appendicitis, gave results matching the actual condition of the appendix in ac...

A New Evaluation Tool That Could Predict Death Risk in Heart Patients

A new evaluation tool can predict the mortality risk in patients hospitalized with heart failure say researchers based on findings // of a recent study. According to researchers the new bedside tool is a first of its kind for the treatment of acute heart failure and offers a simple, ...

HIV Screening May Increase Patient Life Span

...onclusion after developing a mathematical model to predict the costs and benefits of HIV counseling, testing, and referral. Voluntary HIV screening every three to five years was found to be cost effective. Researchers also developed a computer model to estimate the health benefits and costs of performing vo...

Oral examination may not predict relationship between snoring and sleep disturbance

...t be used, either singularly or in conjunction, to predict patterns of snoring to diagnose OSAS. The researchers have suggested a nocturnal screening test to diagnose OSAS in patients. Links:. http://www.sleepdata.com/clin_consequence.htm http://archotol.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/131/2/95...

Testing Of Saliva May Predict Dental Caries

...lifornia School of Dentistry has devised a test to predict dental caries in children. This is a test of saliv...ut more about these sugar chains it is possible to predict proneness of an individual to dental caries. Earlier such a test is done in life, the greater will b...

Eye testing can reveal the condition of your heart

...ition of your heart.// Clinical testing of eye can predict the condition of the heart, kidneys or conditions like diabetes or stroke. In a study headed by Dr. John I. Loewenstein, a retina specialist at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, the relationship has been drawn between changing...

Understanding Gene Profiles Could Help Cure A Resistant Form Of Leukemia In Kids

...chemotherapy drugs. They identified 124 genes that predict resistance to the drugs based on their expression patterns and it was found that the expression of the genes correlated with the likelihood of relapse years after treatment. It was seen that children who had resistant patterns of gene expression ha...

Is caries in primary and permanent tooth related?

... studies have tried to find out if its possible to predict dental health of permanent teeth from the caries o... primary teeth can also be used as an indicator to predict dental health of the permanent teeth. Link: http://jdr.iadrjournals.org/cgi/content/...

Computer System To Predict Deep Vein Thrombosis

...developing a computer aided alert program that can predict the deep-vein thrombosis in patients. //There had not been much attempts made to prevent the disease before and the current innovation is one of the first of its kind. The researchers are of the opinion that such a prediction may be able to reduce th...

Heredity Can Decide Your Drinking Habits

...t the result of the study will lead to research to predict the addiction pattern of people to alcohol. Reference: The Pharmacogenomics Journal (2005)...

Test to help detect Alzheimer's disease early

...These scores were used with logistic regression to predict each person’s probability of impairment. The res...correspondence analysis scores could significantly predict early setting of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. The study is important as early detect...

Measuring Death Risk in COPD Patients

...st measuring // lung hyperinflation can be used to predict the risk of death in patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) . For the study researchers compared inspiratory capacity -- how much air is breathed in -- to total lung capacity in 689 COPD patients. Results showed 42 perc...

Risk of preeclampsia in pregnant mothers may be inherited

...ts hope that one single blood test will be able to predict the gene that gives a woman with the STOX1 genotype a fift percent chance of having preeclampsia. The study is published in the April issue of Nature Genetics....

Gene to identify risk of stroke in sickle cell anemia

...netics says that a predictive model may be used to predict the risk of stroke in sickle cell anemia.// Sickl...he study was the development of a model that could predict the genetic factors and other factors that lead to incidence of stroke in sickle cell anemia. The re...

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