Latest issue of Alzheimer's & Dementia explores new ideas for cause, screening and risk factors
...- A large-scale observational study in twins, some tracked for as long as 45 years, suggests education, physical exercise and inflammatory load (as shown by tooth loss) as risk factors for Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. "Should older adults be screened for dementia?" J. Wesson Ashford, et. al. Sc...Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researcher finds breast implants don't cause cancer
...er an average of more than 18 years, but some were tracked for up to 40 years. "It is the longest follow-up of women with breast implants for cancer incidence seen in the literature. It includes more than 2,200 women who were followed for 15 years or more after breast implantation and over 700 women who were...Training on virtual 'patient' improves carotid angiography skills
...e progress of trainees (their "learning curve") is tracked objectively, so evaluators don't have to rely on the subjective reports of an instructor. This study is the first to actually measure the "learning curve" of doctors trying a new procedure, documenting increasing proficiency and declining error rat...Indoor air purifiers that produce even small amounts of ozone may be risky for health
...turned on, and the ozone concentration buildup was tracked until a steady level of ozone was reached. In many cases, indoor ozone levels far exceeded outdoor safety guidelines, which in California are 90 parts per billion for one hour and 70 parts per billion for eight hours. The ozone level in some instance...Metabolic syndrome significantly boosts risk of heart failure in middle age
...ho were aged 50 between 1970 and 1974 and who were tracked until the age of 70. The presence of metabolic syndrome at the start of the study was strongly associated with the subsequent development of heart failure. Men with the syndrome were almost twice as likely to develop heart failure as those without. T...Health benefits of Chlamydia screening programmes 'might have been overestimated'
... registers. The women's reproductive health was tracked up to the end of 1999, and a cumulative rate calculated for a hospital diagnosis of pelvic inflammatory disease (infection of the fallopian tubes), ectopic pregnancy (a fertilised egg implanting in the fallopian tube), or infertility. All of these co...Altered activity in receptor pair points to further complexity in schizophrenia pathology
...eptors in the prefrontal cortex, the research team tracked heightened levels of erbB4 receptor activity, as well as decreased NMDA receptor activity in the tissue from patients with schizophrenia. Additionally, they were able to identify a relationship between these two receptor groups, suggesting a mechanis...Queen's-led network looks at FAS aiming to minimize life-long learning problems
... brain injury in the child. At risk babies will be tracked for 24 months following birth so researchers can identify early signs of FASD and develop aggressive therapeutic interventions at earlier stages to minimize the effects on a child's development. To understand the underlying mechanisms of this novel h...The greater the number of bars in a neighborhood, the higher the rates of assault
...tal Research . "Hospital discharges are carefully tracked throughout the state of California and provide accurate assessments of causes of injury," said Paul J. Gruenewald, senior research scientist at the Prevention Research Center. "Included among these are 'assaults,' or injuries that arise from some fo...Avoiding house dust mites and changing diet proves ineffective
...estern and south-western Sydney. Participants were tracked from their birth to the age of five in a bid to explore the role of early exposure to environmental factors in the development of asthma. Published in the July 2006 edition of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology the study was designed s...For men, catheter type makes a huge difference in urinary infection risk, study finds
... silicone condom catheter. Their health status was tracked for up to 30 days, including regular testing of their urine for bacteria (a pre-UTI condition called bacteriuria) and monitoring for signs of UTI. The men completed questionnaires about discomfort and other feelings related to their catheter. The r...Commonly recommended sedative does not improve infant sleep
...ed parental intervention during that week and also tracked their child's sleep in a diary for the first 28 days. At four points during the first 43 days of the study, parents were asked to rate their happiness with their children's sleep on a scale of one to 10. Three of 22 participants in the placebo gr...Montefiore and Einstein receive $2-million grant from Donald W. Reynolds Foundation
...propriate treatments overall, and their conditions tracked over time." ...Flavanol-rich cocoa improves blood vessel function in aging baby boomer study participants
...erage daily for four to six days. The researchers tracked changes in the function of their peripheral arteries using several measures, including peripheral arterial tonometry a standard method for evaluating the health of an individual's blood vessels. At the study's completion, significant improvements i...Research finds vigorous exercise equals better academics
...ports Medicine. For one academic year, the study tracked more than 200 sixth graders. For one semester half of the students took the general physical education class offered by the school, while the other half took part in a non-physical education course. Halfway through the school year they switched. Th......by Kent State nursing professor Wendy Lewandowski, tracked the experience of 44 patients being treated for chronic pain. Patients in one group listened to a seven-minute audio tape that helped them to relax, focus on the sensory images their pain evoked, and then guided them to change the sensory images. Thi...Combined therapies may boost immune response and long-term protection against brain tumors
...ically engineered to produce IL-23. The stem cells tracked tumor cells and the IL-23 produced an immune response and long-term protection. In the newly published study, 80 percent of animals receiving intratumoral injection of dendritic cell-interleukin-23 (DC-IL-23) survived beyond the observation period o...Bipolar disorder exacts twice depression's toll in workplace
...n after symptoms have improved. The researchers tracked the job performance and productivity of 286 employed patients with depression and dysthymia, 93 with rheumatoid arthritis and 193 healthy controls recruited from primary care physician practices for 18 months. While job performance improved as depres...Migraine treatment and prevention in women
...e with regard to hormonal causes, the Mayo authors tracked migraine development and treatment for women from childhood to menopause. Childhood and Adolescence: Research found that in children ages 4 to 7, girls are less likely than boys to have migraines. However, by puberty, girls are three times more...Hopkins study reveals white blood cells can both hurt and help transplanted kidneys
...uthor on the paper, Rabb and his team successfully tracked small numbers of lymphocytes in three distinct groups of mice: normal mice, mice that underwent fake surgery without blood flow interruption to the kidneys (ischemia) and mice that underwent surgery and 30 minutes of ischemia. The study showed elev...