Reuters - In individuals without symptoms
who have thickened walls of the carotid arteries, two major
arteries located on each side of the neck that provide blood
and oxygen to the brain, the total blood levels of cholesterol
are strongly associated with the presence a lipid, or
fat-based," core within plaque, which have a vulnerability to
rupture, researchers report.
Up to 20 percent of patients taking aspirin to lower the risk of suffering a second cerebrovascular event do not have an antiplatelet response from aspirin, the effect thought to produce the protective effect, researchers at the University at Buffalo have shown.”Millions of people use low-dose aspirin either for prevention of a second stroke, second heart attack or second episode of peripheral artery disease,” said Francis M. Gengo, Pharm.D., lead researcher on the study.
The scale of Britain’s childhood obesity crisis was revealed as a quarter (23 per cent) of four to five year-olds and almost a third (31 per cent) of 10-year-olds are overweight and obese.The data comes from a voluntary weighing scheme in primary schools in which more than 800,000 children were weighed. The information was released by the NHS Information Centre from the National Child Measurement Programme.
Early and intensive lowering of high blood pressure has shown promising effects in stroke patients, according to results of a new stroke study by The George Institute for International Health.
Cases of esophageal cancer (adenocarcinoma) in the U.S. have risen in recent decades from 300,000 cases in 1973 to 2.1 million in 2001 at age-adjusted rates. A new study published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology shows that these rates in the U.S. closely mirrored trends of increased carbohydrate intake and obesity from 1973-2001. The study illustrates what may be a public heath concern as the composition of U.S.
An article in the March issue of Anesthesiologyreports that obese children are more likely to have problems duringsurgery. Specifically, obese children are more prone to problems withairway obstruction and other functions pertaining to breathing comparedto normal-weight children. They had higher rates of difficult maskventilation, airway obstruction, and major oxygen desaturation - adecrease in blood oxygen levels.Researcher Alan R.
According to an article published in the April edition of TheLancet Neurology, donepezil may improve the executivefunction of patients who suffer from the CADASIL form of vasculardementia. However, researcher Martin Dichgans of Ludwig MaximilianUniversity, Munich, Germany and colleagues found that donepezil did notimprove patients’ cognitive score.
Diabetes Sunday: Faith Access to Community Economic Development on Feb. 17 sponsored the 11th annual Diabetes Sunday at Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church in Flint, Mich. The event featured no-cost blood sugar, cholesterol, blood pressure and glaucoma tests, and a panel of health experts to answer questions from attendees (Blondin,
An estimated three in every four obese people suffering from diabetes can be cured of the disease with bariatric surgery, according to a groundbreaking new study reported in the current edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Experts say this finding opens the door to changes in the treatment of diabetes that are as profound as the discovery of insulin.
Obesity is one of the greatest health risks for children in the United States and, unfortunately, it’s on the rise. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of obese children in America has tripled since 1980. To help Rush University Medical Center more effectively address this preventable threat, The Otho S.A. Sprague Memorial Institute has awarded Rush University Medical Center a $230,000 grant to support a first-of-its-kind childhood obesity project at Rush.