Posts Tagged ‘Cancer’
This thing is known to almost everyone that the strong doses of drugs are mostly followed by some after effects but we mostly don’t know what effects the drug is bringing.
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Recently a review of certain data has shown the negative effects of some drugs that are most common in usage along the whole world; the researchers have told that the usage of drugs for blood pressure and heart diseases is linked to the slight boost in the cancer risks.
Basically the researchers had focused on five different trails that were involving 60,000 patients in which cancer was the pre-specified end point. The medicines which were proved responsible for the increase of cancer includes: telmisartan (Micardis), losartan (Cozaar, Hyzaar), valsartan (Diovan) and candesartan (Atacand) which most of blood pressure patients uses in their daily routine.
In the United States deaths due to cancer are falling vigorously, this is 
because of better prevention methods they are using. This is a statement as per the cancer society annual statistics in the United States and the incidence rates are also going down. This report is well published in the society’s cancer journal for clinician: that was available earlier online on the 27th of May. In this report it indicates that the number of men with cancer has dropped by around 19 percent from the year 1990 to the year 2005, it also shows that the number of women with cancer decreased with by almost 11 percent from 1990 to around 2005.
Most of us know that Mediterranean diets are quite friendly to your heart, but it’s not all about hearts that woo for Mediterranean diets; you other organs of the body also can make the most of it, as these diets seem quite effective in controlling your blood sugar levels.
Olive oil, fruit, cereals, legumes, vegetables, nuts and fish that are what Mediterranean diets all about and all of these foods may prove very helpful to considerably decrease your risk of developing diabetes.
Results of four recently conducted Spanish studies show that people who are on some Mediterranean style diet plan have nearly 83% lower risk of developing diabetes.
Even those who have some risk factors like disease history, hypertension, higher BMIs and older age even they get some protection from such sorts of diets. The true reason behind this decreased risk factor is not fully known yet, many experts believe that these foods prove quite effective to thwart inflammation and insulin resistance.
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.
According to a US study, lung disease will cause more than 80 million deaths in China in the next 25 years. However, the researchers believe that a large of number of those premature deaths can be avoided.
In this study, the researchers focused on the disturbing impact of the common practice of burning wood or coal at home and smoking.
The researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health research assessed considering a 30-year period (Including the last five and the next 25 years.)
Though lung disease is considered a leading cause of death in China, the study suggests a shocking rise as it calculates around 83 million deaths in the 30-year period.
Lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are being considered the major killer in this connection.
The lead author of the study, Professor Majid Ezzati , says that many millions of lives can be saved if the government of China shows some serious concern.
