Statement from Dr. Claude Lenfant, director, NHLBI and Dr. Phillip Gorden, director, NIDDK
...y is preceded by insulin resistance, which also is related tocoronary heart disease (CHD). Factors that contr.... The increasing prevalence of type 2 diabetes is related to a variety of factors,many of which also are associated with an increased risk of CVD. These facto...Research finds U.S. adolescents inactive; blacks, Hispanics, Asians at biggest risk
...ctivity," Larsen said. The twocategories often are related but are not necessarily opposites. Among findings were that: Among boys, the average number of hours spent watching television weekly were14.4 for whites, 15 for Asians, 16.6 for Hispanics and 20.8 for blacks. Among girls, average ...Hormone linked to body weight may help regulate blood pressure
...e data clearly indicatethat high leptin levels are related to high blood pressure," Takizawa says. He adds that although other studies have found that weight loss leads to areduction in high blood pressure and leptin levels, further research is neededto determine if reduced leptin levels due to weight loss ...Better diagnosis of pain in children
...nurses to record seventypes of behaviour which are related to pain. Staff observe the childunobtrusively, noting a score for whether it is crying, how it breathes (panting,holding its breath or breathing regularly), the way it moves its arms and fingers(in the case of pain, cramped, clenched fists, wild move......ents with severe attacks of multiple sclerosis and related diseases thatcause inflammation and myelin destruction in the brain and spinal cord. Theresults of the study are being announced at the 1999 joint meeting of theEuropean and America's Committees for Treatment and Research in MS in Basel. The study w...Follow-up phone calls by nurses benefit cancer patients
...r and their family members. The second evaluates a related form ofintervention in older White, Mexican-American and African-American Women withBreast cancer. The third tests the intervention in younger African-Americanwomen with breast cancer. In the telephone-based nursing intervention, patients are...Condom use in young adults motivated more by pregnancy than AIDS
...tinct patterns of attitudes,beliefs, and behaviors related to both condom use and risky sex," said Cooper. For example, people who use condoms to prevent pregnancy are more likely thanother condom users to be in an exclusive relationship. They engage in the leastrisky sexual behavior, and they see themselve...University Of Wisconsin to launch center to study how emotions affect health
... well asspecific brain activity and hormone levels related to elevated stress.Additional physiological measures will be taken to learn which constellation offactors may make some monkeys more vulnerable to stress and more susceptible todisease than others. CONTACT: Ned Kalin, Hedberg Professor of Psychiatr...UI study indicates physicians' questions are often not pursued
... physicians.He is already working on another study related to this, attempting to find theproportion of doctors' questions that can be answered with existing evidence. Ely's research team included Eric R. Evans, a staff physician at the UI StudentHealth Service. The paper appeared in the August 7 issue of th...Study spotlights uniqueness of human brain
...norganization of humans and apes that isn't simply related to differences in thesize or shape of the brain," said Dr. Daniel Povinelli, co-director of ULLafayette's Institute of Cognitive Science. The uniquely human feature discovered by Preuss's team involves neurons in theso-called "magnocellular" (or M) ...Review identifies factors leading to better outcome for some metastatic breast cancer patients
..., was notspecifically designed to identify factors related to better response orsurvival, but the information was there for the looking, Rizzieri said. Early results of this trial, published in 1996 with an average of 20 months offollow-up, showed that for patients who got immediate high dose therapy, thedis...Cigarette smoking cost Medicare program $20.5 billion in 1997, according to UCSF researchers
...e the relationship between smokinghistory, smoking related disease, self-reported health status, and medicalcosts, according to Zhang. The researchers found the total cost of smoking to the nation in 1993 amountedto $72.7 billion. Of this total, the cost of smoking to Medicare amounted to$14.2 billion (9.4 ...Female-specific genetic factors that contribute to emotional behaviors
... with the environment) emotional reactionspossibly related to anxiety. The authors have identified, through this approach, a region on rat's chromosome 4 containing gene(s) strongly affecting a behavior thought to reflect emotionality or anxiety. Interestingly, this chromosomic region (also called locus) aff...Diabetes therapy may impair memory function in children
...ut she believes the impairment may signal problems related to severehypoglycemia. Past research has shown tha...r there are any long-term or permanentconsequences related to hypoglycemia rather than whether the brain functionsdifferently when a child is hypoglycemic. "W......percent of the spouses' arousals during sleep were related topatient snores and that arousals decreased by 39 percent after the snoringstopped. "If people tell you that you have a distinctive snoring pattern -- you snore soloudly that you can be heard in the next room, but then you suddenly stopbreathing to ...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet - October 5, 1999
...nearly half (46 percent) of the high-risk group. A related editorial says theprevalence of obstructive sleep apnea is probably higher than previouslythought, and a simple questionnaire is an excellent way to identify patients atrisk (Editorial, p. 535.) * * * Remission of Rheumatoid Arthritis Reported ...New model suggests that AIDS drugs may not abolish HIV infection
... Paul, "there is noobvious reason why it should be related to treatment regimen." Drs. Paul, Grossman and their colleagues predict that anti-HIV treatmenteventually leads to stable, steady state levels of HIV, even when HIV levels arereduced to undetectable levels. "HIV viral load may stabilize below the l...We do 'feel with the mind's eye,' confirm Emory researchers in Nature
...orientation," the authors write. "Perhaps this is related tothe fact that we generally rely on the visual system for orientationdiscrimination. Thus, involvement of the visual cortex may bebeneficial when macrogeometric features such as orientation are to bediscriminated, but not for microgeometric feature...The Niemann Pick C Lesion and the role of intracellular lipid sorting in humandisease
... from widely ranging and relevant areasof research related to NP-C. (3) An intellectual climate similar to that of theGordon conferences will be fostered and speakers will be very much encouraged toreveal and discuss recent unpublished findings. (4) Individual sessions willhave one keynote speaker who will r...Researchers discover potential new approach to treating cystic fibrosis
...anted anexclusive license to intellectual property related to DHA therapy. Patentapplications have been filed on the discovery. DHA is a fatty acid found in sources such as fish oils and breast milk and isavailable in over-the-counter nutritional supplements. The researchers cautionthat current formulation...