Low B Vitamin Levels Common In Many People Linked To Increased Heart Disease, Stroke Risk
...ake. In the study vitamin B-6 levels were lower in men and women who had heart disease and stroke than in healthy people. A B-6 deficiency was found in about 20 percent of the individuals, says the study's lead author, Killian Robinson, M.D., staff cardiologist and associate professor of medicine of the..."Genes, Vitamins, Homocyst(e)ine And Cardiovascular Diseases"
... of a prospective study conducted in Norway in 587 men andwomen with coronary heart disease. After a median follow-up of 4.6 years, 3.8%of patients with initial homocyst(e)ine levels below 9 pmol/L have died, ascompared with 24.7% of those with initial homocyst(e)ine levels > 15 pmol/L(Nygaard, et a..."Genetic Factors Influencing Cholesterol Response To Diet"
...nalytic tests, is found in about one inthree adult men and one in 5 to 6 postmenopausal women. It is not so common inyounger men and premenopausal women. In addition to the presence of unusually small and compact LDLpart....... "This trait is found in about one in three adult men and one infive to six postmenopausal women," he said. "Each of these features confers increased risk of coronary heart disease,resulting in an overall three-fold higher risk compared with individuals withlarger LDL," he explained. Larger LDL ...Age-Based Screening Is Cost-Effective Method To Control Chlamydial Infection
... inflammatory disease and other sequelae in women, men and infants withan associated cost of$676,000. Screening according to CDC criteria would have prevented 64 cases ofpelvic inflammatory disease and saved $231,000. Screening all women younger than 30 years of age would have prevented 85 casesof pel...Genetic Test For Alzheimer's May Improve Diagnostic Reliability
...rs, led by Dr. Mayeux, reviewed the eligibility of men andwomen referred to ADCs for diagnosis of dementia. The study examined records of1,108 women and 1,080 men. Each patient examined had a battery of clinical andbehavioral tests, followed by numerous laboratory and brain imaging studies. Thepatients w......y able to examine records of 1,108 women and 1,080 men submitted by theADCs. The average age of the study participants at diagnosis was 72 and theaverage age at death was 77. Ninety-seven percent of those studied wereCaucasian, thus limiting the extent to which these findings can be generalizedto other...Leftover Fetal Cells May Affect Development Of Scleroderma
...men." However, the development of scleroderma in men and in women without children mayalso be explained by the new hypothesis. Cells can traffic in both directionsduring pregnancy, sonon-self maternal cells could also engraft and persist in a child. To explore further whether microchimerism, this inte......ts of patients. Twenty patients -- 14 men and 6 women who were at least 50 years old --who had no prior history of heart attack or cardiac surgery had an operation toclear blockages in more than one vessel. All of them had stenosis -- narrowedblood flow due to atherosclerosis -- in their in...Pet-Owning Couples Are Closer, Interact More Than Pet-Less Couples, UB Study Shows
...ere no significant differences in response between men and women, or dog- and cat-owners. Allen's previous research has shown that the presence of a pet during a stressful situation has a beneficial effect on blood pressure, and that for women living alone who have little contact with the outside wo...Women Can Inherit Drinking Problem Too, Study Finds
...ually true in women and in men. More surprisingly, men who had an alcoholictwin sister had very high rate...ance in women butgenetic influences predominate in men -- a commonly held belief -- then we wouldhave expected to see very low concordance for alcoholism o...Condom Use In Thailand Dramatically Cuts HIV Infection
...nto the army and at each six-monthfollow-up visit, men were tested for HIV infection and interviewed about theirbackgrounds and sexual histories. The Hopkins team found the HIV rate among 1991 draftees studied during1991 to 1993 was five times higher than the rate among 1993 draftees studiedduri......ificant reduction of blood pressure inhypertensive men and women, aged 60-80 years. Further, in the obese, thecombined intervention of sodium reduction plus weight loss was more effectivethan either alone. About 50,000,000 Americans age 6 and older have high blood pressure. Surveysconducted in the earl...Sex Differences In Heart Disease May Be Due To Enzyme That Breaks Down Fat
...y "bad cholesterol" known as LDL -- mayexplain why men develop heart disease earlier than women, say scie...e are higher levels of the enzyme hepaticlipase in men than in women. We asked the question, does hepatic lipase accountfor these lipid differences in men......sk factor for heart attack. In the study, men with the highest levels of triglycerides were more...ered 'safe.'" In the study of 2,906 white men who were initially free of any heartdisease, researchers found that during an eight-year follow-up p......od vessels of the legs which usually strikes young men -- respond well to thegene therapy. Isner says this finding is intriguing since these patients havegenerally been considered to be unresponsive to any therapy. In addition, patients with sensory neuropathy -- acute loss of feeling inthe...Kaposi's Sarcoma Caused By Virus Usually Transmitted Through Homosexual Sex, According To UCSF Study
...itted diseases. The study found that HIV-positive men infected with HHV-8have, approximately, a 50 perce... ofdeveloping Kaposi's sarcoma in the HIV-positive men studied was dependent oninfection with HHV-8 alone, rather than on some other sexually transmittedor...Shuttle Mission's "Neurolab" To Study Nervous System
... dozens of snails and fish willgo where only a few men and women have gone before: into outer space. Thesnails and fish will travel aboard NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia, as part of aresearch project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study thedevelopment of gravity sensors in space by an...Adults Need To Increase Intake Of Folate; Some Women Should Take More
...folate is one, and choline. It says that all adult men and women need 400 micrograms of folate in their diet-- a level that many in the United States have not met, according to surveyscompleted before January of this year, when many foods began to be fortifiedwith folic acid, a synthetic form of folate. ......e diet quality. They examined the overall diet of men and women in the United States based on diet diver...es). The team examined the eating habits of 1,637 men and 1,576 women over two days. The statistics were taken from the 1995 Continuing Survey of Food In...