Study reveals link between cardiovascular risk and cognitive decline
...ere approximately evenly divided between males and females and blacks and whites. By the end of the study, a total of 26 percent of the elders with the metabolic syndrome exhibited significant cognitive decline, compared with 21 percent without the syndrome. The key factor, however, seemed to be the presence...Pioglitazone shown to reverse thickening of carotid artery wall
...ic control. The population included 66 females and 107 males with type 2 diabetes aged 62.6 +/- 1 7.9 years, with a mean body mass index (BMI) of 31.8 (generally classified as obese). Both treatments were generally well tolerated. ...Mayo Clinic discovers one mechanism for why men and women differ in immune response
...d of course, what's interesting about this is that females don't have significant levels of testosterone. Men, on the other hand, may have relatively blunted immune responses and have high levels of testosterone. So these results of our experiment are really very promising for unraveling this gender differ...Twenty-Year prospective study of pregnant women with inflammatory bowel disease finds healthy babies
...women with IBD who gave birth with 83 non-pregnant females with IBD and 100 healthy pregnant females. They m... lower relapse rate than case-matched non-pregnant females with IBD. Patients on maintenance therapy had fewer relapses than those not on medications. The ou...PITT, OHSU: When early life stress occurs determines its impact later
...s in infancy. The social groups included males and females of varying ages, much like groups naturally formed... monkeys. The social groups consisted of males and females ranging in ages, similar to groups formed in the wild. The researchers then introduced experienced m...Scientists reveal significant behavioral impacts of early life stress, study therapies
...s in infancy. The social groups included males and females of varying ages, much like groups naturally formed... monkeys. The social groups consisted of males and females ranging in ages, similar to groups formed in the wild. The researchers then introduced experienced m...Gender and sex hormones affect the brain's pain response and more, according to new studies
...at first. Straightforward comparisons of males and females are not possible because of the cyclical nature of...eagues discovered that high levels of estradiol in females initially increased, then subsequently suppressed, the production of new brain cells in the dentate ...Latest Asian-American tobacco use data reported
...fore de-normalizing tobacco use for Asian American females as they acculturate to a Western lifestyle may be one of our next big challenges." California has one of the earliest and most comprehensive Asian-specific tobacco education programs in the nation. Since 1990, the Tobacco Control Section has produce...Misconceptions about sexual violence common among South African youth
...al violence were common among both sexes, but more females held views that would put them at high risk of HIV infection. Around 11% of males and 4% of females claimed to have forced someone else to have sex. Most of these had themselves been forced to have se...New way of controlling cholesterol may help treat Alzheimer's
... find the hidden platform in the water. But those females who received the inhibitor were markedly better at learning the maze than were females with placebo pellets only. In fact, treated female mice learned the maze as well or better than non...New survey reveals treatment goals of people with schizophrenia
...Among the patients in the study, males outnumbered females 60 to 40 percent and the overall average age was 46 years. Of those with schizophrenia, more than 80 percent were diagnosed more than five years ago. The majority (70 percent) of schizophrenia patients surveyed were receiving treatment at community...Imaging studies clarify brain changes associated with language deficits in autism
...ts and, if enough participants can be enrolled, in females with autism. He is an assistant professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. ...Discovery of the oldest remains of a woman who died in childbirth
...s been possible to establish the cause of death in females and whether or not there was any relation to obstetric complications. Despite this, a number of cases of female skeletons with the foetus in the uterus have been described, as well as some cases where signs of obstetric complications have been diagno...Women who early in life care for elderly parents are at higher risk of poverty later
...id Donato, noting that approximately 45 percent of females who are 18 or older are not currently married, and many simultaneously assume both roles as earners and caregivers. The time spent taking care of elderly parents is likely to compete with women's employment opportunities, creating losses in working ...College students mandated to take alcohol interventions: what works
...rinking at 69 percent for males and 55 percent for females versus 45 percent for the nonreferred undergraduate population at a university. The referred students also had significantly higher scores on an alcohol-problem scale. These findings are not surprising and are almost self-evident that people who g...Male and female smokers have similar lung cancer risk
...ssibility remains that some differences in the way females and males are exposed to and/or respond to carcinogenic agents do exist and that exploration of these differences may be of benefit in reducing the toll of lung cancer among both sexes."...Studies identify risk factors for colon cancer
...vent proper colorectal screenings due to a lack of females in the field and diabetes may be a significant risk factor for development of colon cancer. Digestive Disease Week (DDW) is the largest international gathering of physicians, researchers and academics in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, e...Emory study finds mental health and heart disease tightly linked
...al health was the same for age and sex, except for females between the ages of 45 and 74, where mental health issues under his "complete state" measure were much more prevalent. Previous research has found major depression and stress to be contributing factors for, and a consequence of, cardiovascular diseas...Co-occurring disorders increase risk of suicide attempt by adolescents
...homas Kelly and colleagues collected data from 188 females and 315 males, aged 12 to 19 years, who were diagn...escent attempted suicide. Overall, 29 males and 56 females made one or more suicide attempts during their lifetimes. Males with hallucinogen use disorders, inh...Malaria: Plasmodium togetherness a strategy for breeding success
...gametocytes or pre-gametes, in the host blood. The females of Anopheles, the mosquito vector, ingest blood and gametocytes during a nocturnal feed on human skin. The meal reaches the mosquito's stomach where Plasmodium sexual reproduction takes place. An encounter and subsequent binding between a male and a ...