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Understanding Restless Legs Syndrome

... conducted a population-based study to look at the prevalence and factors related to restless legs syndrome. T... quality of life. Researchers report the overall prevalence of restless legs syndrome was 10.6 percent. They found the disease prevalence increased with age and...

Drugs Taken During Pregnancy Found To Affect Unborn Babies

...anges from 10 percent to 25 percent, with the peak prevalence occurring during // the childbearing years. Some reports suggest as many as 14 percent of pregnant women suffer from depression and up to 35 percent of women use antidepressants during pregnancy. Studies involving infants exposed to SSRIs in the womb...

Reducing The Risk Of Fractures After a Heart Transplant

...ases their risk for fractures. Studies suggest the prevalence of fractures among this group ranges from 22 percent to 44 percent. Preventing bone loss is a primary goal of treatment, but which drugs work best in this situation is unclear. In a study done researchers assigned 149 transplant patients to receive...

Childhood Weight Gain Found To Increase The Risk of Diabetes

...t one risk factor for cardiovascular disease. The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is increasing rapidly in developing countries such as India. Researchers say the epidemic of type 2 diabetes in developing countries has been attributed to what is called nutritional transition. Nutritional transition is the increa...

Understanding The Link Between Hormone Replacement and Respiratory Disease

...e risen more than 40 percent since 1982. Since the prevalence of asthma tends to change over time, with boys more likely to have the disease before puberty and girls more likely to have it after puberty, researchers speculated hormone replacement after menopause might put women at higher risk. COPD, which is ma...

Common Medication Errors in Children

...to pediatric intensive care units to determine the prevalence of medication errors. They defined an error as any preventable event that may cause or lead to patient harm. Researchers say 579 medical errors were reported during the course of the study. Nearly 70 percent of the medical errors occurred during the ...

A Common Cause Of Allergy That Goes Unnoticed

...viewed more than 5,500 households to determine the prevalence of self-reported seafood allergy in the United States. Allergy to some type of seafood was reported for 2.8 percent of adults and less than 1 percent of children younger than age 18.Multiple allergic reactions were reported by 53 percent of people wi...

A Rise In Eye Complications In Diabetics

... occurring only among persons with [diabetes], the prevalence of [diabetes] in the general population is high en...s pooled data from eight eye surveys and estimated prevalence rates for diabetes reported in the 1999 National Health Interview Study and the 2000 U.S. Census. An...

A Loving Relationship Found To Improve Heart Health

...ed 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 after having a heart attack and wer...

The Cause Of Visual Problems Different From Race To Race

...ly by race and ethnicity and they predict that the prevalence of visual disabilities will increase markedly during the next 20 years, owing largely to the aging of the U.S. population....

Effectiveness Of Prostate Cancer Test

.... Researchers conducted a study to determine //the prevalence of men with prostate cancer who had a PSA level of... diagnosed with prostate cancer results showed the prevalence of prostate cancer in men with the lowest PSA number was about 7 percent, while 27 percent of men wi...

Troubled Childhood found to affect your Liver

... adverse childhood experiences was observed.” The prevalence of liver disease was more than seven-times higher for people who were alcoholic or injection drug users. The risk for liver disease was also 1.6-times higher in those who reported risky sexual behavior. According to researchers, “Persons with a histo...

Overweight Kids At Risk Of Being Iron Deficient

...overweight youth ages 12 to 16 years. Overall, the prevalence of iron deficiency increased as body mass index increased from normal weight to overweight. Based on their findings, researchers suggest guidelines for iron deficiency screening may need modification to include children with elevated body mass index...

Solutions Being Sought For Prevention Of Rickets

...ctors also indicate immigrant groups have a higher prevalence of rickets. Researchers suggest pregnant women (living outside the tropics) in the second and third trimesters should receive a supplement of 400 IU to1000 IU daily and Exclusively breastfed children of Asian and black mothers living outside the tr...

The Success Rate Of Angioplasty In Female Patients Low

... women in the advanced-age category and the higher prevalence of comorbid conditions in women played key roles in explaining the higher 30-day mortality rate in women than in men....

Environment and Diet Found To Precipitate Asthma

...children from Hong Kong had a significantly higher prevalence of wheezing in the past year than those from the c...ers conclude saying that the differences in asthma prevalence are likely due to different environmental exposures since the study participants had the same geneti...

Preventing cavities in children

...ase the number of cavities and also help lower the prevalence of obesity. They urge pediatricians, pediatric nurse practitioners and dieticians to discuss these guidelines with parents....

Relief For Women Suffering From Fibromyalgia

...ale subgroup was small, reflecting the much higher prevalence of fibromyalgia in women and they say that the results of the study may not be generalizable to all men with fibromyalgia. In conclusion researchers say their results suggest that duloxetine improves pain and tenderness, the hallmark characteristic...

The Link Between Pregnancy and Restless Legs Syndrome

...he condition were older, had low iron and a higher prevalence of insomnia, and snored more than the unaffected g...at the seventh and eighth months of pregnancy. RLS prevalence dramatically decreased around the time of delivery....

The Link Between Pregnancy and Restless Legs Syndrome

...he condition were older, had low iron and a higher prevalence of insomnia, and snored more than the unaffected g...at the seventh and eighth months of pregnancy. RLS prevalence dramatically decreased around the time of delivery....

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