NCEP issues major new cholesterol guidelines
...d pressure, treatment for high blood pressure, and cigarette smoking. ATP III recommends use of the tool for p... as strong a contributor to early heart disease as cigarette smoking," said Grundy. "In addition, the insulin resistance that goes along with the syndrome is on...UCLA-led study first to show green tea helps prevent chronic gastritis
... differences in age, gender, education, body mass, cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption. Incidence of stomach cancer is second only to lung cancer worldwide. Thirty-eight percent of stomach cancer cases in the world occur in China, where it remains the most common cancer in both sexes....Sleepyheads, snorers face risk of stroke
...s for heart disease and stroke: age, race, gender, cigarette smoking, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and diabetes. They took these variables into consideration in their latest study and found that the risk for stroke was independently and significantly associated with daytime sleepiness, average hours ...In a new observational analysis, Risedronate significantly reduced nonvertebral fracture risk
...ily history of fracture, low bone mineral density, cigarette use, and race. Studies show that among postmenopausal women with osteoporosis who experience a spinal fracture, one out of five will suffer their next spinal fracture within just one year, potentially leading to a fracture cascade. Fractures can pro...New antipsychotic drugs combined with nicotine patch help schizophrenics quit smoking
..., checking carbon monoxide levels (a by-product of cigarette smoke), Schizophrenics and Smoking)and found a substantial reduction in carbon monoxide levels in patients who were prescribed the newer medications," George said. "People on the more traditional medications actually increased their rate of smok...Smoking among teen-agers increases risk for anxiety disorders
...t associated with increased risk for initiation of cigarette smoking during early adulthood." The study has im...to stop smoking cigarettes and to avoid initiating cigarette use." Interviewing mothers as well as the adolescents themselves, Dr. Johnson and colleagues tra...Study of school 'connectedness' identifies adolescents at risk
...ially changeable factors: declining health status, cigarette use, increasing school nurse visits, and lack of extracurricular involvement. Identifying these factors is the first step toward developing school-based prevention strategies that are targeted correctly to those at the highest behavioral and health ...Investigational drug study may determine if lung cancer is preventable in cigarette smokers
... study of an investigational drug that may prevent cigarette smokers from developing lung cancer. Cigarette...se the amount of carcinogens produced from inhaled cigarette smoke. The principal investigator for the study is Raymond C. Bergan, M.D., assistant professor ...Passive smoking at work increases rate of sick leave among employees
Workers forced to breathe in their colleagues' cigarette smoke are significantly more likely to take sick leave and require medical attention, shows a study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. A health survey of all officers in the Hong Kong Police force showed that the longer officers wer...Castagnolis discover compound in tobacco that may protect against Parkinson's disease
...e agent among the hundreds of compounds present in cigarette smoke," said Donato Di Monte, director of Basic Research at the Parkinson's Institute in Sunnyvale, Calif. The discovery in the Castagnolis' lab, he said, "provides a critical clue for the development of drugs that may directly reproduce the neuropro...New quit strategy offers smokers more pleasure, less risk
...he bloodstream and the pleasure smokers get from a cigarette lasts longer. As a result, smokers may light up less frequently. Blocking the enzyme also prevents activation of carcinogenic substances in tobacco smoke. "Smoking is a regulated behavior," Sellers said. "People will not let their nicotine levels go ...Drug trends among American teens
...0th- and 12th-grades. The continuing decline in cigarette smoking among the younger teens was some other favorable news, according to the investigators. [Those findings are reported in detail in a separate press release.] On the negative side of the ledger, the use of MDMA ("ecstasy"), which is one of t...Cigarette smoking among American teens
...NN ARBOR---The proportion of teens who are current cigarette smokers continued to decline gradually in 1999, ac...ociated with pack-a-day smoking." Disapproval of cigarette smoking also has risen a bit since 1996 in the case of the eighth- and 10th-graders, and since 1997 ...Impotence may be early warning of heart disease
... least one risk factor for heart disease including cigarette smoking, elevated total cholesterol levels, high blood pressure, diabetes or a family history of heart disease. Treadmill exercise testing found signs of heart disease in 28 of the 50 men. Twenty of the men subsequently underwent angiography, wh...More bad news for cocaine users: Drug can triple risk of aneurysm
...nt had high cholesterol levels and 95 percent were cigarette smokers. "The study provides evidence of further risk of cardiac damage from cocaine use, and suggests that cocaine use causes blood vessel damage and accelerates atherosclerosis," says Satran. "Furthermore, we do not believe this damage is reversib......he lung and bronchus and corresponding degree of cigarette smoking, and percentage of high-school graduates. ...CHD and cancer of lung and bronchus suggests that cigarette smoking is one of the potential candidates in the differences among CHD mortality rates," said Dr....Where you live may help predict risk of early death from heart disease
...rchers found that states with the highest rates of cigarette smoking -- Kentucky and Tennessee -- also had the ...heart disease deaths. The researchers say that if cigarette smoking declined in those states the number of early deaths from heart disease would also decline. ...Alcohol consumption triggers free-radical damage in the body
...ies. One previous study showed that, like alcohol, cigarette smokingalso fuels free radical activity in the bod...estion ofwhether excessive alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking - habits often seenin the same individuals - compound each other's effects in their attack o...University of Pittsburgh study finds that simple test spots early signs of heart disease in women
...cification. In combination with high LDLc levels, cigarette smoking among women wasa powerful predictor of aortic and coronary calcification. Women with high LDLc levels and a low HDLc were at high risk of havinghigh calcium scores, 38 percent, versus only 4 percent for those with low LDLcand high HDLc. Amo...Cholesterol lowering in elderly reduces heart disease and strokes
...y also have other CHD risk factors. These include cigarette smoking, highblood pressure, physical inactivity, overweight, and diabetes. *For seniors without CHD who need to lower a high cholesterol, the firstline of treatment should be the adoption of the healthy life habits notedabove--eating a diet ...