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Well-Planned Surgeries Also Carry Health Risks

...ain why children with sickle cell disease are more prone to overwhelming and potentially deadly infections following surgery. “We need more investigations, more data on humans,” says Dr. Meiler, noting that while short-term outcomes of inflammation in response to surgery are pretty well established, proof...

Less Sleep Could Pose Health Risks

...less than 5-6 hours a night, which could make them prone to health, risks like diabetes and other chronic i...y, which found that people sleeping less were more prone to diabetes and obesity. ...

Studies Show Combination Drugs As A Poor Substitute For Anti-Coagulants In Stroke

...prescribe warfarin to very elderly patients, those prone to falls that might precipitate a bleeding episode and those who are unlikely to follow the strict monitoring regimen. Dr Furlan also said that the study but confirms that the treatment of choice in the vast majority of patients with atrial fibrill...

Obesity Passed Onto Children By Ancestors' Smoking And Chewing Betel Nuts

...at men who chewed betel nuts had children who were prone to develop 'metabolic syndrome', suffering obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes. This was true even when they did not chew betel nuts. Prof Marcus Pembrey, of University College, London said that earlier studies had shown that in mice even a f...

More Than Just Anger

...of Chicago, approximately 16 million Americans are prone to a form of anger called 'Intermittent Explosive Disorder'(IED), characterised by 'a failure to resist aggressive impulses'. When does an emotion like anger become a disorder? For many critics , this brand new anger syndrome seems like another...

Simple remedy to prevent DVT: Eat 6 Tomatoes!

...ch and tomatoes are entirely safe - even for those prone to stomach ulcers that could bleed.' Mere consumption of tomatoes and drinking tomato juice is also known to have similar effects of preventing the formation of blood clots. It was observed that a single drink of tomato juice or juice containing th...

Defibrillators Can Only Put off Heart Failure but Cannot Prevent One

... lives were prolonged by ICDs were sicker and more prone to develop heart failure,’ said Ilan Goldenberg, M.D., research assistant professor at the University of Rochester Medical Center and lead author of the latest report from the Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial-II (MADIT-II). ‘...

Twins Taste Trend Inherited – Research Say

... likes and dislikes for some food can put children prone to problems of obesity, which can be followed by other health problems like cancer – said Dr Lesley Walker, the charity's director of information. Cancer research has been concluded with the saying ‘About 12,000 cases of cancer can be prevented/ye...

Study States Smokers With Wrinkled Faces More Easily Prone To COPD

...s research clearly shows that those people who are prone to COPD are also prone to wrinkles, he explained that if there is a gene that could cause the development of COPD then ther...

'Positive' At Higher Pregnancy Risk

...ersrand University, HIV-positive women //are more prone to suffer from anemia and elevated blood pressure during their pregnancy and eventually deliver babies with low birth weight and retarded growth....

Appalachians more prone to obesity and diabetes

...Those from food insecure households also were more prone to develop diabetes (37.9 percent) and be overweight (48.1 percent) in comparison to those from food secure households (25.8 percent and 35.1 percent, respectively). This study was published in the July 2006 issue of Preventing Chronic Disease, a pub...

Children in Poverty at Risk of Mental Health Problems

... who grow up in poverty or other disadvantages are prone to develop mental health problems //. A recent report has revealed that children coming from disadvantaged backgrounds or suffer from several mental health-related problems, such as unstable tempers, insomnia and obsessive and depressive disorders....

Enbrel Joins with Methotrexate to Cure Rheumatoid Arthritis

... doctor if they currently have an infection or are prone to getting infections. Patients should not start E...ts. ENBREL should be used with caution in patients prone to infection. There have been reports of serious nervous-system disorders such as multiple scleros...

Neurologists Call For National Stroke Prevention Policy

...today called for mass screening to identify people prone to brain strokes and urged the Centre to develop a national stroke prevention policy. // On the eve of World Stroke Day, the medicos also sought to bust popular myths about strokes -- widely and wrongly believed to be related to the heart and not t...

Mental Stress Linked To Higher Risk Of Heart Disease

African American youth already prone to high-blood pressure are at a higher risk for cardiovascular disease if they are mentally stressed. // In a study released today, "Impaired stress induced pressure natriuresis clusters with reduced endothelial function in African American youth at...

Fat Cell Hormone Could Trigger Diabetes, Heart Disease

African American women could be more prone to diabetes and heart disease because of the presence of Adiponectin, a protein hormone, present in fat cells. // Researcher Trudy Gaillard, PhD and colleagues today unveiled results of their study that examined the relationships between adiponecti...

Rheumatoid Arthritis A Reason For Sexual Dysfunction

...eople suffering from Rheumatoid arthritis are also prone to have sexual problems. The results of the study were presented at the European //league against rheumatism congress. Rheumatoid arthritis occurs in elderly people. It is characterized by severe pain in the joint and inflammation of the joints. It...

Voluntary Error-Reporting System Ensures Patient Safety

...s and pharmacists caring for children were equally prone to mistakes, researchers say. ‘One of the more interesting findings was that drug-administering errors, such as giving the patient the wrong drug or the wrong dose or at the wrong time, were quite common,’ Lehmann says. ‘We had focused in the past ...

Top 10 Reasons Why People Are Obese

...Increase in number of Hispanics, who are naturally prone to obesity * Older birth moms: As people have children late, it increases their chances of being obese * Genetic influences during pregnancy. * Darwinian natural selection * Assortative mating Fat people mating with fat people begets fat off...

How to Hinder Gene Amplification? - Researchers Revealed

... It’s known that regions of chromosomes that are prone to amplification have palindromic sequences of DNA...o to potentially identify individuals who might be prone for cancer. In addition to Lobachev and Narayanan, the research team consisted of Hyun-Min Kim fro...

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