Late developers may run higher risk of infection than sexually mature younger teens
...nfection, while the use of emergency contraception doubled the risk. Sex during a period also increased the risk of bacterial vaginosis. Smoking conferred protection against HPV. But sexual maturity had a significant impact on all three infections. Young women, whose breasts were more developed, more sexual...Envisat enables first global check of regional methane emissions
... amount of methane in the atmosphere has more than doubled since pre-industrial times, an increase attributed to human activities including energy production and farming. The overall global source strength of methane is relatively well known," Frankenberg adds. "However the spatial distribution of the emiss...Community-based care beats standard clinic in lowering heart
...ces in an easily accessible, community environment doubled the success rate of African-American patients achieving blood pressure and cholesterol goals, compared to those who received care at a traditional clinic, according to a report in a special disparities themed issue of Circulation: Journal of the Amer...Simple blood test may help to predict cardiovascular risk in older women
... Women in the fourth quartile (highest WBC) had a doubled risk for coronary heart disease death compared with women in the first quartile (lowest WBC), after statistical adjustment for other risk factors, the researchers found. "Women in the upper quartile also had a 40 percent higher risk for nonfatal myo...Obesity among African-American stroke survivors increases risk factors for recurrent stroke
...ent predictor of stroke occurrence, obesity nearly doubled the odds of having a metabolic syndrome compared with the odds of those with a normal BMI having DM, HTN and DL. Furthermore, increasing BMI had a negative association with blood pressure and glycemic [blood sugar] control." "Our data support the ass...Age shouldn't be a factor in kidney transplantation
...requires careful matching. Wake Forest Baptist has doubled its number of transplants using ECD kidneys. "We are matching based on age, weight and kidney function," said Stratta. "An older kidney has less capacity, and someone who weighs less doesn't need as much capacity. It is a concept that is in evolution...Serum sodium level is a major predictor of a poor prognosis for heart failure patients
...t a quarter of patients with severe heart failure, doubled death rates within 60 days of hospital discharge. Serum sodium levels are easily measured through routine blood tests. "Even a minor decrease in a person's serum sodium level levels that are now dismissed by physicians had a major impact on mortal...UIC offers new weight loss surgery for obese teens
...ght and obesity among children and adolescents has doubled in the past two decades. "It's clear that obesity is a costly public health issue in the United States when it's estimated that more than five percent of the population is severely overweight," said Dr. Allen Browne, associate professor of surgery an...Rheumatoid arthritis linked to excess risk of congestive heart failure
...ers concluded that the odds for developing CHF are doubled among RA patients. The study's subjects were all residents of Olmsted County in Rochester, Minnesota. Using a county-wide medical records linkage system, the researchers identified 575...... sickness. In the age band 25 - 34, the percentage doubled between 1971 and 1981, and among those of 35 44 t...n 1971 and 1991. For the 45 54 age band, it also doubled between 1981 and 1991. But the study argues that this is likely to reflect increases in both perman...Vaginal hysterectomy leads to better outcomes than abdominal surgery
...aroscopy-assisted vaginal hysterectomies more than doubled between 1994 and 1999, from 13 percent of all vaginal hysterectomies to 28 percent. "Where vaginal hysterectomy is not possible, a laparoscopic approach may avoid the need for an abdominal hysterectomy," Johnson says, but he stresses that more resear...Overweight, boozy and depressed: Why we need healthy new year's resolutions
...same age. Numbers of women drinking alcohol almost doubled in the 1990s, with those in top jobs and with high...2 per cent from 1958. Men claiming to be depressed doubled to 14 per cent of 1970 babies as compared with the 1958 group. Hardly anyone born in 1946 took drugs...Few Americans are aware they have chronic kidney disease
...st decade the number of people with kidney failure doubled and the number starting dialysis or having a first kidney transplant increased by 50 percent, so that more than 400,000 Americans are now being treated for kidney failure at a cost of $25 billion annually. In contrast to these dramatic increases, the...Risk of tuberculosis doubles in first year of HIV infection
...he mines, or died. Tuberculosis incidence not only doubled within the first year of HIV infection but also increased four-fold after two years, with a further slight increase in those infected for longer periods of up to seven years. Sonnenberg and colleagues explained that several characteristics of the gol...Few Americans aware they have chronic kidney disease
...st decade the number of people with kidney failure doubled and the number starting dialysis or having a first kidney transplant increased by 50 percent, so that more than 400,000 Americans are now being treated for kidney failure at a cost of $25 billion annually. In contrast to these dramatic increases, the...Study finds lemons, lilac among top 10 smells that predict Alzheimer's Disease
...number of Americans with the disease has more than doubled since 1980....Research by scientists affiliated with the Earth Institute at Columbia University
...G Chiu and Fairbanks present new research that has doubled the timeline over which radiocarbon dating can be performed, and shown a flaw in current radiocarbon dating techniques that has skewed previous fossil dating hundreds to thousands of years in the past. The research shows that a new type of mass sectr...Re-analysis of large trials shows greatest benefit of chemotherapy in ER-negative tumors
...s demonstrates that chemotherapy use has more than doubled survival rates in women with ER-negative tumors."...Screening for genital herpes should be targeted
...wingly pass the virus to sexual partners and has a doubled risk of contracting HIV from unprotected sex. Screening for HSV-2 has become possible with the advent of a blood test that can detect antibodies to the virus. A committee of sexually transmitted disease (STD) experts in California considered the p......eaters increased by five and the subsidized eaters doubled from 2 to 4. The largest increase occurred among those paying full price for breakfast. The following year, the school increased the breakfast price by 50 cents. The average number of breakfasters decreased to sixty-seven, which was still twice ...