Decline in awareness and treatment of high blood pressure could pose a serious public health threat
...trolled reading of 140/90 mm Hg or below increased almost three-fold, from 10 percent to 29 percent. However, the trends changed in the early 1990s, according to the 1993 nationwidestudy by the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Evaluation and Treatment ofHigh Blood Pressure. This study reveals small,......giogram, 17.6 percent weregiven an angioplasty and almost 10.9 percent had heart bypass surgery. Thoserates, respectively, for patients in North America were 79.4 percent, 33.6percent, and 20.1 percent. The use of cardiac medications differed slightly between the regions. In LatinAmerica, patients were tr...Federal, private funding to establish inflammatory disease center at UNC
...said. "For example, we now know that gumdisease is almost as great a risk factor for premature labor and del...iveries by 18.2 percent,"he said. "This would save almost 32,000 lives a year and a billion dollars inintensive-care unit costs."...Statement from Dr. Claude Lenfant, director, NHLBI and Dr. Phillip Gorden, director, NIDDK
...ies areincreasing in the U.S. Above age 65 years, almost half of Americans haveabnormal glucose levels. Type 2 diabetes most often occurs in overweight or obese adults after the age of30 and typically is preceded by insulin resistance, which also is related tocoronary heart disease (CHD). Factors that cont...New HIV drug intervention cheap and effective
...ed HIVNET 012. The nevirapine regimen resulted in almost 50 percent fewer HIV cases in infants compared to a short-course AZT treatment. Results of the trial are also published in the current issue of The Lancet. "The results were pretty stunning," said Elliot Marseille, DrPH, MPP of Health Strategies I...Poor health is a major factor for early retirement, according to UCSF researchers
... showone in five retired early (before age 50) and almost half of those earlyretirees left their jobs for health reasons. UCSF researchers also found that Californians who retired early are more likelyto experience fair or poor health and are two and a half times more likely tolive in poverty than those w......nt had an LD. But amongplayers with one concussion almost 15 percent had an LD, and among those withtwo or more concussions 19 percent had an LD. "We don't know whether concussions cause learning disability, or players with alearning disability are more vulnerable to sustaining concussions," Dr. Collinssays...UNC-CH nutrition expert says nation should regulate some diet supplements
...lth benefits. By last year, the market had almost doubled to $12 billion and isprojected to increase to more than $14 billion in the year 2000. Unlike drugs,the compounds are mostly unregulated. With so much interest in supplements and so many Americans consumingthem, the federal government ...You have to break a few (hundred) eggs to make a good crystal
...ugh lysozyme has an atomicmass of 14,300 Daltons - almost 92 times that of the ordinary sugar that many ofus crystallized in elementary school science - it's a relative lightweight inthe protein world. To exclude impurities often found in commercial lysozyme preparations, Judge andhis team purified lysozyme...UI study suggests variable effects of fetal alcohol syndrome on brain
...ata compiled to date has been highly selective and almost biased toworst-case scenarios," Miller said, referring to the .30 blood alcoholconcentration. "Our findings suggest that moderate alcohol overexposure causesan increase in the number of axons, whereas high alcohol overexposure causes abreakdown, thus...Pacemaker for larynx allows patients to breathe easier
...ht backmy life and has helped me so much. I can do almost anything now," Burns said. The IPG puts out 12 stimulations per minute, which fits the average inhalationschedule of Burns. "She is able to entrain her breathing with the stimulated breaths of the IPGsubconsciously. She doesn't think about it. She j...Attitudes and social norms delay adolescents' 'first time'
...th-grade students from Texasabout 15 years of age, almost two-thirds of them female, who reported they hadnever had sex up to that time. They measured psychosocial factors anddemographics such as ethnicity and parental education. Then at around six-monthintervals across the next two years they asked the s...Study spotlights uniqueness of human brain
...boutthe human M pathway, which are currently based almost exclusively on studies ofmonkeys, were to take into account human specializations." Preuss added: "Neuroscientists naturally focus on the similarities betweenhumans and other animals in order to develop animal models of disease. And,there are many s...UK College of Medicine researchers study technologies to deliver drugs to the brain
...gh treatment with the drugs levodopa and carbidopa almost cancompletely restore normal movement to many with early Parkinson's disease, thetreatment gradually loses effectiveness as the disease progresses. "We expect clinical treatments based on the targeted delivery of drugsto specific sites in the...Keep taking the medicine, diabetes research warns
...t and the mortality rate among 'discontinuers' was almost 3 times higher than among those remaining on their treatment (a 2.9-fold increase). The results of this research underline the importance of the doctorpatient relationship in diabetes care. Successful treatment for type 2 diabetes must be highly indi...Drinking study shows many young men at risk
...sibly, a new University ofToronto study shows that almost a third of young men in the province risk theirhealth by drinking excessively. The survey of 2,776 Ontarians shows that 30 per cent of men under age 45 - and25 per cent overall - place their immediate and long-term health at risk byregularly exceedi...Claims of cardiovascular benefits of HRT may be premature
...y from cardiovascular disease - some indicating an almost fifty per cent risk reduction. The authors say that, based on their findings, reports suggesting beneficial effects of HRT during menopause are likely to have been confounded by the pre-existing differences in the health of users as opposed to non-u...Alcohol researchers confirm molecular culprit of alcohol-induced liver damage
...inuously over four weeks exhibited liver pathology almost seven times assevere as that in genetically selected mice without the TNF-alpha receptor(TNF-R1). "This major increase in our understanding of the mechanisms of liver injurybrings us one step closer to therapies for alcoholic liver disease," said En...Researchers find elevated cholesterol is risk factor for preeclampsia
...ional hypertension." The research team identified almost 16,000 women participating in the Nurses'Health St...roups was compared withsurvey-reported data on the almost 15,000 women in the original sample notreporting any hypertensive disorder of pregnancy. The resear...National Cancer Institute awards UNC-CH $5 million for unique prostate cancer studies
...erest in prostatetissue. "In this country, almost 40,000 men are still dying of advanced prostatecancer every year," Mohler said. "Since the 1940s when we learned that thecancer goes into remission when androgens are taken away, either by castrationor medical therapy, there has not been any signific...