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The Link Between Obesity And Breast Cancer

...ween obese women and the other groups. Because the prevalence of obesity increases with age, as does the risk of breast cancer, however they say that interventions that enhance weight control may have a substantial effect on breast cancer outcome....

Eliminating Eye Infection With Antibiotics

...erwhelmingly effective. By the two year follow-up, prevalence of trachoma in the community decreased to less tha... an accurate and inexpensive test to determine the prevalence of trachoma in any given community so antibiotics can be directed to the places most in need....

Eliminating Eye Infection With Antibiotics

...erwhelmingly effective. By the two year follow-up, prevalence of trachoma in the community decreased to less tha... an accurate and inexpensive test to determine the prevalence of trachoma in any given community so antibiotics can be directed to the places most in need....

WHO hopes to wipe away Iodine deficiency diseases by 2005

...piles data on urinary iodine concentration and the prevalence of goitre (enlarged thyroid gland) and monitors the magnitude, severity and distribution of iodine deficiency worldwide. The number of countries where iodine deficiency is a public health problem was reduced to 54 in 2003, from 110 in 1993, showing t...

The Link Between Migraines And Chest Pain

...us researchers say their findings suggest a higher prevalence of chest pain and not coronary disease, among those with migraines or other severe headaches, however they also emphasize their study results do not imply people with migraines that have chest pain to ignore it, as chest pain is an important symptom ...

Drug Keeps The Weight Off

...ved HDL (good) cholesterol, triglycerides, and the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in overweight/obese patients. The drug also exhibited similar results at the end of two years study and patients lost and kept off an average of 8.5 kilograms, or about 19 pounds. That translates to a 5-percent to 10-percent ...

Risk for Diabetes type II may be in the genes

...had the same gene. For the subjects in Dallas, the prevalence of the gene in the non-diabetic group was 33% as against 45% of the diabetic group. The researchers are of the opinion that still more studies are required to establish the relationship between the physical characteristics or phenotype and the gene...

Does overweight cause behavioral problems?

...no association was found in 14 year old males. The prevalence of behavioural problems increased corresponding to an increase in body mass index in females at age 14. The study reported that in prospective analyses, there was no association between being overweight at age 5 and behavioural problems at age 14 i...

Over Six Million HIV Infected People In South Africa- Finds A Survey

...le were infected with HIV by 2004.// This puts the prevalence of AIDS in the country at a high of 14 percent. So... suggest this is not happening. In fact, the prevalence rates of HIV measured among pregnant women rose in all age groups from 2003 to 2004. According...

Lung Cancer Deaths Declining In Men But Not Women In European Countries

...modification may have contributed to the declining prevalence in young men. In Poland, for example, tar yields fell by more than half between 1984 and 1999, and other changes to cigarettes have been made. Medindia Editors Note: It is not unusual to see more women smoking then men in bars and discos in Europe. ...

Wearing High Heels May Be Dangerous To Health

...ern Europe. A remarkable increase in schizophrenia prevalence followed the same pattern." Flensmark says he has...s of schizophrenia appear and then the increase in prevalence of schizophrenia follows the increase in use of heeled shoes. "I have," he writes, "not been able t...

Virtual Colonoscopy May Be Better Than Real-time Colonoscopy

... and pelvic area," Dr. Yee said. To evaluate the prevalence of extra-colonic findings at virtual colonoscopy and to determine the cost of follow-up testing, Dr. Yee and colleagues performed CTC on 500 men, including 194 (39 percent) considered average risk and 306 (61 percent) at high risk for colon cancer. T...

Elderly Women Remain At Risk From Hypertension

... thiazide diuretic. The researchers observed high prevalence of use of more expensive drugs, such as ACE inhibitors and other drugs, such as alpha-blockers, although data supporting their effectiveness in older hypertensive are limited. Control of blood pressure is more difficult to achieve when starting at a...

Elderly Women Remain At Risk From Hypertension

... thiazide diuretic. The researchers observed high prevalence of use of more expensive drugs, such as ACE inhibitors and other drugs, such as alpha-blockers, although data supporting their effectiveness in older hypertensive are limited. Control of blood pressure is more difficult to achieve when starting at a...

Molecular markers for early diagnosis of breast and ovarian cancer

...irm that the world over, for all cancers combined, prevalence in women is higher than in men. For more Information on Women and Cancer: http://www.medindia.net/Patients/ PatientInfo/WomenAndCancer.asp...

HIV Infection Higher In Drug Trafficking Countries

...he poorest country of the former Soviet Union. HIV prevalence among its drug users was 12% in 2004, up from 4% in 2001. HIV prevalence among Iran’s two to four million drug users is 15%. Eastern Europe and Central Asia are home to 1.4 ...

Healthy At 50: Possible?

... someone suffering from diabetes. This sums up the prevalence of diabetes. It is, apart from being one of the most prevalent diseases in the world, also a disease that opens up a Pandora's box of many complications. <a href="#patients/patientinfo/diabetes_about.htm">http://medindia/newmedindia/patients...

"Defeat AIDS Pledge" by Andhra CM

...cted with HIV/AIDS. Andhra Pradesh has the highest prevalence of HIV cases in the country with more than 400,000...National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), the HIV prevalence rate is an alarmingly 2.25 percent among antenatal cases and 16.40 percent among those attending sex...

Size Of The Waist In Children Linked To Diabetes

...Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. The prevalence of childhood obesity has doubled in the past two decades, accompanied by an epidemic of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and potentially devastating cardiovascular disease (CVD) consequences, according to background information in the article. Some st...

Testicular cancer identified

...mmon cancer in men at the age of 40 and is of high prevalence in India.Dr Kathy Tucker of the Prince of Wales Hospital and Dr Jenny Donald of Macquarie University in Sydney, have located a gene which increases men's risk of testicular cancer and state that it is inherited from their mothers. The newly located ...

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