Emory University researchers find persistent and severe asthma associated with obesity
...imately 65 percent of adults in the U.S. age 18 or older are either overweight or obese," says Brian Taylor, MD, a pulmonary fellow and researcher at Emory Crawford Long Hospital. "And similar to the obesity epidemic, there has also been a substantial increase in the prevalence of asthma. "While there h...Erectile dysfunction and lower urinary tract symptoms
...in men with LUTS and BPH. 369 men aged 45 years or older with ED and LUTS were enrolled in the study. Patients were given 50 mg sildenafil or matching placebo nightly, or one hour before sexual activity. Dose escalation to 100 mg occurred at two weeks. Patients were evaluated using the International Inde...Inhaled steroids may not be enough for some children with asthma
...sthma are less likely to have symptoms as they get older and may not need to be on daily steroids, Dr. Sawicki said. The flip side is that if a child has poor asthma control, the parents and doctor need to make sure the child is adhering to their inhaled steroid treatment. But variation in response to inha...News from American Psychiatric Association 2007 Annual Meeting
...e-night balance, mobility or memory performance in older adults with insomnia, relative to placebo. This st...s a safe sleep medication for patients, especially older adults, concerned about being impaired in the middle of the night," said Gary Zammit, PhD, Director,...New doctors' test kit to help prevent debilitating osteoporosis
... disease. Both men and women lose bone as they get older and 25-30 per cent of men will have an osteoporoti... Chief Medical Officer at MBF, said that currently older people are more likely to have osteoporosis than high cholesterol so preventing this cruel disease i...NYP/Weill Cornell Urologists present at 2007 AUA Conference
...risk of bone fracture -- is most commonly found in older women. But Dr. Darius Paduch has identified a subset of young men with low levels of testosterone at high risk for the disorder. Forty percent of the male study group under the age of 40 and with infertility and sexual dysfunction were found to hav...UPMC begins study of heart support device as a bridge to transplantation
...ust over half a pound, compared to the 5 pounds of older pumps. The implanted blood pump is connected to the heart and the aorta by two tubes called cannulae. Blood is drawn directly from the left ventricle and returned to the aorta. The VentrAssist LVAD works in tandem with the natural heart and an extern...Marijuana worsens COPD symptoms in current cigarette smokers
...y were also marijuana smokers. In both younger and older adults in the study, 30% smoked both cigarettes an...e smokers, 76% also smoked marijuana, while 58% of older cigarette smokers also smoked marijuana. The findings come from a study of 648 adults ages 18 and o...Gel derived from a patient's own blood may help promote wound healing
...logous platelet gel in eight healthy men and women older than 21 years. Five 4-millimeter skin punch wounds were made 3 centimeters apart on both the right and left upper thighs in all eight individuals. The autologous platelet gel was applied to the wounds on one leg, while the wounds on the other leg wer...Healthy body weight throughout adulthood may help delay disability
...y the International Journal of Obesity, found that older adults with a history of excess weight in midlife ...n a trend towards declining rates of disability in older adults. However, the dramatic increase in overweight and obesity in the U.S. may reverse these decl...Sight specialists to shed light on vision loss at UH conference
HOUSTON, May 18, 2007 More than 6.4 million older Americans live with vision loss and experience problems when performing everyday tasks, such as reading and driving. As a follow-up to 'Older Americans Month,' the University of Houston's College of Optometry and Prevent Blindness Texas are teamin...Eating apples and fish during pregnancy may protect against childhood asthma and allergies
... the association with the mothers diet declines in older children, and if mothers and their childrens diets interact in older children. Willers suggests that the beneficial effect of apples may come from powerful antioxidants...House dust may protect against allergic disease early in life
...d the levels of endotoxin in a home: having a home older than 30 years, substandard home conditions, carpeting, a musty smell and interior wall leaks were all associated with higher levels of endotoxin. Blood samples were taken from 484 children enrolled in the Infant Immune Study at different ages, up to ...Hair relaxers do not increase risk
... relaxers at earlier ages and more frequently than older women. Thus, the findings provide empirical evidence that hair relaxers are not carcinogenic to the breast and do not contribute to the higher incidence of breast cancer in young African-American women than in young white women."...Hair straightening chemicals not linked to breast cancer risk in African-Americans
...unger African-American women than they are used by older African-American women, a connection with increase...nd that younger women used hair relaxers more than older women did. They also discovered that the majority of women used hair relaxers before age 20 and a th...Papillomavirus vaccine could reduce rate of vulval and vaginal cancers
...ously vulval cancer was seen almost exclusively in older women, recent studies have shown that 20% of these cancers now occur in women under 50 years." They add (although this quote is not within the article) "Vulval and vaginal cancers are often not recognised. Treatment of choice is surgery which can b...Violent sleep disorder linked to a form of dementia
..., however, is quite clear. The patients -- usually older males -- strike out violently, often yelling, when they enter REM sleep. Mayo researchers following these individuals over many years saw many of them develop symptoms of dementia. Postmortems showed they all had developed Lewy bodies but not the pat...Chemical maps hint at drug's effects on schizophrenia
...atric conditions, have fewer side effects than the older antipsychotics, but several still induce weight gain and diabetes. Schizophrenic patients were found to have lower levels of the lipids used to make membranes involved in storing and communicating information in the brain. These lipid changes were ...State spending keeps childless seniors out of nursing homes
... the association was not statistically significant older people with living children, they found that doubling state HCBS expenditures per person over age 65 would reduce the risk of nursing home admission among childless seniors by 35 percent. Citing previous research, the authors found that some states...Higher intake of fish and vitamin D levels linked to lower risk of age-related macular disease
...me. It is the most common cause of blindness among older adults in the United States, affecting more than 7 million individuals older than 40 years, according to background information in the articles. The prevalence of AMD is likely ...