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Child Brain Likely To Be Harmed By Stress

...r question is whether the smaller hippocampus is a predictor of PTSD or a consequence Professor Joe Herbert, pr...r question is whether the smaller hippocampus is a predictor of PTSD or a consequence." He said a study in war veterans with PTSD suggested a smaller hippocamp...

People With Genetic Predictors of Colorectal Cancer are Not Getting Screened

...iagnosed with a condition that is a strong genetic predictor of colorectal cancer, many patients do not seek out genetic counseling or cancer screening. //According to a recent study in The American Journal of Gastroenterology, counseling and screening rates could be improved if physicians provided stronger en...

Researchers Find Predictor of Mortality in Cardiac Patients

...lso known as CCL5, were shown to be an independent predictor of cardiac mortality. RANTES is a chemokine produced by a variety of cell types including blood platelets that has been implicated in atherosclerosis. Chemokines are naturally occuring human proteins that signal white blood cells to move in a speci...

Pulse Pressure Identified as Important Risk Factor for Atrial Fibrillation

...astolic blood pressure) appears to be an important predictor of the risk// for new onset atrial fibrillation, according to a study. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common chronic arrhythmia in adults and is associated with increased risk for death and stroke. An estimated 2.3 million adults in the Unite...

High BP – More Common in Sedentary Teen

...dulthood, and in addition, adolescent obesity is a predictor or obesity and cardiovascular risk factors in young adulthood and beyond." The researchers also found that higher BMI is associated with lower diastolic blood pressure, contrary to associations found previously in studies of adults. The implication...

Workplace Pressures, Hazards Raise Risk of Job Injuries in Youths

...er. Minority status appeared to be a significant predictor of increased injury risk, after taking work setting and work hours into account. In one study, the prevalence of work injury among Hispanic, black and other minorities was 67 percent higher than among young white workers. In another, the prevalence o...

New Tool Improves Prediction of Stroke Risk

.... The new score, ABCD-squared, was a more accurate predictor of risk of stroke than either of the two previous scores, creating a single standard for use in clinical care and public education. "Right now, there is no consensus as to who gets admitted to the hospital or has other medical intervention after a...

Downsizing Affects All Workers

...lso shown organizational downsizing to be a strong predictor of stress-related physical health outcomes, including cardiovascular mortality,' he said. A group of nearly 27,000 municipal workers in Finland between 1994 and 2000 were studied. Kivimaki's team observed data on the use of psychotropic drugs, incl...

Aspirin Saves Life Even in Cancer Patients

...ysis, we have found that the single most important predictor of survival in these patients is whether or not they received aspirin." Durand says more research is needed to better understand this contraindication. According to the World Health Organization there are approximately 10 million cancer patients wo...

Lost That Lovin' Feeling? Don't Blame the Pill

...ct on sexuality. Furthermore, he found no reliable predictor of a negative effect in those who experienced such side effects. ‘Studies showed that it was a problem for a small number of women using birth control pills to experience decreased libido, but it didn’t happen predictably in any specific sub-popula...

Skipping Breakfast and Fast Food Consumption - Leads to Weight Gain

...ite that since adolescent obesity is a significant predictor of overweight status in adulthood and poses a risk for adult morbidity and mortality, it is important to identify dietary behaviors early on that are associated with unhealthy weight gain in order to create effective interventions. "This study hig...

Children’s Immunization Status Worsens as Mothers’ Income, Education Rie

...ndicates that higher income and education is not a predictor of being up-to-date,” said Patrick Rivers, Ph.D., study co-author and associate professor at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. The study appears in the February issue of the American Journal of Public Health. Parents of 11,860 children ag...

Risk Factors That Cause NODM After A Liver Transplant

...le risk factor of NODM and IFG emerged as a strong predictor of the condition in the current study, pre-transplantation glucose screening may be important in helping to predict NODM. "Our study suggests that it may eventually be possible to derive a composite risk factor equation for the development of NODM ...

Most Hospital Performance Measures for Heart Failure Not Linked to Improved Patient Outcomes

...performance measures was a significant independent predictor of death in the first 60 to 90 days after hospital discharge. Prescription of a beta-blocker at the time of hospital discharge, currently not a heart failure performance measure, was highly predictive of improved postdischarge survival (52 percent re...

Cough and Phlegm Cause Fourfold Increase in COPD Incidence

...s was an independent and statistically significant predictor of COPD. Of the 5,002 individuals in the study cohort, 123 were diagnosed with COPD. All participants had normal lung function at baseline. COPD is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, killing 122,283 Americans in 2003. It resul...

Multivitamins Can Reduce Risk Of Low Birth Weight

..., or a weight of less than 2,500 grams, is a major predictor of death in infancy, according to background information in the article. It also increases the risk that the child will grow up to develop coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke or high blood pressure. In countries low on resources, a mother...

Pot Belly Is A Better Risk Predictor Of Heart Attack Than BMI

...a beanpole. This new study suggests that the key predictor of risk is the relationship of waist size to the hips, an elevated waist-to-hip ratio predicts an increased risk of heart attack. The study implies that even people who would otherwise be considered safe going by their body-mass index, are found to b...

Biomarkers Ability to Predict Heart Disease and Stroke is Limited

...ary albumin content. BNP appeared to be a stronger predictor of risk than C-reactive protein, possibly the best-known cardiovascular biomarker. However, even though those with high multimarker scores had twice the risk of a cardiovascular event as those with low scores, the information provided by the biomarke...

Homeless Youths Need Health Insurance

... treated in an outpatient setting. The most common predictor of outpatient service use was whether the youth had health insurance, which those aged 18 and older were likelier to have compared with their younger peers. IMPACT: Youth with a history of homelessness are a vulnerable population at high risk for ...

HIV Patients Have Increased Risk of Pneumonia, Death Following Surgery

...that a higher HIV viral load seems to be a greater predictor of surgically related complications than either the CD4 cell count or the presence or absence of HAART use,” the authors write. “Patients with HIV are living longer and regaining a substantial amount of immune function,” they conclude. “Many HIV-in...

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