Exercise, weight control may help reduce risk of breast cancer, Meharry-Vanderbilt study suggests
...en with low levels of physical activity and higher body mass index levels (weight divided by height) were ...1,459 breast cancer cases and 1,556 controls. The body mass index of these women was calculated based on measurements taken by the interviewers of their we...Johns Hopkins team finds 'ancestral' hepatitis-C virus at the root of evolution in infections
...tis C is transmitted when blood and possibly other body fluids of an infected person enter another person,...ent flulike symptoms, including any combination of body aches, headaches, night sweats, loss of appetite, diarrhea, fatigue, rash, nausea and mild abdominal...Key to breast cancer prevention could hang in the balance
...en with low levels of physical activity and higher body mass index levels (weight divided by height) were ...1,459 breast cancer cases and 1,556 controls. The body mass index of these women was calculated based on measurements taken by the interviewers of their we...Research results from the 'Era of Hope' Department of Defense breast cancer research program meeting
...n, cancer treatment or stage, age, overall health, body mass index, or diet. In both groups, equal numbers of women had lumpectomy or mastectomy, most of the women had the same chemotherapy followed by radiation therapy, and most reported doing little if any regular exercise before diagnosis. Among thos...It's never too late to start exercising
...he course of seven years to investigate changes in body composition as a pathway by which multiple diseases contribute to disability. Through annual clinic exams, home exams and telephone interviews, researchers discovered that mobility loss in older persons who do not exercise can be reduced by having an...Exercise helps recovery from chemotherapy for breast cancer
..., cancer treatment, or stage, age, overall health, body mass index, or diet. In both groups, equal numbers of women had lumpectomy or mastectomy, most of the women had the same chemotherapy followed by radiation therapy, and most reported doing little if any regular exercise before diagnosis. Among thos...New strategy for protecting brain against Alzheimer's disease: Enhancing the innate immune system
The human body has its own defense against brain aging: the innate immune system, which helps to clean the brain of amyloid-beta waste products. However, UCLA researchers discovered that some patients with Alzheimer's disease have an immune defect making it diffi...Digital mammography does not improve breast cancer detection rates, study finds
...ys the ECRI report. According to ECRI, the current body of evidence that suggests that digital mammography may be able to reduce recall rates, and possibly necessary follow-up procedures, which could offset some of its higher initial costs. But more evidence is needed to confirm these potential benefits. ...Variations in four inflammatory genes may predispose Mexican Americans to insulin resistance
...icant variation despite the patient's age, sex, or body mass index (BMI), while variations in IL6 affected insulin resistance only through excess body fat. "Essentially, our study shows that these inflammatory genes cause insulin resistance," Rotter s...Arm swelling common among young breast cancer patients
..., the swelling takes place on the same side of the body as the affected breast. And it's generally not a sign of cancer's recurrence, Paskett said. Lymphedema can be painful, as the arm becomes fluid-filled, heavy and stiff and the skin becomes tight. Affected patients may have problems using their arms ...Nutritious frozen foods can play role in weight-loss programs
...cts weighed about 97 kilograms (214 pounds) with a body mass index (BMI) ranging from 26 to 42 kilogram per meter squared, which qualified them as overweight to obese. Over the course of the eight-week diet, all subjects reduced their daily caloric intake to about 1,700 calories and lost weight. Many sub...Smoking and obesity accelerate human ageing
...nto the study. 119 of the women were obese, with a body mass index (BMI) greater than 30, and 85 women had...The investigators measured the concentrations of a body fat regulator called leptin and telomere length in blood samples from the women. They found that tel...Diabetic retinopathy occurs in pre-diabetes
...and Journal of Medicine: Losing 5 to 7 percent of body weight through diet and a modest, consistent increase in physical activity (e.g., walking 5 days a week 30 minutes a day) lowered the incidence of type 2 diabetes by 58 percent. Treatment with metformin, an oral drug commonly used to treat diabetes,...Obese women with breast cancer may be undertreated
...s. Women who are 20 to 25 percent over their ideal body weight have a 1.3 times greater risk of a recurren...kground information in the article. Differences in body chemistry in overweight and obese women, including differences in estrogen and insulin levels, may a...Children need 60 minutes of daily physical activity, expert panel says
...al activity on a wide range of health factors from body fat to lipid levels to how children perceive themselves. Most of the studies in the literature had children performing 30 to 45 minutes of continuous moderate to vigorous physical activity three to five days per week. To achieve similar or greater b...Children need 60 minutes of daily physical activity, expert panel says
...al activity on a wide range of health factors from body fat to lipid levels to how children perceive themselves. Most of the studies in the literature had children performing 30 to 45 minutes of continuous moderate to vigorous physical activity three to five days per week. To achieve similar or greater be...Sleep therapy may protect against death from heart disease
...PAP group and the untreated group in terms of age, body mass index, and cardiovascular risk factors at baseline; however, patients in the untreated group had significantly lower apnea scores and more had undergone nasal surgery prior to diagnosis of OSA. "The association between OSA and cardiovascular dis...Can't serve an ace? Could be muscle fatigue
...and this leads to errors about where the different body parts are located." Professor Proske said the research could also offer insight into the symptoms of some motor system diseases such as Parkinson's disease. The abnormal movements were likely to relate, in part, to a disturbed sense of effort, he sai...Study explains why up to eight percent of cancers go undetected
...ity School of Medicine, opted to try a "true whole body scan" on the patient to evaluate his condition. "W... have been missed had we had not done a true whole body scan," Osman says. Osman and colleagues at Saint Louis University are pushing for national changes i...