Predicting the quality of life for older adults
...gh the older adults sense of purpose in life. As previous research has stated, emotional support, companionship and intimacy have been found to have a moderate to strong positive effect upon quality of life and even enhance quality of life over time among cancer patients. Other significant factors include r...Aggressive treatment for whiplash does not promote faster recovery
...ith whiplash compensated under tort insurance. A previous study led by Pierre Ct, of the University of Toron... with slower recovery. "The results agree with our previous analysis in a cohort of patients compensated under a no-fault insurance scheme and support the hypot...Coffee consumption may lower blood uric acid levels -- the precursor of gout
...a food questionnaire that assessed intake over the previous month. Researchers estimated the amount of caffein...se results were similar to those found in the only previous study on the topic, which was conducted in Japan. Interestingly, there was an association between de...Hepatitis C negatively impacts HIV
...and Europe are co-infected with HCV. According to previous research, alcohol use may worsen HCV-related liver disease and interfere with adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and medical care. The researchers studied 396 HIVinfected persons with alcohol problems. Fifty percent (199) were also co-in...Limiting eligibility for medical studies can omit women and African-Americans
...s and his colleagues looked at data sets from five previous alcohol treatment studies that enrolled more than 100,000 patients. They then explored the impact of six exclusion criteria commonly used in treatment outcome research: psychiatric problems, neurological problems, medical problems, drug use, non-comp...Psychological bullying hits just as hard
...ories about you that were untrue" How often in the previous month did students not include you in joining in what they were doing"), and overt aggression. Respondents were also asked about their experience of witnessing both relational and overt aggression. Most of the research to date looking at aggression...12-month study demonstrated tolerability and efficacy of Daytrana
...ncidence of adverse events that is consistent with previous trials and other stimulants in this class." Shir... Those children not optimized on DAYTRANA from the previous trials entered a four-week stepwise DAYTRANA dose-optimization phase. All children then entered an 1...Moderate drinking lowers women's risk of heart attack
... coronary bypass surgery, angioplasty, angina or a previous diagnosis of cardiovascular disease were excluded from the study. Participants -- 320 heart attack patients and 1,565 controls -- were enrolled between 1996 and 2001. Extensive information was collected on the type of beverage consumed, serving si...Study reveals aspirin's colorectal cancer prevention mechanism
...re analyzed for expression of COX-2. As seen in previous reports, among the more than 120,000 participants, those who took at least two standard aspirin tablets a week had about three-quarters the risk of colorectal cancer that aspirin non-users did. However, analysis of tumor samples showed that reductio...Emory University researchers find persistent and severe asthma associated with obesity
... to non-overweight patients. As demonstrated in previous studies, the associations of asthma severity and obesity in this study seem to be slightly stronger in women than men. "To our knowledge, this is one of the most comprehensive and largest all-asthma surveys showing the association between asthma se...More pounds equals worse asthma?
...eld." Dr. Taylor notes that this study, like many previous studies, shows the link between asthma and obesity is more prominent in women. "A big part of that is simply that 70% of the study subjects were women," he says. "We did find a statistically significant association between obesity and asthma severity...News from American Psychiatric Association 2007 Annual Meeting
...ve to placebo. This study also demonstrated, as in previous studies, that patients treated with zolpidem did have impaired performances on these measures, as compared to placebo. The results of this double-blind, placebo-controlled trial were presented in a poster at the American Psychiatric Association 2007 ...New prevention, treatment methods for patients with painful bowel inflammation
...nce that scientists are beginning to capitalize on previous research to better understand, prevent and treat intestinal inflammation." Can Patients with Diverticular Disease Eat Nuts, Corn and Popcorn" (Abstract #769) Diverticulosis is a common disease of the large intestine characterized by pouches in ...Some vitamin supplements don't protect against lung cancer
...extensive questionnaire on vitamin intake over the previous 10 years, including how much of each supplement they took. The researchers then checked to see how many of the people in the study had lung cancer, using a government cancer registry. They found 393 cases of lung cancer. Adjusting for such risk facto...New study demonstrates that Lubiprostone may improve symptom relief rates in adults with IBS-C
... new scale was more restrictive than those used in previous reports. The findings demonstrated that patients receiving lubiprostone 8 mcg twice daily were nearly twice as likely to achieve overall response compared to those receiving placebo (lubiprostone 17.9 percent vs. placebo 10.1 percent, P=0.001). T...Researchers investigate impact of lifestyle on GI health
...type of cancer remains under debate. Most of all, previous studies enrolled middle-aged subjects, raising the possibility that CRC development may start before common interventions. Researchers from Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH) in Mumbai, India, set out to determine whether a vegetarian diet is associated w...UPMC begins study of heart support device as a bridge to transplantation
...ation, hopefully demonstrating its advantages over previous technology," said Robert Kormos, M.D., co-director of heart transplantation, director of the artificial heart program, medical director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine and professor of surgery, division of cardiothoracic surgery at...Genetic marker linked to aggressive prostate cancer
...percent of men of European descent, according to a previous study involving Northwestern. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among American men, causing more than 40,000 deaths annually. African-American men have a higher incidence of the disease and get it at a younger age than white men. These ...Sleep apnea patients have greatly increased risk of severe car crashes
...shes in the group without sleep apnea. While many previous studies have shown that sleep apnea patients are at increased risk of car crashes, this study is the first to look at the severity of those crashes. We were surprised not only about how many of the sleep apnea patients crashes involved personal injur...Sleep apnea increases risk of heart attack or death by 30 percent
...g heart disease or dying, the study found. While previous studies have shown an association between sleep apnea and heart disease, ours is a large study that allowed us to not only follow patients for five years and look at the association between sleep apnea and the combined outcome of heart attack and dea...