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High doses of vitamin KI map prove helpful to avoid fractures and cancer in postmenopausal women with osteopenia, but it doesn’t seem to prevent a decline in age-related bone mineral density, a new study suggests.
The study has been published in Journal of PLOS Medicine, weekly issue and it was the project of the University of Toronto. The researchers included 440 postmenopausal women with osteopenia that is a mild condition that occurs before osteoporisis. These women were given either 5 mg of vitamin KI or a placebo daily for two years.
Brain pressure is a condition that is more common in the women, but a U.S. study finds that men are more likely than women to have vision loss because of increased pressure in the brain.
This condition of increased pressure in the brain is known as Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH) and people with this condition have an increased cerebrospinal fluid pressure that leads to severe headaches, swelling of the optic nerves, whooshing noise in the ears, double vision and vision loss. This condition is quite common in women and it affects almost one out of 5,000 people.
Dr. Beau Bruce (from Emory University, Atlanta) and his team looked at the medical records of 721 people that had IIH. Among them only 9 percent patients were male, however, they were as much as twice more likely than female to have intense vision problems in their both or one eye. Read the rest of this entry
US researchers found insufficient levels of vitamin D in 55 percent Parkinson’s patients, while these levels were 36 percent in healthy elderly people. Now the scientists are trying to know that the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease can be eased with vitamin D supplements.
The researchers from Emory University do not find yet whether vitamin D deficiency is a cause of developing Parkinson’s or not.
The study has been published in the journal Archives of Neurology.
Due to Parkinson’s nerve cells gets affected in many parts of the mind and especially in those parts that use dopamine (chemical messenger) to control movement. Read the rest of this entry
According to some therapists, simple exercises and staying hydrated are the best ways to prevent vein thrombosis.
To decrease the increasing number of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism cases in the US, a “Call to Action” has been recently released by acting U.S Surgeon General Dr. Steven K. Galson.
The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) says that it would support the initiative and offer tips to avoid these dangerous conditions during air travel.
Susan Scherer, who is an associate professor of physical therapy at Regis University, Denver as well as a member of the APTA, says: “a blood clot that is known as a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) can occur because of long period of immobility like on long plane flights.”
If a DVT occurs and the clot travels to the lungs after getting dislodge, this condition is known as pulmonary embolus.
A test that is offered to measure the activity of genes in white blood cells may prove helpful for doctors to find the suitable treatment when someone complains of chest pain, a report says.
The findings are going to be published in the first issue of a new American Heart Association Journal named, Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics. The journal will be released after every two months and according to Ramachandran S. Vasan, who is editor of the journal, “there is a dire need of such journal as the completion of the Human Genome Project is meant a quick acceleration of our knowledge regarding genes and their functionality.” Read the rest of this entry
