Exercise-induced shortness of breath not always caused by asthma
...work and the patient has normal lung function when measured before exercise, it is probably not asthma. "If a patient is not responding to the simplest measure, such as use of a bronchodilator inhaler, and there are no other asthmatic symptoms, the exercise-induced shortness of breath, also known as dyspnea, ...The trust game: Measuring social interaction
...rust mechanism occurs. Blood flow to this area was measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging machines in each site of the experiment. This allowed the researchers to measure how and when trust decisions were made. The measurements were done on 48 pairs of subjects involved in the rounds. Each subject ...UCSF study offers insight into human circadian rhythms
...eping pattern seen in the human cases of FASPS, as measured in the decrease in their wheel-running activity. Unexpectedly, however, the result was the opposite in the transgenic flies, as displayed by its extended locomotor activity. The scientists do not know what accounts for the difference. "The findings s...Raw food vegetarians have low bone mass
...cioeconomic status. In both groups, Fontana's team measured body mass index, bone mass, bone mineral density, ... a problem for them, but it was not." Fontana also measured levels of the hormone leptin, which seems to play an important role in the regulation of bone metabo...Fat may promote inflammation, new study suggests
...which is just under the skin, from the abdomen and measured levels of messenger RNA (mRNA), which carries the genetic code instructions for cells to create the proteins. The study included 20 post-menopausal women from 50 to 70 years old who were overweight or obese and had waists larger than 35 inches. Women...Novel therapy tested in mice could chase away cat allergies
...gic reactions to all the blood cell cultures. "We measured more than 90 percent less histamine in the cultures with GFD," says Dr. Saxon. "Those results suggested that GFD successfully prevented the immune cells from reacting to cat allergen. The next step was to test GFD in mice that we had made allergic to...Hepatitis C and health-related quality of life
... The authors also found that traditional outcomes measured in patients, including liver histology and ALT levels, do not necessarily correspond with HRQOL differences. A panel of experts convened to consider all the data focused on patient-reported vitality as most relevant to HCV-related quality-of-life eff...New evaluation tool reliably predicts recovery from coma
...he DOCS weekly, for up to six weeks. Investigators measured social knowledge, taste and swallowing, olfactory, proprioceptive (perception of one's body in space) and vestibular (balance), auditory, visual, tactile, and testing-readiness. Investigators found that DOCS is a sensitive, reliable, and valid measu......d way to measure the acidity of a substance. It is measured on a scale of 0 to 14. A lower pH means that a solution contains more acid. The higher the pH, the more alkaline (or non-acidic) the solution will be. When a solution is neither acid nor alkaline it has a pH of 7, which is neutral. When food or drink......the country. To test the effects of exposure, they measured 8-OHdG in the urine. This is an indicator of DNA damage caused by oxygen free radical activity in the body. Blood samples were also taken to measure the levels of circulating nitric oxide, which indicates harmful oxidation associated with traffic fum...Boston University team finds link between high cholesterol and better cognitive performance
...High cholesterol was defined as > 240 mg/dL as measured in blood samples. Less than two percent of the participants were being treated with anti-cholesterol medication. Anti-cholesterol medications and diets as well as risk factors such as smoking and alcohol consumption were controlled for statisticall...Waist size linked to diabetes risk in adult men
... 3, 4 and 7 times greater when waist-hip ratio was measured in men; and 1, 2, 3 and 8 times greater when BMI w...omberg School of Public Health. "But abdominal fat measured by waist circumference can indicate a strong risk for diabetes whether or not a man is considered ov...Compound may help prevent diabetes in fast-food fans
...und significant differences in gene expression, as measured by messenger RNA changes, between animals that became insulin resistant and those that did not, they say. Although the exact mechanism by which HPMC works is unclear, Yokoyama believes that it acts as a fat regulator. The compound appears to slow dow...Community-based care beats standard clinic in lowering heart
...mmunity clinic and feedback about all risk factors measured and recommendations from cardiologists about how to manage them. Costs and access (public transportation, etc.) were similar to the community clinic. The primary physicians had everything but the community site and the community health worker. The ...Minorities, poor, uneducated bear the burden
...scular disease, compared with women and whites, as measured by years of potential life lost before age 75. In 2001, overall U.S. life expectancy was 77.2 years. Life expectancy was higher in women than men by 5.4 years and higher in whites than blacks by 5.5 years. Men lost 1708.3 years of potential life...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for March 2005 (second issue)
...PD). Investigators in Spain and the United States measured inspiratory capacity-to-total lung capacity in 689 COPD patients from 2 U.S. clinics and 2 Spanish clinics. The median follow-up period with the patients was 34 months. About 73 percent of the patients (503) were from the 2 U.S. clinics. (Patients...Community care tops medical care at preventing heart disease in black Americans
...ol and blood pressure levels considered "safe," as measured against national standards for these risk factors, than members of the primary care group. These results were strongly tied to the community group's taking medications as prescribed. While the Hopkins findings favor enhanced community-based care for...GlaxoSmithKline receives unanimous favorable recommendation by FDA Advisory Committee for Boostrix
...is antibodies, anti-PT, anti-FHA and anti-PRN were measured and were statistically higher than pertussis antibody concentrations observed in infants, following primary immunization with a DTaP vaccine (Infanrix), in whom efficacy against pertussis disease was previously demonstrated The overall safety profil...Simple blood test may help to predict cardiovascular risk in older women
...ker for inflammation. White blood cell counts were measured at the beginning of the study and women were divided into four levels or quartiles, with the first quartile representing women with the lowest level of white blood cells and the fourth quartile, women with the highest level. Medical histories were ta......said Boden, the lead study author. "We weighed and measured every calorie that participants ate and every calo... researchers weighed all food, monitored exercise, measured participants' calorie energy intake, expenditure and body water composition, and tested blood sugar,...