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Chocolate Chip Cookies to Keep Cholesterol at Bay

...esterol levels but also enhance lipid sub fraction profile in an individual. This would substantially curtail the risk of cardiac disease. These cookies contain psyllium, (a seed used for medicinal purposes taken from the common fleawort, proven to be efficacious in lowering serum cholesterol), and plant ste...

New Sleep Medication not Effective for Treating Abuse or Cognitive Impairment

...ognitive performance measures, consistent with its profile as a sedative drug with abuse liability,” the authors write. When asked the next day about the drug they had taken the day before, 11 of the 14 participants (79 percent) classified the highest dose of ramelteon as a placebo, compared with two (14 per...

The interplay of genes, diet and heart disease

...s from omega-6 fatty acids displayed a blood lipid profile more prone to atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and heart disease, including higher triglyceride levels. Jose Ordovas, PhD, senior author of the study and director of the Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory at the USDA HNRCA, notes that "pr...

Omega-3 May Slow Cognitive Decline in Some with Very Mild Alzheimer’

...-inflammatory effects are an important part of the profile of fish oils, they are conceivable also for Alzheimer’s disease,” the authors write. This could potentially explain why effects were seen only in those with very early-stage disease—recent evidence suggests that there is a critical period two or more...

Saving Hearts with Cutting-Edge Technology

...s and kidney tests. The new patient's statistical profile is then input into a computer and matched with data derived from thousands of other coronary cases. Using the outcomes of these previous cases as a guide, the computer will not only give an accurate assessment of the new patient's conditions, but als...

Internet – Boon or Bane

...n-essential computer use. While some may hear this profile and assume that a person's Internet "addiction" might actually be an extreme fondness for pornography, Aboujaoude stressed that pornography sites are just one part of the problem. "Not surprisingly, online pornography and, to some degree, online ga...

Agra Hospitals Modernise to Promote Medical Tourism

...50-year-old S N Medical College now presents a new profile in a bid to attract patients from the rest of India and even abroad. Medical tourism has been catching on in India, thanks mainly to the booming health care industry that provides quality treatment at a fraction of what one has to spend in Western ...

Studying Risk Factors for Heart disease

...with existing lifestyle risks, so that an absolute profile is enabled. Project leader Prof Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe said:' Existing scores, such as that from Framingham in the USA use levels of smoking, blood pressure and fats in the blood along with patient's age and sex to estimate risk. However, we know that...

Can Osteoporosis be prevented with B-Vitamin supplements?

...s if post-menopausal women with a specific genetic profile can actually merit with B-vitamin supplementation, to reduce the levels of homocysteine levels, and allay potential osteoporosis. "Studies have found that when B-vitamin intake is improved, homocysteine levels are lowered and this offers the possibil...

Hypertension During Pregnancy Increases Later Heart and Kidney Disease Risk

...rs believe. 'When assessing a woman's overall risk profile for CVD, doctors should screen for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy,' concludes Dr. Garovic. 'We suggest that women with hypertensive pregnancies be monitored closely for asymptomatic cardiovascular events and treated aggressively for modifiable r...

Humans are not 'peas in a pod' says a study

... Earlier scientists believed in a shared genetic profile but with the recent advances in genetic information they are they are able to comprehend the chasm of difference in genetic profile. This was not known two years ago opined Dr. Stephen Scherer, director of Toronto based, Centre for Applied Genomics ...

Chinese Red Yeast Rice Lowers Lipid Levels

...ozil. There was no significant difference in lipid profile between Xuezhikang and Zhibituo. RYR preparations were initially linked with side effects like giddiness and gastro-intestinal discomfort. However , researchers feel that more rigorous trials are needed, and long-term effects and safety have to b...

Contact Lenses For Younger Children Also

...and glasses. The children and teens filled out the profile before they began to wear contact lenses, and again one month after wearing the lenses. PREP scores range from 100 (excellent quality of life) to 0 (poor quality of life.) Questions included how much a child or teen liked wearing contact lenses or ...

Researchers Find Two Biomarkers With Potential to Predict Breast Cancer Spread

...s, according to researchers who// say this protein profile could help identify at an early stage those patien...fy biomarkers that distinguished between the tumor profile with paired positive and negative nodes. Two protein peaks associated with lymph node metastasis w...

Pair of MicroRNA Molecules Controls Major Oncogene in Most Common Leukemia

...studied, Pekarsky said. “You can look at the miRNA profile and say whether the cancer is aggressive or indolent,” he said. And of the two miRNAs, miR-29 offers the most predictive power, Pekarsky added. “We have a lot of work to do to characterize these miRNAs because we don’t even know whether they work o...

Cardiac Risk is Reduced by Cutting the Sugar in Your Drink

...tinely screened. Her team is trying to find a risk profile for later disease among children having the symptoms for metabolic syndrome. The current study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, looked at different traits such as blood pressure, waist circumference, and levels of HDL cholesterol, trig...

The Bulging Waist Line Determines Your Life Line

...surements are more accurate to predict the cardiac profile of an individual. The research conducted medical check –ups for 200,000 women and men between 1965 and 1970. Then they were studied for over 12 years. They found out the risk of heart disease spiralled with increase in SAD measurements even if they h...

Inflammatory Genes Linked to Salt-Sensitive Hypertension

...y a subgroup of individuals with a certain genetic profile that has an increased risk of developing high blood pressure in a stressful environment,” says Dr. Zhu, who recently received a two-year, $300,000 grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. If she’s right, these individuals could like...

Inflammation in Amniotic Fluid Detected

...ave found that a score that measures the proteomic profile of amniotic fluid may predict inflammation before delivery. // Researchers from Yale University, led by Catalin Buhimschi, have previously identified a set of four protein markers that were closely associated with inflammation in the amniotic fluid,...

Probing the Effect of Endurance Exercise on Athletes' Hearts

...letes. "Determination of the underlying genetic profile of these athletes may provide further data and that work is under way. We also do not know whether substance abuse may have contributed to the observed changes, although all study subjects denied such use and there was no other evidence for it in any...

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