Researchers disprove 'fat redistribution syndrome' among men taking HIV drugs
...ike earlier studies, the current study did not use comparison groups with the same body mass index, or BMI, because BMI is determined by muscle and fat. Since the study was measuring fat, "you can't adjust for something that is affected by the very thing that you're studying." Instead, the researchers used MRI ...Beta blockers should not remain the first choice treatment for high blood pressure
...ried out slowly and under a doctor's supervisionIn comparison with other antihypertensive drugs, the effect of beta blockers is clearly suboptimum with a higher risk of stroke. We therefore believe that beta blockers should not remain as first choice in the treatment of primary hypertension."...New study: Drug combo against AIDS-related infections also prevents malaria
...rial episodes in the TS group precluded meaningful comparison of SP efficacy in the TS and control groups, but, importantly, TS was shown to be a highly effective prophylactic agent against malaria in this population, reducing the incidence by 99.5%. In addition to being protected against malaria, children in...Study finds government advisories on fish consumption & mercury may do more harm than good
Boston, MA A comparison of the risks and benefits of fish consumption suggests that government advisories warning women of childbearing age about mercury exposure should be issued with caution. The study warns that if advisories cause fish consumption in the general public...Study finds defibrillators available in many high schools
...ators were." The team selected senior centers as a comparison because they are populated by older adults with relatively high rates of cardiac arrest. "Thus, intuitively, we would expect that there would be more defibrillators in senior centers than in schools," Cram said. The survey responses revealed the oppo...Mayo Clinic Cancer Center finds possible genetic link to pancreatic cancer
... many young pancreatic cancer patients than in the comparison group, which consisted of all patients tested for CFTR at Mayo Clinic from November 2003 to May 2004. Further study is needed, and Dr. McWilliams cautions that the overall risk to carriers of cystic fibrosis is still small. However, he and his colle...Medical community recognise significance of Herceptin results in early HER2-positive breast cancer
...ture. The NEJM article provides the results of the comparison between 12 months of Herceptin versus observation, but not a comparison of 12 months versus 24 months treatment duration. The trial will continue to assess this comparison ...Mayo Clinic measures psychological and social impacts of contralateral prophylactic mastectomies
...tion levels were higher (83 percent) on average in comparison to those levels (70 percent) of women who had bilateral (both breasts) prophylactic mastectomies (BPM) -- as Dr. Frost learned in a previous study.1 Differing results suggest that different factors lead to a woman's decision to have a BPM as opposed ...Diabetes and depression can be a fatal mix
... educated and were less likely to be Caucasian, in comparison to the diabetes patients without depression. Patients with diabetes and major depression were significantly younger, less likely to be married, and more likely to be female than were diabetes patient without depression. Both those with major and min...Walking and sports linked with heart health benefits in Japan, too
.... Thus they hoped to prevent a possibly misleading comparison with people who didn't exercise because they were already ill. The researchers also analyzed the data after excluding anyone who died within two years of the beginning of the study, in order to allow a reasonable amount of lead time for physical acti...Monkey math machinery is like humans'
...is another piece of the puzzle showing us that the comparison mechanism that the monkeys use is, as far as we can tell, the same mechanism that humans are using." More broadly, she said, the findings yield insight into the role or lack of a role that language plays in the process. "The ability to use language...Food for thought for winter, holidays
...ement to the Thanksgiving turkey An antioxidant comparison of some of the most common fruits found that the little red berry in its pure form contains the highest quantity of disease-fighting phenols, a type of antioxidant that is thought to reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as cancer, stroke and he...Anxiety disorders increase risk of suicidal thoughts and attempts
...ed with a higher likelihood of suicide attempts in comparison with a mood disorder alone," the authors report. "This is the first study to demonstrate that a pre-existing anxiety disorder is an independent risk factor for subsequent onset of suicidal ideation [thoughts] and attempts," the authors conclude. "Mor...Cannabis-based medicine relieves the pain of rheumatoid arthritis and suppresses the disease
...urther three weeks." The researchers found that in comparison with the placebo, patients who had taken the CBM had statistically significant improvements in pain on movement, pain at rest, quality of sleep, inflammation (measured by a Disease Activity Score involving 28 joints DAS 28) and intensity of pain (me...Shire announces positive two-year study of ADDERALL XR in the treatment of adult ADHD
...vement (11.6; P<.001; n=56) after 24 months in comparison to patients who continuously received ADDERALL XR treatment (5.7; P<.001; n=144) and those whose treatment was interrupted between the initial study and the open-label extension (6.0; P=.12; n=21). Investigators found similar significantly impro...Risks of taking sedatives for insomnia in older people may be greater than the benefits
...eep from such sedatives. But they stress that this comparison is only a rough indicator because more studies contributed information on harmful events than on sleep benefits. Improvements in sleep with sedative use are statistically significant, but the size of the effect is small, say the authors. 'In people ...Prescribed walking can improve physical fitness
...se counseling conditions, or to a physician advice comparison group. The duration of exercise (30 minutes) and type of exercise (walking) were the same in the four counseling groups, while exercise intensity and frequency was manipulated to form four prescriptions: Moderate intensity (ModI)-low frequency (Lo...Hopkins study may change rules for treating heart failure
...onsystolic kind of heart failure by a head-to-head comparison with patients having similar features, such as hig...lacks. A key feature of the study was that the 17 comparison patients also had chronic health problems, such as high blood pressure, diabetes and hypertrophied h...Aspirin reduces stroke risk in women, not men
...al, 51,342 were women. The trials all involved the comparison of low-dose aspirin versus placebo for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. "Among the women who were involved in these trials, the use of aspirin was associated with a statistically significant 17 percent reduction in the risk of stroke...Substituting carbohydrates in diet with protein or unsaturated fats may reduce cardiovascular risk
...nary heart disease risk were lower on each diet in comparison to baseline. "In OmniHeart, [compared to a carbohydrate-rich diet], a diet that partially replaced carbohydrates with protein, about half from plant sources, lowered blood pressure, LDL cholesterol levels, and triglyceride levels, as well as HDL cho...