Mount Sinai stroke prevention trial published in JAMA
...uffer a stroke, people with AF are 70 percent more likely to die than people without AF. Stroke risk in patients with AF can be reduced by more than 60 percent using oral anticoagulant therapy such as warfarin. However, many eligible patients are not receiving oral anticoagulant therapy. Warfarin interact...Elderly people cared for by spouse are at greater risk for abuse, Pitt researchers find
...king care of someone who needs more help--are more likely to be abusive. Such situations should send a "red ...ts. In those situations, care recipients were more likely to report that their caregivers screamed and yelled at them, used a harsh tone of voice, insulted th...Certain gun storage practices can reduce risk of youth firearm injuries, suicide
...hat guns from case households were 70 percent less likely to be stored unloaded than control guns. Similarly, case guns were 73 percent less likely to be stored locked, stored separately from ammunition (55 percent less likely), or to have ammuniti...Carrot component reduces cancer risk
...hat contained in the carrots - were one third less likely to develop full-scale tumours than the rats in the control group. Dr Kirsten Brandt, a senior lecturer with Newcastle University's School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, carried out the research with the University of Southern Denmark and...New stroke-prevention drug unlikely to be cost-effective except in patients at high risk of bleeding
...arfarin but doesn't require monitoring and is less likely to cause bleeding," Gage says. "That's why there was so much interest in Exanta--it reduces the risk of major hemorrhage by 26 percent and doesn't have warfarin's interactions or dosing problems." The current study was undertaken to provide physicia...Sex hormone metabolite reduces stress, anxiety in female rats
...roughout the brain. This mechanism, Toufexis said, likely accounts for progesterone's blunting effect on the brain's stress system. Findings from the study correlate with clinical evidence that some people suffering from depression or anxiety have low allopregnanolone levels that normalize after treatment w...Milk, fruits and vegetables may help reduce disability risk
...lis, Minn. People who had chronic disease and were likely to already be disabled were excluded. Participants, who were between 45 and 64 years old when the study began, were asked to report on their diets over the past year using a 66-item food frequency questionnaire. Then, an average of nine years later...Birth size and adult cancer risk
...f birth weight (4kg or greater) were four times as likely to get breast cancer before age 50, compared with ...d, women who were large at birth were only half as likely to get endometrial cancer compared to their smallest counterparts. For men, the most common reproduc...News briefs from the journal CHEST, February 2005
...sk factor of significance was that males were more likely to have asthma. In sharp contrast, having a higher social class at birth and atopic sensitization at 4 years were found to be the significant risk factors for BHR. These findings suggest that BHR is influenced by mediators that differ from those of...Gender bias in child growth evaluations may miss disease in girls
... also suggest that short but healthy boys are more likely to be subjected to unnecessary medical evaluations...ounced starting at age 9. Although girls were less likely to be referred than boys, the girls' height deficits were greater than those for the boys in the stu...Parents comfortable with vaccination for sexually transmitted infections for adolescent children
...er physicians and nurses that most parents will be likely to accept recommendations regarding STI vaccination." (Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2005; 159:132-137. Available post-embargo at archpediatrics.com ) Editorial: Parental Acceptability of Vaccines for Sexually Transmitted Infections In an editorial acc...Mother's depression associated with increased risk of child's antisocial behavior
...or (ASB) in their children: 1) depressed women are likely to have antisocial personality traits related to depression, 2) are likely to bear children with antisocial men, 3) and the children of depressed mothers may inherit a genetic...Study explores risks of obesity in children with kidney transplants
...obese children who received a transplant were more likely to die of cardiopulmonary disease the leading cau...ge of Georgia in Augusta. "These children are more likely to develop hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes at an early age. We are doing transplants so th...UCI study uncovers how plaque in neck artery leads to stroke-inducing blood clots
... colleagues found that carotid-artery plaques most likely to cause stroke first develop depressions in their surface called ulcerations. Blood can pool in these ulcerations and ultimately form into clots. This suggests that early detection and treatment of carotid-artery plaques before these ulcerations gro...Migraine-sparked vision loss may increase stroke risk in women; Migraine
...sion or partial loss of vision were 1.7 times more likely to have stroke compared with women who do not have... risk. This may indicate that vision loss is more likely to represent transient cerebral ischemia than seeing spots and lines. The prevalence of migraine i...Optimal treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome
...on, whether on the job or at play. Women are more likely than men to develop it. Individuals with rheumatoid arthritis are also at high risk. Despite the prevalence of CTS and its considerable economic impact in terms of both worker absenteei...Rheumatoid arthritis patients at higher risk for unrecognized heart disease and cardiac sudden death
...ogy.org/publications/ar ). They are also much less likely to complain of chest pain. The increased heart di..., patients with this disease were three times more likely to have been hospitalized for an acute heart attack and five times more likely to have an unrecogniz...The research assessment exercise is damaging UK medicine
... cut to recruit basic scientists whose research is likely to favour RAE ratings. The knock-on effect of reductions in academic staff is for staff in the NHS to carry an additional teaching burden, which is often difficult to fulfill. The authors write that the RAE should be abolished. They believe that rese...Early supported discharge services can reduce long term dependency for stroke patients
...pital to home and given community support are more likely to be independent than those who receive conventional care, suggests a study in this week's issue of THE LANCET. Peter Langhorne and colleagues (Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Scotland) combined data from 11 trials, involving 1597 patients altogether that ...Older people get the big picture faster, and they are less inhibited
...eople perform better on this task, the same change likely leads to increased difficulties in a much wider range of tasks. "It's critical to understand how ageing affects vision and the brain. If we can characterize what is happening to our brains as we age, we'll be in a better position to help seniors see ...