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Posted on September 03, 2010 11:01
Source: MedPage TodayNearly half of all Americans -- 48% -- took at least one prescription drug in a one-month period in 2007-2008, a four percentage point hike over a decade, researchers found.Among those 60 and older, 88.4% took at least one Rx medication, as did nearly a quarter of those under 12 (22.4%), Charles F. Dillon, MD, PhD, of the CDC's...
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Posted on June 28, 2010 15:52
Source: MedWire News
Obese patients with asthma tend to have poorer lung function and more comorbidities than their normal-weight counterparts, research shows.
Previous studies have shown that overweight and obesity are associated with a significantly increased risk for asthma, and that there is a dose-response effect in the relationship, with ...
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Posted on June 28, 2010 15:47
Source: MedWire News
Women who experience early menopause are twice as likely to suffer cardiovascular (CVD) events including myocardial infarction (MI) as women who do not go through early menopause, say researchers.
Melissa Wellons, from the University of Alabama in Birmingham, USA, said that it is important women are aware of this potential ri...
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Posted on June 25, 2010 12:17
Source: MedWire News
Meta-analysis findings support a possible effect of low levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol on the risk for cancer.
The study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, included 24 randomized controlled trials involving 76,265 patients allocated to lipid-modifying interventions (m...
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Posted on June 23, 2010 20:04
Treatment with ezetimibe increases levels of the atherogenic small, dense low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol subfractions, a small randomized trial in healthy men indicates.
Simvastatin reduced one of these subfractions, but ezetimibe given in combination offset the beneficial effect of the statin, say Ioanna Gouni-Berthold (Univers...
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Posted on June 23, 2010 14:53
Statins may protect against the development of prostate cancer, say US researchers.
The team found that men who used statins had a decreased risk for elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels, less chance of undergoing prostate biopsy, an overall reduced risk for a prostate cancer diagnosis, and less risk for being diagnosed with high-grade ...
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Posted on June 22, 2010 14:48
Source: MedWire News
A structured exercise intervention can help improve asthma control in adults with the respiratory condition, results from a Canadian study show.
“Exercise interventions involving adults with asthma have shown improvements in measures such as lung function, quality of life, breathlessness, and controller therapy,” explain Sh...
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Posted on June 10, 2010 14:01
Source: MedWire News
Most smokers report a significant reduction in respiratory symptoms after quitting the habit, results of an internet-based survey show.
“Smoking cessation is the most effective way to prevent COPD and to alter its progression, at any stage of the disease,” explains Jean-Francoise Etter from the University of Geneva in Switz...
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