News tagged with school failure
Serious school failure turns out to be a real bummer for girls, but not boys
Jul 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Adolescent girls who had a serious school failure by the 12th grade -- being expelled, suspended or dropping out -- were significantly more likely to have suffered a serious bout of depression at the age ...
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New cause of critical illness hypeglycemia identified
Feb 26, 2009 |
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The endocrinologic basis of pediatric critical illness hypergylcemia (CIH) differs depending on the disease processes. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care describe how both peripheral insuli ...
New hope for heart failure patients: Cardiac resynchronization
Sep 01, 2009 |
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A therapy called cardiac resynchronization can significantly delay the progression of heart failure, according to a major international study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Heart failure linked to gene variant affecting vitamin D activation
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Previous studies have shown a link between low vitamin D status and heart disease. Now a new study shows that patients with high blood pressure who possess a gene variant that affects an enzyme critical to normal vitamin ...
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 ...
Defibrillators may have little benefit for older people with comorbidities
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Older people with comorbidities and those with multiple hospital admissions related to heart failure are unlikely to receive a meaningful survival benefit from implanted defibrillators, found a study in CMAJ by researchers from B ...
1 in 4 hospitalized heart failure patients with Medicare back in hospital within a month
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Almost a quarter of heart failure patients with Medicare are back in the hospital within a month after discharge, researchers report in Circulation: Heart Failure, a journal of the American Heart Association.
New strategies to improve treatment and ultimately prevent heart failure in children
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Structural cardiovascular abnormalities present at birth are the leading cause of heart failure in children. Nearly half a million children in the United States have structural heart problems ranging in severity from relatively ...
Suppressing a gene in mice prevents heart from aging, preserves its function
Oct 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists prevented age-related changes in the hearts of mice and preserved heart function by suppressing a form of the PI3K gene, in a study reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Combination heart device reduced heart failure
Sep 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A two-in-one heart device to fix irregular beats and contraction patterns cut patients' chances of developing heart failure by 41 percent, new research says.
New tests provide new insight into why patients are in heart failure
Mar 31, 2009 |
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A failing heart makes a lot of a hormone needed to eliminate the excess salt and water bloating the body but not enough of the enzyme needed to activate it, researchers say.
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