Broccoli sprouts, cabbage, ginkgo biloba and garlic: A grocery list for cancer prevention
... would get sunbathing at the beach on a clear day, twice a week for 20 weeks. After irradiation, broccoli sprout extracts containing either a low or high dose of sulforaphane were applied to the backs of the mice, five days a week for 11 weeks. Acetone (known commonly as the ingredient in nail polish remov...Gas-blockers might slow down Alzheimer's disease
...ow that Alzheimer's-prone mice that lack iNOS live twice as long and develop fewer brain lesions than iNOS-expressing mice. Both groups of mice developed some brain lesions initially, but the iNOS-deficient mice were spared the rapid accumulation of lesions later in life. Based on these results, Nathan su...Diabetic blacks have less coronary artery disease than diabetic whites
...ly. "On average, an African-American individual is twice as likely to have diabetes as his or her white peer. The prevalence of diabetes among African-Americans aged 40 to 74 doubled from 8.9 percent in 1976-1989 to 18.2 percent in 1988-1994." Other investigators in the study include Fang-Chi Hsu, Ph.D., ...High doses of ibuprofen cause significant GI bleeding, despite safety profile
...s daily for 28 days) or a placebo--a dosage amount twice that of the recommended 1200 mg per day. Prior to...fen is customary, the dose given in this study was twice that normally recommended over-the-counter by physicians," said Denis M. McCarthy, MD, PhD, author o...... sustain from the sun by exposing mice to UV light twice a week over 20 weeks. Then, each day (five days/week) they applied a few drops of an extract of broccoli sprouts on the backs of the mice and waited for tumors to appear. After 11 weeks, all of the mice that did not receive the extract developed tu...Shortness of breath without chest pain can signify the presence of high risk heart disease
...rom a cardiac cause than asymptomatic patients and twice as likely as patients who had chest pain that is considered to be typical cardiac pain. "These findings may in part be due to the fact that doctors are more likely to send patients with chest pain to bypass surgery or angioplasty than patients with...A recipe for overeating: Studies outline dangers of mixing stress, deprivation and tempting foods
...in food intake, but stressed and underfed rats ate twice the normal amount of Oreo cookies, which rats find rewarding. In other words, animals subjected to both stressors became binge eaters, confirming how strongly these outside factors interact to change eating behavior. The findings also implicated o...Researchers find nine risk indicators for tooth loss
... was low with only 16 percent brushing their teeth twice or more daily, Almost 60 percent either never brushed their teeth or used a toothbrush irregularly. "Risk assessment is an important component of modern dental therapy," said Kenneth A. Krebs, DMD and AAP president. "Identification of subjects wi...High income earners use more diagnostic imaging
...ificant analyses, utilization rates were more than twice as high in the highest-income groups, and these tended to occur in patient groups who were most ill. This study has important implications for social policy in Canada, and by extension to other countries with universal health care policies and socia...Parents' safe gun storage behaviors improve after counseling
...ilies who received the intervention were more than twice as likely to show some type of improvement in their gun-safety practices. More specifically, although our intervention did not appear to significantly influence the removal of guns from the home, it did significantly improve safe gun storage practice...Malaria risk it's not all in the genes
...holds with the highest malaria incidence had about twice as many infections per year than those living in the 10% of households with the lowest incidence. While Mackinnon and colleagues do not question the long-term benefits of understanding the genetic factors, they conclude that "identifying and tackli...Unrelated adults in the home associated with child-abuse deaths
...education and limited income. They were more than twice as likely to have siblings under age five and to live in households previously reported for abuse or neglect. In this study, the researchers focused on household composition as an independent risk factor for fatal inflicted injuries. They classified...Phenolic compounds may explain Mediterranean diet benefits
...searchers put each participant through the process twice in a randomized order, once using olive oil naturally high in phenolic compounds (400 parts per million) and once with the same brand of olive oil that had been processed to remove most of the phenolic compounds (80 parts per million remaining). "We ...IBS study shows that targeted antibiotics lead to long-lasting improvement in symptoms
...diarrhea, those on the antibiotic showed more than twice the improvement of those on the placebo (49 percent vs. 23 percent). Patients received the drug (or placebo) for 10 days and were then followed for a total of 10 weeks. Participants kept a stool diary, took a questionnaire and were given methane br...Shire announces positive two-year study of ADDERALL XR in the treatment of adult ADHD
...ymptoms, adults with untreated ADHD were more than twice as likely to have been arrested, 47 percent more l...ed more than one speeding ticket in the last year, twice as likely to have been divorced and twice as likely to have held six or more jobs in the past decade...Risks of taking sedatives for insomnia in older people may be greater than the benefits
... also indicators that older patients are more than twice as likely to experience an adverse event as they are to gain a better quality of sleep from such sedatives. But they stress that this comparison is only a rough indicator because more studies contributed information on harmful events than on sleep be...People eat more stale popcorn if served in a big bucket
... watching a videotape; those given larger bags ate twice as much as those with smaller bags. In another similar 2001 study of popcorn and moviegoers, Wansink found that people not only significantly underestimate the calorie content of what they eat, but discount even more the calorie content of food they ...Hostility in women does not affect their long term heart health
...ential factors men with high hostility scores were twice as likely to have recurrent episodes of poor heart health as men with low hostility scores. But there was no difference among the women, irrespective of their hostility scores. It is unclear how hostility affects cardiovascular health, say the author...Exercise may ward off death in women with metabolic syndrome
...s less than 85 percent the age-predicted value had twice the risk of death compared to women reaching at least 85 percent. "Our findings should provide an added incentive for women, with and without metabolic syndrome, to start working out," Gulati said. "In many aspects, women can take control over their...Physical activity improves life expectancy and cardiovascular health
...ree life expectancy at higher levels are more than twice as large." The authors point out that their study results underline current recommendations for physical activity, which call for even moderate levels of activity to enjoy the benefits of a healthier and longer life. "The role that physical activity ...