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Link Found Between Periodontal Disease and Pancreatic Cancer

...Individuals with periodontal disease have elevated serum biomarkers of systemic inflammation, such as C-reactive protein, and these may somehow contribute to the promotion of cancer cells,' she said. Another explanation, according to Michaud, is that periodontal disease could lead to increased pancreatic...

Low Blood Sodium When Born Linked to Long Term Sodium Intake

... babies born with low sodium (salt) in their blood serum would likely consume// large quantities of dietary...rns with the most severe cases of low sodium blood serum consumed ~1700 mg more sodium per day and weighed some 30 percent more than their peers. These data,...

A Breakthrough in the Study of Hepatitis C

...get of the virus. By allowing infection by patient serum containing a wide array of virus strains, this system may allow better understanding of the differences between different strains, further improving treatment strategies. Source-Eurekalert RI...

Alcohol Dehydrogenase Gene may Protect from Developing Alcoholism

...also be a risk factor for liver disease. "Elevated serum alanine aminotransferease levels are a measure of liver dysfunction," said Ehlers. "Since having the ADH1B*3 allele presumably causes increases in acetadehyde when an individual drinks, especially at higher levels of consumption, individuals who have...

Does Anti-TNF Therapy Control Ankylosis ?

...as induced with arthritis, using methylated bovine serum albumin. Four days later, these mice were given a single injection of etanercept. Three days later, on day seven, they were killed. Signs of arthritis were assessed and graded for cartilage destruction and bone erosion. For the mice with induced ar...

Oleic-acid-rich Sunflowers Give Trans-fat Alternative - Study

...n the literature show that trans fatty acids raise serum levels of LDL-cholesterol, reduce levels of HDL-cholesterol, can promote inflammation, can cause endothelial dysfunction, and influence other risk factors for cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

Two New Studies Back Vitamin D for Cancer Prevention

... said study co-author Cedric Garland, Dr.P.H. "The serum level associated with a 50 percent reduction in ri... total of 1,448 individuals were put into order by serum 25(OH)D level and then divided into five equal groups, from the lowest blood levels to the highest. ...

Higher Serum Selenium Linked With Reduced Risks of Prostate Cancer - in Some Men

...d colleagues have come out with findings that show serum selenium or levels of selenium in// the blood is n...nt for a significant influence of higher levels of serum selenium on certain men. These subgroups are those men who have a high intake of vitamin E or mult...

Optimum Folate and Vitamin B12 Levels Essential for Cognitive Function in Seniors

...hat people with normal vitamin B12 status and high serum folate, which is a measure of folate in the blood,...ormal vitamin B12 status performed better if their serum folate was high," explains Morris, corresponding author of the study. "But for people with low vitam...

Passive Smokers may Face Higher Heart Disease Risk

...icotine is highly specific to tobacco smoke, blood serum cotinine levels track exposure to tobacco smoke and its toxic components. The researchers examined data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1988-94 that included 7,599 adults who had never smoked and found that even low-...

Influenza Virus also Protects Against H5N1

...ce. Six of 13 mice getting the antibody-containing serum survived infection with the H5N1 virus, indicating...gainst H5N1. Finally, the team tested samples of serum from human volunteers to see if they contained antibodies that reacted against the N1 of H5N1. Sera ...

Inflammation can Lead to Cancer

...n receptors on their surface receive a signal from serum in the blood -- often an antibody produced by a B cell in the separately evolved "acquired" immune system. Now UCSF researchers have found that in the presence of precancerous tissue, leukocyte antibody receptors can also be activated to turn on a ...

Uric Acid Levels Tied to Impaired Thinking in the Elderly

...indings suggest that high normal concentrations of serum uric acid should be added to the growing list of cardiovascular and metabolic biomarkers of mild cognitive impairment among elderly adults,” said Godfrey Pearlson, M.D., psychiatry professor at Yale and co-author of the study. Uric acid is produced...

Combined Ingredients may Cut Cholesterol Levels

... that combination of the two ingredients decreased serum LDL-cholesterol levels by almost ten per cent, com...o the control. On the other hand, not changes in serum HDL-cholesterol or triacylglycerol concentrations were observed. "The combined effects of beta-glu...

Race Affects Tobacco Absorption in Children

... of cotinine, a nicotine metabolite, by collecting serum and hair samples at baseline, 6 months, and 1 year...tinine compared to Caucasian children. On average, serum cotinine levels in the African-American participants were 32 percent higher than in the Caucasian pa...

NCPAP Decreases Cerebrovascular Risk in OSA Patients

...ients with sleep apnea having significantly higher serum levels of inflammatory markers, as well as lesions...sal continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP) on serum inflammatory marker levels in 24 male patients who had moderate to severe OSA. According to the au...

Black Children More Vulnerable to Tobacco Smoke Effects

...ers had demonstrated similar racial differences in serum cotinine (obtained when nicotine is broken down inside the body). But the magnitude of the racial differences in the hair continine came as a surprise, Dr. Wilson added. "Exposure to tobacco smoke is dangerous for everyone, regardless of age or r...

Heart Failure Medication Provides Some Symptom Relief

...renal function and with sustained normalization of serum sodium levels in patients with baseline hyponatremia [abnormally low concentration of sodium in the blood], suggest a role for either longer-term or intermittent tolvaptan treatment, at least in patients in whom abnormalities in fluid and electrolyte...

New Placenta Screening for High-risk Pregnancies

...elivery. The screening tests include: a maternal serum screening test used to detect Down’s syndrome, which measures the hormone levels in the mother’s blood; a uterine artery Doppler blood flow test, which checks the maternal blood flow in the placenta; and an ultrasound of the placental shape. Of the 2...

Stress Increases Inflammation in Pregnancy, Putting Women at Risk

...eactive protein (CRP). 'Stress affects levels of serum cytokines across pregnancy,' found University of D... 'psychosocial factors can affect levels of CRP in serum in mid- and late pregnancy.' The study, which appears in the latest issue of the journal Brain, B...

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