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Risk of Diabetes is Reduced by Intake of Grain Fiber and Magnesium

... "In conclusion, the evidence from our study and previous studies, summarized by means of meta-analysis, strongly supports that higher cereal fiber and magnesium intake may decrease diabetes risk," the authors conclude. "Whole-grain foods are therefore important in diabetes prevention."...

Higher Intake of Fish and Vitamin D Reduces the Risk of Age-related Macular Disease

...s docosahexaenoic acid," or DHA, a fatty acid that previous evidence suggests affects the retina, the authors write. "Higher fish consumption, both total and broiled/baked, was also inversely associated with neovascular AMD." Eating more than two medium (4-ounce) servings of fish per week or more than one med...

Women With Heart Disease and Diabetes Less Likely to Receive Proper Care: Study

... to a RAND Corporation study issued today. While previous research has shown that women less frequently receive expensive medical care such as angioplasty for heart disease, few studies have evaluated gender disparities in managed care settings. All the patients in the RAND Health study had either private...

Glucosamine-like Supplement Inhibits Multiple Sclerosis, Type 1 Diabetes

...ers showing the potential of GlcNAc in humans. One previous clinical study reported that 8 of 12 children with treatment-resistant autoimmune inflammatory bowel disease improved significantly following two years of treatment with GlcNAc. No significant adverse side effects were noted. Together, these findin...

History of Migraines Linked to Increased Risk of Retinopathy

...are similar. Our findings are also consistent with previous studies linking migraine and retinopathy with the occurrence of stroke," added the author....

More Than Four Percent of US Adults Have Some Form of Bipolar Disorder

...had bipolar disorder II in their lifetimes; in the previous 12 months, 0.6 percent had bipolar disorder I, 0.8...symptoms of bipolar disorder. However, over the previous 12 months, only 25 percent of those with bipolar disorder I, 15.4 percent with bipolar disorder II a...

New Substance Use Prevention Program Being Developed

... for research, graduate studies and outreach. In previous studies conducted by the URI Cancer Prevention Research Center, computer-based technology for health behavior research has been demonstrated to be effective with high school students. The expert system approach provides an opportunity for users to re...

Tony Abbott Confident Of Australias Vote For Performance Not Promise

... conscious decision to de-emphasize health. "The previous two shadows both actually went on to become deputy leader of the Labor party. Jenny Macklin and Julia Gillard, Abbott was quoted. But I don't think that's likely to happen with the current shadow." He braced his statements noting that Ms Roxon did ...

Pregnancy Becomes Safe for Some Women Who Take Low-dose of Aspirin Daily

...n, such as those who suffered pre-eclampsia during previous pregnancies. Pre-eclampsia is characterized by an increase in blood pressure and excessive amounts of protein in the mother's urine, and can prove fatal to mother and baby. Askie believes anti-clotting drugs protect pregnant women by reducing in...

Research Favors Aspirin In Prevention Of Pre-Eclampsia

...n with chronic hypertension and pre-eclampsia in a previous pregnancy. In these settings, aspirin is justified...ns, pre-pregnancy diabetes or pre-eclampsia in one previous pregnancy, whether benefits outweigh theoretical long term risks is more difficult to judge." The ...

NIH Study Normal Brain Development in Children Across US

...norms for their demographic. This suggests that in previous studies, general health disparities might have inf...ifferences were not as sharp as those described in previous reports. In fact, there were no sex differences in verbal fluency. There were also no differences in...

Workplace Stress Leads to Rising Suicide Rate in Japan

...cides hit a record 65 in 2006, compared to 42 the previous year, Health Ministry official Junichiro Kurashige said. The number of workers who received compensation for work-induced mental illness was 205, also a record and up 61 percent from a year earlier, he said. The number of applications for compensat...

Library Of Brains To Aid Study of Brain Development In Children

...he children in the new study outperformed those in previous research on a variety of tests that measured IQ, m...h and poor families was smaller than that found by previous research, a difference Waber attributed to the NIH study's rigorous screening procedure. By doing ...

Adolescents Brains Fully Develop Between 10-12 Years

...ion, with gender effects less rampant than in some previous studies. Boys performed better on perceptual analysis, and girls performed better on processing speed and motor dexterity. Girls also showed a slight advantage on verbal learning, but by adolescence, this advantage had disappeared. Income predicted...

Research Suggests Breast Cancer Fatigue Begins Before Chemo

...mptom Management - confirms what was reported in a previous smaller study funded by the National Institutes of Health. We found women are not going into chemotherapy in the best possible shape, said Ann Berger, Ph.D., Niedfelt Professor of Nursing, UNMC College of Nursing, who has conducted several studies ...

DNA-damage Test Could Aid Drug Development

...much cheaper assay thats at least as predictive as previous assays,' emphasizes Griffith, 'and drug developers can afford to use it a lot earlier in the drug development process.' It also could help to avoid issues with animal testing. 'The European Union is trying to minimize animal testing,' Shuga points ou...

Genetic Marker Linked to Aggressive Prostate Cancer

...percent of men of European descent, according to a previous study involving Northwestern. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among American men, causing more than 40,000 deaths annually. African-American men have a higher incidence of the disease and get it at a younger age than white men. These fi...

Sleep Apnea Patients Have Greatly Increased Risk of Severe Car Crashes

...hes in the group without sleep apnea. While many previous studies have shown that sleep apnea patients are at increased risk of car crashes, this study is the first to look at the severity of those crashes. We were surprised not only about how many of the sleep apnea patients crashes involved personal injur...

Sleep Apnea Increases Risk of Heart Attack or Death by 30 Percent

...g heart disease or dying, the study found. While previous studies have shown an association between sleep apnea and heart disease, ours is a large study that allowed us to not only follow patients for five years and look at the association between sleep apnea and the combined outcome of heart attack and dea...

Avandia Could Increase Risk of Heart Attack, New Study

...to 414m. It strongly repudiates the study, but a previous study by the GSK itself had showed about a 30% increase in heart risk to patients taking Avandia. The company points out though that a study of 33,000 patients in a managed-care database showed no increased heart risk in patients taking Avandia. B...

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