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High tech help to prevent further heart disease

...nts who have undergone heart operations change the lifestyle factors that contributed to their illness, such as...s by guiding patients to make healthy and positive lifestyle changes that will contribute to their recovery and ongoing wellbeing. ...

Underweight women at greater risk of miscarriage

...he association between biological, behavioural and lifestyle risk factors and the risk of miscarriage, which affects an estimated quarter of a million women in the UK every year1. While there are a number of well-established risk factors, such as increased maternal age, a previous history of miscarriage, an...

Scientists discover new species of distinctive cloud-forest rodent

... altitude of 6,200 feet. Little is known about its lifestyle because subsequent efforts to locate and observe the animal were fruitless. I. barbarabrownae belongs to a family of rodents known as "spiny rats" because most of the species in that family bristle with spines. Its discovery has necessitated a re-...

Organic is healthier: Kiwis prove that green is good

...declaring in January that buying organic is just a lifestyle choice. The Davis scientists, led by Drs. Maria Amodio and Adel Kader, showed that organically grown kiwifruit had significantly increased levels of polyphenols, the healthy compounds found in red wine and coloured berries. They also had a higher ov...

Canadian study shows bilingualism has protective effect in delaying onset of dementia by four years

...st and growing scientific literature examining how lifestyle factors such as physical activity, education and s...e Brain have found the first evidence that another lifestyle factor, bilingualism, may help delay dementia symptoms. The study is published in the February 2007 ...

Indicators for risk of heart disease are higher in passive smokers

... aspects of diet on cardiovascular health ?and for lifestyle factors such as physical activity, social class and obesity. Restricting analysis to those 70 or younger with no history of heart attack, heart failure or stroke also made lifwttle difference in the association. Dr Venn said: "Our study shows that...

Loss of a universal tRNA feature reported

... whose members have successfully adopted different lifestyle and energy-yielding strategies in the course of evolution. The organisms are members of a specific group of alphaproteobacteria that comprises the Rhizobiales, Rhodobacterales, Caulobacterales, Parvularculales and Pelagibacter. Dieter Söll, Sterli...

100 percent of pregnant women have at least one kind of pesticide in their placenta

..., anthropometric information, age, tobacco habits, lifestyle and diet during pregnancy, among other factors. The study made at the UGR [ http://www.ugr.es ] has facilitated research into the association of the characteristics of parents, newborn babies and childbirth with exposure to pesticides found in the...

Parasites' impact goes beyond host to affect ecosystem

...ecological studies. "Parasitism is the most common lifestyle out there," says Byers. "It’s playing a role in larger ecosystems." ...

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