100 percent plus increase in illegal blood alcohol levels in emergency care patients over five years
... numbers of those under the age of 26 soared 169%, rising from 97 to 261. Men outnumbered women in every age bracket, except for the under 16s, where young women outnumbered their male peers. The number of patients with blood alcohol above 80 mg/100 ml, which is above the legally acceptable driving limi...Alternative kidney test reveals hidden health risks
... well-established that end-stage kidney disease is rising at a rate of 10 to 20 percent per year. With a heightened awareness of pre-CKD, we can be more aggressive in taking steps to prevent it." Accurate knowledge of kidney function is also a matter of patient safety, according to Shlipak: "Surgery, som...Africans much better than North Americans at taking anti-HIV meds
...to detect and intervene on these declines prior to rising population levels of resistance," said Bangsberg. The review notes the World Health Organization's intent to increase access to antiretrovirals in Sub-Saharan Africa and its estimates of the proportion of HIV/AIDS patients urgently needing therapy....Washington University researchers find almost half of kids with ADHD are not being treated
...dren taking medication for ADHD more than tripled, rising from 0.6 percent in 1975 to 3 percent by 1987. Another study reported that the number of adolescents taking ADHD drugs increased 2.5 fold between 1990 and 1995. And many reports have noted a rapid increase in the U.S. manufacture of the stimulant dru...Stroke risk should determine anti-clotting treatment
...o increase even more due to an aging population, a rising number of people with chronic heart disease and improved diagnostic possibilities. During AF, the heart's two upper chambers (the atria) quiver instead of beating effectively. Blood isn't pumped completely out of them, so it may pool and clot. If......hree-year-olds from the Wirral (where BMI has been rising for 16 years) from 1988 to 2003. They found that mean BMI rose by 0.7 kg/m2 while mean height fell by 0.5cm. Over the same period the weight-height correlation rose from 0.59 to 0.71 as the BMI of taller children rose. Among the shortest 10% of ...In-home sensors spot dementia signs in elderly
...lth care approach may be essential to managing the rising cost of health care for aging baby boomers. And "being able to stay at home and maintain independence represents a significant improvement in quality of life of many elders who like to remain as long as possible in their familiar environments," Pavel...Who calls for stronger collaboration between HIV/AIDS and TB programs in the developing world
...ople living with HIV and rates of tuberculosis are rising dramatically in parts of sub-Saharan Africa and other regions where the epidemic is fuelled by HIV. In countries with a high proportion of HIV-infected adults, tuberculosis is increasing by 7% per year on average. HIV infection also causes tuberculo...A new guideline for screening apparently healthy individuals to prevent a heart attack
...e to be based on health care, otherwise the wildly rising cost of medical care will bankrupt our system."...Infections link with diabetes, suggests biggest study yet
...1 diabetes, and the number of cases in children is rising by three per cent each year. It develops if the b...act that the number of cases of Type 1 diabetes is rising by three per cent each year cannot be explained by genetics alone. This research reinforces the ide...Obesity in prostate cancer patients predicts cancer recurrence and progression
...n independent predictor of biochemical failure - a rising prostate specific antigen (PSA) level that can ind... predicted whether a patient would experience both rising PSA and a return of prostate cancer. For example, biochemical failure occured more quickly with incr...New study adds weight to argument for steroid injections in patients with hip osteoarthritis
...ional ability may also progress to difficulties in rising from a chair, using stairs, walking and dressing. The 52 patients enrolled in the trial, received fluoroscopically guided IA injection and were randomly allocated placebo (2 ml of normal saline) or 40 mg of the treatment (triamcinolone hexacetonide)....Early puberty may mean anxiety, abnormal eating behaviors later
...SH), directly into the circulation. In turn, these rising levels of LH and FSH cause the testes and ovaries to produce the sex hormones testosterone and estradiol, the culprits responsible for the physical changes and emotional baggage of male and female puberty, respectively. According to Dr. Plant, other ...Incidence of hip fractures set to increase to 6.3 million worldwide in 2050
.... However, they add that fracture rates seem to be rising in many parts of the world. On the assumption that rates will rise by only 1% per year, the authors calculate that the number of hip fractures worldwide could be as high as 8.2 million by 2050. The economic burden that osteoporotic fractures impose ...Meditation may improve cardiac risk factors in patients with coronary heart disease
... causal understanding of the role of stress in the rising epidemic of the metabolic syndrome," they continue. "Although current low levels of physical activity, unhealthy eating habits and resultant obesity are triggers for this epidemic, the demands of modern society may also be responsible for higher lev...New study suggests antidepressants save lives
...x warnings" on the most popular SSRIs in 2004 amid rising concerns in the United States and United Kingdom concerning the relationship between suicide and antidepressant use in children and adults. A key unanswered question involves whether antidepressants increase suicide over and above the underlying diso...Rising health care premiums lead to lower wages and more part-time employment
...mates demonstrate that the labor market effects of rising health insurance are far from neutral." Baicker and Chandra calculate that a 20% increase in health insurance premiums (smaller than the increase seen in many areas in the past three years) would reduce the probability of being employed by 2.4 percen...Men face rising osteoporosis risk
...racture incidence, Wong said, can be attributed to rising numbers of elderly people in the US population, which is steadily aging. The Economic Impact of Osteoporosis in Men A large portion of the total cost of treating fragility fractures in the United States goes to treating men, a new study revealed....Growing diabetes epidemic: Patient/physician disconnect on disease management
...ontribute to the clinical challenge of meeting the rising type 2 diabetes epidemic in America, according to the Diabetes Roundtable. The Roundtable, a multidisciplinary group of diabetes experts convened by the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) and the American Association of Clinical Endoc...How to cut energy waste in China, India, Brazil said crucial to forestalling climate change
...ita as North America, their national emissions are rising far faster. China's emissions, for instance, are expected to double by 2020, in which case China will surpass the US as the leading source of climate-altering gases. By one estimate, the China power market will require an average 48 gigawatts of new...