Antioxidant may have adverse effects in head and neck cancer patients
...y cancer after supplementation ended. Overall, the proportion of participants free of a second primary cancer after 8 years of follow-up was similar in both groups of patients. The rate of having a recurrence of the head and neck cancer or a second primary cancer was also higher during supplementation among pat...OHSU scientist helping explain basis of psychotic behavior
...trong correlation between the presence of a higher proportion of high-affinity D2 in a population of receptors in animals that show supersensitivity to dopaminergic drugs," Grandy added. The study also further confirms the importance of the dopamine system in understanding and treatin...In years preceding medicare eligibility, many older adults at risk of being uninsured
...ere all associated with higher risk of death. "The proportion of U.S. adults in late middle age at risk from being uninsured over a ten-year follow-up period was two to three times higher than cross-sectional estimates. At least one-quarter of older adults will be uninsured at some point during the years preced...Location of body fat associated with cardiovascular risk even at normal body weight
...zed body composition, in terms of both BMI and the proportion of body fat, does not clearly distinguish older subjects with the metabolic syndrome."...University of Kentucky physician publishes fibromyalgia study in Arthritis & Rheumatism journal
...of treatment. In addition, a significantly greater proportion of patients receiving Lyrica versus placebo (48 percent versus 27 percent) experienced a clinically meaningful reduction of pain, as defined by a 30 percent or greater improvement in pain. Additionally, significantly more patients taking Lyrica (450...Columbia research suggests need to rethink causes of heart failure
... sized hearts, and wall thickening that was out of proportion to their ventricular volume. However, for the majority of elderly subjects with heart failure and a normal ejection with concomitant hypertension, there was a concomitant increase in ventricular volume and mass, suggesting that the ventricle had no ...Steady rise in allergic diseases over quarter of a century
...ound highly significant increases over time in the proportion of men testing positive to Phadiatop and with specific IgE to the three inhaled allergens. The average rate of increase was equivalent to an additional 4.5% of men becoming Phadiatop positive each decade. There was no tendency for atopy to decline as...American Dietetic Association statement on new 'MyPyramid'
... government's primary graphical symbol of variety, proportion and moderation in making good nutritional choices. ADA recommended that the educational messages within and accompanying the Pyramid should be updated to improve consumer understanding, which has also been done. ADA believes no one graphic symbol can...Being obese, underweight, associated with increased risk of death
... groups combined), presumably due to an increasing proportion of the population moving into the obese categories... "Despite our encouraging findings, a considerable proportion of lean as well as obese persons still have elevated levels of modifiable risk factors, particularly...Revised Bethesda guidelines effective at identifying patients at risk of colorectal cancer
...ic antigens in tissues] may help identify a larger proportion of patients with HNPCC," the authors write....Northwestern's cancer genetics program ID's gene variant that increases colon cancer risk
...ied so far might be responsible for a significant proportion of familial colorectal cancers. The study, published by researchers at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern University's Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, says 15 to 20 percent of all colorectal cancers are familial, but only 7...Medication or psychotherapy effective in treating depressed patients when the other is not
... one of the JAMA/Archives journals. "A substantial proportion of patients treated for depression do not respond to the initial trial of either an antidepressant medication or depression-targeted psychotherapy," according to background information in the article. For those resistant to treatment there are severa...Response of New York City public school children to September 11
... 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, a high proportion of New York City school children had one or more p...rt. First, six months after the WTC attack, a high proportion of New York City public school children had a probable mental disorder. Second, the severity of expo...Too many doctors fail to follow guidelines and to prescribe best treatments for heart patients
...cosides and diuretics. "This means there is a high proportion of patients who are not receiving the best possibl...ding to ESC guidelines. In contrast, a substantial proportion of our patients received cardiac glycosides despite the fact that this treatment is only recommended...Burden of cardiovascular disease will shift to the developing world
...vard School of Public Health conclude that a large proportion of the worlds population who live in low-income an...ith some delay. The authors also found that as the proportion of people living in cities increased so did BMI and cholesterol, which may be due to changes in patt...Acupuncture treatment no more effective than sham treatment in reducing migraine headaches
...mpared with the waiting list group (1.4 days). The proportion of responders (reduction in headache days by at least 50 percent) was 51 percent in the acupuncture group, 53 percent in the sham acupuncture group, and 15 percent in the waiting list group. "In conclusion, in our trial, acupuncture was associated wi...Routine procedure during childbirth provides no benefits, study review finds
...with episiotomy can be considered worse since some proportion of women who would have had lesser injury instead had a surgical incision," they wrote. Dr. John Thorp Jr., co-author of the article and a professor in UNC's department of obstetrics and gynecology and deputy director of the Center for Women's Healt...Two studies document rise of superbugs in the environment
... S. aureus isolates acquired in the community, the proportion of isolates that were MRSA had reached 76 percent in 2003. Over the preceding three years, the number of MRSA infections acquired in the community had more than doubled. The MRSA isolates caused skin and soft tissue infections in most cases, and more...Obese workers' pay lower due to health costs, Stanford study finds
...ant increase in the number of obese Americans. The proportion of American adults classified as obese rose from 12 percent in 1991 to 20.9 percent in 2001. Obese individuals are at much higher risk of chronic - and often costly - conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and hypertension. Annual medical expendi...Children with high blood lead levels often do not receive follow-up tests
...Michigan, Ann Arbor, and colleagues determined the proportion of 3,682 Medicaid-enrolled children with elevated lead levels who had follow-up testing done. The study included children ages six years or younger who had a screening blood lead level of at least 10 g/dL (micrograms per deciliter) between January 1,...