Do Asthma Treatments Affect Childhood Growth?
...Scotland, most children with asthma were of normal height and weight and had normal growth rates. However, the authors identified children using high dose steroid inhalers as an exception to this finding, as this group showed a significant reduction in their stature. Children in this group were shorter a...Drug Combination Including New "Super Aspirin" Drug Cuts Risk Of Death Or Second Heart Attack
...pecific doses of lamifiban, based oneach patient's height and weight, is underway. Further study will also explorethe extent of benefit that lamifiban treatment offers at different follow-upintervals. The FDA does not yet approve lamifiban. Co-authors of the study are scient...Exercise Can Help To Exorcise Stroke Risk
... risk factors such as smoking, alcoholconsumption, height and weight, high blood pressure and diabetes and still foundthat physical activity by itself was associated with decreased risk of stroke....Lifetime Risks And Costs Of Heart Disease Much Higher For Obese
...ed by dividing weight inkilograms by the square of height in meters. Based on National Institutes ofHealth guidelines, individuals with BMIs of 30 or greater are considered obese,while those with BMIs of 25 -29 are considered overweight. In this study, a BMIof 22.5 was considered to represent individuals ...Lo-Cal Diet Slows Prostate Cancer In Animals, New Research Finds
... proper energy balance -- anappropriate weight for height -- may inhibit theprogression of prostate cancer." In addition, these results will help clinicalinvestigators design studies of the relationship between diet and prostatecancer in humans. The paper by Clinton and a team of researchersappeared in the ...Study Confirms Girls' Belief: More Fat Means Fewer Dates
...the researchers found, she said. Agirl of average height and weight, who is 5 feet and 3 inches tall and we... only half as likely to date as a girl of the same height andphysical maturity who weighs a below-average 110 pounds. "One reason adolescentgirls are concern...Early Heart Repair For Marfan Syndrome Patients Critical To Survival
...oodvessels and is often characterized by excessive height and abnormally long andslender fingers and toes. In Marfan patients, the aorta, or main blood vessel, is weakened andprone to enlargement. Without proper monitoring and medications to reduce thestress on the aorta, it could tear, resulting...New book on osteoporosis covers preventing and treating 'The Aging Disease' in consumer language
...en and women who have shrunk two or threeinches in height as a result of osteoporosis, and it's unfortunate because itcould have been prevented. No one should wait to find out how to keep boneshealthy," Lane says. The Osteoporosis Book is published by Oxford University Press. For moreinformation or to par...Surgery for severely obese improves more than just weight
... BMI of 51 kg/m2. BMI uses height and weight measurements to roughly determine whether or not a person is at risk for obesity-related health disorders. A person with a BMI of27 kg/m2 or greater is usually considered...Study shows obesity adds years to real age
...inedby dividing one's weight in kilograms by one's height in meters squared, a BMIbetween 18.5 and 25 is considered ideal. A typical female fashion model has aBMI of about 18. Years of life lost attributable to obesity tended to increase over timebut declined slightly for those in their 70s, she sai......d small in terms of their achievement ofweight and height milestones for their age. And they can't tell you what'swrong. There's very little margin for error, and you need to have the supportnetwork of pediatric intensivists, pediatric hepatologists and infectiousdisease specialists." Dr. Shackleton said th......ho gave birth atDuke University Hospital and whose height and weight was taken over a 16-monthperiod, and fo...e." BMI, because it takes into account the height of a person, is considereda more accurate measure of obesity, Bell said. It is calculated by dividi...Lack of sleep alters hormones, metabolism
..., during sleep deprivation. When testedduring the height of their sleep debt, subjects took 40 percent longer thannormal to regulate their blood sugar levels following a high-carbohydrate meal. Their ability to secrete insulin and to respond to insulin both decreased byabout 30 percent. A similar decrease......to result from black women being heavier for their height than white women, said scientists, who controlled for obesity, age and education. The study, being presented at an American College of Rheumatology meeting in Philadelphia this week, involved 3,145 randomly selected people participating in the John...Heavier white female workers earn less
...nate ways: weight both in pounds (holding constant height in inches) and body mass index, a measure of weight for height that is the standard measure of fatness in medicine and epidemiology. He also controlled for many o...Maya children in U.S. more likely to be overweight and obese than whites or blacks
...ively homogenous population. While greater average height and longer legs may indicate better health, an alarming number of the Maya-American children exhibit weight problems: nearly half are overweight and 42 percent are obese, according to Barry Bogin, professor of anthropology at the UM-Dearborn. And thi...Rat makes a partial recovery following a spinal cord lesion
...he researchers was the complete transection at the height of the eighth vertebra. The spinal cord is completely severed, comparable in humans to a spinal cord lesion after a violent knife stab in the rib area. Also, this type results in paralysis in the lower part of the body. After the therapy the rat coul...Restrained and unrestrained eating behaviors affect risk for adult-onset obesity
...ed questionnaires providing information on current height and weight and changes in body weight and food intake over a series of 10-year intervals, beginning at the age of 20. Since early adulthood, 87% of the women had gained weight, 8% had lost weight, and 5% had maintained a constant weight over time. T...Maternal feeding practices are linked to childhood obesity
...boys and girls averaging 11 years old by obtaining height and weight measurements and determining their total fat mass using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. Each mother participated in a brief, in-person interview asking about her child-feeding attitudes and her perceptions of her childs overweight. Contr......ass index measure dividing weight in kilograms by height in meters squared the transplant recipients were grouped into four categories: underweight (BMI score below 18.5), normal weight (BMI 18.5 to 24.9), overweight (BMI 25 to 29.9) and obese (BMI 30 and above). An individual who is 5 feet 8 inches tall ...