News tagged with high blood


Childhood obesity: The increasing vascular drama

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Obesity is one of the most important health problems in industrialized countries irrespective of socio-economic status, age, sex or ethnicity. The prevalence of childhood obesity in children has reached alarming levels, even ...


Heart failure: More or less malignant than cancer?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A recently completed analysis of over one million hospital cases in Sweden during the period 1988 to 2004 has revealed that heart failure, relative to most common forms of cancer specific to men and women, represents a major ...


A Cell’s Private Life: Researchers Peer Inside a Hidden Protein

A Cell's Private Life: Researchers Peer Inside a Hidden Protein

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- To understand the molecular machinery of the human body, scientists have to be able to observe the structure of cellular proteins. This has been particularly challenging for those proteins ...


Beta-blockers and stroke -- new insights into their use for older people

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A University of Leicester-led study may have uncovered the reason why Beta-blockers are less effective at preventing stroke in older people with high blood pressure, when compared to other drugs for high blood pressure.


Nuisance or nutrient? Kudzu shows promise as a dietary supplement

Nuisance or nutrient? Kudzu shows promise as a dietary supplement

Chemistry / Other

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Kudzu, the nuisance vine that has overgrown almost 10 million acres in the southeastern United States, may sprout into a dietary supplement. Scientists in Alabama and Iowa are reporting the first evidence ...


High blood pressure linked to memory problems in middle age

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

High blood pressure is linked to memory problems in people over 45, according to research published in the August 25, 2009, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.


Mild glucose intolerance in pregnancy may be associated with cardiovascular risk

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mild glucose intolerance in pregnancy may be an early identifier of women who are at increased risk of heart disease in the future, found a new study http://www.cmaj.ca/press/cmaj090569.pdf published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journ ...


Teen trippin' on ADHD drugs can be a real downer

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- Calls to poison control centers about teens abusing attention-deficit drugs soared 76 percent over eight years, sobering evidence about the dangerous consequences of prescription misuse, a study shows.


New grass spray designed to relax and de-stress

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Ever wanted to bottle the green fresh aroma of a forest? UQ researcher Dr Nick Lavidis has done just that with a new "eau de grass" spray soon to be launched on the market.


Inexpensive hypertension drug could be multiple sclerosis treatment

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Turning serendipity into science, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found a link, in mice and in human brain tissue, between high blood pressure and multiple sclerosis. Their findings suggest ...


Men with angina at twice the risk of heart attack and death compared with women

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Men with angina are twice as likely to have a heart attack and almost three times as likely to suffer a heart disease-related death than women with the same condition, finds a study published on bmj.com today ...


Millions of US children low in vitamin D (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 8

Seven out of ten U.S. children have low levels of vitamin D, raising their risk of bone and heart disease, according to a study of over 6,000 children by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. ...


NHLBI stops study of pulmonary hypertension treatment in sickle cell patients

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health has stopped a clinical trial testing a drug treatment for pulmonary hypertension in adults with sickle cell disease nearly one year ...


Limited data suggest possible association between Agent Orange exposure

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created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new report from the Institute of Medicine finds suggestive but limited evidence that exposure to Agent Orange and other herbicides used during the Vietnam War is associated with an increased chance of developing ischemic ...


Some blood pressure drugs may help protect against dementia, study shows

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A particular class of medication used to treat high blood pressure could protect older adults against memory decline and other impairments in cognitive function, according to a newly published study from Wake Forest University ...