This Week's Forecast May Be A Heart Attack
...t, this international study focuses on trends,risk factors and treatments for heart disease and stroke. The findings suggest that at least with regard to temperature, some preventivemeasures might reduce the risk of heart attack when temperatures turn unusuallycold. For instance, bundling up for winter we...Study Reveals Possible Link Between Osteoarthritis, Diet
...nce in arthritis wouldbe important since most risk factors for the condition either cannot bemodified, such as aging and heredity, or are changed only with difficulty, suchas losing weight. Future plans involve re-examining study participants, doing moreextensive dietary assessments and studying bot......ng sexual intercourse. Even after controlling for factors such as age,race, education, and other AIDS defining conditions, patients treated withprotease inhibitors were significantly more likely to report engaging in riskysex. There were significant differences, however, by sexual preference. Within the ...Now Is Time To Design Brain-Saving Drugs Specifically For Children, UCSF Neurologist Says
...ain development may be influenced by environmental factors likecaffeine. --Isabelle Rapin of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, shows howfunctional and structural images of brain abnormalities that are linked tolanguage disorders make it possible to sort out the contributions of inheritancevers......6 percent of the patients who received both growth factors achievedthe optimal number of stem cells for permitting rapid re-growth of blood cellsafter transplantation, as opposed to 46 percent of those receiving just G-CSF. (Patients who receive an adequate but not optimal stem cell dose have longerrecovery ......cians should aggressively manageheart disease risk factors in heart attack patients with diabetes or glucoseintolerance. They should also consider recommending cholesterol-loweringtherapy for these patients, he adds. The study's other co-authors are Ronald B. Goldberg, M.D.; Margot Mellies, M.D.;Lemuel A. M......esearchers adjusted for all ofthe traditional risk factors for heart attack and stroke, such as smoking, high...pressure. "Elevation of heart disease risk factors is more common in the elderly,"Burke explained. "It may be difficult for clinicians to identify olde...Factors Other Than Race Explain Whether Men In Study Had Health Insurance And Received Health Care
... than Americans on average, researchers found that factors other thanrace explained whether the men had health insurance and whether they usedmedical and dental services. HIV-infected whites, however, were more likely to use so-calleddiscretionary outpatient services, such as doctor visits, when the......omised payments. Premiums andreserves are based on factors including the probable length of survival of thosecovered by the annuity. The length of one or both lives will indicate the numberof required payments and the amount of funds needed to cover those payments. In the article, the researchers noted that ...Forecasting Killer Heat: UD Systems Predict Deadly Weather Worldwide
...). And, they provide fundamental insights intothe factors affecting heat-related death rates. Philadelphia System Saves Lives When a particularly brutal heat wave struck in 1995, the newly installedPhiladelphia Hot Weather -- Health Watch/Warning System -- developed at UD and run bythe city's Department o...Nurse Practitioners Reducing Costs, Expanding Care
...are is different, but because of the basiceconomic factors involved," Wilkerson says. "Doctors have much higher overheadin terms of equipment and facilities, liability insurance, and the cost of theireducation." Nurse practitioners are qualified to handle a wide range of health-relatedissues, including t...An Ergonomically Redesigned Analgesia Delivery Device Proves Safer And More Efficient
...error can be significantly reduced through a human factors approach to interface design. A redesigned interfa...and efficiency can be achieved by adopting a human factors approach to interface design. INTRODUCTION As many as 100,000 deaths or serious injuries occur each ...Growing Younger By Keeping Up Regular Physical Activity
...exercise, and even lower the severity of some risk factors for heartattacks, such as hypertension, obesity, high cholesterol and diabetes. A sedentary lifestyle also increases the risk for hip fractures, theysay. In one study, women who spent less than four hours a day on their feet hadnearly twice ...... whichimplanted PMMA degrades may help to identify factors to improve the life ofcemented total hip arthroplasty. Co-authors of the study are Ben Pelletier, undergraduate student, Kerry Hughs,undergraduate student, and Lisa Pruitt, PhD, associate professor, department ofmechanical engineering, University ...Study Highlights Flu Risks For Women With Chronic Illness
...seline to weed out otherenvironmental or microbial factors that could affect cardiopulmonaryhospitalization and death rates. Hospitalizations and deaths that occurredduring winter-time when influenza virus was circulating that were in excess ofthis "baseline" were attributed to influenza. They found that inf...Stent Procedures May Be Unnecessary In Some Heart Cases
...18percent achieved a stent-like result. Of all the factors that led to stent-like results that were studied,o..., andthe size of the blockage. While the last two factors didn't surprise theresearchers, the first did. "For the men with stent-like results, 17 percent need...UB Oral Biologists Find Link Between Gum Disease And Passive Exposure To Tobacco Smoke
...income and diabetes mellitus, important known risk factors of gum disease. The risk of severe attachment loss increased 11/2-2 fold, while the riskof severe gingival gum bleeding increased 11/2-21/2 fold in persons exposed tohousehold smoke. Passive smoking also was a risk factor for tooth loss, resultssho...Study Shows Hormone Replacement Therapy Does Not Elevate Breast Cancer Risk
...ne, have spent 20 years studying breast cancerrisk factors for these women. Their work has included redefining and diagnosing the types of benign breastdisease by carefully studying the histologic slides made at the time of biopsy. "In the past it was very standard to diagnose any woman who had a breast biop......iansuse a variety of techniques, depending on such factors as the age of the womanand the family's medical history. Typically, a woman who will be under age 35 atthe time of delivery is offered a screening blood test that estimates the riskof the fetus having certain defects, including spina bifida, Down syn......economic status on their mortality risk. The same factors result in thesame risk. But they also discovered a new wrinkle: a fundamental difference in howincreasing the income of one spouse affects the mortality risk of the other. They found that a husband's increased income lowers the wife's mortality risk,...