Conventional prognostic factors fail to explain better prostate cancer survival in most Asian men
...Japanese-Americans, for example, had significantly lower hazard ratio compared to non-Hispanic white Americans (34% lower). In contrast, South Asian-Americans had significantly higher hazard ratio compared to non-Hispanic white Americans (40% higher). The study should help physicians more accurately app...Study, meta-analysis examine factors associated with death from heatstroke
...s who live in a nursing home or take medication to lower blood pressure appear more likely to die during or...and using fans were associated with a trend toward lower risk of death. Although further studies are needed to provide specific guidance on each interventi...Fluctuating eye pressure associated with visual field deterioration in glaucoma patients
...larly in patients with disease progression even at lower pressures. Specific guidelines, however, must await a better understanding of the pathophysiologic consequences of IOP fluctuation in glaucoma....Draining away brain's toxic protein to stop Alzheimer's
..., Ph.D., the leader of the team. If we are able to lower the levels of amyloid-beta circulating in blood by...more of it there, then the brain should follow and lower its levels too. This is exactly what we found. The team concentrated its efforts around a protein ...New study shows promise in reducing surgical risks associated with surgical bleeding
...s, although antibody development was significantly lower in patients treated with rhThrombin compared with bThrombin (1.5 percent versus 21.5 percent, respectively)....Reductive stress linked to heart disease
... that carried too much G6PD with mice that had far lower levels. The resulting offspring had normal levels of reduced glutathione and did not develop heart failure. Lowering the level of reduced glutathione dramatically changed the survival of these mice, Benjamin said. Basically, we prevented them from...Warfarin better than aspirin at stroke prevention in elderly people with atrial fibrillation
...than half as likely to suffer a serious event (52% lower risk) as those taking aspirin. They say: We sho...sm, and intracranial haemorrhage was significantly lower in patients on warfarin than in those on aspirin, adding that their results show that warfarin could...Despite claims, not all probiotics can treat diarrhea say experts
...ecorded. Duration of diarrhoea was significantly lower in children receiving Lactobacillus GG and a mix of four bacterial strains than in patients receiving oral rehydration alone. The three other preparations had no significant effect. Secondary outcomes were similar in all groups and no side effects ...Obesity linked to hyperparathyroidism in chronic kidney disease
...ise the possibility that weight loss might help to lower PTH levels in patients with CKDor, conversely, that other treatments for hyperparathyroidism could lead to weight loss. "We hope the findings will trigger further studies in order to better explain the reasons underlying our results, and to determin......e of the body, such as bullets and knives. The lower the unemployment rates, the higher the number of admissions for blunt trauma - physical trauma caused to a body part, either by impact, injury of physical attack which can result in contusions, abrasions, lacerations and bone fractures. In this inst...Geriatric health conditions have major effect on half of all seniors
...nic group, unmarried, and had less education and a lower net worth. ...Even older women at high risk have little interest in being tested for HIV, study finds
...ention and testing programs, and consistently have lower HIV testing rates as compared with younger adults, said Aletha Akers, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the studys lead author. Those who are t...Metabolic study in mice could lead to 'good cholesterol' boosters
...DL-C). By and large, the medicines now available lower levels of the bad low-density lipoprotein choleste...wever, treatment methods that would simultaneously lower bad cholesterol and increase good cholesterol have the potential to work even better. Indeed, resear...Parents' depression can weigh on children
...- A parents struggle with stress or depression can lower a childs quality of life -- and it could hinder an...reported more problems with peers tended to have a lower overall score for quality of life. Both bullying and parent distress were linked to more depressive ...Study suggests nonpharmaceutical interventions may be helpful in severe influenza outbreaks
...ad greater delays in reaching peak rates of death, lower peak rates of death, and lower total number of deaths. There was a statistically significant association between increased duration...In women, caffeine may protect memory
...age 80. Caffeine consumers did not seem to have lower rates of dementia. We really need a longer study to look at whether caffeine prevents dementia; it might be that caffeine could slow the dementia process rather than preventing it, said Ritchie. Ritchie said researchers arent sure why caffeine didn...Early-childhood intervention may improve well-being through young adulthood
...), have completed more years of education and have lower rates of arrests for violent offenses (13.9 percen...pressures to serve larger numbers of children at a lower cost....Backache sufferers who fear pain change movements
...ce examined 36 adults who recently had experienced lower back pain. They split them into two groups: one that confessed a high fear of aggravating the backache and another that was less afraid of reinjury. The researchers next asked the participants to perform a series of three reaching tasks designed t...ACC/AHA release revised UA/NSTEMI guidelines
...A/NSTEMI patients. LDL (bad cholesterol) should be lower than 100 mg/dL and ideally reduced to 70 mg/dL. Blood pressure should be lower than 140/90 and for those with diabetes or chronic kidney disease, a reading lower than 130/80 is re...U of M report says early-childhood intervention improves well-being through young adulthood
... preschool. Those children in the program also had lower rates of felony arrests with 16.5 percent compared with 21.1 percent and lower depressive symptoms with 12.8 percent compared with 17.4 percent. The study directed by Reynolds i...