Tight glucose control lowers CVD by about 50 percent in diabetes
...e of blindness, kidney failure, and amputations in adults and a major cause of heart disease and stroke. At least 65 percent of people with diabetes will die from a heart attack or stroke, yet two out of every three people with diabetes are unaware of their increased risk. Type 1 diabetes accounts for up ...Study sheds light on why diabetes drug causes edema
...n the body. Hypertension affects one in four U.S. adults and long had been considered a cardiovascular disease. But research now also focuses on the kidneys and the role of the distal nephron in retaining sodium opens a new area for study, he said....Seven deadly sins: A new look at society through an old lens
... Anger, irritability and hostility in children and adults Dr Eirini Flouri and Professor Heather Joshi document our experience of anger drawing on the 1970 and 1958 birth cohort studies, people who are now in their thirties and forties. Among their findings are the facts that children from lower social cla...Bipolar disorder more prevalent and costly than believed; Lithium could curb suicide rate
... The new prevalence estimate counts 4.3 percent of adults in the U.S. suffer from a bipolar disorder or "sub-threshold" bipolar disorder, which includes those who don't fit the precise clinical criteria for bipolar disorder but whose symptoms still severely impair their ability to perform daily tasks of liv...New study showed ramelteon helped adults with chronic insomnia fall asleep, sleep longer
...k to fall asleep and increased total sleep time in adults with chronic insomnia, according to results from a...PSS meeting this week, ramelteon also helped older adults with chronic insomnia fall asleep faster and sleep longer. Additionally, ramelteon demonstrated no a...Children who are prone to ear infections have high rates of potential disease producing bacteria
... increased risk of respiratory tract infections in adults and also with oral colonization by some potentially pathogenic species of bacteria, according to background information in the article. In children, exposure to cigarette smoke is a risk factor for respiratory tract infections, including otitis media...Insomnia may precede and prolong major depression
... are a focus of research because two million older adults have a depressive illness, and five million more e...ime, studies have found that 42 percent of elderly adults have trouble sleeping. The two studies reflect a larger effort underway at the URSNRL, which recen...Study sheds light on the developmental origins of polycystic ovarian syndrome
...hey develop polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS)* as adults and the severity of the symptoms if they do. This ...hat shows that large babies grow to become heavier adults with polycystic ovaries, but that the most severe symptoms of PCOS are associated with growth restri...Look to the future: Preparing for baby boomer dementia epidemic
...mary care doctors - the physicians from whom older adults receive most of their care - prepare for the huge ...ducted a dementia screening program on 3,340 older adults attending primary care clinics. They used the CSID, a highly regarded, culturally sensitive screenin...Unease over guidelines that label 9 out of 10 people as sick
...eath. When researchers applied these guidelines to adults in Norway, they found that half the population would be considered at risk by the early age of 24 years, rising to 90% by the age of 49. As much as 76% of the total adult population would be considered at "increased risk." These proportions are dist...Aging eye more susceptible to serious damage, scientists report
...creasing stiffness of the aging eye may make older adults more susceptible to eye damage following trauma, according to research at Wake Forest-Virginia Tech School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences. "The gradual change in lens stiffness during a person's lifetime leads to a lens that is four times sti...Vascular disease most common cause of male erectile dysfunction
...evention estimates that 1 in 12 (8%) or 22 million adults in the US have heart disease. In the US, the prevalence rate for those who have angina pectoris is 17.5 per 1000 people. Nitrate therapy is an absolute contraindication to the use of PDE-5 inhibitors, however, since oral nitrates confer little benef...Diuretics effective for people with diabetes and high blood pressure
...re beneficial for some people. About 73 percent of adults with diabetes have high blood pressure--which in diabetic patients is defined as greater than or equal to 130/80 mm Hg-- or use prescription medications for their hypertension. Both diabetes and high blood pressure are major risk factors for coronary...Most primary care physicians believe annual physical examinations are valuable
...hat recommend against routine annual physicals for adults without specific symptoms of illness may not be widely accepted by primary care physicians, according to a study in the June 27 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Current evidence-based guidelines, developed in...Greater use of evidence-based medicine needed in US outpatient care
...percent), inhaled corticosteroid use for asthma in adults (25 vs. 42 percent), and children (11 vs. 36 percent), avoiding routine urinalysis during general medical examinations (63 vs. 73 percent), and avoiding inappropriate medications in the elderly (92 vs. 95 percent). "We observed that similar, although......ru and Thomas Erlinger, gathered data on 15,489 US adults between 1988 and 1994 in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. They found that the inflammatory markers, C-reactive protein, white blood cell count, albumin, and fibrinogen, took longer to return to normal after smokers quit th...Polls finds many Americans believe cancer myths
...chers conducted a national telephone survey of 957 adults with no history of cancer to assess Americans' understanding of the disease and its management, and identify any demographic characteristics associated with misconceptions. Participants were asked if five misconceptions were true or false. The autho...The impact of weight loss on osteoarthritis of the knee
...iod, the study focused on 142 overweight and obese adults with radiographic evidence of knee OA. Ranging in age from 60 to 89, the subjects were mostly female (74 percent) and white (75 percent); all were considered sedentary. Each subject's weight and body mass index (BMI), as well as scores on standard ...Survey reveals women and doctors aren't talking about HPV
...fecting an estimated 80 percent of sexually active adults in their lifetime, in some cases staying dormant until years after the initial infection. Yet few are talking about the relationship between HPV and cervical cancer despite the fact that advanced screening is available, which can detect the virus ea......in why children and teenagers need more sleep than adults and, in particular, why infants sleep almost round the clock. "Sleep appears to play a key role in human development," says Walker. "At 12 months of age, infants are in an almost constant state of motor skill learning, coordinating their limbs and d...