Maintenance therapies offer lasting heart health benefits
... leads to a rapid and significant increase in CRP, independently of the parallel LDL increase. CRP indicates systemic inflammation, and significant increases in these levels can cause severe cardiovascular complications. A total of 566 patients who received pravastatin therapy were evaluated in the study, duri...Karen Duff receives prestigious prize for Alzheimer's research
...red many postdoctoral students who are now working independently as Alzheimer's researchers. She is also a mother of two young daughters under the age of 3. "There couldn't be a more worthy winner of the Potamkin Prize, nor a better role model for women in science," says Hardy....Procedure cures some diabetic mice, but not in the way previously reported
...reproduce the earlier experiment. All three groups independently found no evidence of a key claim of the earlier study: that cells injected from the spleens of healthy mice had formed new insulin-producing beta cells in the diabetic mice, a finding that created hope that the approach might be used to cure diabetes...Women suffer from anxiety and stress after birth, not only depression
... Women can suffer from postnatal anxiety or stress independently of postnatal depression. A study published today i...l period. A scale that measures anxiety and stress independently of depression enabled researchers to detect 61 women who had symptoms of depression, and a further 3...Abdominal fat linked to higher death rate in men, new study shows
...fat in 291 men. They found that visceral fat alone independently predicted risk of mortality. "We're trying to find out which factors are most associated with disease," says Dr. Ross, noting that earlier studies have shown weight is not the most important indicator. "It's possible to exercise and decrease your ris...Low intake of milk in pregnancy associated with decreased birth weight
...d to be each associated with infant birth weights, independently of other risk factors. In a related commentary, Hollis and Wagner note that this study makes a very intriguing and important observation in relation to vitamin D. They believe that vitamin D may not only affect fetal skeletal formation, but also neu...Low intake of milk during pregnancy linked to decreased birth weight
...d to be each associated with infant birth weights, independently of other risk factors. Analysis of the data predicted that each cup of milk consumed daily was associated with a 41 gram increase in a baby's birth weight. The researchers believe vitamin D may not only affect an infant's skeletal formation, but als...Studies show improving pacemaker reliability, increased implantable defibrillator failure rates
...ysis of registry data (second study) was conducted independently by Dr. Maisel without FDA financial support....Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for May 2, 2006
...a new study of 236 frail and elderly adults living independently found an overall high rating of care, directly correlated with high ratings of interpersonal communication with health care providers. However, neither of these ratings correlated with ratings of technical quality of care as measured by 207 quality i...The ESC releases guidance document on Cardiac Rhythm Management product performance
...cts in Europe is necessary and should be conducted independently from international monitoring or registry activities, although data sharing should be encouraged. As such, National Competent Authorities should be encouraged to work with clinician/scientific societies to improve event reporting on national levels. ...Lower literacy means poor health and poor health care access for older people
... National Institute on Aging. Study subjects lived independently in the community in Memphis, Tenn., or Pittsburgh, Penn. The study excluded participants with dementia or poor physical functioning. "Elders with limited literacy have a hard time reading their pill bottles, managing their diseases, filling out need...Establishing trust between physicians and patients with rheumatic diseases
...s showed that patients' trust of their doctors was independently associated with ethnicity, quality of the patient-...gest that trust in physicians is significantly and independently associated with patient's ethnicity and specific components of physicians' communicative style, incl...Results of clipping and coiling of aneurysms are similar over time
...lephone. The possibility of a rerupture was judged independently by a neurologist, a neurosurgeon, and a neurointerventional radiologist. A total of 1,010 patients (711 surgically clipped, 299 treated with coiling) were included in the study. Maximum duration of follow-up was 9.6 years for clipped patients and 8....International study launched testing new drug combination to cut cardiovascular disease
...ble for coordinating it and analysing its results, independently of the funders. Large-scale randomised studies have shown that lowering LDL cholesterol by about 1mmol/l for four to five years cuts the risks of heart attacks and strokes by about a quarter, and recent studies suggest that more intensive LDL-lowerin...Overweight and obesity enlarges teenagers' hearts
...ation between left ventricular mass and adiposity, independently of other cardiovascular risk factors," the authors wrote. In an editorial in the journal, Stephan von Haehling, M.D., Wolfram Doehner, M.D., Ph.D., and Stefan D. Anker, M.D., Ph.D. from the Imperial College School of Medicine in London, United Kingdo...Most children diagnosed with autism at age 2 years also diagnosed with the condition at age 9 years
...cores and clinicians' judgment at age 2 years each independently predicted a diagnosis of autism at age 9 years, with clinical judgment most strongly linked. For the diagnoses that did change between ages 2 and 9 years, 18 (8 percent) improved and 38 (18 percent) worsened. Only one in 84 children diagnosed with a......ry developmental step permits newborns to function independently from their mother. "These observations prompt us to explore new roles for the COX enzymes in biology," says FitzGerald. "Perhaps their embrace will extend to other enzymes, such as the lipoxygenases and the nitric oxide synthases, in ways that promp...Behavioural therapy can restore ovulation in infertile women
...ry of the stress and ovarian axes appears to occur independently of major metabolic changes such as an increase in leptin or thyroxine (a hormone that affects how cells use energetic compounds). Since CBT caused a drop in cortisol and a rise in TSH, it may be that the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis, involved...Hormones could be prescription for living longer
...sting growth hormone may allow the elderly to live independently longer. ICN 2006 takes place June 1922 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in downtown Pittsburgh. Summaries of these studies' findings follow: Can stimulating growth hormone delay the physiological effects of aging? Boosting production of ...Pesticide exposure associated with incidence of Parkinson's disease
...rs after the reported exposure to pesticides -- to independently confirm the diagnosis. 413 cases were included in this study, and statistical analyses were performed to determine the association between pesticide exposure and Parkinson's disease. The risk of Parkinson's disease was 70 percent higher for people ex...