Path from chronic stress to heart disease clarified
The well-known link between stress and heart disease starts with stres...s and metabolic syndrome, and an indirect, delayed link where distress promotes poor health habits that, over time, exacerbate metabolic syndrome. Because h...Mayo Clinic researchers discover enzyme has potential to stop multiple sclerosis tissue damage
...issue damage. This is a first-ever finding of the link between MSP and the debilitation that patients experience in MS. This study will be published in the June 2002 issue of Brain, published by Oxford University Press, http://brain.oupjournals.org/ . "If you could control this enzyme, you could pos...Older age of male partners makes young women more susceptible to HIV-1 infection
...these women marry and have children. Breaking this link in the pattern of transmission must become a central focus of HIV prevention strategies."...News tips from the June issue of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association
... clogging and lowers blood pressure. However, the link could simply be that people who take vitamin supplements or eat vitamin-rich fruits and vegetables may be more health-conscious than those who don't. So vitamin C alone may not be responsible for the results of the study, he says. The research was ...UC Davis Children's Hospital launches unique program to develop community pediatricians
...en in their communities. The UC Davis program will link medical residents with community collaboratives, establish neighborhood health clinics for children and help medical residents develop a broad understanding of how communities work together. UC Davis medical residents will be working with five commun...New study finds vasectomy does not increase prostate cancer risk
... Registry, that's where you would expect to find a link between the two, if one exists" said Steven Kaufman, M.D., of NICHD's Contraception and Reproductive Health Branch. "Also, although the study was more than large enough to detect an increased prostate cancer risk associated with vasectomy, none was ...No link between epilepsy and criminality
... evidence provides no good support for the alleged link between epilepsy and criminality," conclude the authors....Importance of early environmental exposure pinpointed in study of breast cancer development
...e U.S. Department of Defense to study the possible link between breast cancer and early environmental exposure to potential carcinogens. The current presentation represents some of the first findings from that research. The project piggybacks on Freudenheim's ongoing case-control study of breast cancer i...Diet rich in foods with Vitamin E may reduce Alzheimers disease risk
...scientists in The Netherlands, who also reported a link between high dietary intake of vitamins C and E an...xplain some of the study's findings, including the link with apoE status and the study's striking distinction between dietary intake of vitamin E and use of...Girls with views of nature have better chance of success
...o-author William C. Sullivan have conducted on the link between nature and healthy human functioning in in...l functioning," Kuo said. "And it is the first to link nature with impulse inhibition and delay of gratification in any population." The research to date, ...Good news about oral contraceptives
...more than 10,000 women nationwide show there is no link between taking birth control pills and breast cancer risk. The study included both white and African American women age 35 to 64, but it did not address the risks and benefits of using oral contraceptives after menopause as hormone replacement thera...Common diabetes drug causes arteries to spasm, endangering heart
...cardiovascular problems in diabetic patients. The link between these drugs and heart damage has been disp...ascular risk. The new study demonstrates a direct link between the receptor for sulfonylurea drugs and coronary arterial spasm, heart damage and death. "Th...Researchers warn antipsychotic drug
...niversity Medical Center suggests there might be a link between at least one drug used to treat schizophre...s reported when the drug was stopped all suggest a link to the disease. However, until we know if there are risk differences among drugs in this class, it i...Study confirms air pollution linked to slowed lung function growth in children
...a air comes from combustion of diesel fuel, so the link to carbon might hint at a general association betw...ose from trucks. The latest findings also showed a link to ozone levels. Millions of Southern Californians breathe polluted air every day, especially on da...Heart disease is a pediatric problem: New guidelines point to lifestyle 'training' in childhood
...tatement. Ironically, cigarette smoking also has a link to obesity. Some adolescent girls start smoking, thinking it will help them slim down, Williams explains. The guidelines suggest that anti-smoking messages should be age specific. Intervention for infants could include helping the parents quit smok...Peto and Doll win King Olav Vs Prize for Outstanding Cancer Research
...aking study in the 1950s and 60s proved there is a link between smoking and lung cancer. In fact, in the 1950s, their study identified smoking as a factor not only in lung cancer but in many other causes of death, including coronary heart disease. The study of the smoking habits of 40 000 English physicia...Stroke patients with high blood sugar at higher risk of death
... a growing problem in the United States. With the link shown in our study between diabetes and poor outcome after stroke, hyperglycemia at the time of stroke may become an even greater problem in years ahead both in terms of deaths and medical costs," says Dr. Williams. Data used in the study was obtaine...Virus in babies may cause asthma later on
...g-term symptom of asthma, these findings provide a link between the response to viral infection and the development of asthma," says Holtzman. Uninfected mice that instead were exposed to a common experimental allergen, called ovalbumin, also developed similar inflammation of the airways, but these mice ...Clear outlook: Study finds no link between weather and stroke
...hallenging previous reports of a little-understood link between stroke and weather, a Canadian study found no discernible connection between the two, researchers report in the July issue of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. Calgary lies in the "Chinook belt" an area where geological and...Increased risk of ovarian cancer is linked to estrogen replacement therapy
...r risk factors. Two recent large studies found a link between hormone use and ovarian cancer. A large prospective study published last year (JAMA 2001;285:1460-1465) showed that postmenopausal estrogen use for 10 or more years was associated with increased risk of ovarian cancer mortality, and a recent...