Siblings Of People With Heart Disease Are Less Likely To Get Treatment
...nd sisters of people who have heart disease before age 60had a greater risk of developing high blood pres...uggests that, "Anyone who has heart disease before age 55should encourage their brothers and sisters to be screened for heart disease andheart disease risk...Researchers Take A Second Look At Homocysteine's Link To Heart Disease
...eine levels -- in 759people from 45 to 64 years of age who participated in the Atherosclerosis Riskin Communities (ARIC) study. The study participants were initially evaluated during a three-year spanfrom 1987 to '89. Most of the participants were reexamined between 1990 and '92and again betwe...New Alzheimer's-Associated Mutation May Provide Key To Disease Process
...in their risk. Although apoEappears to affect the age at which symptoms appear, the researchers found thatA2M-2 does not affect age of onset. As with apoE-4, the presence or absence ofthe A2M-2 mutation cannot confirm or rule out w...Gene Patterns Can Predict When--But Not Whether--Alzheimer's Will Strike
...lleles (one from each parent) experienced onset by age 80 to85; those who inherited a single E4 allele from one parent developed thedisorder by age 90 to 95. Those who inherited no E4 alleles got Alzheimer's byage 95 to 100, if at all. People in th...The Genetic Basis Of Childhood Schizophrenia
...ophrenia with onset of psychotic symptoms prior to age 12. Childrenmeeting DSM-IIIR criteria for schizophrenia and showing a resistance totypical neuroleptics were analyzed for TREs using the Repeat ExpansionDetection (RED) method. An increased incidence of large CAG/CTG repeats wasfound in this populati...Gene-Toxin Link May Shed Light On Cause Of Parkinson's Disease
... of formal education, the onset of symptoms after age 60 and greater motor impairment. The researchers also considered substantial pesticide exposure and family history of the disease. "There was a hint that che...Diabetes Drug And Accutane Block Breast Cancer Cell Growth, Cedars-Sinai Researchers Find
...rcethat makes them grow, but also programs them to age and die on schedule. Importantly, the drug combination appears to have no adverse effect on healthycells, either in laboratory studies or inimmunodeficient mice injected with human breast cells that form tumors. The way in which the...Bug Expert's Latest Books Feature Simple Language, Vivid Photos
...sand answers on issues of interest to readers from age 10 and up. The answersdraw upon Waldbauer's 40-plus years as an entomologist and professor at the University of Illinois. The second book, to be released Sept. 30 by the Harvard University Press, isaimed at bird-watchers. "The Birder's BugBook" take...Hopkins Study Shows High Prevalence Of Domestic Violence
...ar. Results of their survey of 3,455 women age 18 and over who came fortreatment to 11 community hospital emergency departments in California andPennsylvania will be published in the August 5 issue of the Journal of theAmerican Medical Association. The women in the study were seen in th...Hopkins Researchers Urge Regular Chlamydia Testing For All Sexually Active Teenage Women
... In a study of 3,202 sexually active females age 12 through 19 who visitedfamily planning,STD or school-based clinics in Baltimore, Md., 14-year-olds had the highest rateof infection with C.trachomatis. Although most of the individuals were African-American, other, smallerstudies have shownth...A Common Microbe Could Help To Trigger Alzheimers
...niae, which is spread bycoughs and sneezes. By the age of 20, half the population have been infectedwith C. pneumoniae, and the likelihood of being infected increases with age. Thebacterium has already been accused of triggering atherosclerosis-blockedarteries that can lead to heart attacks ("Can you cat...Scientists Discover Two Modes Of Aging In Fruit Flies
...d to reproduce, Mediterranean fruitflies appear to age in two distinct modes, depending on the availability offood, reports a team of researchers led by entomologist James R. Carey of theUniversity of California/Davis and demographer James W. Vaupel of the Max PlanckInstitute for Demographic Research in ...Genetic Clue Found To The Leading Cause Of Blindness In The United States
...cause for this disease," saidKlein. "It has a late age of onset, can take one of several forms and isdifficult to diagnose early. By studying a large family affected by the disease,we could compare genetic information from family members and determinedifferences between affected and unaffected individual...Two Modes Of Aging Discovered In Fruit Flies
...produce, female Mediterraneanfruit flies appear to age in two distinct modes, depending on the availabilityof food, reports a team of researchers led by a UC Davis entomologist. When food, particularly protein, is in limited supply, female medflies slip intoa survival mode, delaying reproduction even unt...Penn Researchers Find Mutation In Prostate Cancer Gene
...rchers found that men who were diagnosed after the age of63, who carried the CYP3A4 genetic mutation, and who had nofamily history of prostate cancer, were nearly 10 times aslikely to have a higher stage tumor than men who did not carrythe mutation. "This discovery has opened up a number of possibilities......f these rates are modified by factors such as fish age and sex. Since 1987, wild striped bass have been tagged in a east coast-wide study involving fifteen state and federal agencies. Data from three long-term tagging programs were used to assess the impact of substantial regulatory changes that took p...New Research: Children Inhale Higher Percentage Of Pollution
...hildren between ages 7 and 14, 11adolescents up to age 18 and 12 adults between ages 19 and 35 to inhale tinyamounts of harmless carnauba wax particles while resting. Using sophisticatedlaser technology, researchers then measured how much of the particles remainedin volunteers' lungs. They fou...Commercial Fish: Eat Up, Despite Low Levels Of Mercury
...natally had slight abnormalities in development at age seven. The Rochester scientists feel those findings may be relevant topeople who eat whale meat but are not convinced they apply topeople eating fish and not whale. Whale meat contains othertoxins and pollutants, like PCBs, and is higher in mercu......es are in adolescenceand early adulthood and after age 60. Symptoms of CD include abdominal pain,fever, diarrhea, and weight loss. Its cause is unknown. However, someresearchers suggest the disease arises from an excessive immune response tobacteria in the bowel. Drs. Lund and Zimmermann presented......all even after repeated tries. Consistent with the age dependenceof Alzheimer's disease, only older apoE4 mice showed deficits in learning andmemory, whereas young apoE4 mice were not impaired. In another experiment, mice were placed in an open field inside a cage,and their movements were monitor...