Stroke awareness low among women, especially minorities
...said. "However, African-American women were still less likely to correctly identify stroke warning signs." Treatment More white women (92 percent) knew treatment exists that can break up blood clots and reverse the course of an ischemic stroke if patients arrive at a hospital soon after the onset of s...Blacks less likely to get expensive, newer heart treatments
...mia non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome are less likely than whites to receive expensive or newer e...ncy than white patients. Black patients were also less likely to have insurance coverage or have a cardiologist as their primary health care provider durin...Minorities, poor, uneducated bear the burden
...ntion and Health Promotion at the CDC. People with less than a high school education also tended to have m...ic minorities, persons with low income, those with less than a high school education, women and millions of Americans without health insurance do not get th...Cardiovascular health disparities must be eradicated
...iven to treat a heart attack) was given 50 percent less often in African Americans compared with whites. Furthermore, minorities were less likely to have cardiac catheterization or bypass surgery than whites even after accounting for diffe...Health care report cards may increase racial/ethnic disparities in bypass operations
...g the New York patients, blacks and Hispanics were less likely to receive CABG than white patients after t...that physicians believe that minority patients are less likely to comply with treatment, more likely to refuse treatment, and delay seeking care for additio...Use of potentially inappropriate medications among elderly common in some European countries
...aged 85 years or older and those living alone were less likely to receive inappropriate medications. "In Europe, use of potentially inappropriate medications among frail community-dwelling elderly persons appears to be common, with substantial regional variations. The differences likely reflect country-sp...Antiretroviral therapy may prevent excess risk of some cancers in people with HIV
...ve cervical cancer, and Hodgkin lymphoma. However, less well understood are the associations of these canc... in coming years among patients on HAART, who have less severe but prolonged immunosuppression. "Controlling the epidemic and ameliorating the suffering of ...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for March 2005 (second issue)
...esearchers found that the mortality rate among the less severely ill ICU patients who developed a bloodstr... interventions to prevent bloodstream infection in less severely ill patients in the ICU, as well as in at-risk patients on general medical and surgical flo...Prostate cancer screening practices examined
...npleasant side effects, treating the cancer may be less desirable than leaving it alone, especially in older men. "But the main thing is we don't know whether screening saves lives," says Gerald L. Andriole Jr., M.D., head of the Division of Urologic Surgery at Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Hosp...Study of obese diabetics explains why low-carb diets produce fast results
...s. He discovered that study subjects did not eat less because they were bored with the food selection, and their weight loss was not attributable to water loss, two common speculations about low-carb diets. Further, weight loss could not be explained by a change in metabolism, another popular misconcept...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for March 15, 2005
...ers conclude that the weight loss came from eating less (reduced calorie intake), not loss of body fluid, increased metabolism or boredom with the food selection. They also believe that the carbohydrates stimulated the patients' excessive appetite during week one. An editorial writer notes that the study ...Obesity among African-American stroke survivors increases risk factors for recurrent stroke
...nts were divided into six groups, underweight (BMI less than 18.5), normal weight (BMI 18.5 24.9), overweight ((BMI 25.0 29.9), class one obesity (BMI 30.0 34.9), class two obesity (BMI 35.0 39.9) and class three obesity (BMI greater than 40.0). The researchers compared patients' BMI with the cardio...New study shows how very low-carb diets take off the pounds
...le lose weight on the Atkins diet because they eat less (consume fewer calories), not because they get bored with the diet or lose body water or because the carbohydrate calories are treated differently by the body than fat or protein calories," said Guenther Boden, MD, a Laura H. Carnell Professor of Med...Neurobehavioral function during coma, stroke rehabilitation effective for elderly
...es. Individuals with TBI were also much slower and less accurate in recognizing the angry faces. The finding of impaired facial emotion processing may be one of the reasons why patients with TBI are at risk for crossing social boundaries in interpersonal interactions. Vocational and cognitive behavior t...Finances, not having a dentist are primary barriers to seniors receiving needed dental care
...ther, transportation needs by young seniors may be less frequent than the other senior age groups because they still are able to drive. As the loss of driving ability increases with age, so too does the need for transportation assistance to the dentist. And in rural areas, the dentist may be more than a...Study finds direct association between cardiovascular disease and periodontal bacteria
... 69 years). They will re-examine the same group in less than three years, to evaluate the progression of atherosclerosis (heart disease). They measured both diseased and healthy sites for the presence of 11 oral bacteria--four widely regarded to be involved in causing periodontal disease, and the other se...Age shouldn't be a factor in kidney transplantation
...dney function," said Stratta. "An older kidney has less capacity, and someone who weighs less doesn't need as much capacity. It is a concept that is in evolution." Stratta believes that with car...Nursing mothers having surgery -- How long a wait to breastfeed safely?
... amnesia. The Northwestern researchers found that less than 0.1 percent of the dose of propofol used to put the patient to sleep appeared in her breast milk within 24 hours after drug administration because the dose is diluted by extensive distribution throughout the tissues of the body and because drug ...Gene for age-related macular degeneration discovered by Yale researchers
...o forms of AMD, the more common "dry" form and the less common "wet" form. The wet form can rapidly lead to blindness, while the dry form progresses more slowly. Both are associated with the same variant in the CFH gene. Hoh and her team used new genetic analysis and microscopic imaging technologies to f......adult follow-up. Compared with children with a BMI less than the 50th percentile, girls and boys between the 50th and 74th percentile were five times more likely to become overweight. Boys and girls with a BMI between the 75th and 84th percentile were up to 20 times more likely to become overweight as you...