Early stage breast-cancer rates are rising as incidence of invasive cases are leveling
...ost common kinds of early stage breast cancer, has increased more than sevenfold. This sharp increase in DCIS ... along with improvements in imaging technology and increased biopsy rates, among other factors, are catching breast cancer earlier, before it starts to spread an...Obesity and insomnia linked by excitability of brain cells
...ause (early onset of menopause), which may lead to increased prevalence of obesity in postmenopausal women." Previous studies demonstrated the association between lack of sleep and obesity and suggested a good night's sleep to help obesity. Horvath found that the neurological basis of the link between obes...Breakthrough findings by Ume researchers link obesity to diabetes
...through in our understanding of how obesity causes increased levels of insulin, sugar, and blood fats leading t...Western world. Obesity is also associated with an increased risk of various types of cancer. Children and adolescents are becoming more and more obese and are ...Bad outcomes related to, but not caused by, misdosing of clotbusters in heart attack patients
...e was proven to be true, that there was in fact an increased risk of blood clots and stroke," Granger said. "An...ess concern about minor misdosing could lead to an increased usage of the drugs. Additionally, he said that the patients at the highest risk for adverse outcomes...Traditional risk factors best predictor of CVD death in kidney patients
... smokers or exhibited low physical activity had an increased risk of death from cardiovascular causes. However, for these patients, emerging risk factors such as elevated levels of C-reactive protein, fibrinogen, and the blood clotting protein factor VIIIc were not as strongly associated with greater risk of ...Combination vaccine produces lower immune response than vaccines administered separately
... advent of these efficacious and safe vaccines has increased pressure on crowded infant immunization schedules. Infants in the United States receive up to 20 separate vaccine injections over 5 immunization encounters at ages 2, 4, 6, 12, and 18 months to protect against disease due to hepatitis B, diphtheria, ...Adverse outcomes from blood clot therapy may be due to patient characteristics, not dosing errors
...ytic therapy have been shown to be associated with increased risk of adverse events in STEMI [ST-segment elevat...urement on an electrocardiogram] patients and with increased risk of litigation against caregivers," the authors write. "When identifying an incorrect dose of a ...To boost efficiency, hospitals borrow principles from factory floor
... have helped Buffalo's Mercy Hospital envision how increased patient volume will cause congestion in its surgical unit, necessitating and justifying the construction of new operating rooms. They also have helped the Erie County Medical Center justify and efficiently design a new ambulatory-surgery recovery cen...Heart valve ring reverses damage from congestive heart failure, easing symptoms
... to even greater mitral valve regurgitation and an increased likelihood of heart failure, according to a 1998 study published by Bolling and his colleagues in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery . The introduction of Edwards' new GeoForm mitral valve repair ring comes on the heels of a recent ...Smoking doubles risk of degenerative eye condition
... was likely to have caused up to 30,000 cases. "An increased risk of [age related macular degeneration], which is the most commonly occurring cause of blindness in the United Kingdom, is yet another reason for people to stop smoking and governments to develop public health campaigns against this hazard," concl...Anxious and pessimistic personalities linked to Parkinson's disease later in life
...iety level on a personality test have a moderately increased risk of developing Parkinson's disease decades lat...of Parkinson's disease," says Dr. Bower. "But, the increased risk was relatively small. Just to give you an idea of numbers, if you take 1,000 40-year-olds, abou...Ovary removal elevates risk for Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism
... ovaries removed; however, it may also be somewhat increased when only one ovary is removed," says Walter Rocca...us, and younger age at menopause are related to an increased risk of Parkinson's disease," says Dr. Rocca. "These findings suggested that the estrogen produced n...Adolescent health ill-catered for in the NHS
...rates for adolescents from injury and suicide have increased fivefold over the last century - rising from 11% o...nd teenage pregnancies among adolescents have also increased or shown no improvement over the last twenty years. "Adolescence is a critical period for engaging t...Steady rise in allergic diseases over quarter of a century
...f allergic diseases (atopy) in adults has steadily increased over the last quarter of the 20th century, but the... These data show that atopy in middle aged men has increased during the last quarter of the 20th century, and that the prevalence of atopy does not decline with ...Obesity common among Chinese adults
...e metabolic syndrome and overweight, to reduce the increased societal burden of cardiovascular disease in China." The metabolic syndrome is described in a seminar in this week's issue of The Lancet....Pessimism and depression increase dementia risk
...personality test pessimism scale have a 30 percent increased risk of developing dementia several decades later. The same is true of individuals who score very high on the test's depression scale. The risk is even higher -- 40 percent more -- for individuals who score very high on both anxiety and pessimism sca...Alcohol magnifies the rewarding effects of smoking, even for light smokers
...owever, we showed that the desire to smoke sharply increased within a half hour after drinking, which is when a...en when BACs were declining, so a person may be at increased risk for wanting to smoke for hours after drinking alcohol." The researchers also found that smoking...Study shows surprising decreased surgical infection risk after age 65
...surgical procedures, found that the infection risk increased by about 1 percent per year between the ages of 17...s Between ages 17 and 65 years, the infection rate increased for each decade of increasing age, peaked at ages 65 to 74, and then decreased for each subsequent d...Northwestern's cancer genetics program finds gene variants that greatly increase breast cancer risk
... Factor Beta (TGF-beta) pathway is associated with increased breast cancer risk, according to a study published...ws that TGFBR1*6A is associated with a 120 percent increased risk of breast cancer among women older than 50," says study author Boris Pasche, MD, PhD, FACP, dir...Scottish health minister launches major new clinical trials project to boost business and health
.... Patients will benefit directly, both from their increased participation in research projects and more generally from the enhanced clinical expertise that will be gained through that work." Dr. Allan Gaw, Director of Clinical Trials Unit at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, said: "Although Glasgow has a long track re...