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Case for dietary pattern and pancreatic cancer

...m of the body. Till date only certain factors like smoking etc had been known to increase the risk of the pancreatic cancer. The new study had tried to establish dietary preferences that may cause higher risk for pancreatic cancer in an attempt to isolate the main reasons for the disease. The dietary patte...

Association of maternal and granny’s smoking on children’s asthma provd

...ke a connection between the pediatric// asthma and smoking habit of mother and maternal grandmother. The st... with children suffering from asthma regarding the smoking habits of the mother before, during and after the pregnancy. The history of smoking of other family ...

Smoking to increase risk of age-related eye disorder

...rnal of Ophthalmology, //researchers had said that smoking is one of the habits that raise the risk of this disease almost by double. Macular degeneration is one of the most common causes for loss of vision for the elderly people. This disorder affects the central vision and makes it difficult to do anythi...

Cutting down on alcohol may reduce cigarette craving

...ers of University// of Chicago have found out that smoking is related to alcohol consumption, and reduction t...s for the study think that people who want to quit smoking needs to abstain from drinking in order to experience the lesser effects of a withdrawal symptom. Li...

Anti-inflammatory drugs reduce the risk of oral cancer for smokers

...smoked for 30 or less pack-years. A pack-year is smoking for one year at a cigarette pack a day. Smokers smoking for 30 pack-years may be all those who have smoked a pack a day for 30 years, or two pack a day for ...

Antibiotics not to reduce rate of cardiac diseases

... Azithromycin, irrespective of their ages, gender, smoking habit or the presence of antibody of the bacteria. There were no effects of antibiotics on stroke, or total mortality. However the researchers feel that it will take more extensive study to find out the role of the C. pneumoniae bacteria in causing...

Smoking may affect multiple sclerosis

Cigarette smoking was considered to be a risk factor for multiple sclerosis. New study shows that smoking may //enhance the neural degeneration more in people suffering from multiple sclerosis. In a resear...

Environmental Factors Found To Have An Impact On The Sex of A Child

...omes in their sperm , however researchers say age, smoking and hormone levels did not change the outcome. Being the first study of its kind to show that the distribution of sex chromosomes in sperm can be affected by exposure to POPs ,researchers say the study set up did not enable them to determine if the ...

Giving up smoking is good for health, but causes weight gain too

In a study that looked into the smoking habit of 6654 people for a period of eight years, researchers //have found out that giving up smoking do causes weight gain, but the overall health effect is beneficial to the people. The population un...

Environmental Factors Found To Have An Impact On The Sex of A Child

...omes in their sperm , however researchers say age, smoking and hormone levels did not change the outcome. Being the first study of its kind to show that the distribution of sex chromosomes in sperm can be affected by exposure to POPs ,researchers say the study set up did not enable them to determine if the ...

Vaccine to cure smoking

...showed that subjects had been able to abstain from smoking for a period of 3 months, after three months of the vaccination. Researchers had said that the vaccination with NicQb had been well tolerated and thus safe. The side effects had been limited to local reactions and flu like symptoms. All subjects thus...

Metabolic problems related to clogged arteries

...e.Research has already linked atherosclerosis with smoking and high cholesterol levels. Researchers have found the current link in cases where neither smoking habit or heightened cholesterol levels is present. Experimenting on mice, the researchers found ou...

New insight for dopamine transporter

...th several disorders like substance abuse, tobacco smoking and ADHD by altered levels of central dopamine transporter protein. This in turn influences the concentrations of extracellular dopamine. The researchers had looked into the clinical examination records of 96 people and had cleared them from any neu...

Heavy drinking may not be good for the mental health

...e is a significant link between heavy drinking and smoking as well. The current research study has been the largest longitudinal study in Australia tracking mothers and their children from the prenatal stage to early adulthood. The research findings state that light drinking of alcohol; up to five drinks a ...

Calcium and Vitamin D reduces risk of Premenstrual syndrome

.... The results was then adjusted for age, parity, smoking status, and other risk factors. The study showed that those women who had consumed more calcium had lower risk of developing the premenstrual syndrome . A similar finding was seen in the association between Vitamin D and risk of developing PMS. Women...

Obesity And Expanding Waistlines the next Epidemic in USA

...f societal attention on this issue that we gave to smoking 20 years ago,” Thorpe said. This was quoted by ConsumerAffairs.com. He further explained “You can break health care spending into two things, one is that we’re treating more people who are sick, and second is that is costs more to treat those patient...

Aggressive Tobacco taxation policy can reduce cigarette smoking

...out of which // 85% will die before 2010. Habit of smoking is reducing in high income countries, but it is fa...use of lung cancer occurrence is smoking. Globally smoking related disease causes 5 million deaths a year. In many developing countries due to poor literacy, ...

Smokers may differ in their cravings for smoking

...in smokers according to the brain responses to the smoking habit. Researchers from the Duke University Medica...ng of tobacco can also set the stage of continuous smoking for smokers who are not able to quit. In the new research scientists have found that those who can a...

Smoking during pregnancy increases risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis.

...al Journal of Epidemiology has implicated maternal smoking in pregnancy as a // determinant of rheumatoid art...e joints. Several studies have shown that maternal smoking in pregnancy can cause a whole series of adverse reactions on the baby. The present study included...

Exposure to cigarette smoke when in the womb can lead to asthma

Children, who are exposed to passive smoking when in the womb of the mother, may have asthma at... respiratory diseases in Norway said that maternal smoking is significantly related to incidence of asthma in childhood. Passive smoking by the other household...

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