State spending keeps childless seniors out of nursing homes
... A team of researchers, headed by Naoko Muramatsu of the University of Illinois at Chicago, sought to determine if variations in state spending had an effect on nursing home admissions, and whether a senior's family status also played a role. Although the association was not statisticall...States' spending may help keep childless seniors independent
... ... "Traditionally, long term care has been provided in nursing homes, but there is a movement to help older people live at home and in the community," said Naoko Muramatsu, associate professor of community health sciences at the...Childless women risk poorer health in later life
... Findings are based on a study of three separate datasets of women born from 1911 onwards in Great Britain and the USA. "We already know quite of lot about the impact of a person's very early life or their...Plant sterol pills significantly lower LDL cholesterol
A pill containing plant substances called sterols can help lower cholesterol, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis....... The researchers studied patients who already were eating a heart-healthy diet and taking statin drugs to control cholesterol. The addition of plant sterols helped further lower total cholesterol and contributed to a nearly 10 percen...Mildly depressed people more perceptive than others
(Kingston, ON) Surprisingly, people with mild depression are actually more tuned into the feelings of others than those who aren't depressed, a team of Queen's psychologists has discovered....... "This was quite unexpected because we tend to think that the opposite is true," says lead researcher Kate Harkness. "For example, people with depression are more likely to have problems in a number of s...Aggressive lowering of LDL level shows limited benefit for patients with previous heart attack
Patients who have had a heart attack and are treated with a high dose of a statin drug ...did not have significant reduction in the primary outcome of major cardiac events (coronary death, nonfatal acute heart attack, or cardiac arrest with resuscitation), but did appear to have reduced risk when certain secondary outcomes (composite end points of any coronary heart disease event) were examined,...(BETHESDA, MD) Very low LDL cholesterol levels appear to be safe for heart patients on statin therapies, according to a new study in the Oct. 18, 2005, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology....... "There was no apparent safety concern for patients whose resultant LDL on intensive therapy was lower than current guidelines. There was a trend toward improved clinical outcomes i...