Paying to prevent diabetes is cost effective
...h pre-diabetes and their employers contribute only modest co-payments for a diabetes prevention benefit, this would allow private health insurers and Medicare to cover these programs, and the economic impact, as well as the health and social implications of obesity and diabetes, would decline....Animal studies suggest vegetables may reduce hardening of arteries
...the mice fed vegetable-free diets. There were also modest improvements in body weight and cholesterol levels in the blood. The estimates of atherosclerosis extent involved measuring free and ester cholesterol, two forms that accumulate in plaques as they develop. The rate of this accumulation has been found...Children of diabetics show signs of atherosclerosis
...even when blood sugar is below the diabetic range, modest increases in blood sugar can contribute to endothelial dysfunction. Endothelial dysfunction in this population shows a predisposition to atherosclerosis. Type 2 diabetes, also known as adult-onset diabetes, is linked to overweight and obesity. Howeve......ta suggest a very powerful detrimental effect of a modest level of hemorrhagic shock on even a relatively mild traumatic brain injury," he said. "These findings could have important ramifications even before treatment trials commence in our models."...Weighing up new data in research
...addition, statistical models predicted that even a modest weight loss of more than 5.02% and an intensity of at least 0.25% per week, respectively - would result in a significant disability reduction. "Based on the pooled analysis from 3 randomised controlled trials, we can provide category 1a evidence that...Chemical in many air fresheners may reduce lung function
...C), called 1,4 dichlorobenzene (1,4 DCB) may cause modest reductions in lung function. "Even a small red...s were used in the analyses. The researchers found modest reductions in pulmonary function with increasing blood concentrations of 1,4 DCB. There was appr...Study identifies potential drug target for Huntington's disease
...ar to be energy-deficient, so we hypothesized that modest stresses that would be tolerated by healthy cells could send HD cells below a viable energy threshold and that blocking PARP1 activation could be protective." To test this hypothesis the MIND researchers first ran a computer search of their small-...Study finds safety intervention increases use of child safety restraints in shopping carts
...int use by young children in shopping carts with a modest in-store intervention," said Smith, the study author and a faculty member of The Ohio State University College of Medicine. "However, one-half of the children still remained unrestrained or incorrectly restrained despite our efforts." "Use of child...Parental cigarette use is 'double whammy' for children
... will have drug-using kids, but the effect is only modest and far from being deterministic," said Bailey. "A lot of children whose parents are smokers, heavy drinkers or marijuana users do not go on to be drug users or drinkers." Bailey and Hill believe their findings have strong practical applications i...Survivors of childhood polio do well decades later as they age
...r elderly counterparts, but rather experience only modest increased weakness which may be commensurate with ...ed tests of performing basic functions. They found modest declines. Each patient also completed questionnaires about symptoms of progressive weakness at the b...JRRD tipsheet: Focus on stroke
...cal analysis confirmed that treatment effects were modest to substantial and that 12 participants responded to at least one treatment. Of the six participants who responded to treatment and were available for a 3-month follow-up, four continued to show treatment benefits. Regardless of which treatment came ...Acupuncture relieves low back pain and is cost-effective
...tment of lower back pain in primary care confers a modest health benefit measured in QALYs for a relatively minor extra NHS cost relative to usual care, say the authors. The use of acupuncture for the treatment of lower back pain therefore appears to be cost-effective in the longer term....Therapeutic role found for carbon monoxide
... mouse model to a short, daily regimen of CO (in a modest concentration, equivalent to what a cigarette smoker might inhale) of one hour per day. As predicted, their results showed that the gas did indeed reverse PAH in the animals, resulting in the restoration of both normal pressures and heart weights (in...Stereotypes contribute to older men seeking, receiving depression care less frequently
...ploratory and hypothesis-generating because of the modest number of interviews conducted." An expanded study "with a more representative sample of clinicians and patients would be likely to deepen our understanding" of the themes identified in the study, and to identify other important factors. "The publi...Gaining weight between pregnancies could lead to pregnancy complications
...in women who were not overweight, but who gained a modest amount of weight between pregnancies. For example,...aving poor gestational outcomes; only a relatively modest increase in weight between pregnancies could lead to serious illnesses. In addition, weight loss in ...Free drug samples influence prescribing, say one in three doctors
...further. "The generally held view that accepting modest incentive items, such as drug samples is appropriate and primarily of benefit to patients needs to be reconsidered, both by doctors and by policy makers," say the authors. Guidelines need to do more to challenge this view, they add....Drug prevents postpartum hemorrhage in resource poor settings
...ffects of the misoprostol treatment consisted of a modest increase in shivering and fever, both common side effects of the drug. Infants of nursing mothers who took misoprostol showed no side effects. "We now have proven that misoprostol is a convenient, inexpensive, safe, and effective drug to lessen a m...New study shows the benefits of eating fish greatly outweigh the risks
...en, the results show that the benefits of eating a modest amount of fish per week--about 3 ounces of farmed salmon or 6 ounces of mackerel--reduced the risk of death from coronary heart disease (CHD) by 36%. Notably, by combining results of randomized clinical trials, the investigators also demonstrated tha...Researchers suggest new direction for development of psychotropic drugs
...re is near universal agreement that we've had only modest progress in developing drugs for schizophrenia and affective disorders in the past several decades. This panel discussion is part of a broader effort to determine why new drug development has been such a historically inefficient process," explained D......nted in inner-city health centers, the result is a modest rise in flu vaccination rates for children aged 2 to 17 years. Influenza vaccination rates improved modestly from baseline (10.4 percent) to 13.1 percent during the first year of the intervention implementation and to 18.7 percent during the second ...