The European Society of Cardiology launches Women at Heart
...derstanding of women's risk factors / presentation profiles by the medical profession Improved treatment of wo...ression patterns as well as men's. Women's symptom profiles often vary markedly from those of their male counterparts. Women with heart disease are up to ten y...Obesity among African-American stroke survivors increases risk factors for recurrent stroke
...ion between obesity and cardiovascular risk factor profiles for African-American stroke survivors. Using basel... support the association of increasing risk factor profiles and decreasing risk factor control with increasing weight," the authors conclude. "This is particula...2005 Pulp Biology Research Award
... factors in vitro. More recently, he has described profiles of gene expression in odontoblasts using two original culture systems from pulp tissue and thick slices of human teeth. These in vitro studies allowed him to show the role of TGFβ during dentin repair and, particularly, the target molecules su...Common schizophrenia symptoms often overlooked by physicians, according to expert panel
...he authors advise that factors such as side effect profiles are predictable and individual preferences should be considered. People with schizophrenia agree with the optimistic views expressed in the consensus statement. The survey found that virtually everyone with schizophrenia (94%) believes that daily fu...Some HIV patients at risk of exhausting treatment options
...reatments over time, immunological and virological profiles of these patients continue to improve. Currently little evidence exists to indicate that a large proportion of patients are starting to experience therapeutic failure, say the authors. However, for a small number, treatment options are in danger of b...Gender a factor in who gets bypass surgery
...In 1988, twelve percent of female patients who had profiles consistent with the bypass surgery received it-- as compared to twenty-four percent of men. In 1998, among similar types of patients, twenty percent of females received heart bypass, compared to thirty-three percent of men. The relative odds of a wo...Women's heart risk underestimated by doctors, resulting in less preventive care than in men
...around the country. Physicians were given patient profiles in which risk levels were the same but the gender of the patients differed. They were asked to make recommendations regarding lifestyle management and drug therapy for blood pressure, cholesterol, aspirin and other forms of preventive care. Even ...Carefree people care less about cancer symptoms, endanger health
...me was not affected by the patients' psychological profiles or other parameters measured. It appeared that once most patients decided the symptoms were signs of serious illness, they quickly sought medical help. Ristvedt's findings suggest a different approach will be needed to ensure that carefree people pay...Veterans in better health than other residents of nursing homes, new test for evaluating tinnitus
...e first time to measure disability This study profiles a person's ability to perform basic daily-living a... stroke. Patients were grouped into four different profiles of functional ability based on degree of physical and emotional disability: from a rating of low (in...McGill researchers identify new way to reduce cholesterol levels
...combination therapy favourably altered their lipid profiles by decreasing total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, and triacylglycerol levels and by increasing high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels." "These findings suggest that combination therapy may improve the cholesterol ...ESA service makes customised maps available to African aid workers
...iddle East and South America. The creation of user profiles is an improvement that will allow users to retrieve a previous customised mapping project that they have designed and then built on the earlier version, if required. HUMAN background Development of the HUMAN portal was funded by ESA under the D...St. Jude scientist to lead NCI Pediatric Preclinical Testing Program
...ensive molecular characterization. Gene expression profiles for the lines will be available using both cDNA arrays (performed by Javed Khan, NCI) and Affymetrix arrays (performed at St. Jude). Tissue arrays are being prepared that include each of the program's xenograft lines, and these will allow immunohisto...Air pollution may cause and speed up artery disease
...n. Also, those with increased cardiovascular risk profiles appeared to be at higher risk of an association between air pollution and narrowing of the arteries," he said. "However, the study is too small and not designed to clarify whether effects are truly different in men and women, old and young, or whethe...News tips for Sunday, November 7, 2004
...say their findings show that adverse coronary risk profiles are present in younger patients after a major cardiac event, but these profiles improve markedly after CR and exercise training. Also see Abstract 3572 (4:30 p.m.) for results of ...Less risks for patients participating in early phase cancer drug trials
...agents, which tend to have more favorable toxicity profiles compared with the [toxic to cells] drugs that have dominated cancer drug development in the past," the authors write. "The introduction of better supportive care over the study period are likely to have played a positive role."...Outstanding efficacy of Crestor (TM) in treating range of patient populations at risk of CVD
...TOR is superior to atorvastatin in improving lipid profiles associated with an increased cardiovascular risk in a number of patient populations with dyslipidaemia. 1-5 Results from MERCURY I and DISCOVERY also show that CRESTOR, at the usual start dose of 10mg, enables more patients achieve their US NCEP AT...Research news from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University
...these substances. At twelve months, the treatment profiles were unchanged. "Our study shows that when doctors do recommend increasing vitamin D and calcium, that patients comply," said corresponding author Bess Dawson-Hughes, MD, director of the Bone Metabolism Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrit...Study says widely reported side effect of chemotherapy may be overestimated
...nderson Cancer Center collected neuropsychological profiles from 84 women with noninvasive breast cancer prior to their treatment with chemotherapy. Surprisingly, 35 percent of the women demonstrated baseline cognitive impairment with significant deficits in verbal learning and memory prior to chemotherapy. P...Key immune system protein reduced in HIV-associated dementia patients
...mples, they used the tools of proteomics to create profiles of the proteins secreted by the cells. The study showed that, while the enzyme was secreted at greatly reduced levels in the macrophages of HIV-associated dementia patients, it was "abundantly secreted" by the cells in the other two groups of patient......ly pleased to see that the safety and tolerability profiles of fontolizumab were strong, and improved the value of this new investigational agent to suffering patients....