Archive for April, 2009
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Overweight but apparently healthy children show signs of arterial stiffness, an early marker of cardiovascular disease, Australian researchers have found. (Source: MedWire News - Consumer Health)
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Patients with impaired glucose tolerance or Type 2 diabetes who undergo vascular surgery have an increased risk for post-operative adverse cardiovascular events and death, report investigators in the American Heart Journal. (Source: MedWire News - Diabetes)
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
The nonprofit California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports has awarded gifts of $1,000 each to 29 California schools for their participation in the ongoing 2009 Governor's Challenge Competition, KCBA.com reports. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity)
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Conclusions: Our results demonstrate that sleep disturbance co-aggregates with other metabolic features to represent a single unifying trait, syndrome Z. Although our model awaits validation in other populations, it provides a tool for better understanding the synergistic risk of syndrome Z, compared with syndrome X, on type 2 diabetes and ...
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Weight loss in obese patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension reduces intracranial pressure, eases headaches, and improves papilledema, a new study shows. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines) MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly ...
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Abdominal obesity is a key risk factor for venous thromboembolism, demonstrate the findings from two studies published in the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. (Source: MedWire News - Thrombosis)
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Conclusions: Lower patient-reported outcome after ACL reconstruction was strongly associated with obesity, smoking, and severe chondrosis at the time of surgery.Level of Evidence: Level III, prognostic case-control study. (Source: Arthroscopy)
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Wyntergrace Williams, the 14-year-old daughter of television talk show host Montel Williams, has invited President Obama's daughters Sasha and Malia to join her in asking Congress to amend the Child Nutrition Act to increase the availability of fresh produce in school meals, U.S. News & World Report reports. (Source: RWJF ...
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced plans to grow a model sustainable garden on its grounds on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the Washington Post reports. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity)
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
The objective of this research project was to conduct a randomized, controlled pilot study to examine the effectiveness of Qi gong therapy on type 2 diabetes relative to physical exercise or standard of care, and to identify metabolic responses to Qi gong therapy. Thirty-two subjects with a mean age 58 ...
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