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...owing, addressing the issues of vision loss in the older population is, now more than ever, of paramount importance....Alcohol interventions that teach practical skills work best with high-risk university students
...ts decrease their alcohol consumption as they grow older and eventually leave college. Yet another factor could be that inclusion in the study made all of the students more aware of their alcohol consumption and so they subconsciously drank less." However, among those students deemed to engage in hig...Good vibrations: Aging bones may benefit from a good shaking
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Sleep disturbances common in older people can lead to an increased risk of falling during waking hours, according to research published in the latest issue of The Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences (Vol. 62A, No. 1). In a special section devoted to sleep disorders, this editio...Increased risk of stillbirth in older pregnant women
...he greatest impact at reducing stillbirth rates in older women. Pregnant patients of advanced maternal age (AMA) are at increased risk for a multitude of pregnancy complications, including gestational diabetes mellitus, preeclampsia, placenta previa and intrauterine growth restriction. All of these cond...New data supports a non-invasive approach to routine prenatal genetic testing
... guidelines recommended testing women 35 years and older using amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling, both considered invasive procedures that carry risks. ACOG now recommends screening before the 20th week of pregnancy using a less invasive screening option that includes ultrasound in conjunction wi...Children who sleep more weigh less
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...ht from 36 percent to 30 percent, while it reduced older children's risk from 34 percent to 30 percent." The Northwestern study not only differs from most other investigations of the effects of sleep on children's weight in its five-year approach. It also helps disentangle the issue of whether sleep act...Older adults face double whammy when it comes to body fat
...-SALEM, N.C. -- When it comes to body fat, today's older adults face a double whammy, according to new rese...chool of Medicine and colleagues. Up until age 80, older adults not only gain fat as they age -- but because of the obesity epidemic -- they actually begin t...Growth factors given with chemotherapy associated with increased risk of blood diseases
... the researchers identified 5,510 women age 65 and older who were diagnosed with breast cancer and treated with chemotherapy between 1991 and 1999. A total of 906 (16%) were treated with at least one course of G-CSF (832), GM-CSF (29), or both (49). Among these 906 patients, 16 (1.77%) developed AML or MDS...Aging population is causing major increase in the cancer burden warn experts
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...), from 1995 to 2000, for patients 30 years old or older presenting with chest pain. The retrospective study used a sample of 7,068 patients which corresponded to 32 million visits nationally throughout the six-year period. They found that the rate of visits to emergency departments by patients presentin......egular exercise is recommended for middle-aged and older people, but the effect of exercise on the development of osteoarthritis (OA) in older people is unclear, especially if they are overweight. Some studies have suggested that exercise has ...