Archive for July, 2010
The Diabetes, one of the most common problems of majority of people worldwide has now got some new risks due to its drugs, according to new research Postmenopausal women with diabetes taking thiazolidinediones (TZDS), including rosiglitazone and pioglitazone may be at higher risk of fractures especially when having type 2 disease.
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The report of this new research got published in The Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).
According to William Herman, MD, MPH, of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and senior author of the study “Our study shows that increased fracture risk is associated with higher TZD dose, but no difference between rosiglitazone and pioglitazone is apparent suggesting a class effect of TZDs on fracture risk”.
The sleeping disorder is very common nowadays and the reason for that may be different but a recent study has shown that a certain type of sleeping disorder may be an early earning of the Parkinson’s disease or some other type of neurological disorders.
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The main disorder that has been reported to be a symptom of this disease is actually a condition in which people violently act out their dreams during the rapid eye movement cycle of sleep.
This disorder has been reported to have deep relations with the Parkinson’s disease and other neurological disorders.
Dr. Michael Thorpy, director of the Sleep-Wake Disorders Center at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City said that “This is important for us understanding the progression of the disease because this RBD obviously precedes other clinical manifestations of Parkinson’s by many years”.
The delivery of baby if occurs few weeks before the specified time then it brings many complications into the life of baby, a recent study has found that infants who are born even few weeks early are at risks of developing breathing problems as compared to the babies who have been delivered on proper time.
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The lead researcher Dr. Judith U. Hibbard, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, while discussing about the study said that “Our study verifies that late preterm birth neonates delivered from 34 to 37 weeks have much higher risks for respiratory complications than infants delivered from 38 to 40 weeks gestation”.
The depression can have many bad affects on the mental as well as the physical health of human and recent study has shown that the people who are suffering from severe depression find it really harder to interpret facial expressions as compared to the healthy people.
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The study got published in the august issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry and it was carried by a group of researchers from University of Otago in New Zealand. Almost 68 people have been studied who were suffering from severe depression and they were asked to take part in the facial expression recognition task.
The people were shown 96 different faces and all of them were displaying 5 basic emotions angry, happy, sad, fearful and disgusted expressions. After the study it was found that the normal group of people was quite good at recognizing the facial expressions of disgust as compared to those who have been reported of severe depression.
Among the brain problems faced by people worldwide, dementia is a very common one and it is basically a serious loss of cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person.
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This Monday scientists have shown some really amazing facts regarding this problem and according to that the educated people are better able to cope with the physical effects of dementia and even one extra year of education can effectively cut the risk of developing the brain-wasting disease.
Previously no such findings have been shown and this one is really amazing, a group of Britain and Finland have shown these results and according to them the people who have taken education in universities after school or college appears to be less affected by brain changes that are usually associated with dementia.
