Nutrition education with a food label focus helps diabetics over 65 meet treatment goals
...cational sessions also met the treatment goals for lowering total cholesterol. The authors note that while there was significant improvement in participants' cholesterol numbers, only 35.9 percent achieved the ideal level of less than 200 mg/dl. However, they point out, "The relationship between dietary fat...Hormone therapy for prostate cancer causes weight gain and increased body fat
...weight." Smith explains that treatments aimed at lowering testosterone in prostate cancer patients are simil...n accelerate the development of these cancers, and lowering or blocking them is an effective treatment approach. Unfortunately, the researchers found that lowe...NHLBI study shows vast majority of middle-aged Americans at risk of developing hypertension
...bly resulted from an increased use of hypertension lowering drugs through the years." Vasan cautions that the study was not ethnically diverse. He stresses that the lifetime risk of developing hypertension varies among individuals and depends on the presence of risk factors. "Americans should see their doc...Prolonged use of ramipril prevents stroke
...other preventive treatments such as blood pressure lowering agents or aspirin, finds a study in this weeks BMJ. Over 9,000 patients aged 55 or over and at high risk of stroke received either ramipril or placebo. Patients were seen after six months and then every six months for an average of four and a half y...High pulse pressure associated with greater death risk in dialysis patients
...if diet, exercise or drug therapy may be useful in lowering pulse pressures." At that point, researchers would need to see if lowering pulse pressure does, in fact, help patients. Klassen warns that the wrong message to take away from...Guidelines lacking for patients hospitalized for heart failure
...arly due to new atrial arrhythmias and significant lowering of blood pressure. The results of the OPTIME-CHF study therefore do not support the routine use of milrinone for patients hospitalized for worsening heart failure, and they point out the importance of evaluating existing therapies or new therapie...Gene enhances effects of estrogen on good cholesterol
...her commonly used medications, such as cholesterol lowering drugs and drugs to treat high blood pressure and asthma. Previous studies of cholesterol drugs show that raising HDL to this extent might reduce heart disease events by 25 to 40 percent, said Herrington. Studies with estrogen havent shown the same c......flammation. "Aspirin has been proven effective in lowering the risk of a second heart attack or stroke by blocking TxA2 formation by COX 1, thereby thinning the blood," said Garret A. FitzGerald, MD, chair of the Penn Department of Pharmacology and director of the Penn Center for Experimental Therapeutics. ...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for April (second issue)
...he newborn includes therapies that are targeted at lowering vascular resistance, with inhaled nitric oxide as a key treatment. The six piglets that were instilled with human meconium, with a resulting increase in vascular resistanceof 70 percent, had that level completely reversed within one hour of the star...Applied Biosystems introduces next generation production level DNA analysis systems
...mple volumes and optimize dye concentrations, thus lowering the cost per sample. With production capacity up to two to three times that of the ABI PRISM 3700 DNA Analyzer and enhanced automation and sample tracking, researchers could complete projects in one third to one half the time now required. The 3730 a...Nutrition status affects cognitive impairment in the elderly
...linical trials should be developed with the aim of lowering tHcy in the elderly by administration of folic acid or vitamin B-12, which may lower tHcy and prevent those with mild cognitive impairment from developing Alzheimer disease....Heart health should be the front line of diabetes care
...but growing evidence shows that aggressive glucose lowering during acute CVD events and procedures is beneficial. Body weight, body mass index and waist circumference should be measured and monitored while managing patients with diabetes. Weight management requires a team approach that includes physicians,...XALACOM more effective than Cosopt for IOP reduction in patients with glaucoma or ocular hypertens
...re the importance of XALACOM in the arsenal of IOP lowering medications, said Dr. Feldman. Fixed combination therapies may be key to improving compliance among patients who do not respond to monotherapy, and in this study XALACOM was more effective than Cosopt.The study conducted at 30 eye centers in the Un...High blood pressure drug eases vessel stiffness, lowers systolic pressures
...imited understanding of how various blood pressure lowering drugs affect arterial stiffness, he adds. Large artery stiffening was thought to be a natural irreversible part of aging. This study clearly demonstrates that the stiffness in large arteries can be reduced and that the reduction in stiffness is bey...Eye drops delay onset of glaucoma in people at higher risk
...is the first large-scale study to demonstrate that lowering eye pressure a risk factor for the development of primary open-angle glaucoma can safely and effectively delay and possibly prevent the disease. High Risk Factors for Glaucoma In a companion paper, also published in the June 2002 issue of Archives ...High blood pressure treatment also improves heart function
...ment would go beyond what one might expect by just lowering blood pressure. Devereux compares the heart's performance during chronic high blood pressure to changes in the arm muscles from weightlifting: "The heart walls thicken, just as the biceps thicken from lifting weights, resulting in an increased demand...PET MPI reveals lipid-lowering medications leave some patients at risk
...ercise, cessation of smoking, medications aimed at lowering lipids, and control of additional risk factors such as diabetes and hypertension. Although this therapy reverses the progress of CAD in some patients, others require more aggressive treatment. "Nuclear medicine physicians with PET MPI capability are ...Lean ground beef fortified with soybean phytosterols lowers cholesterol
...rnative to fortified margarine for the purposes of lowering CVD risk in this population....Fish-rich tribal diet linked with low leptin levels
...ribes an association," he says. "We don't know if lowering leptin by itself can improve outcomes. These findings suggest the need for more research to answer that question." He adds that the results may not apply to a non-African population. "These are African individuals living in a fairly rural environme......lue indicate liver disease. A new study recommends lowering the current upper limit of normal blood ALT levels (Article, p. 1). Researchers suspected that the studies that set the currently accepted normal levels included patients with liver disease that could not be detected when the studies were done. They ...