Women less likely to get quality heart attack care
...diovascular Center, found a significant difference between the treatment women received before and after the ...t the new study is the first to show a correlation between this failure and mortality. "We owe women heart attack patients a full examination of the factors t...Is your job giving you a heart attack? Occupational health conference answers that, and more
...eas: the changing nature of work; the relationship between working conditions, social class and social inequa...diovascular disease research; and the relationship between working conditions, social class and social inequality as determinants of cardiovascular disease ris...Decreased levels of 'good' cholesterol in children with Progeria may cause premature heart disease
...d atherosclerosis. "All children with Progeria die between the ages of 6 and 20 years from heart failure or stroke," said Leslie Gordon, MD, PhD, lead author of the study, Medical Director of the Progeria Research Foundation (PRF), and assistant professor, Tufts University School of Medicine. "Studying heart...Violence exposure and traumatic stress reactions can lead to poor health in children
The link between health problems and children in low income, single-mother families is not surprising; these children are also more apt to be exposed to violence and maltreatment within the community and their families. A study in the March issue of The Journal of ...Allergen exposure in inner cities varies throughout the U.S.
... Inner City Asthma Study examined the relationship between indoor allergen exposure, skin test reactivity and...researchers did not find this kind of relationship between dust mites and asthma, their findings do suggest that children allergic and exposed to dog and cat a...Study suggests smoking while pregnant may increase chromosomal abnormalities in fetal cells
...researchers found that when comparing genetic data between smokers and nonsmokers (controls) there were important differences for the proportion of structural chromosomal abnormalities (smokers: 12.1 percent; controls: 3.5 percent) and to a lesser degree for the proportion of metaphases (a phase of cell divi...Emory Study finds HIV is not an independent risk factor for severe heart disease
... stress test) at GradyMemorial Hospital in Atlanta between January 2001 and December 2001. The patients were ...la. "In fact, therewas no significant relationship between angiographically significant CAD andHAART, CD4 count, or HIV viral load." The Emory researchers conc...Mouse gene shows new mechanism behind cardiac infarction in man
...g will spur further research into the relationship between the protein and cardiac infarction. Hopefully it will offer a new therapeutic technique for the treatment of atherosclerosis and thus reduce the risk of cardiac infarction....Emotional memory study reveals evidence for a self-reinforcing loop
...llowed a short time interval, for example minutes, between encoding of the memory and retrieval. Hence, they could not distinguish between the process called consolidation -- in which memories are being established -- and retrieval. Also, ...Cigarette smoke worsens respiratory infections in infants
...hild lives with a smoker could mean the difference between the sniffles and the intensive care unit. RSV infection is common in children but sometimes can be hard for parents to recognize. By two years of age, 95 percent of all children have been exposed to RSV, but the symptoms can range from a mild cold al...Simple question from your doctor can help identify your risk for breast cancer
...scussion took place. As disparities were observed between minority and white women, it is suggested that min...factors that may have an impact on this discussion between patient and doctor may include brevity of patient visits or relevance to the actual ailment for whic...Pregnant women should exercise to keep depression away
...ork leave for mothers-to-be. While the association between exercise and significant health benefits for pregnant women is shown here, the relationship has not yet been established as causal....Even mild depression increases long-term mortality in heart failure
...Center researchers have found a strong association between depression and a higher long-term risk of death fo...ile this and other studies have demonstrated links between depression and worse outcomes for patients with cardiovascular disease, the mechanisms behind the co...Gender gap for lung cancer rates narrowing
...nce, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database between 1974 and 1999. Researchers found that the incidence of lung cancer in men reached a peak in 1984, when 72.5 of every 100,000 men had the disease, then declined to 47 per 100,000 men in 1991. In sharp contrast, the incidence of lung cancer in women ...Laughter helps blood vessels function better
...previous studies, which suggested there was a link between mental stress and the narrowing of blood vessels. ...0 non-smoking, healthy volunteers, equally divided between men and women, whose average age was 33. The participants had normal blood pressure, cholesterol and...News briefs from the journal CHEST, March 2005
...ldren with LTA who received IV sodium biocarbonate between January 1999 and November 2003. Under hospital protocol, children with LTA who had a pH of less than 7.15 and remained in respiratory distress following treatment with continuous nebulization, IV magnesium sulfate, and IV salbutamol, received sodium...Researchers discover link between insulin and Alzheimer's
...generation. While scientists have suspected a link between diabetes and Alzheimer's disease, this is the first study to provide evidence of that connection. By studying a gene abnormality in rats that blocks insulin signaling in the brain, researchers found that insulin and IGF I and II are all expressed in...Severe injuries on the rise among children and adolescents riding motorbikes
... (the legal driving age in Ohio) were hospitalized between 1995 and 2001. Of the 85 percent of patients in which events surrounding the injury were documented, 35.5 percent rode in streets, and 53.9 did not wear helmets. One died. Those who did wear helmets sustained significantly less severe injuries. Nine ...Implanted devices detect high-risk heart failure patients
...device, the researchers found a strong correlation between the heart rate variability changes within two week...ials will be needed to tease out the relationships between different patient characteristics, the use of the new technology, and patient outcomes, Gilliam said...Tobacco industry pays scientists to challenge secondhand smoke's link to infant death risk
The link between secondhand smoke and sudden infant death has been ...counts the significance of research showing a link between exposure to secondhand cigarette smoke and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). The article has been...