Conventional prognostic factors fail to explain better prostate cancer survival in most Asian men
...sian ethnicities, such as Japanese-Americans, have higher survival rates, despite worse clinical disease, wh... contrast, South Asian-Americans had significantly higher hazard ratio compared to non-Hispanic white Americans (40% higher). The study should help physicia...Survival differences by race most apparent in advanced stages of breast cancer
...erican women was calculated to be up to 56 percent higher than whites. This study confirms statistically significant differences within stage between black and white women in tumor size and nodal involvement. However, the authors conclude, these differences are not clinically important with respect to su...Traditional Chinese exercises may increase efficacy of flu vaccine
...n. On average, he said, the Taiji group had much higher antibody responses to the vaccination than the con...of persons who achieved protective levels also was higher in the Taiji group. However, because of the small sample size, the percentage of persons from the Ta...Study, meta-analysis examine factors associated with death from heatstroke
...3 of 48 who died vs. 13 of 35 survivors) had a higher average body temperature on hospital admission (41.3 degrees Celsius/106.3 degrees Fahrenheit compared with 40.7 degrees Celsius/105.3 degrees Fahrenheit) had more respiratory, cardiovascular or kidney dysfunctions than survivors were more li...Smoking may strongly increase long-term risk of eye disease
Current and past smokers appear to have a higher risk of developing late age-related macular degene... or (3) low fish consumption was associated with a higher risk of late AMD than the effect of any risk factor alone. However, interactions between smoking and...Adverse housing conditions contribute to diabetes risk
...hers looked at several factors responsible for the higher incidence of health problems experienced by later middle-aged and older African-Americans living in St. Louis. That larger project gathered data from 998 African-Americans in the St. Louis area who were born between 1936 and 1950. When that project ...Drug interactions with warfarin
...cription data from general practices observed much higher rates of bleeding than those derived from a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials. The authors write that physicians should be aware of these risks to better assess their patients therapeutic riskbenefit profiles. In a related commentary, Dav...Pot bellies linked to early signs of cardiovascular disease
... worth fighting. Even a small pot belly puts us at higher risk when compared to a flat tummy. For the study, Dr. de Lemos and his colleagues examined data from the ongoing Dallas Heart Study, which is evaluating risk factors for heart disease in a large, multiethnic, urban population with a median age of ...Adverse housing conditions contribute to diabetes risk
...hers looked at several factors responsible for the higher incidence of health problems experienced by later middle-aged and older African-Americans living in St. Louis. That original study gathered data from 998 African-Americans in the St. Louis area who were born between 1936 and 1950. When that study ...Seat belt injuries could signal more serious trauma in children
...idents who were inappropriately seatbelted were at higher risk for seat-belt syndrome, a complex of injuries to the spine and abdomen. Consequently, when healthcare professionals see bruising or seat belt marks in pediatric car accident victims, they should have a high degree of suspicion about more serious...Using MRI for diagnosis could help prevent breast cancer progression
...hose of women with mammography-diagnosed DCIS. The higher sensitivity of MRI was not associated with an unduly high number of false positive diagnoses - the positive predictive value of both methods was comparable, with 55% for mammography, and 59% for MRI. The authors conclude: Our study suggests that th...Bioengineering to prevent iron deficiency?
...rted consequences children deficient in iron have higher susceptibility to upper respiratory tract infections, and anaemia which can affect their brain, motor activity and general performance in school, whilst adult manual laborers in developing countries were found to be less productive when iron-deficien...Most seniors now have drug coverage, U-M study shows
...id. "And those with worse self-reported health and higher use of prescription drugs in 2004 were more likely than others to sign up." ...Hormone regulates fondness for food
...ind more appetising. For example, its activity was higher in response to a picture of chocolate cake than to a picture of broccoli. In healthy volunteers, activation of the nucleus accumbens by appetising foods was only found when the person was hungry (following an overnight fast). In the leptin deficie...Diet foods for children may lead to obesity
...ween diet soda consumption (among children") and a higher risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease, but further research is necessary with older animals using a variety of taste-related cues. "One thing is clear at this point," Pierce said, "our research has shown that young animals can be made to ove...Refusal of medical and surgical interventions common among chronically ill elderly
...ty rate among those who had refused treatments was higher than those who had not. Our study highlights the frequency with which older persons with advanced illness refuse treatments recommended by their physicians, said Rothman. This frequency of refusal suggests that physicians may be recommending treat...Penn researchers discover novel pathway for increasing 'good' cholesterol
...d to express high levels of PCSK5A had 50 percent higher HDL-C than control mice, says senior author Daniel J. Rader, MD, the Cooper/McLure Professor of Medicine and Associate Director of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics at Penn. Increased HDL-C is due to decreased endothelial l...Obesity linked to hyperparathyroidism in chronic kidney disease
...ly, we found that obesity was only associated with higher PTH levels in patients who also showed signs of ma...ding a possible explanation for why PTH levels are higher in obese patients, it may also be important for prognostic reasons, since malnutrition and inflammat...... 24,000 trauma admissions. During that period, the higher the unemployment rate, the higher the number of admissions for penetrating trauma - injuries that occur primarily by an object piercin...New research finds high prevalence of smoking among physicians in China
...ed physicians surveyed were smokers, substantially higher than in the United States (3.3 percent), where the...lence in the general population. This rate is also higher than in Japan (20.2 percent), where the smoking prevalence in the general population is 33.8 percent...