Highlights of June Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...the University of Minnesota studied dietary intake patterns of 4,144 middle and high school students. Healthful weight-control behaviors were defined as increasing fruits and vegetables and decreasing foods high in fats and sugars in moderation. Unhealthful weight-control behaviors were defined as skipping m...Read my lips: UCL launches centre for human communication
...peech. They will also investigate the genetics and patterns of language disorders, ranging from stuttering and loss of speech to syndromes such as savant, Down's and William's syndrome. Professor Moira Yip, co-director of the Centre for Human Communication, says: "The whole field of speech, language and commu...Anaesthesia guidance system can reduce awareness during surgery
...ANCET highlights how the neuromonitoring of brain patterns of patients during surgery could help guide the us... the depth of anaesthesia by analysis of brain EEG patterns and produces a score between 0 (deep anaesthesia) and 100 (awake). Scores of 40-60 are suitable for ...More than one-third of US adults use complementary and alternative medicine
...l medicine. The results of the survey reveal new patterns of CAM use among various population groups and provide a rich source of data for future research. Furthermore, the survey results provide a baseline for future surveys, as it establishes a consistent definition of CAM that can be used to track trends...Approach of holidays has no effect on time of death
...e opposite pattern. And a study in Israel found no patterns around major holidays at all, either among Jews or non-Jewish Israelis. Writing in the same issue of Psychosomatic Medicine, Gary Smith, Ph.D., of Pomona College analyzed Asian-American deaths in relation to the Harvest Moon Festival. The Harvest Moo...New study raises questions about the number of people in the UK who could be incubating vCJD
...e of known vCJD cases. The other two had different patterns of accumulation, so their significance is uncertain. However, prion protein accumulation has not yet been described in any other disease, so data from these two samples cannot be dismissed. Lead author of the paper David Hilton, who works in the Depa...UCI Tobacco research center reports why teens are most vulnerable to smoking addiction
...become addicted to nicotine. These "born to smoke" patterns appear in teens and adults. Tobacco use is one of the nation's leading health problems, killing more than 430,000 Americans and costing more than $38 billion in taxpayer dollars each year. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 80 percent of...UCSD researchers determine fatty liver disease different in obese children than in adults
...biopsy-proven NAFLD. They found clearly different patterns and locations of liver scarring and inflammation i...ced disease. We believe that the different injury patterns in children suggests differences in causation and potentially treatment and outcome. Additionally, w...Studies identify risk factors for colon cancer
...ond leading cause of cancer death. The geographic patterns of the two diseases are extremely similar; both were considered relatively rare before industrialization and the incidence has increased in regions undergoing economic development. Insulin resistance has been associated with hyperinsulinemia, increa...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for May 2004 (second issue)
...o fail medical treatment based on their resistance patterns and/or extent of disease. According to the researchers, among the 162 patients for whom there was sufficient data to evaluate outcomes, 137 (85 percent) converted their sputum cultures to negative values, but 25 (15 percent) failed to convert. In an...National Academies news: vaccines and autism
...ion abilities, as well as restricted or repetitive patterns of behaviors and interests. It is unclear how many cases of autism there are, but two reviews of published studies put the prevalence at one case for every 1,000 children. While some information suggests that autism rates may be rising, it is not c...Cutting-edge science offers improved care for liver diseases
... NAFLD. The investigators found clearly different patterns and locations of liver scarring and inflammation in children as compared to that typically seen in adults. They focused on the most severe form of NAFLD, called nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH, and divided it into two types; the adult pattern ...GI health affected by consumption of coffee and carbonated drinks
...strong correlation demonstrates the impact of diet patterns on health trends," said Mohandas Mallath, M.D., lead author on the study. "This study re-emphasizes a general life style dictum that 'if little is good, a lot isn't better.' As the rates may continue to rise for another 20 years, we believe that mo...Studies indicate healthy eating may affect cancer development, improve digestive system
...gery. "Particularly for children, healthy eating patterns are important for proper GI function and developme...sible relationships with school activities, eating patterns and other upper gastrointestinal symptoms. Children were identified as having RAP if they met the w...Diabetics at significantly higher risk for Alzheimer's disease
... information, and the ability to recognize spatial patterns -- may be affected selectively in people with diabetes. The research, by Dr. Zoe Arvanitakis, Dr. David Bennett, and colleagues at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, appears in the May 2004 issue of the Archives of Neurology. The invest...Diabetes linked to increased risk of Alzheimer's in long-term study
... information, and the ability to recognize spatial patterns -- may be affected selectively in people with diabetes. The research, by Zoe Arvanitakis, M.D., David Bennett, M.D., and colleagues at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL, appears in the May 2004 issue of the Archives of Neurology. The...Even health-conscious women going without colonoscopy
... to go for colon screening. The team found similar patterns when they looked at the records for all the women between the ages of 50 and 89 who had had mammograms at UMHS in 1998. Those results, presented at the ARRS meeting last week, showed that of 4,100 women, only 12 percent were current with their recomm...Food displays, food colors affect how much people eat
...hy eating include: Arrange foods into organized patterns and avoid cramming meal tables or restaurant displ... Arrange fruits and vegetables in less-organized patterns to stimulate appetites. Assemble smaller helpings of more items for children or elderly adults wit...Rx pain medicines hard to find in pharmacies serving minority neighborhoods
...hich suggests that we need to look at prescription patterns and other factors." When the researchers looked at individual medications, significant differences between pharmacies in white and non-white areas arose in four of the five long-acting opioids, all five of the short-acting opioids, and two of the fiv......ave shown that the enhancement profile or temporal patterns of enhancement (the level and way the contrast media highlights the lesion over time) could help differentiate benign from malignant lesions. However, this study observed otherwise, said Dr. Chen. "Our study showed no significant differences between ...