Type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes are undetected in over one quarter of obese population
...ular risk factors such as blood pressure and lipid profiles compared with lifestyle intervention alone Treatment with Xenical for 4 years was safe and well-tolerated. Xenical is now the only weight loss medication available whose safety has been studied for this length of time. Overweight and type 2 diabete...UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center researchers study ways to prevent tobacco-related bladder cancer
...se bladder cancer occurrence and develop molecular profiles that tell us who is most at risk." Bladder cancer is a major health problem in the United States, ranking as the fourth most-common cancer in men and the eighth most-common in women, Belldegrun said. "And cigarette smoking represents the single most...Landmark XENDOS study shows Xenical prevents or delays the development of type 2 diabetes
...ular risk factors such as blood pressure and lipid profiles compared with lifestyle intervention alone Treatment with Xenical for 4 years was safe and well-tolerated. Xenical is now the only weight loss medication available whose safety has been studied for this length of time Type 2 diabetes Worldwide, the ...Study finds childhood health is directly related to social class
...ex influences on the development of various health profiles is large, especially in longitudinal research following youth from early school ages through adolescence," said Dr. Starfield.......creening consisted of acylcarnitine and amino acid profiles were obtained by mass spectometry. Specialized interpretation was used to evaluate profiles for disorders of fatty acid, organic acid, and amino acid metabolism. The analyses of postmortem blo...Soy protein in the diet produces health benefits, regardless of isoflavone content
...s significantly improved the subjects' cholesterol profiles and reduced systolic blood pressure in men. There...ets continued to improve the subjects' blood lipid profiles even after dietary saturated fat consumption was maximally reduced....Playful therapy garments for children receive patent
...elopment, but other cases with similar dysfunction profiles may benefit from the resulting garment product," Haar wrote. Funded by KSU, she is continuing her research on apparel product design for children with sensory dysfunctions. The patent is assigned to the Kansas State University Research Foundation and...Children with asthma plagued by smokers and pets
... on these families they found distinctly different profiles for the households with smokers and those with pets. "I believe that many doctors have two basic asthma patients in their minds: good ones who take their medicine, and avoid all irritants and allergens and bad ones who smoke, have pets and don't take...South Asian patients are missing out on cholesterol drugs
...ent to determine the extent of unmet need and risk profiles at the level of the individual patient, with particular reference to South Asian patients, is also required....Similar pathways may be involved in hereditary and sporadic ovarian cancers
...e observation that BRCA-associated gene expression profiles are recapitulated in major subsets of sporadic tumors suggests that molecular mechanisms common to both hereditary and sporadic ovarian carcinogenesis exist," the authors conclude. In an accompanying editorial, Ingrid A. Hedenfalk, Ph.D., of the Nat...Gene expression profiles predict survival of lymphoma patients after chemotherpy
...psed after standard chemotherapy. Gene expression profiles of the patients' tumors will be determined prior to treatment to understand which patients respond best to this new regimen. Trials designed to correlate clinical results with molecular data will allow researchers to identify drugs that are effectiv...FDA approves Actonel for once-a-week use
...atment groups. The overall safety and tolerability profiles of Actonel 35 mg once-a-week and 5 mg daily were similar in the study. Consistent with other pivotal Actonel clinical studies, patients were not excluded based on a history of, or active, GI disease....American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for May (second issue)
...iscovered that there are very distinct CD4+ T cell profiles between lung transplant recipientswith OB and those with no evidence of rejection. The authors note that an expanded number ofcloned CD4 cells are extremely rare in the absence of pathogenic immune responses. The studyappears in the second issue fo...New research suggests rapid screening technique for macular degeneration
...de insight in individual variations in the spatial profiles of MP distributions as well as the total amounts of MP. In addition to the research findings to be published in Optics Letters, research detailing the integral measurement method needed to provide a reading for average macular pigment concentration...Matching for liver transplants could prevent disease recurrence, says Pitt study
...ee of similarity between a donor's and recipient's profiles of human leukocyte antigens, or HLA. These are specific molecules found on cells that serve as signals to antibodies and other cells of the immune system. HLA testing yields information about matches or mismatches between specific HLA molecules. Resu...High-intensity physical training improves cardiovascular fitness in obese adolescents
...ning program improved their cardiovascular fitness profiles significantly more than did those in the LSE program alone; however, the moderate-intensity physical training group was not significantly different from either of the other groups. Body composition changes such as declines in abdominal fat and perce...Psychologists hunt for new ways to detect precursors to Alzheimer's Disease
...igher than expected proportion of these asymmetric profiles compared with a larger normative group. In short, the verbal-versus-visuoconstruction gaps in the pre-clinical Alzheimers group were bigger and more frequent. Thus, the authors suggest that this kind of non-invasive, paper-and-pencil testing could...MGH study finds herceptin has additional antitumor qualities
...ents in the future. "Someday we may have detailed profiles of individual patients and their tumors, and we'll know which genes and angiogenic factors need to be targeted," he says. "By identifying other antibodies or inhibitors like herceptin, we may be able to tailor treatments through multiple cocktail th...Computational innovation predicts how patients will respond to drug treatments
...Golub. In that study, researchers examined genetic profiles of cancer patients and were able to develop a meth...ine would be to develop drugs for specific genetic profiles in order to minimize or eliminate altogether such adverse reactions. Another benefit of Korenbergs c...Many obese youth have condition that precedes type 2 diabetes
...s used in adults have the same safety and efficacy profiles for children," said study chair Dr. Francine Kaufman, president elect of the American Diabetes Association and director of the Comprehensive Diabetes Center at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. Many drugs are available to treat type 2 diabetes...