Leg maneuver may prevent fainting
...yncope, but were otherwise healthy. The number of lifetime syncope episodes ranged between one and 200. Patients learned to cross their legs while in a standing position and tense the muscles of the legs, abdomen, and buttocks. Each patient underwent a head-up tilt table test, which involved lying down on...Children's body mass index predicts overweight or obesity in adulthood
...adolescence is a "critical period" in establishing lifetime weight management. The authors recommend that this predictive information be used in clinical and public health settings to evaluate and closely monitor children and adolescents in the ≥ 85th percentile of BMI for their age. This viewpoint is f...Study highlights need for UK childhood screening for amblyopia
...was 33 per 100 000 total population. The projected lifetime risk of vision loss for an individual with amblyopia was at least 1.2%. Only 35% of people previously in paid employment were able to continue work. Jugnoo Rahi comments: "In addition to any direct benefits of improved visual function in the amblyopi...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for August (second issue)
...sthma without current symptoms, persistent asthma, lifetime history of wheezing, wheezing with exercise, wheezing requiring medication,and emergency rooms visits for the problems during the past year. According to the authors, GST constitutes an important superfamily of metabolizing enzymes that play a centra...When moms smoke, certain kids are more vulnerable
...ation, respectively; 80 percent increased risk for lifetime history of wheezing; and 70 percent and 60 percent increased risks for asthma with current symptoms and early onset asthma, respectively. In contrast, researchers found no increased risk for respiratory problems among exposed children with the GSTM1...Initially recommended drug dosages often too high, study finds
... this dosage should remain the same throughout the lifetime of the drug, but the studies published this week indicate that the dosages of cardiovascular and most other classes of drugs are initially overestimated. These overestimated doses are discovered at various times after the drug is introduced into medi...Doubling of deaths from alcoholic liver disease - drug abuse during 1970s and 1980s may explain why
...rrently aged between 40 and 59 years have a higher lifetime history of illicit drug use than younger or older groups, these are people who would have been involved in the heroin epidemic of 1970s and 1980s. Significantly, this was before the introduction of needle exchange and other interventions instigated i...Reduced breastfeeding in western countries makes major contribution to incidence of breast cancer
...n, women who developed breast cancer had a shorter lifetime duration of breastfeeding (around 10 months) compa... 70, if women had the average number of births and lifetime duration of breastfeeding that had been prevalent in developing countries until recently. Valerie B...Increased risk of ovarian cancer is linked to estrogen replacement therapy
... and 14,000 women die from the disease. A woman's lifetime risk of developing ovarian cancer is 1.7 percent. This means that in a group of 100 women followed from birth to age 85, fewer than two would get ovarian cancer. In comparison, about 13 women would get breast cancer (lifetime risk is 13.3 percent),...Study on suicide reveals faith, social ties as 'protective' for older African Americans
... that in these seniors, being disadvantaged over a lifetime may lead to increased adaptation and resourcefulness. These factors may play a positive role in mental health as they age. "Support from religion and relationships may be one way of adapting to lifelong hardships," said Cook....Venlafaxine XR, first SNRI studied for social anxiety disorder
...n particular, SAD patients have a 40 to 50 percent lifetime prevalence of coexisting major depressive disorder. Study results In the two 12-week studies, venlafaxine XR significantly reduced patients' SAD symptoms compared to placebo as early as four or six weeks, with continued improvements through week ...Bone microarchitecture can significantly deteriorate in one year
...Osteoporosis Foundation estimates that the overall lifetime risk of experiencing a fracture due to osteoporosis for women over the age of 50 is 40 per cent or two out of every five. Postmenopausal osteoporosis is the most common form of osteoporosis About Actonel (risedronate sodium tablets) Actonel i...Breast cancer mortality may be tied to prolonged exposure to low dose radiation
...who completed an earlier questionnaire about their lifetime work histories, reproductive and family cancer histories, and other lifestyle factors that influence breast cancer risk. The women were certified as radiation technologists between 1926 through 1982. The average length of follow-up after the question...Other highlights in the June 5 issue of JNCI
...in 14 of 19 women with abnormal cytology. The mean lifetime risk for developing breast cancer, calculated using the Gail model, was 16.7% for women with no LOH compared with 22.9% for women with LOH. The authors conclude that the identification of LOH in benign breast epithelium obtained by random FNA is stro...Supportive spouse, family, friends contribute to successful aging
... family and positive experiences accumulate over a lifetime to help counteract the normal wear and tear of life, according to a new study in the May/June issue of Psychosomatic Medicine. Men and women who had good childhoods and good marriages scored considerably better on a measure of aging that includes a b......see a positive association between both recent and lifetime wine intake and lung function, Dr. Schunemann said...tailed, computer-based interview about their total lifetime alcohol consumption by decade, as well as their alcohol use in the previous 30 days. Their lung func...Pregnancy, birth rates fall among young women exposed to elementary school intervention program
...o the intervention program had significantly fewer lifetime sexual partners and single people were also more likely to have used a condom the last time they had sexual intercourse than those who did not participate in the intervention. The intervention was found to be particularly effective among blacks, who ......come compensate for delayed first births and lower lifetime fertility a few hundred years down the road. The analyses appear in a recent article in the American Journal of Human Biology and a chapter in the forthcoming book, "The Biodemography of Fertility." "In any species, other things being equal, whoever...Women at highest risk for ovarian cancer are less likely to be screened than those at lower risk
... at least weekly), as these mutations increase the lifetime risk of breast cancer to between 45 percent and 85... in the "elevated risk" category face an increased lifetime risk of between 5 percent and 7 percent (one in 20 women and one in 14 women, respectively.) "The ri...Researchers say trees could affect land use, reduce skin cancer
... years old, they have received 50 percent of their lifetime exposure to the sun's radiation, according to the CDC. So, that tan may look terrific, but in fact it's the skin's response to ultraviolet radiation damage that later could become skin cancer, according to the National Institute of Occupational Safe...