Overweight boys outweigh girls in stress response, study finds
...ow an equally greater level of sodium excretion to compensate for higher levels of blood pressure during stress, said Dr. Harshfield. What we are showing is that the mechanisms driving salt-sensitive hypertension are having more impact in males than females, he said, noting that larger studies are needed before...Study finds subtle brain damage in some HIV patients on drug therapy
...uld mean that alternate neurological pathways that compensate for the disruption have developed in the brains of the HIV-positive subjects. To assess where HIV-triggered damage might be occurring in the brain, Chao examined the relationship between the strength of CNV activity during the reaction-time test, wit...Northwestern Memorial helping to define best treatment for congestive heart failure
...is problem often results from the body's effort to compensate for heart muscle damage caused by a heart attack. To compensate for the damage, the heart gradually enlarges, eventually causing inefficient heart function and fail...Brain's 'daydream' network offers detection for Alzheimer's diagnosis
...ly; more optimistically, it might be an attempt to compensate for the memory problems that come with Alzheimer's...oblems are turning the network on in an attempt to compensate for the memory damage caused by normal aging or Alzheimer's," Lustig said. "The biggest, most obvio...Fat: It isnt always bad for the heart
...bodies of individuals with impaired circulation to compensate in the same way as the bodies of people who can grow their own blood vessels." Other than the obvious health advantages, patients may find the treatment beneficial because the easiest way to collect the stromal cells is through standard liposuction....Researchers to pinpoint relationship between obesity-associated diabetes and heart disease
...body for energy. "Up to 80 percent of obese people compensate for their insulin resistance by oversecreting insu... 15-20 percent, however, the pancreas is unable to compensate for insulin resistance and they become diabetic," says Boden, a Laura H. Carnell professor of medici...MIT reports new insights in visual recognition
...al circuitry in the human brain can use context to compensate for extreme levels of image degradations," Sinha said. Past studies of human behavior and the work of many artists have suggested that context plays a role in recognition. "What is novel about this work is that it provides direct evidence of context...Temperature and humidity can affect LASIK surgery results
.... "But they should make sure that their physicians compensate for temperature and humidity." Walter's co-researcher was Aaron W. Stevenson, a medical student at Wake Forest....OHSU researchers uncover genes involved in early stages of Alzheimer's disease
...identified in our study increase their activity to compensate for this damage, but unfortunately in the end they cannot keep up with the progression of Alzheimer's." A companion study recently published in the journal NeuroMolecular Medicine also found very similar gene expression differences in Alzheimer's di...Universit de Montral study shows superior sound-location skills in the blind
...zation and the use of different sensory systems to compensate for losses. Back in 1998, Nature published the team's study on near-space auditory mapping by blind people. Earlier this year, this same journal published another study by this group on superior tone discrimination abilities in the blind. The study p...New system translates improved diagnostic information to target radiation at tumors
...doses of radiation to tumors. The system can also compensate for how tumors change and shift between diagnosis and treatment, during treatment, between treatments and even as patients breathe. Based on advanced computer modeling, the image translation technique would facilitate a biological optimization pl...Binge drinking: red wine and alcohol have different effects on platelets
...neficial effects of diminished adhesion completely compensate for the increase in platelet aggregation. "Maybe drinking regularly two to five glasses a day results in inhibition of platelets," said de Lange, "but drinking large quantities of alcohol in a short period of time, like in our binge-drinking volunte......n the right hemisphere as well, acting as a way to compensate for deficiencies they may have in regions that are activated in typical readers. The brain scans also showed that recovery mechanisms, usually seen in pediatric dyslexia cases, are also working in adults brains. This suggests that unlike children l...New finding could make addiction treatment more effective
...calcium channels, so the cells in the thalamus may compensate by making more copies of the gene," said Godwin. "However, this overproduction of the gene did not lead to an increase in functional calcium channels and the cells still had disturbances in the channels, so the animals as a group tended to have disru...Workplace smoking bans help smokers cut back, says study
... of people assume smokers in smoke-free workplaces compensate for being without cigarettes while at work by smoking more at lunch, during breaks or after work but overall they don't. People are more likely to cut down or to give up cigarettes." Using data from Statistics Canada's comprehensive 2001 Canadian Co...800 calories a day less and women never missed them
...he big, high calorie menu items -- and they didn't compensate for lowered intake on the first day by eating more on the second day of the study." Rolls detailed the study results Monday, Nov. 15 at the annual meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity (NAASO) in Las Vegas. Her co-autho...Pet scans detect brain differences in people at risk for Alzheimer's
...ference may indicate that APOE- 4 carriers have to compensate for early damage done by Alzheimer's by switching to an alternate brain network to complete the task. It could also be that their different genetic makeup results in different patterns of brain activity. In previous studies, Dr Scarmeas has demonstr...New sampling method to track HIV-risk behavior
...th a mathematical model that weights the sample to compensate for the fact that it was obtained in a non-random ...no way of knowing how to adjust their estimates to compensate for voters they had missed. "Similarly, public health researchers had no reliable way before RDS to ...Brain activity reflects complexity of responses to other-race faces
...iment, which suggests that the conscious brain can compensate for unconscious prejudices, assessed participants' reaction to faces displayed either subliminally, for three-hundredths of a second, or supraliminally, for slightly more than half a second. The study, by authors at Harvard University, Yale Universit......der the terms of Kyoto, signatories are allowed to compensate for carbon dioxide emissions by stocking carbon in so-called 'sinks', of which forests are the most significant. Planting new woodland or extending old forests, and by managing them well, helps to reduce the concentration of carbon dioxide in the ai...