Growing Younger By Keeping Up Regular Physical Activity
... A sedentary lifestyle is the most prevalent modifiable risk factor forcoronary artery disease, far exceeding hypertension, smoking and highcholesterol. In one study, 184 adults aged 60 and older were randomized intothree groups: long-term exercise, short-term exercise, and a control group. Atthe end of...Can We Prevent Hearing Loss In Elderly Women?
...search has quite a bit of potential in identifying modifiable risk factors for age-related hearing loss" says Mary Ann Johnson,PhD, and Robert J. Nozza, Ph.D., lead authors of the study from University of Georgia, Athens. "While it is too soon to know if the modificationof nutritional factors will influence how......event, event, and post-event, in order to identify modifiable risk factors for poor injury outcome. This work was funded by State Farm Insurance Companies as part of the Partners for Child Passenger Safety project, a multi-year research collaboration between State Farm and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphi...Study describes brain changes during learning
...studies, the researchers showed that synapses were modifiable through the LTP process when those synapses were activated artificially by electrical impulses. However, it was not known whether LTP was actually used to modify synapses when learning takes place in the living bra...Study of school 'connectedness' identifies adolescents at risk
...tunately, several of these factors are potentially modifiable and may help school health providers target youth ... in my school In addition to the four potentially modifiable factors, black race, female gender, and urban schools were also associated with a lower SCS. The r...American Stroke Association kicks off American Stroke Month
...risk patient should be strongly directed to reduce modifiable risk factors such as smoking and uncontrolled hypertension. We should not wait until a person reaches retirement age to discuss stroke prevention," says Hachinski. According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institutes Framingham Heart Study, 28...Landmark XENDOS study shows Xenical prevents or delays the development of type 2 diabetes
...ss weight is well recognised as the most important modifiable risk factor for the development of type 2 diabetes. A number of recent studies have shown that lifestyle intervention (to reduce weight and increase physical activity) has a dramatic effect on delaying or preventing the development of type 2 diabetes...Type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes are undetected in over one quarter of obese population
...ss weight is well recognised as the most important modifiable risk factor for the development of type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes often goes undetected and therefore untreated for many years. During this period, diabetic complications such as heart disease, nerve damage and stroke can develop. Worldwide, the p...Blood pressure medication preserves cognitive function in older African-Americans
... a study which is designed to identify potentially modifiable risk factors for Alzheimer disease by comparing the disease in two populations from a developed and developing country African- Americans living in Indianapolis and Yoruba living in Ibadan, Nigeria," said Hugh Hendrie, MBChB, research scientist at t......nisms. "It's important to realize that these are modifiable personality traits, and reducing TUI tendency may possibly decrease future health risks related to TUI," Liu says....Urban children's low perceptions of health could hinder educational success
...ily changed, school connectedness is a potentially modifiable factor that encourages Dr. Mansour. "Health and educational programs and school health services provided through school-linked and school-based health centers or programs may be one mechanism to improve children's attachment to their schools with con...Could a mandated food additive aimed at better fetal development be a risk for seniors?
...ired. Folic Acid Not long ago, the most common, modifiable cause of high levels of homocysteine was folic acid deficiency. Before 1998 there were between 4,000-5,000 children born with neural tube defects annually in the US. Neural tube defects occur in human embryos and result in developmental defects. Th...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, August 5, 2003
...dy of U.S. male health professionals. But several modifiable health behaviors were associated with maintaining good erectile function, particularly physical activity and leanness. Factors associated with increased risk for ED included increasing age, smoking, obesity, other chronic conditions such as hypertens...Educational attainment may predict drinking outcomes following alcohol treatment
...nment and alcohol disorders because education is a modifiable factor," said Shelly F. Greenfield, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and medical director of the alcohol and drug abuse ambulatory treatment program at McLean Hospital. "Education is something you might have influence ove...New Alzheimer projections add urgency to search for prevention, cure
...ding of its underlying biology and by discovery of modifiable risk factors."...Exercise and breast-cancer prevention: study finds it's never too late to start
...cent, suggesting that physical inactivity may be a modifiable breast-cancer risk factor in older women." In addition, the researchers found that regular exercise also causes a similar reduction in overall breast-cancer incidence among women considered to be at highest risk for the disease, such as those with a ...Other highlights in the September 17 issue of JNCI
...result from increases in the prevalence of several modifiable and interrelated risk factors," the authors conclude. "Efforts to reduce the prevalence of being overweight, having gastroesophageal reflux, and smoking and to improve diet could reverse this troubling cancer trend." Contact: Joanne Nicholas, Memoria...Male injecting-drug users at greater risk of drug-related death
...Particular attention should be paid to the role of modifiable risk factors, such as incarceration, living or injecting alone, and risk perception - for example by males versus females. Life years lost from drug-related deaths are converging on the number of lost years from road traffic accidents-as the former g...Patients starting cholesterol-lowering drugs in hospital take meds longer
...fective strategy to enhance subsequent use. Other modifiable factors that influence the long-term use of these agents must be identified if we are to bridge the gap between the current evidence base and practice of preventive medicine."......nt could then lead to "more intensive treatment of modifiable cardiovascular risk factors", such as smoking, blood pressure, weight, diet and exercise. Volunteers of normal weight who suffered from heart disease were also more likely to produce low-molecular weight versions of apolipoprotein(a) than those with ...