Bone marrow fat may indicate bone weakening
... ratio of BMF to BMD was "a significant diagnostic indicator of bone weakening," said Dr. Schellinger. The ratio was higher in healthy people and lower in those with signs of bone weakening, he said. Dr. Schellinger said that other researchers have previously suspected that increased bone fat content represen...Ongoing transfusions needed to avoid strokes in children with sickle cell disease
... return of abnormal transcranial Doppler, the best indicator we have of stroke risk, and there were two strokes in this group. We need more research to come up with a better way to limit the use of transfusion while still preventing strokes." "This important study shows the value of continuing periodic blood t...New research tool aids study of national well-being
...udy. "Right now we use national income as our main indicator of well-being, but income is only a small contributor to life satisfaction. Ultimately, if our survey is successful and generates the type of data we hope, we would like to see the government implement our method to provide an ongoing measure of well...Researchers debate recreational use of PDE-5 inhibitors
... "Erectile dysfunction is an important indicator of serious underlying medical conditions," writes Geoff Hackett, MD in a cover story of pH7 Magazine. He will discuss the points behind taking PDE-5 inhibitors solely as a medication for real health problems. ...Chocolate ingredient could put a stop to persistent coughs and lead to new cough medicines
...ical research to cause coughing, and is used as an indicator to test the effectiveness of cough medicines. When the volunteers were given theobromine, the concentration of capsaicin required to produce a cough was around one third higher when compared with the group receiving a placebo. When the group receive...Pioglitazone shown to reverse thickening of carotid artery wall
...y. "The thickness of the carotid artery is an indicator of atherosclerotic disease, which may both reduce arterial blood flow and set the stage for unstable blood clots in the arteries to dislodge and potentially cause a heart attack or stroke. The reduction in thickness by pioglitazone, a member of a ne...Study finds potential new cause of mental decline in old age
... age. The enlarged perivascular spaces might be an indicator of overall brain shrinkage, or they might reflect specific damage to brain tissue around blood vessels. Dr. Alasdair MacLullich, of the University's Geriatric Medicine Unit, measured mental ability in100 healthy elderly male volunteers from the Edinb...Latest Asian-American tobacco use data reported
...rcent." English fluency has often been used as an indicator for acculturation in ethnic research. "This implies that a cookie-cutter intervention strategy for all Asians may not be possible," Tang said. "It also suggests that over time, as more Asian American women become more acculturated, they may become mo...Misconceptions about sexual violence common among South African youth
...ive. One in four of these had not even had sex, an indicator of ignorance of the mechanism of HIV infection, say the authors. This failure of education comes at an important cost: youth who believed they were HIV positive had misconceptions similar to those who had forced someone else to have sex. The views of...Ductal lavage may not detect breast cancer, study finds
...l. "Its use as a risk assessment tool and/or as an indicator of response to [a prevention] intervention is still undergoing evaluation," they write....Ductal lavage may not detect breast cancer
...l. "Its use as a risk assessment tool and/or as an indicator of response to [a prevention] intervention is still undergoing evaluation," they write. ...Intra-abdominal fat in older women
...e location of fat within the body is a better risk indicator for heart disease in older women than the level of obesity, according to a new study in the Nov. 2004 issue of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, presented today at the American Medical Association's 23rd Annual Science Reporters Con...MRI can measure early benefits of cholesterol-lowering drugs and plaque reduction
...rmanent scar, calcium deposits in plaque are a key indicator of how much atherosclerosis a patient has at one p...was that LDL cholesterol levels, a key blood lipid indicator to lower in treating heart disease, were lowest in patients with the greatest amount of plaque reduc...Black and Hispanic patients wait longer for heart attack treatment
...ks is very important to patient survival and is an indicator of quality of care used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. Further, the longer treatment times among racial and ethnic minority groups are due in large part to t...Scientific forum addresses menstrual cycle as vital sign
...areness about the role of menstruation as a unique indicator of a woman's overall physical health. At the cen...through which the role of menstruation as a unique indicator of a woman's overall physical health can be communicated. "The Menstrual Cycle is a Vital Sign" is a...New data supports CellCept's position as a world leader in solid organ transplantation
..., CellCept maintained normal creatinine levels an indicator of healthy kidney function for twice as long as the AZA group (14.5 years versus 6 years). in allograft dysfunction in adult patients Two further studies reinforced CellCept's position as central to a safe, effective and tolerable immunosuppress...Study suggests breastfeeding reduces cardiovascular risk later in life
...ow-up to assess adolescent lipoprotein profile (an indicator of atherosclerosis risk) was the ratio of 'bad' to 'good' (LDL to HDL) cholesterol, and concentrations of c-reactive protein (CRP, higher concentrations are associated with the development of atherosclerosis). Those adolescents who had been given b...Prostate cancer marker could lead to earlier diagnosis say Univ. of Pittsburgh researchers
... the problems with testing for levels of PSA as an indicator of prostate cancer is that PSA levels often fluctuate, making it difficult to know for certain whether a man has prostate cancer without performing multiple biopsies over time," said Robert Getzenberg, Ph.D., senior author and professor of urology, p...Increased risk of cardiovascular disease shown in PCOS patients
...y increased in inflammatory states and is an early indicator of CVD--are increased in PCOS patients. The researchers measured two forms of CRP in both groups as well as glucose, cholesterol and triglycerides. Tests indicated that 36.8 percent of PCOS patients had extremely high (above 5 mg/liter) levels of C...If core breast biopsy shows minimal abnormal cells, surgical excision is still necessary
...had cancer, she said. The atypical cells may be an indicator that cancerous cells exist in tissue that wasn't removed in the core biopsy, said Dr. Giess. Currently it is standard to have a woman undergo a surgical excision if there are atypical cells. The study was done to determine if these women need to hav...