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Being together matters, both in marriage and smoking

... new study// which has reported a six times higher relative risk of total stroke than cigarette-smoking women ...w to the brain) among various groups of women. The relative risk of total stroke was 5.7 times higher in cigarette-smoking women with cigarette-smoking spouses ...

New Flu Vaccine Can Give Lifetime Protection

...ng children, and seem to be related to youngsters' relative lack of resistance to infection and to contacts with other children in schools. The common cold causes irritation and drainage in any or all of the airways including the nose, sinuses, throat, voice box, and often the bronchial tubes. More on Medin...

Gene That Might Be Responsible For Aging

... in women than in men. Previous studies show the relative length of telomeres is associated with age-related illness and death. In one earlier study, telomere length was shorter in patients with atherosclerotic heart disease than in age-matched healthy patients. Clinical markers of aging, such as pulse pres...

Understanding The Relationship With Diet And Cataract

...velopment after five years of follow-up. A similar relative decrease in cataract progression was seen in women who reported higher intakes of two of the B vitamins, riboflavin and thiamin, when compared to women with lower intakes. Thus researchers say that though their results suggest that vitamin suppleme...

Rich are happier then Poor

...py", or "not too happy". The researchers found a relative income effect -- the richer you are relative to your age peers, the happier you will tend to be. Said Firebaugh: "We find with and without contr...

The Happiness Mantra: “ Crib Less: Earn More

...status. The analysis of the responses revealed a relative income effect - the richer you are relative to your age peers, the happier you tend to be. Families whose income earners are in jobs with flat i...

New Treatment For Anxiety Disorders

...f drugs. According to the researcher, due to the relative absence of negative side effects, and the wide availability of nutritional treatments, the orthomolecular approach should be the first one to be considered when patients are being treated for their anxiety disorders. Source: Newswise ...

Obesity Linked To Deep Vein Thrombosis

...ctor for PE or deep venous thrombosis (DVT). The relative risk of DVT, comparing obese patients with non-obese patients, was 2.50. The relative risk of PE was 2.21. Obese females had a greater relative risk for DVT than obese males, 2.75 versus...

Bone Fractures In Elderly Can Be Genetical

...study populations for evaluating genetic risk (the relative contribution of genes versus environment). If heritable factors contribute to fractures, monozygotic twins (who have all the same genes, commonly called identical twins) are more likely to have similar rates of fracture than dizygotic twins (who shar...

Consumption of Soy May Reduce Risk of Fracture in Postmenopausal Women

... soy protein intake group had a 37 percent reduced relative risk for fracture compared to the lowest intake gr...hest soy isoflavone group had a 35 percent reduced relative risk for fracture compared to the lowest isoflavone group. Source: Newswise...

Sitagliptin, Under Investigation For Type 2 Diabetes

...in dependent diabetes // and is characterized by a relative disparity between endogenous insulin production an...ipizide had an average weight gain of 1.1 kilogram relative to placebo. Adverse event reports of hypoglycaemia were observed in 4 percent of patients taking Sit...

A Word Of Caution: Routine Screening For Breast Cancer Mutation Not Advisdable

...f Ashkenazi Jewish descent who have a first degree relative with breast or ovarian cancer and others who have two or more relatives who developed breast cancer aged under 50. Meanwhile, those who have three or more first or second degree relatives with breast cancer, regardless of age, also ought to be screen...

Feelings Of Sympathy And Empathy Dictated by Personal Experience

..., for example, the position of their arms and legs relative to the body. Both patients report feelings of having lost their entire body, following which; they have trained themselves to carry out simple body movements. The patients were confronted with short video films in which people were asked to lift bo...

Dietary intake of Vitamin E by type 2 diabetics for prevention of atherosclerosis

...en and women, which increases the risk by 2-6 fold relative to nondiabetic subjects and that 80 percent of all type 2 Diabetes // mellitus patients will die of an atherosclerotic event. In these patients hyperglycemia per se confers increased risk for cardiovascular disease, and so the presence of even border...

Hazards of Electromagnetic Fields for children

...ssue is more conductive, RF penetration is greater relative to head size, and they will have a longer lifetime of exposure than adults. To evaluate information relevant to children's sensitivity to ELF and RF EMFs, the World Health Organization held an expert workshop in Istanbul, Turkey, in June 2004. A re...

Conditioning preferences in children

...a liked food (ice cream). In the first experiment, relative preferences for these stimuli (and others) were measured before and after these paired presentations: preferences for the cartoon character paired with Brussels sprouts decreased, whereas preferences for the character paired with ice cream increased....

A new approach to vaginal hysterectomy

...fortable with the vaginal route particularly where relative contraindications exist (e.g. large uterus, nullip... the uterus without prolapse, including cases with relative contraindications, the technique was demonstrated to be easy, safe and effective. Vaginal hysterecto...

Dietary intake of Vitamin E by type 2 diabetics for prevention of atherosclerosis

...en and women, which increases the risk by 2-6 fold relative to nondiabetic subjects and that 80 percent of all type 2 Diabetes mellitus patients will die of an atherosclerotic event//. In these patients hyperglycemia per se confers increased risk for cardiovascular disease, and so the presence of even borde...

The Polymicrobial Nature Of Diabetic Foot Infections

...ospital, Ministry of Health in Kuwait, Kuwait. The relative frequency of bacterial isolates cultured from community-acquired foot infections that were not exposed to antimicrobial agents for 30 days were studied. In addition, the bacterial comparative in vitro susceptibility to the commonly used antibacterial...

HIIP- A Novel Inhaled Insulin Delivery System As An Alternative To Injectable Insulin Therapy

...(HIIP) -- based on AIR particle technology and its relative biopotency compared with subcutaneous (SC) insulin lispro. The researchers enrolled 20 healthy, nonsmoking, male or female subjects (aged 29.6 years, BMI 23.2 kg/m2) with normal forced vital capacity and forced expiratory volume in an open-label, r...

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