Prevalence of HIV among childbearing women has declined in New York
...virus (HIV) infection among childbearing women has declined in New York from 1988 through 2000, according to an article in the May issue of The Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. According to information in the article, infection with HIV has increasingly occurred...Iron-deficient infants score worse on cognitive and motor tests as teens
...conditions started lower than their peers and then declined further. "It looks like good iron status helps buffers a bad environment," Lozoff said, "but chronic, severe iron deficiency, combined with poor family conditions, really hurts children's test performance." Since this study followed children through ...Vaccine reduces racial disparity in incidence of childhood pneumonia and meningitis
...the incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease has declined dramatically, but the impact of vaccination on racial disparities in incidence of pneumococcal disease has not been known. Brendan Flannery, Ph.D., of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, and colleagues analyzed data from the Acti...Advances emerging in hepatitis management
... did not know if they were tested, and 0.4 percent declined to answer. Among the HCV-infected patients who we... know the results of the HIV test, and 0.2 percent declined to answer. "Although the majority of our HCV-infected patients have been tested for HIV, there is...GI health affected by consumption of coffee and carbonated drinks
... cigarette smoking, the prevalence of liver injury declined with increasing coffee drinking and caffeine consumption, though the protective effect was greater for caffeine intake. The correlation was consistent across subgroups when defined by individual risk factors for liver injury, as well as when applied...Increasing co-payments may reduce use of essential and non-essential medications
...s. "Use of antidepressants by depressed patients declined by 8 percent; use of antihypertensives by hypertensive patients decreased by 10 percent. Larger reductions were observed for arthritis patients taking NSAIDs (27 percent) and allergy patients taking antihistamines (31 percent). Patients with diabe...Blood pressure control poor in elderly, says Northwestern researcher
... diastolic) was around 34 percent. Control rates declined with advancing age, with a more dramatic decline in women. Among those 80 and older with hypertension, only 32 percent of men and 24 percent of women had their blood pressure under control. "The elderly are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. po...African-Americans more likely to die of colon cancer
... While the incidence and mortality rate of CRC has declined among Caucasians, incidence and mortality among African-Americans, particularly men, has increased. These racial differences are poorly understood. Several studies point to age, advanced stage of disease at diagnosis, inaccurate staging, and differen...Parkinson's caregivers at risk for deteriorating health
...n's patients found that physical and mental health declined and strain increased dramatically over 10 years. The investigators also found that there were predictors early in the course of caregiving that might identify who was at greatest risk. "As an example, caregivers who had bad health and depression to s...News briefs from the journal Chest, June 2004
...of asthma-associated health services have recently declined in Mexico, suggesting that the epidemic of new ast...until 1997, whereby the number of services sharply declined through 2001. The number of total health services followed a similar trend. In addition, age-adjus...New UNC, EPA 9/11 study suggests that pollutants posed small cancer risks
...ted over the next 100 days, during which time PAHs declined slowly to normal levels." An estimated 11,000 tons of fine particles with diameters less than 2.5 microns were released, the scientist said. Such microscopic sooty fragments are of concern to the public health community because they penetrate deep in...Younger men lead surge in Viagra use, study reveals
... In addition, use for an underlying medical reason declined in all age groups over the five years. These findings suggest increased use of Viagra as an enhancement or recreational agent. Overall, use increased from 0.8% of the sample population in 1998 to 1.4% in 2002, an 84% increase. Men 56 years a...Children walk nearly as much as their grandparents did
...eased slightly, but the mean time spent travelling declined a little. There has been a decline in the proportion of 10/11 year olds allowed to travel around unaccompanied, but even today over 50% of trips are taken without an adult, In all, the researchers collected 160 hours of taped interviews and data o...Chicken pox vaccine saves $$, protects whole population
...oup targeted for vaccination. But all other groups declined too. "We're getting to kids before their peak risk years," says Davis. Meanwhile, a graph showing chicken pox-related hospital costs in constant 2001 dollars shows costs hovering near $160 million from 1993 to 1997, and then four years of marked dec...Blood pressure drugs may slow deterioration of Alzheimer's
...hose who took the brain-penetrating ACE inhibitors declined only slightly over the year. The skills of those who took the other drugs declined significantly. At the beginning of the study, the participants had an average score of about 20 o...Experts debate benefits, dangers of chlorine in C&EN point-counterpoint
...shows that dioxins emissions and body burdens have declined over 90 percent since 1970 while PVC manufacture has tripled - and most of that manufacture goes to building and construction." Despite the long-standing and passionate controversy over chlorine, Collins and Howlett managed to agree on at least one ...Longterm immune memory cells cells do not develop during chronic viral infections
... but the chronic memory cells failed to divide and declined in number over time. When the chronic memory CD8 T cells were transferred back into chronically infected mice where they re-encountered antigen, the cells began to recover. The scientists also compared other important qualities of memory T cells, ...Good fats decrease multiple heart disease risk factors
...out 18 percent. After six weeks on the diet, CRP declined after both the LA and ALA diets but more so on the ALA diet. Some participants had a dramatic reduction in CRP. Kris-Etherton notes, "It will be important to determine whether there is a genetic basis for this different CRP response. "...Study reveals link between cardiovascular risk and cognitive decline
...eing very healthy [mentally]. So in somebody who's declined this much, most people would be concerned." Yaffe points out that, on the positive side, the risk of dementia might be seen as an additional impetus for the prevention and treatment the metabolic syndrome. "What if you identified these people [...