Research offers hope of new treatments for liver damage
...than do of cancer of the cervix. "There has been a fourfold increase in the number of men aged 45-54 dying of cirrhosis since 1970 and a threefold increase in women of the same age group. Liver failure is also rapidly increasing in younger people with the deaths in the UK of 500 men and 300 women aged 25-44, ...Research offers hope of new treatments for liver damage 'plague'
...than do of cancer of the cervix. "There has been a fourfold increase in the number of men aged 45-54 dying of cirrhosis since 1970 and a threefold increase in women of the same age group. Liver failure is also rapidly increasing in younger people with the deaths in the UK of 500 men and 300 women aged 25-44, ...New finding could make addiction treatment more effective
... that animals that self-administered alcohol had a fourfold increase in one of the genes that express the calcium channels, compared to animals that didn't consume alcohol. "The alcohol suppresses the calcium channels, so the cells in the thalamus may compensate by making more copies of the gene," said ...Marijuana-like compounds may aid array of debiliating conditions ranging from Parkinson's to pain
... the discovery that in treated animals there was a fourfold increase in the number of melanocortin brain cells that contained c-fos, a marker of cellular activation. "These data show that cannabinoid receptor blockers can regulate the melanocortin pathways in animals and support the further development of ca...Study: Height loss screen ultimately could reduce hip fractures
... between 2 inches and 3 inches increased more than fourfold the chances the women had osteoporosis of the hip. Odds of osteoporosis in the hip were nearly 10 times greater in women with 3 or more inches of height loss compared to women with less than an inch of loss. The average age of the women was 60. Odds ...Effective treatment for diabetes depends on the underlying cause
... The sulphonylurea response in HNF-1a patients was fourfold greater than the response in type 2 diabetes. Andrew Hattersley comments: "We have shown that the cause of diabetes determines the response to hypoglycaemic drugs; with a genetic subtype of diabetes being very sensitive to the effects of sulphonylur...Why trends in stroke death in 20th century appeared different to death from heart disease
...cerebral infarct to cerebral haemorrhage increased fourfold from 0.5 in the 1930s to 2.0 by the 1990s; most of the increase took place between the 1930s and the 1970s. Estimated trends suggested that there was a steady fall in death from cerebral haemorrhage throughout the 20th century, whereas death from cer...Progress and future directions for management of hepatitis C
...tional Institutes of Health (NIH). Nonetheless, a fourfold increase in persons with chronic hepatitis C infection is projected over the next decade, as a result of unsuspected infection from contaminated blood and blood products, occupational exposure, and injection drug use prior to the advent of routine sc...Genetic abnormality may increase stroke risk fourfold among young
... confer such a strong increase in stroke risk. The fourfold increased risk associated with the PON1 192 polymorphism makes the abnormality a more potent stroke risk factor than several better-known risks, including smoking and diabetes. Overall, in this young population, the presence of the genetic abnormali...UM researchers use 'artificial intelligence' for first time to diagnose colon tumors
...ed States have IBD. These patients have at least a fourfold greater risk than the general population of developing colon cancer, which is the third most common cancer and the second leading cancer killer in the United States. The University of Maryland researchers believe the use of ANNs may eventually have a......ion people will be over the age of 85, a more than fourfold increase. In California, by the year 2040, two million people will be over the age of 85. The increase in the number of very old people is of concern to health care providers because as people live to very old age, chronic illnesses become more pre...