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Researchers find that healthy, younger adults could be at risk for heart disease
Jan 12, 2009 |
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Even younger adults who have few short-term risk factors for heart disease may have a higher risk of developing heart disease over their lifetimes, according to new findings by a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher.
Assessing the real risk of heart disease in young people with low short-term risks
Jan 27, 2009 |
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Risk stratification has become central to strategies for the prevention of coronary heart disease, with the implication that priority is given to those at highest risk (ie, those with established heart disease). However, ...
Nearly half of US adults will develop painful knee osteoarthritis by age 85: study
Sep 02, 2008 |
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Almost half of all U.S. adults and nearly two-thirds of obese adults will develop painful osteoarthritis of the knee by age 85, a study based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests.
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Researchers find 1 in 6 women, 1 in 10 men at risk for Alzheimer's disease in their lifetime
Mar 18, 2008 |
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Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have estimated that one in six women are at risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in their lifetime, while the risk for men is one in ten. These findings ...
Adhering to healthy lifestyle habits associated with reduced lifetime risk of heart failure
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Men who exercised regularly, drank moderately, did not smoke, who were not overweight and had a diet that included cereal and fruits and vegetables had a lower lifetime risk of heart failure, according to a study in the July ...
Physically active have reduced risk of prostate cancer
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Lifetime physically active men have a lower risk of developing prostate cancer, according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. The effect was observable in those who had been sitting for less ...
Report: Prostate cancer screening has yet to prove its worth
Jun 29, 2009 |
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The recent release of two large randomized trials suggests that if there is a benefit of screening, it is, at best, small, says a new report in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
Two reproductive factors are important predictors of death from ovarian cancer
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that survival among women with ovarian cancer is influenced by age of menarche and total number of lifetime ovulatory cycles.
Trends in sexual behaviors similar for teens who take few health risk and those who take many
Dec 19, 2008 |
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Adolescent health risk behaviors often occur together, suggesting that youth involvement with one risk behavior may inform understanding of other risk behaviors, but in a study to examine the association between involvement ...
Personality study shows risk of first depression episode late in life
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 11, 2008 |
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Even after the age of 70, people prone to feelings of anxiety, worry, distress and insecurity face a risk for a first lifetime episode of clinically significant depression, according to a unique study led by a University ...
Study examines loop diuretic use and fractures in postmenopausal women
Jan 26, 2009 |
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The use of loop diuretics does not appear to be associated with changes in bone mineral density, falls or fractures in postmenopausal women, according to a report in the January 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of ...
Women often opt to surgically remove their breasts, ovaries to reduce cancer risk
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Many women at high risk for breast or ovarian cancer are choosing to undergo surgery as a precautionary measure to decrease their cancer risk, according to a report in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a jour ...
Faulty DNA repair could be a risk factor for lung cancer in nonsmokers
Jun 26, 2008 |
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People who have never smoked but whose cells cannot efficiently repair environmental insults to DNA are at higher risk of developing lung cancer than those with effective genomic repair capability, according to researchers ...
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