'Thick' blood may increase stroke risk
...n particular, isknown to be elevated in people who smoke or have diabetes. So if you want toreduce your risk of stroke, it's important to eliminate as many of the provenmajor risk factors as possible." Researchers emphasize that there is more potential benefit in focusing theconcern of physicians and pati...Job complexity, simplicity linked to substance use
Many people drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes or marijuana to cope with the factthat their jobs are either too complex or not demanding enough in relation totheir cognitive abilities, according to a new study conducted by Greg R. Oldham,Ph.D., and Benjamin I. Gordon at the University ...U-M School of Public Health to direct national asthma program
...use dust-mites, cockroaches, animal dander,tobacco smoke and mold can reduce the frequency and severity of asthma attacks. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is the nation's largest philanthropy devotedexclusively to health and health care....It is easy for adolescents to purchase cigarettes illegally in North Carolina
...regular smokers whobecome addicted and continue to smoke as adults. Most smokers become addicted asadolescents. Very few adults start smoking as adults." In North Carolina's middle schools, 25.3 percent of males and 20.7percent of females had smoked cigarettes in the last 30 days. Research alsoshow...Traditional values may curtail smoking among southern black women
...to the high proportion of foreign-born Blacks, who smoke less onaverage than American-born Blacks," King says. Of all Southern and border states with substantial Black populations,only Delaware, Kentucky and North Carolina had Black smoking rates of 25 percentor greater. In the northeastern states...USC receives $12.8 million to study teen smoking
...s and Laotians, as well as South Americans,tend to smoke a lot when they first arrive in the United States, but smoke lessover time. Chinese and Mexican youth, meanwhile, tend to smoke more as they easeinto American li......h as alcohol-related behavior, exposure to tobacco smoke and other activites that may weaken the immune system's response. It may be that many dorm students are exposed to the bacteria for the first time and therefore have not had an opportunity to develop immunity." Dr. Arditi says the vaccine costs about...New study shows link between sex and violence among N.C. high school males
...o fight, carry a weapon to school,attempt suicide, smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol and use illegal substances,said the report's author, Robert H. DuRant, Ph.D., vice-chair for HealthServices Research for the Department of Pediatrics at Wake Forest UniversityBaptist Medical Center and director of the Brenne...Spouses of heart disease patients face high risks themselves
...cken says. Twice as many women as men continued to smoke following the male patient's heart attack or other coronary event. In addition, fewer women were exercising compared to men. "When we are working with patients to help them change high risk lifestyle behaviors such as smoking and lack of exercis...Lack of private health insurance increases risk of dying, study finds
...ample, factors that indirectly encourage people to smoke include low education, low income and unemployment. So socioeconomic factors must be underscored as important factors that influence mortality." The study also found that foreign-born individuals of most U.S. ethnic groups had lower risks of death ...Cigarette smoking among American teens
...g themselves (physically or in other ways) if they smoke one or more packs of cigarettes per day."] (See Figure 3.) "Certainly this is a move in the right direction," Johnston comments, "but among the eighth-graders, even today only 55 percent think there is a great risk of harm associated with pack-a-d......without consulting their physician, most likely to smoke and least likely to control their diet. The researchers report group A and B members have better health outcomes than group C and D members. "Physicians and other members of the health care team must assist patients with hypertension to understand......Tower. They include: Why do Chinese-Americans smoke less than whites? It's one of the major curiosit...hat people with defects in the CYP2A6 gene tend to smoke about one-third fewer cigarettes per day than people without the defects. People with CYP2A6 defects...Tobacco chemical protects against Parkinson's disease
...ts of smokers are examined - before and after they smoke - to see if the naphthoquinone or related tobacco-derived compounds reduce MAO activity. The results will be correlated with the effects of the napththoquinone on MAO activity in the rodent brain. In another paper at the same meeting, Joanna S. Fow...Drug that curbs nicotine craving may do same for cocaine
...mbination with nicotine to help reduce the urge to smoke cigarettes, has now been shown in animal studies to reduce their self-administration of cocaine. Rats that were trained to press a lever in order to get cocaine no longer pressed it with the same frequency after they were given mecamylamine, sa...Castagnolis discover compound in tobacco that may protect against Parkinson's disease
...TMN, which was also known to be present in tobacco smoke and proved to be an inhibitor of MAO. Using mice,... Castagnolis discovered that TMN, found in tobacco smoke as well as leaves, did in fact interfere with MAO and protected the rodents against the toxic effect...Study finds marijuana ingredient promotes tumor growth, impairs anti-tumor defenses
...tor in promoting human lung cancer. And marijuana smoke deposits four times as much tar in the respiratory tract as does a comparable amount of tobacco, thus increasing exposure to carcinogens. Dr. Steven M. Dubinett, head of the research team that conducted the study, says, "What we already know abou...Passive smoking at work increases rate of sick leave among employees
...s forced to breathe in their colleagues' cigarette smoke are significantly more likely to take sick leave and require medical attention, shows a study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. A health survey of all officers in the Hong Kong Police force showed that the longer officers were expo...Drug therapy significantly extends lifespan of worms
...toxic smoke. You can decrease the toxicity of the smoke by putting a scrubber into the smokestack. In this case, we are putting in a catalytic drug which acts like a scrubber to eliminate the oxygen radicals," he explains. "We believe this protects the mitochondria and the cell from being damaged by the...Study shows farm work appears to protect against breast cancer
...er and enter menopause earlier. Also, they tend to smoke and drink alcohol less than others. Controlling statistically for those behaviors and characteristics, however, did not eliminate the protective effect of farm work. The group could not determine the effect of physical activity, which some scientists...