Rheumatoid arthritis linked to excess risk of congestive heart failure
...on of RA disease. Among RA patients, the risk was higher in those who were RF positive. As researcher Paulo Nicola, M.D., notes, this study not only provides evidence for RA as a si...Rheumatoid arthritis patients at higher risk for unrecognized heart disease and cardiac sudden death
...- People with rheumatoid arthritis not only have a higher risk of coronary heart disease than those in the g...rch has shown rheumatoid arthritis patients have a higher risk of early death than others and that these deaths are mostly due to cardiovascular disease. The ...Guidelines restricting endoscopy referrals put patients at risk
...nts in Japan and other Western countries - where a higher proportion of early gastric cancers are diagnosed. The guidelines also undervalue endoscopy for diagnosing other serious and painful problems - such as inflammation of the gullet, or ulcers. Until the evidence on endoscopy is properly assessed, GPs s......hern Ireland families experience. It showed that a higher proportion of families are in poverty in Northern Ireland than in either Britain or the Republic of Ireland; and specifically found 185,000 households containing over 500,000 people were living below the poverty line. Poverty was measured by two yard...Binghamton University launches microelectronics research center
...at components can be produced more efficiently, at higher yields and at a lower cost. The expected R2R microelectronics manufacturing will be key to critical next-generation applications in areas such as medical diagnostics and treatment, military and homeland security, flexible displays and electronics, co...HIV vaccine trial breaks ground for future research
...ly all participants, and, in general, those with a higher response had a lower rate of infection than the placebo group. In an editorial accompanying the two papers, Barney Graham and John Mascola of the Vaccine Research Center of the National Institutes for Health commented that more research is needed to ...Blacks in the South have greater risk of dying from stroke
...n who live in southern states are at significantly higher risk of dying from stroke than African American me...te men living elsewhere representing a 29 percent higher death rate for white men living in the South than white men not living in the South, Howard said. R...Highest average rate of US road deaths on Independence Day
...ays stood out. The average toll of road deaths was higher on Independence Day, July 4, than on any other day...e study period. Alcohol tended to be involved in a higher proportion of the Independence Day deaths than on other days. New Year's day racked up the highest n...Smoking hurts wealth as well as health, study suggests
...pical non-smokers' net worth is roughly 50 percent higher than that of light smokers and about twice the level of that of heavy smokers. And that wealth gap grows by about $410, or 4 percent, each year that a person continues to smoke, said Jay Zagorsky, author of the study and a research scientist at Ohio ...More homeless mentally ill than expected according to UCSD study: Interventions urged
...rsons with serious mental illness is 15 percent, a higher percentage than suggested in previous studies, acc...ercent of the homeless. "It is possible that the higher rate of homelessness among African Americans may be in part due to fewer community resources for thi...New bedside tool gauges mortality risk in heart failure patients
...s are at a greater mortality risk that may require higher monitoring and earlier, more intensive intervention. Published in the February 2, 2005 edition of JAMA , the new tool utilizes the combination of three simple measures obtained through laboratory blood tests and by measuring vital signs. Heart fai...Phobic anxiety increases heart disease death risk among women
...f crowded places, heights or going outside, are at higher risk for fatal heart disease than women with fewer...gree of phobic anxiety on a scale of 1 to 16, with higher scores indicating higher anxiety. These questions were used: Do you have an unreasonable fear of ...AHA urges earlier diagnoses, referrals for PCI in women
...estion that the female patient is likely to have a higher cardiovascular disease risk profile," she said. "... factors, rather than gender, that contribute to a higher risk of death in women, and shouldn't preclude women from having these potentially life-saving treat...Cardiac imaging is underused in women to diagnose disease
...k of cardiovascular death that is up to eight-fold higher than that of non-diabetic women." The committee a...ee agreed that women with calcium scores of 400 or higher have the same increased risk as men with high calcium scores. They felt there was not enough data t...Neoadjuvant and adjuvant systemic therapy for breast cancer give equivalent survival, study finds
...ence compared with adjuvant therapy. This risk was higher (53%) when radiation therapy was used without surgery. "[T]his meta-analysis demonstrates the equivalence of neoadjuvant and adjuvant treatments for breast cancer in terms of survival, disease progression, and distant recurrence and shows that an inc...Two studies find evidence that sunlight may have beneficial influence on cancer
...d with death from melanoma. Melanoma patients with higher levels of sun exposure or skin awareness were less likely to die. In addition, both solar elastosis and skin awareness were independently associated with increased survival from melanoma, even after adjusting for certain melanoma characteristics, su...Other highlights in the February 2 JNCI
...me who have acute myeloid leukemia (AML) have much higher survival rates and lower rates of relapse than non-Down syndrome AML patients. A new study has found that a gene mutation commonly found in Down syndrome children with a type of AML called acute megakaryocytic leukemia (AMkL), the predominant subtype...Research guides medication choices for young Asthma patients
...nction, more sensitive, or "twitchy," airways, and higher levels of markers associated with allergic inflamm...ter response to bronchodilator rescue medications, higher levels of the inflammatory marker exhaled nitric oxide, and lower pulmonary function. None of the mo...Calcium and vitamin D most effective for treatment of Crohn's-related bone loss
...D testing and drug therapy for patients who are at higher risk for osteoporosis and fractures, not those who merely have Crohn's disease as a diagnosis," said Bernstein.......these patients survived to hospital discharge at a higher rate than others (33 percent versus 17 percent), their survival one year later did not differ much from those without documentation of unrealistic expectations (11 percent versus 6 percent). Nearly all survivors were severely disabled at discharge an...