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Limiting Infants Exposure To Smoke At Home

... a byproduct of nicotine, of 314 infants living in smoking households. Participating infants were between 4 w...iversity of Warwick, United Kingdom, found banning smoking in the home was associated with a small but significant reduction in cotinine levels. Other methods ...

Women Smokers More Prone To Lung Cancer

...ave double the risk of developing lung cancer from smoking than do men. Researchers in New York studied near...n and women ages 40 and older with some history of smoking to determine what factors -- such as age, gender and number of years smoking -- impacted the probabi...

Vitamin- B 12 Supplements Found To Be Effective In Combating Depression

...ere considered such as type of treatment received, smoking and drinking habits, and if other family members suffered from depression. Researchers say, there have been no previous studies that have suggested a positive relationship between vitamin B12 and the treatment outcome in patients with major depressi...

More Causes of Bladder Cancer Identified

...ntrols. The participants were surveyed about their smoking habits and their exposure to other environmental f...n cancer patients than in control subjects. While smoking continues to be the greatest risk factor for bladder cancer, researchers say many nonsmokers are als...

Weight Of Child A Predictor Of Heart Disease Later In Life

...e. Thus researchers say they believe that quitting smoking during pregnancy could have a small positive effect. Thus researchers conclude saying that a child’s weight plays a significant role in his risk for high blood pressure at age 5. However researchers say that further research is needed to examine t...

The Beneficial Effect Of Red Wine

...r early 60s. Patients were asked about their diet, smoking habits, occupation, and the type and quantity of alcohol they drank each day. They were asked to specify if they drank red, white or rose wine. Results showed that one-third of all of the patients studied were former smokers. Of the group with lung ...

Identifying Heart Disease Early

...ease among the group including being overweight or smoking cigarettes. At the end of the study, when the participants ranged in age from 24 to 39, researchers used standard tests to measure the level of blockage and endothelial functioning in each individual. Results show people with enhanced functioning we...

Tobacco Found To Trigger Familial Pancreatic Cancer

.... Researchers found earlier age at diagnosis and a smoking history were marked features among the familial gr...their increased risk and offered enrollment into a smoking cessation program....

Creating A Greater Awareness Among Smokers

...f their study highlight the importance of focusing smoking cessation efforts on individuals who are nicotine dependent, individuals who have psychiatric disorders, and individuals who have comorbid nicotine dependence and other psychiatric disorders....

Consumption Of Red Meat Found To Double The Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis

... a seven-day food diary and were asked about their smoking habits. Results showed those eating the most red meat had twice the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis. Patients consuming red meat as well as other types of meat had similar higher risk factors. However, higher levels of dietary fats, includi...

Vitamin- B 12 Good For Depression

...ere considered such as type of treatment received, smoking and drinking habits, and if other family members suffered from depression. Researchers say, there have been no previous studies that have suggested a positive relationship between vitamin B12 and the treatment outcome in patients with major depressi...

The Link Between Migraines And Chest Pain

...r other factors including race, age, hypertension, smoking and cholesterol. Thus researchers say their findings suggest a higher prevalence of chest pain and not coronary disease, among those with migraines or other severe headaches, however they also emphasize their study results do not imply people with ...

Analyzing The Risk Factors For Diabetic Neuropathy

...r triglyceride levels, losing weight, and stopping smoking could all help people avoid the diabetic complication....

The Harmful Effects Of Secondhand Smoke

...who had either never smoked themselves or had quit smoking for more than 10 years participated in the study. Results showed people who had been exposed to cigarette smoke for many hours a day as children were more than three-times as likely to develop lung cancer in adulthood as those not exposed. Lower expo...

Reducing Disabilities By Following A Healthy Diet

...ack of physical exercise, alcohol consumption, and smoking are modifiable risk factors for disability, but little is known about the role of the diet. Researchers examined data of about 16,000 participants between ages 45 and 64. They were asked to report their diets over a year. Then after an average of ni...

Childhood Wheezing Could Be Hereditary

...asthma, and socioeconomic factors such as parental smoking and low social class. Results suggest inheritanc...sease and correction of factors such as early-life smoking exposure, recurrent chest infections, and social deprivation merely delay the inevitable....

Beware Smoking During Pregnancy Linked To New Danger

...th an increased risk of cancer in the offspring of smoking mothers. Smoking during pregnancy has been proven...e uterus. We have only indirect data to prove that smoking also damages the genetic material- DNA and this is known as genotoxic insult. The amniotic cells wh...

Light Cigarettes - Not So Light?

...y are getting fewer cancer-causing substances from smoking “light” or “ultra-light” cigarettes. No significant difference was found in the amount of these dangerous byproducts in smokers’ urine, regardless of the type of cigarettes they smoked nor there was any difference in the levels of cotinine, a bypro...

The Dangers Involved In Smoking During Pregnancy

Maternal smoking during pregnancy has been proven to have many cons...e uterus. In order to determine whether maternal smoking had a genotoxic effect on amniotic cells, researchers analyzed chromosomal instabilities and looked ...

Risk of cancer in HIV patients reduced

...cancer. It was also suggested that cutting down on smoking could also reduce the risk of other types of cancer associated with HIV infection....

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