Low Educational Level Increases Risk For Congestive Heart Failure
...d pressure and body mass index (a numerical way to measure body fat based onweight and height). Other factors, such as diabetes, educational level,physical inactivity, cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption, were included inthe analysis. The low educational level was included because previous studieshad...News Tips Friday, March 26, 1999
...ks. The researchers used two different methods to measure bloodlevels of Lp(a) in 234 individuals with CAD. The standard method of identifyingLp(a) levels with an antibody did not show an association between Lp(a) levelsand coronary artery disease. However, when scientists used a another method --combinin......sels. Sonar-likeultrasound employs sound waves to measure the thickness of blood vessel wallsand identify areas where plaque has deposited. Using both techniques, doctorscan spot arterial plaque build-up long before life-threatening obstructionsoccur. Dr. Sutton-Tyrrell's team also found that higher pre-me...CT Scans Could Become Screening Tool For Heart Disease
... cross-sectional images of the heart, radiologists measure the size of calcium deposits. Carr worked with General Electric Medical Systems to develop computer software that processes the information and produces a calcium "score." The score indicates whether vessel disease is present and helps predict t...Tiny Tools Give New Meaning To 'Cutting Edge'
...ould be used to do on-the-spot medical analyses or measure dangerouschemicals in the air, water or soil. In all of these near-term and distant-future applications, Lal is a firmbeliever that silicon will make them perform cheaper and better. It may only befinely processed sand, but Lal is almost philosophica...Psychologist Detects Brain-Activity Changes In Maltreated Kids
..., children wear a cap with tiny receptors that can measure theirbrain electrical activity. The response measured is called an Event RelatedPotential (ERP), which is a sharp increase in electrical activity in the brainthat's associated with a specific stimulus. In this case, the stimulus is recognizing a faci...New Use of An Old Test Can Help Brain-Injured Patients
...ubtle executive function deficits which are hardto measure using environmental tests. "By being able to consistently measurewhat problems these brain-injured patients are having, we can tailorrehabilitation efforts much better. This program is both time effective and costeffective," explains Satish. As she...Brain Resolves Sensory Contradictions By Creating Its Own Reality
...ionary. Duringthis period, we use video cameras to measure the study subject's eye movements,and we found the eyes move as though the person is still both rotating andtranslating, even though he or she is perfectly still." The brain resolves theconflict between the senses by inventing its own reality. The re...Recording Patients' Socio-Economic Status Is Necessary For Tackling Health Inequalities
... cumbersome to use, does not always provide a good measure of the socioeconomic factors important to health and may not be appropriate in countries other than the UK. Smeeth and Heath argue that a more valid and easy to use form of social classification is required and with this tool and the increasing com......plants used non-standardized hospital charges as a measure of resource use. In this study, the researchers used a standardized resource use database inwhich all hospital services for liver transplants at the three centers werematched to a single price list. The researchers then tested the association ofpati...'Silent' HIV Infection Lasts A Lifetime
...oir of dormant T cells is responsible." To measure how long the reservoir survives, the team followed 34patients for two years, periodically drawing blood samples. Using asophisticated cell-sorting technique developed at Hopkins, they siphoned off thedormant T cells that carried HIV genes and counted...UI Researcher Shows Economic Benefits Of Hospitals Fast-Tracking Patients Vary
... Aspect MedicalSystems has developed technology to measure a patient's level of consciousnessduring surgery. The monitor is useful for fast-tracking because it helpsanesthesia staff give patients just enough medicine so they are unconsciousduring surgery but in a state from which they can awaken soon after t...New Method Assesses Risk Of Advanced Cancer After Prostate Removal
...-called Gleason score from the removed prostate (a measure ofthe cancer's severity and aggressiveness); timing of the rise in PSA level(either before or after two years post-surgery); and the length of time it tookthe PSA level to double (either greater or less than 10 months). A man in the lowest r...Biochemical Marker Targets Brain Injury Leading To Movement Problems After Stroke
...of theconcentrations of biochemical substances, to measure levels of N-acetylaspartate(NAA) in various areas of the brain. The role of NAA in the brain is unclear, but studies suggest it may beassociated with protein building and the transmission of signals between nervecells. The researchers found reduced ...Transplant Pioneer Thomas E. Starzl Most Cited Researcher In Clinical Medicine Over Past 17 Years
...f ScienceWatch. According to ISI, the ranking is a measure of a researcher's influence and hiswork's utility in the field of clinical medicine. Between Jan. 1981 and June1998, Dr. Starzl's publications were cited 26,456 times, about 4,000 more timesthan the second-ranked researcher, Steven A. Rosenberg, M.D...Multitasking Behaviors Mapped To The Prefrontal Cortex
... oxygen-carryinghemoglobin in the blood. fMRI can measure the presence (or absence) ofoxygenated hemoglobin and use that information to create an image of the brainat work on a screen. The image of the brain shows activation in the areasreceiving increased blood flow. The region of the brain that is invol......nattack against the donor organ. "We believe this measure of unresponsiveness to the donor graft is correlat...of the eightcontrols showed such evidence. Such a measure indicates the degree to which arecipient's immune system is indifferent to the donor organ but is st...Cholesterol Carriers Better Predictors Than Cholesterol For Second Heart Attack
...holesterol in the blood may provide abetter way to measure heart attack risk than the usual cholesterol blood test,report researchers in today's Circulation: Journal of the American HeartAssociation. "Because the two proteins are more sensitive heart disease risk detectors thancholesterol, they may identify ......called the eDEM Monitor. "Without the electronic measure of each patient's drug intake, it is impossibleon clinical grounds alone to identify whether a patient is taking the prescribedmedicine correctly," said Dr. Burnier. "When treatment fails to control theblood pressure, a stronger medicine should be p......n completed astandard battery of tests designed to measure their "inhibitory control" --whether they were impulsive or deliberate in responding to new situations - andtheir level of "extraversion" - whether they sought out and responded to novelsituations enthusiastically. At six years old, the researchers ...