UI study indicates many older adults still not receiving recommended vaccinations
...erviewed nearly 800 older Iowans to determine what factors were associatedwith getting the vaccines. "Vaccinations are one of the best preventive health measures around, yet I'malways surprised that they are not more widely used," said Bradley Doebbeling,M.D., UI associate professor of internal medicine and ...Women at high risk for breast cancer may avoid mammograms
...ting mammography. Simplyeducating women about risk factors and benefits isn't always enough. "Problem-solving training, focused on fostering adaptive coping responses andreducing psychological distress, might be an effective intervention," saidSchwartz. Among the less distressed individuals, 84 percent of th...Hope protects bereaved, HIV-positive men
...ved one. "It is particularly important to identify factors that may prolong the health ofthe infected since medical science does not yet offer a cure for HIV," saidReed. "Therapeutic efforts that focus on the maintenance of hopefulexpectations, therefore, would appear to be well-placed." This study was a fol...Hearts N' Parks - an innovative North Carolina program to prevent heart disease launched
... pressure, and highblood cholesterol -- major risk factors for cardiovascular disease," said KarenDonato, coordinator of the NHLBI Obesity Education Initiative. "NHLBI recognizesthe many ways that community park and recreation departments positively affectthe well-being of people and we are extremely pleased...Children CATCH on to heart-health messages
...forcement, would reduce cardiovascular diseaserisk factors later in life. The follow-up study (1995-1998) assessed differences in grades 6, 7, and8 in diet, physical activity, and related health indicators among 3,714 (73percent) of the initial CATCH participants. The researchers found that thestuden...Heart valve disease increases risk of death, research shows
...ive years. Even after adjusting for other factors that could increase risk, such asage, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and smoking, the researchers foundthat in people with no signs of heart disease when the study began, those withaortic sclerosis had a 50 percent greater chance of dying fro...Breast fed babies are less likely to become obese children
...d to the composition of breast milk than lifestyle factors associated with breast feeding....Financial stress doubles periodontal disease risk
... of Periodontology.After accounting for other risk factors -- such as age, gender, smoking, poordental care a... problems. "The good news is that many of the risk factors for periodontal disease, such aspoor oral hygiene and infrequent professional care, can be controlle...Age, ethnicity, income impact exercise habits of elderly
...ut crime, lack of sidewalks,poor weather and other factors kept the subjects from walking or exercisingmore. In addition, they asked about physiological barriers such as pain,swelling, fear of falling, fear of chest pain or shortness of breath. The respondents had limited confidence in their performance a...Keck Foundation funds research to repair the injured spinal cord
...amage." Eugene M. Johnson Jr., Ph.D., will explore factors that induce programmed celldeath or apoptosis in nerve cell precursors, destroying them over days or weeks."Knowledge of the extent and mechanisms of apoptosis in these cells at variousstages of development will provide the information we need to des...Religious attendance linked to lower mortality in elderly
...ity Medical Center. After controlling for factors that could influence death rates -- such asmedical...es than less frequent attenders. But these factors were not sufficient to explain the relationshipbetween religious attendance and longer survival foun...Bacterial vaginosis seems to affect miscarriage in early pregnancy
...gnificant even after the researchers accounted for factors known to increase miscarriage, such as increasing maternal age, smoking, polycystic ovaries and a past history of three or more miscarriages. The authors conclude that their study is the first to describe a definite association between bacterial vagi...Stress may increase susceptibility to infectious disease
... lower antibody levels, two factors necessary to develop astrong immunity to these diseases. "These vaccination results are particularly relevant toolder adults," they wrote. "Our inference is that a poor ...University of Chicago study finds therapy to prevent miscarriage is not helpful
...or more fetal losses.Although there are many known factors that cause recurrent miscarriage (such asgenetic and hormonal causes, uterine or cervical structural abnormalities,maternal disease and infectious causes) it is possible to identify a factor inonly about 50 percent of all cases. An independen...Reacting well to heart disease can help avoid future attacks
...ontrol ofthe situation. Patients' scores on these factors were combined into a single'cognitive adaptation' index. Overall, 20 percent of the group suffered a new heart attack, required anotherangioplasty, bypass surgery, or experienced another heart-related complicationin the six months after the initial ...Positive outlook, sense of self-control can predict new coronary events, says Carnegie Mellon study
...said it is worth questioning whether psychological factors could trigger moredamage to the heart's arteries. "The idea for the study came from my long-standing interest in cognitiveadaptation theory, which gives some insight into how people adjust to chronicillness," Helgeson said. "I am interested, specific...New imaging method in development to show Alzheimer's progression
...erity of symptoms atthe time of death. While many factors strongly suggest that amyloid formationprecedes neurodegeneration, a direct proof is lacking, Lansbury notes. For thatreason, he says, "we sought to elucidate the relationship between amyloidformation and neurodegeneration by designing amyloid probe...New anti-angiogenic proteins discovered
... competitive,governmental, technological and other factors discussed in the company's filingswith the Securities and Exchange Commission on forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K....UCSF Cancer Center joins elite group of National Cancer Institute-designated centers
...trate on thebehavioral, environmental, and genetic factors that affect the risk ofdeveloping certain cancers. Researchers also look at the effectiveness ofprevention strategies in the community. COMMUNITY OUTREACH, PREVENTION AND PATIENT INFORMATION SERVICES: UCSF has an extensive Cancer Resource Center ...Amputation rates are rising in elderly despite advances in treatment
...ation procedure for Americans by age, sex andother factors between 1979 and 1996. They found that am...said. The most important predisposing risk factors for lower-extremityvascular disease are male gender, advanced age, smoking, coronary heart disease,d...