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HRT Found To Increase Stroke Risk

...e, severity and outcome. Results showed HRT may be responsible for a 29-percent increased risk of stroke and may also increase the risk of stroke severity. In conclusion researchers say hormone replacement therapy cannot be recommended for the primary or secondary prevention of stroke. Extrapolation of data sug...

Debating The Link Between Sex Hormones And Multiple Sclerosis

...ers are now debating whether sex hormones could be responsible for some of the problems experienced by people with multiple sclerosis.// After measuring levels of five different sex hormones in men and women with MS researchers compared them to those found in healthy people. All the MS patients also underwent...

Alzheimer Gene Carriers Found To Have Memory Problems

... of a gene called ApoE (Apolipoprotein E) which is responsible for switching on a protein in the blood that helps carry cholesterol. ApoE has three variations and about one-fifth of people carry the e-4 variation, which is linked to Alzheimer's disease. People who carry the e-4 variation on both their ApoE gene...

Is Man’s Aggression Linked To His Finger

...ty to androgens. In other words, male hormones are responsible for lower digit or finger ratios. The study tested the finger ratios against perceived aggression in men and women. The results say that men with lower finger length ratio had higher trait physical aggression scores. However, there was no correlati...

Blindness may be genetic by nature

...tion. One study even suggests that the gene may be responsible for almost half of the cases of blindness that happens to the elderly population. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1110189...

Mouth Infection better handled with new discovery

...iva kills the fungus- Candida albicans,// which is responsible for most HIV-related oral infections. It is known that candidiasis, also known as thrush, is a disease characterized by whitish spots and ulcers on the membranes of the mouth, tongue and throat. It primarily affects people with weakened immune syste...

Heredity Can Decide Your Drinking Habits

...ple with a weaker effect of this gene. The gene is responsible for enhancing the pleasure that is derived from alcohol consumption, or the “high” people get out of drinking. A strong gene reduces this feeling of elation derived from the alcoholic drink and thus the person will not enjoy his drink as much as the ...

Gene is related to premature ageing disease

...re. Scientists have not only identified the gene responsible for the progeria syndrome, but they have developed a process to reverse the symptoms. The process will eliminate mutant LMNA mRNA and lamin A protein using splicing correction to the activated cryptic splice site. On doing this, the HGPS fibroblasts ...

Effect of estrogen on behavior difference between sexes

...esearchers have found that the hormone estrogen is responsible for the way males behave in an unfeminine// way fr...d that an estrogen receptor in the hypothalamus is responsible of defeminization or removal of feminine traits from man. This starts acting even before the birth o...

Restless leg syndrome can be a family trait

...ientists have named the gene in the chromosome 12q responsible for restless leg syndrome as RLS1. They are yet to find the exact position of the other gene that also influences this condition. Reference: Archives of Neurology, issue April 2005...

Smoking to increase risk of age-related eye disorder

...t to a number of environmental factors that may be responsible for this disease. These factors are smoking, hypertension, diet, lifetime experience of sunlight, iris color etc. Apart from finding out the environmental factors that are causing age related eye disorders the study had also been able to identify s...

Essential tremor can lead to dementia

...ut that the condition of// essential tremor can be responsible for increased risk of dementia. Essential tremor is a neurological condition that leads to a kind of movement disorder. Involuntary movements of the muscle produce the tremor of the hands, head, neck, face etc. It affects few people after age of 40 ...

Brain mapping technique to explain sleep

...ave been able to identify a type of neuron that is responsible for keeping the living //beings awake. By tracking the nerve cells in rats, the researchers had found that the identified type of neuron receives inhibitory signals during night that makes them inactive, and hence animals sleep. These neurons produc...

Tobacco smoke increases the levels of Cox 2.

...mphiregulin and TGF-a. Both of these chemicals are responsible for triggering EGFR functions. The researchers from Weill Medical College of Cornell University said that these findings are important for people as the biopsies of smokers’ oral linings have produced the increased levels of these two proteins and t...

Strain in marriage may increase chance of heart disease for women

...sonal communication issues, two factors seem to be responsible for the health of the spouses. The first factor is the men whose wives come home from work upset with the work situation have twice as much risk of a heart condition as a normal person. The second findings were that the women who kept their feelings ...

Infection in pregnancy can lead to congenital eye defects

...as from Parvovirus and Coxsackie virus may also be responsible for birth defects in newborns. The researchers have taken the birth details from the England registry, and matched them with the weekly infections data from the Public Health Laboratory Service and Royal College of General Practitioners Weekly Retur...

In Search Of A New Drug To Target Cholesterol

...ame for the build-up. ACAT2 is one of four enzymes responsible for helping cholesterol leave the liver, where it is made, and travel to other parts of the body. ACAT2 most often helps cholesterol travel to the arteries, where it builds up into the deadly plaque. After studying mice who were genetically altered ...

In Search Of A New Drug To Target Cholesterol

...ame for the build-up. ACAT2 is one of four enzymes responsible for helping cholesterol leave the liver, where it is made, and travel to other parts of the body. ACAT2 most often helps cholesterol travel to the arteries, where it builds up into the deadly plaque. After studying mice who were genetically altered ...

Gene responsible for depression

...scan reports have suggested that a new gene may be responsible for some// people being more susceptible to depres...ion of fear, and cingulated, another part of brain responsible for emotions. The gene responsible for depression codes the chemical messenger of the brain called ...

Balding gene may come from mother

... others have found out the variety of gene that is responsible for this condition. Scientists have narrowed down this genetic variance to the gene for androgen receptor. One particular variety of this gene had been found more often in men who lose hair at a very early stage in life than in men who still sport ...

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