New blood test may improve risk assessment for ischemic stroke in middle aged adults
...were not associated with increased risk for stroke consistent with previous reports. 2 "Stroke is the third largest killer in the United States. The PLAC test will help improve identification of the high risk patients, allowing physicians to implement basic prevention strategies and potentially reduce the num...Thyroid condition associated with increased heart failure risk among older adults
...ent for cardiovascular risk factors." "We found no consistent evidence that subclinical hypothyroidism was associated with CHD events, stroke, PAD, cardiovascular-related mortality, or total mortality," they continue. "Because no other prospective study has assessed the risk of CHF events in subjects with subcl...Increasing role of acetaminophen in acute liver failure in the United States
...that there is a narrow therapeutic margin and that consistent use of as little as 7.5 g/day may be hazardous," report the authors, who plan to investigate that issue in a future study. Their data also suggest, they say, that there is no chronic form of acetaminophen injury, rather, a threshold of safety that, w...Young women who smoke higher risk of breask cancer
... of nonsmokers. These levels of risk elevation are consistent with the risk levels reported from other epidemiological studies of cigarette smoking and breast cancer risk, says Dr. Olson. Women who started smoking after their first pregnancy had rates of breast cancer similar to those women who never smoked. T...Young children getting fewer hours of sleep
...scribed in the scientific literature, but which is consistent with concerns that many parents bring to their pediatricians. Finally, they report that 82 percent of children older than 18 months were not taking naps on some or all days. Acebo says that she was surprised to find that kids are sleeping less tha...Scientists directly view immune cells interacting to avert autoimmunity
...earchers expect the findings from this study to be consistent in humans. The UCSF team has already developed a regulatory T cell-based therapy that can prevent and even reverse the course of autoimmune diabetes in mouse models, and this study begins to analyze how such protection occurs in vivo, she explained. ...Research suggests doctor-assisted suicide wouldn't undermine patient trust
...of Massachusetts and Iowa, and they were generally consistent with the findings from this study. Hall said that public policy advocates often overstate their case when they argue that particular legal or ethical rules are necessary to support trust. Even the U.S. Supreme Court has noted that physician-assisted...Uncontrolled high blood pressure means more cognitive problems in old age
...rs report. They also note that their findings are consistent with other studies that suggest that anti-hypertensive drugs do not hurt cognition, given that the men with controlled hypertension who used them in this study did as well as men who had naturally normal blood pressure. The researchers speculate tha...UCLA imaging study of children with autism finds broken mirror neuron system
...uced activity in the emotion centers of the brain, consistent with the hypothesis that this mirroring mechanism may play a crucial role for understanding how others feel and for empathizing with them. All of the children rehearsed the tasks prior to the fMRI scans to assure researchers they could perform the ta...Research review finds tobacco scenes in movies boost teen smoking
...he American screen," Glantz said. "This strong and consistent scientific evidence has major implications for the current policy debate between the pediatricians and parents, on one side, and a handful of media companies on the other. The science is in; getting smoking out of youth rated movies is the simplest a...Dr. Tallie Z. Baram wins nation's top epilepsy research award
...reate a research concept for this disorder that is consistent with and explains the unusual responses of this form of epilepsy to stress hormones. Baram's research on this topic identifies targets for the design of new and more effective drugs that may help calm these childhood seizures without the side effects...Animal research suggests perimenopause is a critical time for women's health
... of atherosclerosis. Kaplan said the findings were consistent with the hypothesis that estrogen inhibits the development of vessel disease, but may be ineffective if the disease already exists. "Applied to women, this lifetime study suggests that having an estrogen deficiency in the pre-menopausal years predic...Nursing home quality stagnates, says HealthGrades
...frequent complaint, about care or services, stayed consistent from 2003 to 2004: Nearly 40 percent of investigat... the next most frequently cited complaint that was consistent each year. About 17 percent of complaints investigated related to this subject matter. Resident neg...Nov/Dec 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...ties physicians perform outside the office. While consistent with the increasing complexity of primary care management, the authors assert patients and payers often do not recognize this care. The authors suggest that models of health care delivery and reimbursement must more accurately reflect health care pro...Dummies (pacifiers) reduce sudden infant deaths
...ants who did not use a dummy. The reduced risk was consistent across a wide range of social and economic characteristics and risk factors examined. The reduced risk also seemed to be stronger when an infant was in an adverse sleep environment (such as sleeping prone or on the side, sleeping with a mother who sm...Psychometric testing might be best way to predict future happy doctors
...appy with a career in medicine. Judges are however consistent with one another, and tend to feel that the doctor with higher educational qualifications will be the happier, even though educational qualifications in fact do not predict happiness with a medical career. Many doctors, in the UK and other countries,...Insulin levels and resistance linked to risk of pancreatic cancer
...cose and biochemical-defined diabetes mellitus are consistent with previous studies conducted in diverse populations that have included women and nonsmokers," the authors write. "The associations for insulin and insulin resistance reported herein require confirmation and along with observations of other studies...Sweeping recommendations to support pay-for-performance system
...k aims to ensure that measures are evidence-based, consistent across health plans, developed by the medical prof... that sufficient dollars be allocated to P4P, that consistent and feasible measures be used across P4P plans and that P4P programs be designed in such a way that ...Prepregnancy weight is increasing, bringing greater risk
... apply to the population-at-large because they are consistent with findings in at least three previous papers and because of the large sample size. "Cumulatively, 40.5 percent of all patients had prepregnancy BMIs in the overweight and obese categories in 2003 compared with 37.1 percent in 1999," said John Yeh......en, were less prone to this risk. "Our results are consistent with prior studies that suggest certain dietary factors may be important in the development of colon polyps and cancer," states Douglas Robertson, lead researcher of the study and Chief of the Section of Gastroenterology at the VA Medical Center in W...