Low-income patients reduce heart risk via Internet
...n systolic and diastolic blood pressure, body mass index and overall risk of heart disease, while the control group achieved only a meaningful drop in systolic blood pressure. In addition, those involved in the telemedicine group also pumped up their exercise, leading investigators to conclude that as pat...Obese patients should not be discriminated against for treatment
...t-replacement surgery to patients with a body-mass index greater than 30 became a policy of UK National Health Service primary-care trusts there in November, 2005. In America obese people are finding similar attitudes among surgeons: some refuse to operate on them at all; some insist they lose weight first...Innovative approach affords Binghamton University researchers clearer view of autism
...er live or on video, and permits measurement of an index of physiological anxiety, and the more standard measurement of affect, performance, and behavior.The fact that children don't have any physical contact with the eye tracking system and don't have to wear any special apparatus makes it a great tool ev...Increased age, certain procedures associated with increased complications after bariatric surgery
...ctors that may influence risk, including body mass index (BMI), age, other illnesses and choice of procedure, the authors write. Robert W. O'Rourke, M.D., and colleagues at the Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, reviewed data from 452 patients (372 women and 80 men, average age 44 years) undergo...Kids with cavities overweight, not underweight
...eight. Although the average age-adjusted body mass index was higher in the children with cavities in 2005 than in the children with cavities in 2000, or those that were free of cavities, these differences were not significant, Perinpanayagam noted. "Our study has confirmed that the children with dental dec...Helping mentally retarded children and adolescents
... Making a timely diagnosis of MR depends on a high index of suspicion, especially in a child who appears normal and demonstrates mild language delays. Diagnosis is a two-part process that includes the clinical diagnosis of MR based on DSM IV and/or AAMR criteria and a search for an etiology. Ideally it sho...Children who sleep less are three times more likely to be overweight
...e interviews with their parents. Through body mass index measurement, the researchers determined that 20% of the boys and 24% of the girls were overweight. Children who slept less than 10 hours a night were 3.5 times more at risk of being overweight than those who slept 12 or more hours. No other factor an...Excess television may lead to extra weight for preschoolers
... at age 36 and 54 months, and calculated body mass index (BMI) by dividing weight in kilograms by the square of height in meters. If a child had a BMI that was greater than or equal to the 95th percentile for children of their age and sex, he or she was considered overweight. Fewer than one-third (31.7 pe...Doctors able to predict recurrence of high-risk breast cancers
...ors found that the prognostic score and predictive index are useful in estimating recurrence in breast cancer patients after mastectomy and for approximating the benefits of radiation therapy. Doctors would then evaluate these factors to determine whether the patients had a low, intermediate or high risk o...Prevalence of overweight children, teens and men in US continues to rise
... the 95th percentile of the sex-specific body mass index (BMI) for age growth charts based on data collected between 1963 and 1994. Body mass index is calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters. Obesity among adults...Abdominal fat more significant in exercise-induced shortness of breath than overall weight
...d this difference. Age, height, weight, body mass index (BMI), percentage of overall body fat (as determined by hydrostatic or underwater weighing), and pulmonary function at rest all were similar among all the women. But multiple MRI scans of the upper body found significant differences in fat distributi...Do the obese know they are obese? Apparently not, according to a new study
...other measures for each person. BMI, or body mass index was calculated by weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared: a standard tool for categorizing individuals as either normal weight (BMI: 18.5 24.9 kg/m squared); overweight (25.0 29.9 kg/m squared) or obese BMI: greater than 30.0 kg/m ...Hormone use linked to increased breast cancer risk among black women
...ears through the year 2003. The women's body mass index (BMI) was calculated by dividing their weight in kilograms by the square of their height in meters. During the course of the study, 615 cases of breast cancer were reported. Breast cancer was more likely to occur in women who had taken hormones, inc...Newsbriefs from the journal Chest, April 2006
...ual snoring in women is strongly tied to body mass index (BMI) and age, with snoring prevalence reaching it...redictor of lung function than weight or body mass index (BMI), shows a new study. A New York-based research team analyzed adiposity markers, smoking histori...Patients with severe sleep-disordered breathing have high odds of abnormal heart rhythms
...articipants with SDB had a respiratory disturbance index that averaged about 44 pauses per hour of sleep. T...roup was modestly older and had a higher body mass index than the control patients." She added that arrhythmias generally tended to occur during sleep as opp...Markers of PCOS inherited, persist and raise risk for heart disease, diabetes
...ds. There were no differences in age or body mass index between these mothers and those with a history of regular menses. Mothers with menstrual problems also had higher levels of androgens, glucose and LDL compared with mothers with a history of regular menses, suggesting that these mothers may have had...Antioxidant selenium offers no heart-disease protection
...mographics, health habits, education and body mass index also was collected. Participants provided blood samples at their respective clinics twice a year and reported any new illnesses or medications. Individuals were followed for an average of 7.6 years. Results showed no association between sele...Study assesses relationship between conflicts of interest and voting patterns at FDA meetings
... would have produced margins less favorable to the index drug in the majority of the meetings, but this would not have changed whether the majority favored or opposed the drug." "Ideally, all panels of scientific experts advising a federal decision making body would be free of financial conflicts of intere...Choice of chemotherapy before liver metastasis surgery matters for some patients
...ore pronounced in patients with a higher body mass index (BMI). Given these findings, researchers recommend patients be screened for BMI and for preexisting steatosis, which chemotherapy can morph into steatohepatitis. Patients in these categories should avoid irinotecan, Vauthey says. "Most patients who u......ix months of treatment, their collective body mass index dropped 4.4 percent, their waist size 4.3 percent, their triglycerides (harmful fatty acids) dropped 13.1 percent and their HDL (beneficial) cholesterol level rose 6.2 percent. As a result, their ten-year risk of developing cardiovascular disease, ba...