Studies examine risk factors and potential consequences associated with prehypertension
...ions, and 13.7 percent of deaths. Prehypertension alone accounted for 3.4 percent of hospitalizations, 6.5 percent of nursing home stays, and 9.1 percent of deaths," the authors write. "Our results confirm the substantial public health consequences of prehypertension," the researchers conclude. "If preh...PITT, OHSU: When early life stress occurs determines its impact later
...cally, these animals spent significantly more time alone than animals in the control group and limited their social contact. They also developed self-comforting behaviors, such as thumb or toe sucking. However, when separated monkeys were paired with an adoptive mother within the first month, all of these...Scientists reveal significant behavioral impacts of early life stress, study therapies
...cally, these animals spent significantly more time alone than animals in the control group and limited their social contact. They also developed self-comforting behaviors, such as thumb or toe sucking. However, when separated monkeys were paired with an adoptive mother within the first month, all of these ...Promise of stem cells amplified
... earlier study, Berhstock's group showed that GDNF alone could restore function to the neurons affected by Parkinson's. In this earlier study, the researchers delivered GDNF to the brains of patients using a pump and a small catheter implanted in the putamen, a brain area severely stricken by Parkinson's ...High-fat diets hammer memory, more than a waistline worry
...task than did rats exposed to intermittent hypoxia alone or fed the high fat, refined carbohydrate diet alone. "Our new findings provide the first support for the hypothesis that diet can modify an individual's vulnerability to cognitive impairments caused by these brief periods of lo...Breast cancer in Asian Americans is rising faster than in any other ethnic group
...se, Korean and Vietnamese. And Filipino Americans, alone among the Asian American subgroups, saw a 2.5-percent increase in their death rate from cancer. "These findings underscore the tremendous heterogeneity among Asian Americans, and the importance of looking at each Asian ethnic group separately," said ...Estrogen or stimulating environment boost memory
...ce not treated with estrogen, enrichment treatment alone significantly improved spatial memory. The behavioral changes were also associated with alterations in a part of the brain critical for memory. These data suggest that estrogen benefits mice raised in un-stimulating environments more than those raise...IDSA offers policy Rx for influenza vaccine shortage
...patients that our tool box is empty? Market forces alone are not going to solve this problem. We need innovative federal policy to protect public health."...Researcher says screenings vital to reduce stroke rate
...t of participants who were treated with medication alone had strokes. In the surgery group, the incidence was 5.1 percent a 53 percent reduction. Recently, ACST (Asympotomatic Carotid Stenosis Trial), a similar study of more than 3,000 patients in Europe, found the same results. Both studies look...Two novel agents work synergistically to treat lung cancer in animal experiment
...mors. They found that mild doses of each treatment alone had no impact on the tumors, but then they looked at the effect of the combination. To deliver the IGFBP-3 inhibitor to the mice, the agent was hooked on to a viral vector, and injected directly -- and just once -- into the lung tumor. Then the mice ...Mayo Clinic research shows stroke rehabilitation best served by physical training
...treatment at all. Results showed physical training alone had the most positive effect on recovery from brai...rown. "The fact that we've shown physical training alone changes recovery behavior is very interesting, because it makes the point that the stroke rehabilita...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for October 2004 (second issue)
... either the inhaled steroid fluticasone propionate alone or in combination with the long-acting beta2-agoni...ean body mass increase by 2.3 kg with testosterone alone and by 3.3 kg in the combined testosterone and resistance training group. Both groups receiving tes...New study demonstrates co-administration
...d travel throughout the body.WelChol is indicated, alone or in combination with a statin, as an adjunct to ...alone. In clinical trials, when WelChol was given alone in addition to a low-fat diet and exercise, it was shown to reduce LDL (bad) cholesterol by an avera...Exercise prevents Parkinson's symptoms in lab model mimicking human form of the disease
...quent study, the St. Jude team found that exercise alone could account for virtually all of the protective effect of the enriched environment. "Future studies might show that sustained exercise can also stop the progression of Parkinson's disease in adult humans," said Ciaran F...Sealing corneal incisions with a drop of chemistry, BU researchers develop gel for cataract surgery
...mmHg, respectively). Incisions that had been left alone or that had been sutured withstood pressures approximately two times (24 8 mmHg) and four times (54 16 mmHg) greater, respectively, than those in the normal human eye. The team speculates that the physical barrier that the hydrogel forms on the ey...Dartmouth study suggests caution against using certain drugs to unclog heart arteries
... if no there is no angiogenesis, mechanical injury alone will still stimulate smooth muscle growth," Simons said. This duality could make both angiogenesis-promoting and angiogenesis-suppressing drugs ineffective in preventing renarrowing of arteries following angioplasty or stenting. "In fact, pro-angio...New study shows sinus surgery can improve chronic fatigue
...People who are not getting better with medications alone should consult their ear, nose and throat doctor to consider alternatives including surgery."...Eating more soy-rich foods could reduce spread of breast cancer UU research
... western world, with 950 women in Northern Ireland alone suffering from the disease per year. "But among South-East Asian populations, and in areas where soy products are traditionally consumed in high amounts in the diet, incidence of breast cancer is low. "Soy contains naturally occurring hormone-like c...Chicken pox vaccine saves $$, protects whole population
...pox vaccine. But the yearly hospital cost savings alone are enough to pay for a large portion of the total cost of vaccinating all American kids against chicken pox, Davis says. The study shows that the national rate of hospital discharges for chicken pox and related complications dropped 74 percent in th...Taking apart a hurricane: Multi-sensor Envisat sees through Frances
...eviously, researchers used sea surface temperature alone to estimate the role of the upper ocean thermal conditions on hurricane intensification. The problem with this is that the sea surface temperature measured by AATSR or comparable satellite instruments may not by themselves show these warm upper ocean...