New Elementary School Program Lowers Cardiovascular Risks In Children
...t eight weeks. Other cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors related to blood pressure and physical ina...test the program on children with at least two CVD risk factors and to compare the effectiveness of a classroom-wide program with a program providing more i......sugar in the blood, a condition that increases the risk ofcomplications, including cardiovascular disease, eye problems, nerve damage andkidney malfunction. Unlike most conventional diabetes management programs, DTCA's DiabetesNetCareSM adopts a population management approach, managing all of the ...Controlling Collagen Levels May Be Key To Fighting Organ Failure Caused By High Blood Pressure
...which may help explain why these individuals areat risk for heart failure as well as kidney and other organ failure, accordingto a study in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. How high blood pressure contributes to organ failure has not beenunderstood. However, resea...Mini-Pill Increases Risk Of Chronic Diabetes In Women With History Of Diabetes During Pregnancy
...develop diabetes during pregnancy facean increased risk of later developing type-2 diabetes. Now, USC rese...trol pills -- may put thesewomen at an even higher risk of developing the chronic form of the disease. "It appears that progestin-only oral contraceptives ...Drug Reduces Heart Attack, Death Rates In Patients With Unstable Angina
...similar side effects. All three drugs increase the risk ofbleeding because they lower the platelet count, with Eptifibatide having anadditional 1 percent risk of bleeding compared to the other two drugs. Butresearchers pointed out that more than 80 percent of...Remembering Your Medications: Older Are Wiser
...y. "Being a very busy person is the single biggest risk factor we found," saysPark. "Having a life that's overly full leaves little time to attend to healthconcerns." For doctors, the implications of the research are clear. "Consider prescribingsimpler drug regimens for busy, middle-aged patients, not f......ne who has had such a heart attack is at increased risk toexperience another in the first few years follow...itial heartattack. Beta-blockers often reduce the risk of further damage to the heartmuscle and thereby the risk of another, and potentially fatal, heart a...Brain Regions Identified That Influence What We Remember Or Forget
...s to "apply these new techniques to olderpeople at risk for Alzheimer disease and see if they predict who will and willnot get the disease." The research might be applied in other ways, he said. "This may give us a newtool to objectively measure what is memorable for the brain, and that couldinform everyt...Cereal Lessens Colon Cancer Risk
...the value of wheat bran in the diet in reducingthe risk of colon cancer. The six-month study showed up to a 40 percent reduction in the number ofaberrant crypt cells in the colons of laboratory rats fed a controlled diet ofextrusion-processed wheat bran, according to principal investigators Wallac...International Study Finds Statins Raise Good Cholesterol, Wake Forest Physician Reports
...olesterol Education Program classifies as a "major risk factorfor coronary heart disease." The effect was ...at increasing HDL cholesterol byitself reduces the risk of coronary events," Crouse said, but statistics showthat as HDL goes up, the incidence of coronary ...Sunlight Poses Universal Cataract Risk
... is no safe dose of UV-B exposure when it comes to risk ofcataract, which means people of all ages, races...year-round." Exposure to sunlight increases risk of getting cataracts, according to aJohns Hopkins study. "We've found there is no safe dose...Guidelines Not Necessarily Guiding Physician Behavior, Study Says
...ere created tohelp physicians screen those at high risk for heart attack and who may benefitfrom cholester...amined whether doctorsevaluated patients for major risk factors such as cigarette use, prior heartattack and family history of heart disease. The scientists...Health Promotion: Can Scare Tactics Work?
...ctic campaigns may cause people to deny they're at risk forexperiencing health hazards, says Kim Witte, Ph...ctiveness of a fear campaigndesigned to reduce the risk of genital warts caused by human papilloma virus(HPV) -- the number one sexually transmitted disease...Treatment Of Irregular Heartbeat Saves Money And Prevents Stroke In Older People
...ant, since people over 75 years old are at highest risk for having astroke. "For medical and economic rea...on, England. "Although older patients are more at risk for problems such as bleeding in thebrain, these data show that the treatment is most cost-effective...Jefferson Physician Warns Further Study Of DHEA's Safety Needed
...anti-aging properties may actually increase men's risk of prostate cancer. Marshall Goldberg, M.D., profe... Science, a four- to seven-fold increase in the risk of developing prostate cancer, particularly those over 60, whose blood levels of IGF-1 were higher ...New Data Show Evista Reduces Spinal Fractures
...reventive, significantly reduced by about half the risk of newspinal fractures among postmenopausal women ...gen receptor modulatorcan significantly reduce the risk of spinal fracture," said August M. Watanabe,M.D., Lilly executive vice president, science and techn......vention drug, raloxifene,significantly reduced the risk of spinal fractures in osteoporaticpostmenopausal ... who receivedplacebo. The drug did not reduce the risk of other types of fractures, such as fracturesof the hip, Ettinger said. He added that this is not ......LIN, GERMANY-- An osteoporosis drug can reduce the risk of hipfractures by 56 percent among women who have...actures, the most debilitating, increase a women's risk ofrequiring nursing home care by 25 percent. Half of the women who suffer a hipfracture are disable...Study Pinpoints Effectiveness Of Prostate Cancer Therapies To Patient Populations
...men in the study were categorized intoone of three risk groups -- low, intermediate, and high --according to the combined results of their PSA levels, Gleasonscores, and AJCC T-stages. The study showed a clear realtionship between a recurrenceof cancer in "high-risk" patients who had opted for seed impl...Some CFS Patients Benefit From Low-Dose Steroid, But Side Effects Too Risky
...chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) symptoms but at the risk of inducing adrenalsuppression. This finding, researchers from the National Institute of Allergyand Infectious Diseases (NIAID) claim, precludes the use of hydrocortisone inpeople with the illness. Their report appears in the September 23/30 issue ...