OHSU scientists test medication to treat involuntary weight loss
...fer from involuntary weight loss. They lose muscle mass and become very frail as their disease progresses -- this is what we refer to as cachexia," explains Daniel Marks, M.D., Ph.D., a member of the OHSU Center for Weight Regulation and Associated Disorders and an assistant professor of pediatric endocri...Raw food vegetarians have low bone mass
...atus. In both groups, Fontana's team measured body mass index, bone mass, bone mineral density, markers of...IGF-1). Those on the raw food diet had lower body mass indices and significantly lower bone mass in important skeletal regions such as the hip and lumbar s...Sudan surveys show high rates of death and malnutrition among displaced population
...JAMA. In background information, the authors write mass violence against civilians in the west of Sudan started in 2003 and has continued. "More than 1.5 million people (25 percent of the population of the region) are now scattered in 127 encampments in Darfur and 15 in neighboring Chad," the authors note...Men with severe sleep breathing disorder have higher risk of heart problems
...recruited 264 healthy men matched for age and body mass index, 377 simple snorers, 403 with untreated severe disease and 372 with the disease and treated with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). Participants were followed-up at least once a year for an average of 10 years. Patients with untreated ...Waist size linked to diabetes risk in adult men
...s risk of developing type 2 diabetes than his body mass index (BMI), which is a weight-to-height ratio, or waist-to-hip ratio alone. This finding, published in the March 2005 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, is based on data collected from 27,270 men tracked over 13 years who particip...US life expectancy about to decline, researchers say
... everyone who is currently obese acquired the body mass index of people who have the lowest risk of death. By calculating years-of-life-lost due to obesity and combining that with estimates of the prevalence of obesity in younger generations, the authors were able to illustrate that in the coming decades ...Research suggests possible blood test for multiple sclerosis
...ith MS from healthy people." The analysis combined mass spectrometry, a tool for analyzing proteins, with special software to recognize proteins patterns. The technology, known as BAMF TM , was developed by Predictive Diagnostics. Avasarala collaborated Michael Wall and Gershon Wolfe from the company, bas...Chemists identify immune system mechanism for methamphetamine binges
...iction. In theory, antibodies to the drug could be mass produced and administered at therapeutic levels that are high enough to clear the drug from the body, he says. "Methamphetamine has become the crack' of the 21 st century," Janda says. "We're just starting to unravel its mechanism of addiction." Fur...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for March 2005 (second issue)
... Researchers showed that obesity, defined as body mass index (BMI) at the 95th percentile or higher for a...ring follow-up. They were older, had a lower body mass index, showed poorer lung function scores, walked a shorter distance during the 6-minute walking tes...Effects of education level on rates of obesity differ by race
...college; and high, college degree or more, on body mass index (BMI, calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters) and changes in BMI over four years in 2,019 middle-aged African-American and white women from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN). At a baseline...Simple blood test may help to predict cardiovascular risk in older women
...ty, baseline hypertension, diabetes, smoking, body mass index diet, physical activity, current use of aspirin or hormone therapy and C-reactive protein, a biomarker for inflammation. White blood cell counts were measured at the beginning of the study and women were divided into four levels or quartiles, w...Obesity among African-American stroke survivors increases risk factors for recurrent stroke
...ht and weight, the researchers determined the body mass index (BMI, calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters) for 1,711 patients. The patients were divided into six groups, underweight (BMI less than 18.5), normal weight (BMI 18.5 24.9), overweight ((BMI 25.0 29.9), cl...Forensic dentistry key in identifying victims of tsunamis, other disasters
...Belgium, on "Forensic identification of victims of mass casualty incidents", "The dentist as a member of the disaster victim identification team--The Interpol DVI interdisciplinary philosophy", and "Facial reconstruction based on 3-D craniofacial reconstruction and in vivo soft-tissue depth registration"....Growth hormone treatment improves symptoms of metabolic disorder in postmenopausal women
...al obesity demonstrated reduction in abdominal fat mass and beneficial effects on insulin sensitivity and lipids. Many postmenopausal women experience a natural increase in obesity, particularly an increase of intra-abdominal fat, which refers to fat that is stored in and around the internal organs. Dr. ...Will your kids grow up to be fat?
...fied as overweight. The authors considered a body mass index (BMI) between the 50th and 84th percentile to be in the high normal weight range. The study comprised 314 children, mostly Caucasian, from East Boston, MA, who were 8 to 15 years old when their weight, height, and blood pressure were first rec...New guideline tackles leading cause of mother and child death
...liffe Hospital in Oxford. Diabetes and a high body mass index almost quadruple the risk, while mother's age and raised blood pressure are also significant. Many fetal and maternal deaths from pre-eclampsia are associated with substandard care, claim the guideline authors. Poor management includes failure ...A shallow hip socket predicts osteoarthritis of the hip
...ding genes, age, gender, hormones, as well as body mass index, mechanical stress. In addition, a developmental condition known as acetabular dysplasia can contribute to disease risk. Often present at birth, acetabular dysplasia is marked by a shallow hip socket, making the hip unstable and, in extreme c...The impact of cruciate ligament rupture on osteoarthritis of the knee
...e case group tended to have a slightly higher body mass index (BMI) than the control groups. Researchers used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to assess the prevalence of cruciate ligament tears in all groups. Rupture of the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) was extremely rare, found in less than one per...Inflammation elevates risk of cardiac death in rheumatoid arthritis patients
...uch as diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol, body mass index and smoking. They also collected information on indicators of systemic inflammation and rheumatoid arthritis disease severity, such as rheumatoid factor positivity, ESR, joint swelling, radiographic changes, rheumatoid arthritis nodules, rheuma...Three out of the four million newborn babies who die each year could be saved
...will be a knowing party to an entirely preventable mass destruction of human life. The weapon that will be wielded in this crime will not be a bomb, a biological agent, or an aeroplane. It will be something more sinister withdrawal from the universe of human reason and compassion into a national solipsis...