New program shown to help heart attack patients get the best care
...e Archives of Internal Medicine. Beta-blocker use, smoking advice, and use of clot busters in the ER all improved dramatically. "What we saw was very striking," says Eagle. "When we could get the physicians, the nurses and the patients to agree on our goals, and provide them with tools based on the national...Bad habits, non-cholesterol risk factors in youth linked to fatty plaques
...on-lipid risk factor, and 13 percent had two, with smoking and hypertension the most prevalent. Ather... He estimates that a 25- to 34-year-old who quits smoking reduces the risk of a premature heart attack between age 40 and 65 to about one-fourth of what it wo...UNC study shows family-directed program can reduce adolescent tobacco, alcohol use
...his is the first study of a family intervention of smoking and drinking that uses a national population and a rigorous experimental design," Bauman said. "That we found substantial effects is very encouraging." "Involving families has been a key obstacle to successful implementation of family-directed pr...Training for doctors improves screening for risk-taking in teens
...s about only one or two potential problems such as smoking or alcohol use. The literature shows that pediatricians feel they lack the training and resources to do more, she said. The study is part of a UCSF-led research program to improve the delivery of preventive services for adolescents. It was led by the...UCLA-led study first to show green tea helps prevent chronic gastritis
...es in age, gender, education, body mass, cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption. Incidence of stomach cancer is second only to lung cancer worldwide. Thirty-eight percent of stomach cancer cases in the world occur in China, where it remains the most common cancer in both sexes....Smokers more likely to experience impotence, Wake Forest study shows
...r tobacco habit." Spangler said that cigarette smoking and impotence had been linked previously by other ...tive of the general population." Spangler said smoking has "both acute and chronic effects on erectile physiology." In both human and animal studies, smok...Expert advises annual lung test for smokers during physical exam
...function is affected they can get help in quitting smoking and reduce their risk of suffering from this serio... lung function, the illness is caused primarily by smoking in the U.S. and throughout most of the developed world. Victims have an abnormal inflammatory respo...Studies find eating fruits and vegetables good for lungs
...The 266 participants had at least 10 pack years of smoking history (meaning they had smoked at least 20 cigarettes per day, every day per year). She found that vegetable intake of one or more portions per day (equivalent to one or more tablespoons) almost halved the risk of the disease. Eating one-and-a-half...UC Davis study: fewer Californians dying of lung cancer, pulmonary disease as smoking decreases
..., Calif.) The states successful efforts to reduce smoking are paying off with tangible results: Fewer Califo...uman terms, if the rest of the country had reduced smoking as drastically as California, some 140,000 premature deaths from lung cancer and lung disease would ...Smoking prevention programs may miss minority teens
When it comes to smoking and peer pressure, the influence teenagers have on...e and ethnicity, which could have implications for smoking prevention programs that target teens, according to a study of a multicultural mix of California 8th...Current interventions fall short for smoking cessation
...y be that their minds crave the sensory rewards of smoking just as much as their bodies crave the nicotine, a...st as much satisfaction and craving reduction from smoking cigarettes that had the nicotine removed as from smoking regular cigarettes. Interestingly, smokers ...Study shows obesity bad for the mind too
...1 respondents, taking into account gender, weight, smoking status, educational level, household income and other factors generally associated with heavier weight. Overweight and obese people reported slower cognitive abilities, increased pain and limited mobility among other ailments. About one out of every...Gender differences apparent in psychological factors that predict later hypertension
...r blood-pressure-raising health behaviors, such as smoking and obesity, reduced the impact of the psychosocial factors on the incidence of hypertension, but the effect of these factors was still statistically significant. "The excess hypertensive risk related to psychological distress is thus chiefly m...Study discovers a way to keep infants safe from second-hand smoke
...provides objective information about the risk that smoking poses for them and their families. The study's lea...mproved.Overall, those involved in the study began smoking outside or using other strategies to lower nicotine levels in the rooms where the children spent mos...Study: quality of neighborhood tied to coronary heart disease
...sages about diet, weight control, exercise and not smoking are among activities that might help prevent or de...Roux said. Then we controlled for measures such as smoking and some measures of diet and physical activity, and the differences were still there. Smoking was m...Low income smokers support smuggling to maintain habit
...living in two socially deprived areas, about their smoking behaviour. They found that most smokers wanted to ... help them to stop smoking. Strategies to maintain smoking in the face of increasing cigarette prices and low income included buying contraband products, parti......ht is the first treatment to significantly improve smoking cessation in weight-concerned women. Previous int... women assumed that the best approach to fostering smoking cessation was to help them prevent any weight gain after they quit smoking. This study, as well as ...Americans leading healthier lives, reducing risk of death from heart disease, UCSF study finds
...ase related mortality were attributed to a fall in smoking rates. UCSF researchers analyzed the data of the ... the blood pressure and cholesterol levels and the smoking characteristics of the US adult population during the period of 1981 to 1990 and then projected thos...Underage smokers respond to threat of legal penalties
... a Florida program that has helped reduce underage smoking by 40 percent. Smoking rates for the most recent 30 days were lower in areas where underage smoking laws were more strictly enforced, ranging from 21 percent to 26.6 percent compared with low-enforcem......xperimental Research takes a method also used for smoking cessation - physician intervention - and applies it to problem drinking. "I was interested in finding out if what I did as a physician made a difference with my patients," said Michael F. Fleming, director of the Family Medicine Research Program at U...