NIEHS press conference for the environmental solutions to obesity in America's youth conference
...and adolescents and tripled among kids between the ages of 6 and 11. Conference Highlights: Government and community leaders will share their success stories. Speakers from such organizations as Latino Health Access and California Adolescent Nutrition and Fitness will discuss how they developed cultur...Teenage depression can be enduring, but is more often short-lived
...twice as likely as boys to show depression at both ages 15 and 20, Hammen said. Parents commonly do not see depression in their children, she said. "Parents often don't pick up on inner despair or distress, and notice depression mainly as irritability or loss of enjoyment of activities their kids used to ...Study examines NSAID use and breast cancer risk
...n in the California Teachers Study cohort who were ages 22 to 85 and free of cancer at the baseline of the study, 1995 to 1996. During the follow-up period, 1995 to 2001, 2,391 women were diagnosed with breast cancer of known receptor status. Regular use (i.e., more than once a week) of NSAIDs was not ass...New NHLBI-sponsored study shows programs can teach children to eat healthier
...eviewed dietary recalls from 595 children who were ages 8 to 10 and who had high blood cholesterol levels at the start of the study. The researchers analyzed dietary information by food groups and measured adherence to recommended food patterns and changes over time. "These new findings offer valuable les...NIEHS brings researchers and leaders together to find environmental solutions to childhood obesity
...and adolescents and tripled among kids between the ages of 6 and 11. The NIEHS is leading the fight to determine how the environment affects obesity. Throughout the conference, researchers, policy makers, community and transportation planners, builders, architects, teachers and school administrators, ind...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for June 2005 (first issue)
...DER Based on a 21-year study of young adults from ages 19 to 40 that utilized regular follow-up interviews, researchers found a long-term (longitudinal) relationship between asthma and panic in a community sample of 591 men and women. The researchers found that asthma was more strongly associated with pa...JAMA study finds whooping cough vaccine effective, safe for teens and adults
... said. JAMA study participants were between the ages of 11 and 64 years. Researchers compared an experi...omparative trial of 4,480 participants between the ages of 11 and 64 at 39 clinical centers across the U.S. Participants received a single 0.5mL intramuscul...African-Americans more prone to higher heart weight than whites, study shows
...1,335 black and 858 white participants between the ages of 30 and 67 were assessed using cardiac magnetic resonance images. Cardiac MRI is one of the most accurate methods of measuring heart mass. In previous studies comparing heart weight in African-Americans and whites, there was no adequate adjustment ...Johns Hopkins study shows home test kits highly effective against sexually transmitted diseases
...ooking for cases of reinfection among young people ages 11 to 18. "It is hard enough to find and treat young people for Chlamydia, but our overall mission is to keep them healthy and free from getting reinfected," says Gaydos. Out of nearly 1,000 students who tested positive for Chlamydia at 11 area scho...Johns Hopkins AIDS expert says global strategy needed to combat 'feminization' of HIV/AIDS
... in South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe, young women ages 15 to 24 are three to six times more likely to be infected than men. Women make up half the adult population living with the virus in the Caribbean and one-third of those in Latin America. The reasons for the rise in female cases differ among coun...Research results from the 'Era of Hope' Department of Defense breast cancer research program meeting
...thy as well as malignant cells. Women between the ages of 29 and 71 were assigned to an exercise group (28 women) or a non-exercise group (21 women). In the intervention arm, women began the exercise routine usually within a month of completing post-surgical therapy. All exercisers followed a similar r...Exercise helps recovery from chemotherapy for breast cancer
...ting disease. In Mastro's study, women between the ages of 29 and 71 were assigned to an exercise group of 28 women or a non-exercise group of 21 women. Women in the exercise group began the exercise routine within a month of completing post-surgical therapy. All exercisers followed a similar regimen--s...Diabetic retinopathy occurs in pre-diabetes
... in recent years. About 40 percent of U.S. adults ages 40 to 74--41 million people--have abnormal blood glucose levels without having diabetes. Many will develop type 2 diabetes in the next 10 years. (In the DPP, about 10 percent of participants in the placebo group developed diabetes each year.) Once...The bigger the serving, the more young children will eat
...onitored the food intake of 16 preschool children, ages 4-6, for five to seven consecutive days in day-care centers, and parents kept a food diary of what their children ate in the evenings and weekends. "We found that the more food children are served, the more they eat, regardless of what they've eaten...Study shows importance of exposure age for Hanford nuclear workers' cancer risk
CHAPEL HILL -- The ages at which workers are exposed to low doses of ioniz..."Additionally, radiation doses received at younger ages were not associated with cancer deaths. However, readings on radiation badges worn by workers when t...Arteries bio-engineered from elderly cells
...ls from the saphenous vein of four men between the ages of 47 and 74 who were undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery. The saphenous vein is located in the lower leg and is often used to bypass blockages in arteries around the heart. The team isolated smooth muscle and endothelial cells, grew them in cu...New research evidence on anger in children and adults
...s because anger was measured at slightly different ages or because the 1970 cohort were more stressed and depressed as well as more likely to 'act out'. Angry children do not necessarily become angry or unhappy adults. But there does appear to be a raised chance that people who were persistently angry as...New computer program uses brain scans to assess risk of Alzheimer's
...s followed 53 healthy, normal subjects between the ages of 54 and 80 for at least 9 years and in some cases for as long as 24 years. All subjects received two FDG-PET scans -- one at baseline and a follow-up after 3 years. Thirty individuals had a second follow-up scan after another seven years. Altogeth...'X-factor' causes Scots to have higher heart disease rates, say scientists
...people aged 45-74 years old because it is at these ages that the biggest differences between the two countries in death rates for heart disease usually occur."...Diuretics effective for people with diabetes and high blood pressure
...ving 42,418 participants with high blood pressure, ages 55 and older. Of those, 31,512 participants were randomly assigned to a diuretic (chlorthalidone); a calcium channel blocker (amlodipine); an angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor (lisinopril). 13,101 had diabetes, 1,399 had elevated fasting ...