Late developers may run higher risk of infection than sexually mature younger teens
...irus or HPV), and bacterial vaginosis. Almost two thirds of the young women tested positive for HPV, half of which were the high risk types associated with the development of cervical cancer. Over half of those infected with HPV had at least one other infection. Around one in four tested positive for chla...Explosion of child obesity predicted to shorten us life expectancy
...latively common condition of young adulthood." Two thirds of American adults today are obese or overweight, and the proportion of people with extreme obesity has risen especially rapidly, the investigators note. Thus far, medical treatment has had little success in offsetting this trend. Ludwig attributes...Pregnant women should exercise to keep depression away
...who return to work in the year after delivery, two thirds return to work within three months. The data from the study could ultimately affect public policies such as work leave for mothers-to-be. While the association between exercise and significant health benefits for pregnant women is shown here, the re...LA BioMed medical/research briefs January 2005
...on-inflammation complex syndrome (MICS). Since two thirds of MHD patients die within 5 years of initiation of dialysis treatment, traditional cardiovascular risk factors such as obesity, hypercholesterolemia and hypertension cannot exert a long-term deleterious impact, and instead, their short-term benefici......12% chose screening every 6 months). More than two thirds said that they would try to continue being screened annually even if their doctors recommended less frequent screening and advised them of comparable benefits, and only 35% thought that there might come a time when they would stop getting Papanicolao...Space sentinels track desertification on Mediterranean shores
... also wind is 57.6 million hectares more than two thirds of the country. And our climate is such that large parts of the country are sensitive to wild fires." As a densely populated dryland zone, Mediterranean Europe would be vulnerable to desertification anyway, although regular forest fires make its si...University health study identifies undiagnosed diabetics
...betes in Scotland is set to increase by almost two thirds between 1998 and 2011. In 2003, 3% of the Scottish population were known to have the disease....Envisat Symposium report day 3: Satellites supporting Kyoto - our future is in our forests
... burn scars across the vast forests of Russia two thirds of the world's boreal forests are sited within its borders, but they are often affected by fires. In one vast fire east of Lake Baikal in 2003, some 202 000 square kilometres were burnt. MERIS and other optical sensors were used to home in on affect...New research calls for schools to be more aware of head injuries
...years below their chronological age. A further two thirds of children with TBI had difficulties with schoolwork, with half having attention, concentration and memory problems. Traumatic brain injury is common among children. Most injuries are relatively mild, but every year over 3000 UK children acquire...Blood pressure control poor in elderly, says Northwestern researcher
...s used was similar across all age groups, with two thirds of treated hypertensive patients using only one medication; 25 percent using two medications; and fewer than 10 percent using three medications, Lloyd-Jones said. Lloyd-Jones noted that the use of thiazide diuretics increased steadily with advancin...New research reveals head injury in children has lasting impact
...hildren with more serious head injuries, about two thirds had moderate disability, and about half experienced a major change in personality after the head injury. Dr Carol Hawley, from Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick, said: "Many children with mild injury do not receive routine follow-u...Dementia, sensory neuropathy in sub-Saharan HIV-positive patients
...San Francisco, Calif., April 24 May 1, 2004. "Two thirds of all HIV-positive individuals--some 26.6 million individuals--live in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa," said lead study author Matthew Wong of McMaster University in Ontario. "Despite these large numbers, the frequency of neurological complicat...Epilepsy guidelines will improve treatment and access
...50 percent thought it was a mental illness and two thirds stated they would not date a person with epilepsy." Defining the efficacy of treatment in people with epilepsy can be tricky, Mr. Hargis noted. Treatment decisions have often been based on seizure control alone and not on the patient's quality of lif...Smoking linked to more than 60 percent of overall cancer death burden in black men
...death rate in African-American males and up to two thirds of their overall cancer death rate. "This means that if black male smoking exposures fall dramatically, that alone is likely to erase the great majority of their cancer burden," said Leistikow, a physician epidemiologist who has conducted numerous o...March/April 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...y screening for cancer is important, less than two thirds believe they are effective at screening. The Natural History of Asthma By Vince WinklerPrins, M.D., et al Analyzing a cohort of children from four family practices in the Netherlands, early diagnosis of asthma and abnormal bronchial hyperresponsive...Worrying rise in use of antidepressants in children
...east one antidepressant, 1200 of them an SSRI. Two thirds of prescriptions were for adolescents (age 14-17), mostly girls. These prescribing rates are lower than those reported for the United States (1-2%) and the Netherlands (4.4 per 1000), but nevertheless about 28,000 youths are exposed to treatment with...Retention scheme could offset GP recruitment crisis
...ated an interest in a retention scheme. Around two thirds said they would prefer to be retained by their current practice, and over half expected to continue working in the scheme for more than two years. Even if only half of those who expressed an interest in such a scheme applied it would provide the equi...Mad cow has confidence stirred, but not shaken
...ed many about the safety of the beef supply." Two thirds of Americans (66 percent) who had heard of the cas...ist (another 13 percent did not know). About two thirds of those interviewed believe that someone in the U.S. will eventually eat beef infected with mad cow...Change in social policies could reduce high rate of depression in men who have sex with men
...tance as regional centers, being the source of two thirds of U.S. AIDS cases among men who have sex with men, and the estimated size and concentration of their population of men who have sex with men.......on in the elderly accounting for approximately two thirds of all cases of hypertension among these individuals 2,3,4 . ISH has been shown to increase cardiovascular morbidity and all-cause mortality two-fold or more and can triple cardiovascular mortality5. Hypertension remains the single most important ri...