Statement from Dr. Claude Lenfant, director, NHLBI and Dr. Phillip Gorden, director, NIDDK
...e 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease, affects approximately 90percent of the 10.3 million Americans diagnosed with diabetes. An additional 5.4million persons also are estimated to have type 2 diabetes but remainundiagnosed. Rates of diabetes and milder forms of glucose abnormalities areincreasi...Hormone linked to body weight may help regulate blood pressure
...hormone manufactured in fat cells of the body. It affects foodintake and energy expenditures by interacting with a receptor in the brain. Previous studies involving mice found that those who are missing the gene thatregulates leptin production become fat. When they are given leptin, they eatless and lose we...UI study suggests variable effects of fetal alcohol syndrome on brain
...searchersto investigate how fetal alcohol syndrome affects the corpus callosum inmacaques, primates that closely resemble humans. The team analyzed 15post-puberty macaques affected to varying degrees by maternal alcoholconsumption during gestation. The findings were published in the September 13issue of the ...Press Conference set to announce cervical cancer prevention program
...00 women annually worldwide and disproportionately affects the poorest,most vulnerable women in many parts of the world. As the leading cancer killeramong women in the majority of developing countries, cervical cancer generallystrikes women in midlife when they have completed their child bearing and areplayi...... to developand test new approaches." Schizophrenia affects up to 1 percent of the world's population, including about2.7 million Americans. It has a significant impact on the lives of patients andtheir loved ones. Anti-psychotic medications often have unpleasant side effectsand do not help all patients. T...UK College of Medicine researchers study technologies to deliver drugs to the brain
... According to the NINDS, Parkinson's disease affects more than 500,000Americans. It is a neurological disease, most often of older people, thatprogressively impairs control of body movement and often leads eventually torigid immobility. Symptoms of Parkinson's disease include tremors, stiff limbs,slo...NICHD funded researchers discover gene for Rett syndrome
...October 1999 NatureGenetics. "Rett syndrome affects girls," said Huda Zoghbi, M.D., the study'ssenior ...reatment,for this disorder." Rett syndrome affects roughly 1 in every 10,000 females, Dr. Zoghbisaid. Except for a few rare families in which more tha...Female-specific genetic factors that contribute to emotional behaviors
...ingly, this chromosomic region (also called locus) affects female but not male rats. Furtherinvestigation of this locus may give clues as to the biological andgender-related mechanisms involved in the development of emotional disorders. Full reference: A Ramos, M-P Moisan, F Chaouloff, C Mormède, P M...Genetic engineering changes the behavioral and hormonal response to stress
... alteration of the2-adrenoceptor subtype c in mice affects the development of behavioral despairand stress-induced increases in plasma corticosterone levels. Mol Psychiatry1999;4:443-452. Researchers from the Orion Corporation, Turku, Finland, contributed to thestudy....Researchers find elevated cholesterol is risk factor for preeclampsia
...sorder for which we have no treatment and one that affects thousands ofwomen every year," says Ravi Thadhani, MD, MPH, of the MGH Renal Unit and theChanning Laboratory at BWH, the study's first author. "We need to learn moreabout exactly which lipids are involved in this observation, but it's a firststep tow...Normal cellular enzyme becomes marker for Alzheimer's disease
...yet know what causes this devastating disease that affects an estimated 4million people in the United States. A research team supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) examinedthe brains of people who had died from AD and found abnormally large amounts ofthe cellular signpost--a normal enzyme in t...For early detection of Alzheimer's, loved ones know best
...nes know a patient best. Alzheimer'sdisease, which affects more than 4 million Americans, creates problems withmemory, speech and perception. Among adult Americans, it is the fourth leadingcause of death. John C. Morris, M.D., recently presented a paper on the early diagnosis ofAlzheimer's disease during a s......en and 28 percent of women.Obstructive sleep apnea affects approximately four percent of women and ninepercent of men between the ages of 30 and 60 years. "Until proven otherwise, we should simply double the numbers for the prevalenceof sleep disorders in the United States and say that a problem we have cal...Researchers discover potential new approach to treating cystic fibrosis
...rosis, could lead to atreatment for a disease that affects an estimated 30,000 people in this country,according to Juan Alvarez MD PhD and Steven Freedman MD PhD of Beth IsraelDeaconess Medical Center in Boston. Alvarez and Freedman reported their findings today at the Cystic FibrosisFoundation's annual scie......or of one of the studies. "Nutrition, ultimately, affects thevery function or cognitive well-being of the brain." Sullivan based herstudy, funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, onin vivo or living patients.WE is a potentially fatal disorder caused by thiamin deficiency. WEusual...How alcohol may harm your baby's brain
... third trimester. "Alcohol is a 'dirty drug' as it affects a variety of systems in the brain,"said James R. W...st, is mucheasier to study because it specifically affects the absorption of aneurotransmitter called dopamine. Researchers discovered that high levels of alco...UI-led study indicates surgery is the best treatment for severe Bell's palsy paralysis
...d by the herpessimplex virus type I. The condition affects about 40,000 Americans per year.Although medication will help most individuals fully or almost fully recoverfrom Bell's palsy paralysis, about 10 to 15 percent of patients will not recoverunless additional measures are taken. The study had three rela......to occur in children, it rarely strikesadults, but affects one in 6,000 children under the age of five. It usually isfatal -- the long-term survival rate is only 15 percent. While cure rates forother children's cancers have improved dramatically in recent years,neuroblastoma and brain tumors remain serious t...Vegans likely short on calcium, experts say
...unfortunatelyfamiliar dowager's hump. Osteoporosis affects 35 million Americans, four out of five of whom are women,at an annual cost of $13 billion....Cocaine acts on central nervous system, causing vessel constriction, rapid heartbeat
... colleagues wanted to testwhether cocaine directly affects the central nervous system. The UT Southwesternresearchers reported their findings in a recent issue of Circulation. "We are taught in medical school that cocaine stimulates thecardiovascular system by blocking nonadrenaline uptake in the ner...