New Study Finds Blacks Face 38 Percent Higher Stroke Risk
... have good data on the fact that blacks and whites differ instroke mortality, with blacks being more likely to die from stroke," said Dr.Wayne D. Rosamond, assistant professor of epidemiology at the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health. "What this studygives us is new da...UF Researcher Explores Complex Relationship Between Smoking And Fertility
... 19 the most likely to besmokers. The figures also differ by race: Among pregnant white women in 1996, 16.9percent reported smoking; for pregnant black women, the rate was 10.3percent; and among Hispanics, just 4.3 percent said they smoked. While smoking can cause some damage that is not reversible,...News Tips Friday, March 26, 1999
...normal for totalcholesterol to change with age and differ significantly by gender and race. What is normal for a three-year-old black female may be significantly lower orhigher than what is normal for a 12-year-old white male. The scientists callfor using age, race and gender-specific percentile values of ...Socioeconomic Status Linked To Enlarged Hearts, Heart Disease Risk
...ed left ventricles and consequent heart diseasemay differ for African American and white children and adolescents," they say. "In the African Americans, we found that low socioeconomic status was associatedwith greater hostility, and in turn, greater hostility was associated withgreater cardiovascular react......ir chromosomes can be analyzed for defects -- they differ in terms oftiming, the location from which fetal cells are withdrawn, and often theapproach itself. Amniocentesis has traditionally been performed at 15 to 18 weeks gestation. Thephysician inserts a thin needle through the abdomen, into the uterus an...In Battle For Attention, Left Side Of Brain Wins Over The Right, UF Researchers Find
..., because the brainsof left- and right-handers can differ in how they distribute functionsbetween the left and right hemispheres. "We asked the participants to use the laser pointer to indicate themiddle of the line segments," Barrett said. "I stood quietly to either the left orthe right of the line to see ...Children Of The Great Depression By Glen H. Elder, Jr.
...to passthrough the Depression decade, it would not differ much from that of the Oakland sample." As is so often the case in social research, this effort suffers fromlimited evidence on a single population. It is exceedingly difficult to traceout causal relationships, and the author's heroic analytic...Visual Environment Can Affect Even Healthy Eyes --- Nature Works With Nuture For Good Vision
...endently of one another. The studies reported here differ from previous primate experiments because former ones were conducted on one eye, using the other as a control. This is the first time that such treatments have been tested and then compared with a large population of monkeys with two normal eyes. ......nd uncertainties. The Company's actual results may differ materially from thoseanticipated in these forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause suchdifferences include, but are not limited to, those discussed under "RiskFactors" and elsewhere in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the yeare......ther interpersonal psychotherapy techniques should differ whentreating milder, compared with more severe, depressive episodes....Mechanism By Which Estradiol Protects Women From Heart Disease Suggested By Emory Team
...ion, and LDL isolated from these subjects did not differ in itsoxidizability in the presence of copper," the team reports. In contrast, the team noted that LDL isolated from the subjects undergoing in vitro fertilization was readily oxidized by peroxidases -- i...Duke Physicians: Clinicians Have Ethical Obligation To Consider Alternative Medicine
... health-relatedgoals of the two approaches may not differ radically, they said. For instance,both promote prevention of illness and relief of pain or suffering. Alternative therapies aren't necessarily foreign to clinicians adheringto the conventional practice of medicine. Adjustments to diet andrec...Advisory: Researchers Present Work At Annual Meeting
...trying to answer the question of how ECP users may differ from non-users," Brown said. He is also looking at how many patients have used ECPs more than once in the two-year period and why. Did they fail to use other contraceptive methods? Condom failure? Forced sexual intercourse? Brown's poster present...ONYX Pharmaceuticals Reports Phase II Clinical Trial Results At ASCO Meeting
...mberof risks and uncertainties. Actual events may differ from thecompany's expectations.In addition to the matters described in this pressrelease, the timeline for clinical activity, results of pending or futureclinical trials, including the trials of ONYX-015, and changes in the status ofthe company's col...Research Offers New Tool In Fight Against Prostate Cancer
...applicationhas been controversial because opinions differ on its validity and precisely howto interpret test results. The U-M researchers found that patients whose PSA levels declined at least 50percent after eight weeks of chemotherapy survived for 91 weeks (median),compared with 38 weeks for those whose P......alth care. Protease inhibitor use did not differ significantly when patients weregrouped by gender, race or age, although injection drug users were slightly lesslikely to receive protease inhibitors. Further, the large declines in mortalityrates were seen regardless of gender, race, age or HIV tra......l as for children in Europe,wheretreatment methods differ from the United States. To her surprise, however,no one had looked into the matter in this country since a 1979 study by theFood and Drug Administration. At the time, technical limitations preventedthe FDA from measuring doses from fluoroscopy, and t...