Eating out often may add to kids' cardiovascular risk
... Children who ate out more often also drank almost twice as many sodas and other soft drinks, about six cups a week compared with 3.65 cups a week for the children who ate out less often. Punch, sugary juice drinks and diet soda were counted as sodas. "For these children, soda is no longer a treat -- it's...Mayo Clinic study: People with heart failure at significant increase for death from stroke
People with heart failure are twice as likely to die from a stroke as the general population, new research at Mayo Clinic has found. This research will be presented today at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2005 in Dallas. A random sample of 630 patients with heart ...Amgen investigational therapy for bone loss, denosumab, show increased bone mineral density
...e by 7.4 percent in women administered the therapy twice yearly and 6.2 percent for Fosamax 70mg weekly. A... "These data suggest denosumab, when administered twice a year, may offer a promising alternative for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis." Denosum...Treatment has demonstrated improvement in physical function and kept joint damage from progressing
... analysis. Patients received either ENBREL (25 mg twice weekly), methotrexate (up to 20 mg once weekly), or ENBREL (25 mg twice weekly) plus methotrexate once weekly. Patients in the ENBREL TEMPO trial had active RA and an inad...US heart patients receive more transfusions than international patients
...nterparts, employing invasive procedures at almost twice the rate. About 30 percent of American patients in...tion, Rao found that heart patients were more than twice as likely to die during their first 30 days of hospitalization if they receive a blood transfusion t...Lifestyle modification plus medication more effective than medication alone
...rence to food intake record keeping lost more than twice as much weight as those with low adherence (41.5 versus 17 pounds). "Some people have questions about how they can do lifestyle modification," says Dr. Wadden. "I think that a first step is to complete daily food logs. Food records help people bec...Capsules effective in treating acute manic and mixed episodes of Bipolar I Disorder
... with CBZ-ERC was initiated at 200 milligrams (mg) twice daily and increased, as necessary and tolerated, by 200 mg per day up to 1,600 mg per day. Doses greater than 1,600 mg per day were not studied. The most common adverse events reported in these studies associated with CBZ-ERC included dizziness, som...Study finds lifestyle modification and weight loss medication superior to either approach used alone
...ation of the two approaches produced approximately twice the weight loss of either intervention used alone," reported Thomas A. Wadden, Ph.D., lead author of the paper and director of the Weight and Eating Disorders Program at Penn. The research was supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Diges...Drinking decaffeinated coffee may be harmful to heart health
...asing fatty acids and LDL cholesterol should think twice about drinking a lot of decaffeinated coffee. "But those who are overweight and have low levels of HDL2 but normal levels of ApoB, might consider the potential benefit of drinking decaffeinated over caffeinated coffee," he said. According to the Ame...Riding roller coasters may actually be 'death-defying' for people with heart disease
.... This was surprising. Their heartbeat increased twice or triple the amount in the first part of the ride." Forty-four percent of the participants had marked sinus arrhythmias that lasted up to five minutes after the ride. One patient had an arrhythmia during the middle of the ride. Another experienced...Multiple-birth babies, boys have higher risk of defects
... into account," Roth said. Among twins, boys were twice as likely as their sisters to have defects of the genital and urinary organs and five times as likely to be born with an obstruction between the stomach and small intestine. But congenital hip dislocation was 10 times more common among girls. Previo...Penn psychologists believe 'unit bias' determines the acceptable amount to eat
...eat an entire pretzel even though they were eating twice as much as the other people who were sufficiently ...ore candy. The subjects were inadvertently eating twice as much candy when the larger scoop happened to be in the bowl. "It is more than just people afrai...Nearly half of people with diabetes are not using aspirin to reduce risk of heart attack and stroke
...ning consequences of diabetes, occurring more than twice as often among people with diabetes than in those who do not have the disease , and accounting for approximately 65% of deaths in people with diabetes. According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), a diagnosis of diabetes as an adult present...Men, check your blood pressure before checking in for plastic surgery
...erican Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), men are twice more likely than women to develop hematoma, a type of blood clot, especially if they have higher blood pressure. In the study, the incidence of hematoma in male patients significantly dropped to 3.97 percent from 8.7 percent once all patients follow...Award for work on hypertension
...n 2003 and already this year it has been published twice in the international Journal of Hypertension magazine and in presentations in two European congresses, Cardiology and Hypertension. Cardiotrophin-1, from the heart to the blood Cardiotrophin-1 is a protein present in the blood, when produced in ...Radiation treatment prolonged liver cancer patients' lives, U-M study finds
... School. In the study, patients received radiation twice daily for two weeks, along with a continuous infusion of the chemotherapy drug floxuridine. The patients then had a two-week break before repeating the radiation and chemotherapy regimen for another two weeks. The chemotherapy was delivered through a...Rate of paid-for sex with women has doubled in 10 years
...year. Ten years later, the comparable figures were twice as high. In 2000, almost 9% of men said that they had ever paid for sex, while 4.2% said they had done so within the previous five years, and 1.3% said they had done so over the past year. The 2000 survey results showed that men who said they had pai...Study provides first estimate of US population affected by Barrett's esophagus
... According to study findings, Barrett's was nearly twice as prevalent in people with symptoms of reflux and those who had esophagitis than those who did not. However, more than 40 percent of those who presented with the disease had no prior symptoms of reflux--giving credence to the theory that Barrett's ...Chemotherapy after surgery extends survival for patients with advanced endometrial cancer
...er, and heart. Treatment-related deaths were also twice as common in the chemotherapy group (4%, vs. 2% of radiation patients). Another GOG study is underway to see if the chemotherapy drugs carboplatin and paclitaxel will be as effective, but with fewer serious side effects. A less toxic regimen could he...Statement of registered dietitian Rebecca S. Reeves, President of the American Dietetic Association
...ience stores, restaurants and grocery stores about twice as often as their parents think they do. While research is needed to determine whether more stringent regulation of TV food advertising to children would result in more healthful food choices and eating behavior, some things are clear: Younger ch...