New indicators for predicting hypertension in African-American males
...nerve mechanisms designed to regulate increases or decreases in blood pressure) and autonomic function (involuntary nervous system activity) are impaired: in coronary artery disease, stroke, atherosclerosis, hypertension, diabetes, in smokers, and in alcoholic nerve disease. Autonomic function is composed of ...Study: Higher energy intake, obesity affects all age groups, not just youths
...o found large increases in snack eating and strong decreases in consumption of low- and medium-fat milk and medium- and high-fat beef and pork, Nielsen said. In 1977, for example, snacks produced 11.3 percent of the average Americans energy intake, while by 1996 that figure had climbed to 17.7 percent, which i...Genetic discovery in fruit flies may open new avenues for understanding cancer growth in humans
...gn because it increases a drug's effectiveness and decreases its side effects. Fred Hutchinson researchers scientifically reported the drug's discovery last December and the center has filed patent protection for it. In the Cell paper, Parkhurst and Rosenberg report that the drug, which already has been shown ...Iron-binding compounds decrease body odor
... that starves these bacteria of iron significantly decreases body odor. Sweat itself does not smell. The bacteria on our skin are responsible for producing the malodor. They feed themselves on the secretions of glands in the underarm, producing odorous molecules as a byproduct. Traditional deodorants use ethan...Hatchery salmon may threaten wild populations
...ity) and introduce them to wild populations, which decreases the survival of salmon on the wild. The greater the difference between the two environments, the greater the impact of hatchery fish on wild populations. "When then captive environment is very different from the wild, within 20 generations the popula...Research shows how pollutants affect tree growth
...es the growth of young aspen and birch, high ozone decreases their growth, and the gas's effects on growth cancel each other out when both are elevated." "Before this study, our understanding of how carbon dioxide and ozone affected trees was based largely on exposing small plants to one or another of the gase...Xenical improves glycaemic control in those poorly controlled on anti-diabetic medication
...Xenical-treated patients had significantly greater decreases in PPG levels compared to placebo recipients (-1.61 mmol/L vs. -0.10 mmol/L). At 52 weeks, PPG levels for Xenical-treated patients, on average, were -1.13 mmol/L. However, PPG levels actually increased for placebo-treated recipients (+0.36 mmol/L) at...New data shows weight loss with Xenical provides benefits for type 2 diabetes patients
...tients receiving Xenical had significantly greater decreases in HbA1c than patients on placebo. Patients with the poorest glycaemic control (HbA1c level 11%) experienced the greatest reduction in HbA1c levels (-2.2% Xenical vs -1.5% placebo) a relative improvement of 46% for the Xenical group. For patients w...Researchers developing technology to outsmart metastasized cancers
...ith technetium. Technetium decays more rapidly and decreases the patient's exposure time to the radioactive agent from one month to two days. The shorter half-life of technetium also allows researchers to more safely inject patients with larger quantities of radioactive agents in order to improve the quality o...Warmer world will be a sicker world, say scientists
...e fewer choices about what to bite. Asbiodiversity decreases there is less and less buffering. "Thus any pathogenwhich manages to spread from the tropics to the temperate zone in a warmerworld is likely to have a bigger impact as it can focus on a few common andabundant susceptible speciesmaybe even us!" says ...'Obesity sleuths' find chronic diseases linked to behavior contrary our DNA
...owers blood pressure, facilitates weight loss, and decreases the chance for Type 2 diabetes, a major cause of strokes. Metabolic Diseases Type 2 diabetes: Most of the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes in the United States can be attributed to a change in lifestyle that involves a genome evolved from a Paleo...... In general, the researchers assert, food density decreases with increasing body size. Haskell elaborates: "If I walk out into the meadow below my house, I find a high density of grass. But as I move up out of the meadow into the surrounding sagebrush, the grass density gets much lower. A mouse might never ...Research links adolescent steroid use to reduction in serotonin, altered signaling
...pothesize that steroid exposure during adolescence decreases naturally occurring levels of the feel good recept...elopment of serotonin nerve cells, which, in turn, decreases serotonin availability in the brain," Melloni said. "The serotonin neural system is still developing...Plant detectives seek sources of invasive trees
...lants to take root. The loss of native plants also decreases the insect and bird biodiversity. Schaal's graduate student, John Gaskin, has used DNA sequences to identify which species are here and to document hybridization. Their DNA analyses also help them pinpoint where the plants may have originated in Eu...New predictor of heart disease risk found
...cells. At the molecular level, c-reactive protein decreases the stability of eNOS messenger RNA and prevents the activation of its second-messenger molecule, cyclic GMP. These events prevent eNOS from producing its protective biological effects. C-reactive protein also promotes white-blood-cell binding to bl...Is there a link between soy formula and attention deficit disorder?
.... In addition, the researchers found significant decreases in dopamine with higher doses of manganese. Previous research had shown that dopamine decreases occurred in areas of the brain that are critical for performing problem-solving tasks. These areas o...The role of obesity and calories in cancer prevention
...nt tumor models. However, calorie restriction also decreases IGF-1 (insulin-like growth factor-1) levels by about 50 percent, thereby decreasing bone density (IGF-1 plays an important role in regulating aspects of development and aging such as bone density). "These observations suggest that efforts to use CR...Pain-relief drug may prevent lung problems, blindness in premature infants
...given oxygen to assist breathing. Oxygen typically decreases levels of these important chemicals. Typically, premature infants do not have fully developed lungs. Bronchopulmonary dysplasia, a complication arising from this lack of development, is a chronic inflammation of the airways and the lung tissue of pre...Brazilian shellfish may improve understanding of ancient world
...rly not depth alone. In one transect, encrustation decreases with depth but in another bay, encrustation is high regardless of depth," Rodland says. He is also looking at the numbers and different kinds of organisms that colonize brachiopods. "I'm looking at the diversity of each shell as the function of the ...Firefly light illuminates course of herpes infection in mice
...al drug valacyclovir. The investigators found that decreases in bioluminescence correlated with the decline in the amount of virus present. The method works in part because bioluminescence produced by fireflies contains a significant amount of red light, which penetrates tissues more effectively than other wa...