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In the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition study, the researchers investigated whether a varied consumption of fruits and vegetables is associated with lower lung cancer risk. According to the researchers, different fruits and vegetables contain many different bioactive compounds. However, none of the previous studies of fruit and vegetable consumption ...

According to the researchers, it is less known of Waist Circumference (WC; a measure of abdominal obesity) may had linked to all-cause mortality regardless of body mass index (BMI) or at very high levels of WC. In the August issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, the study authors, Eric J. ...

As August issue in the Obstetrics & Gynecology, the investigator reported that pregnant women with mild thyroid dysfunction had 3-fold risk of placental abruption compared those without that dysfunction. In the study, investigators analyzed 17,298 serum samples from pregnant women with apparently normal thyroids function and found antithyroid peroxidase antibodies in ...

The men who had insomnia should be carefully caused it could increased the risk of death by 4-fold compared those had normal sleep (at least 6 hours per night). Moreover, when the insomnia patients with underlying diabetes or with high blood pressure. Based on current 14-year study results that published in September ...

Several numbers of adverse health outcome had been associated with sugar-sweetened of soft drink. One of them is high weight gain. As a results, artificially sweetened soft drink are often promoted as an alternative, although, the safety of artificial sweeteners has been disputed and consequences of high intakes of artificial sweeteners ...

For heart disease children, recent suggestion said that lower score on the Pediatric Cardiac Quality of Life Inventory (PCQLI) linked to worsen in fontan palliation and greater number of cardiac operations. Fontan palliation is one of surgical approaches to single-ventricle physiologic abnormalities. Reported as September issue of Pediatric, the study authors, Bradley ...

Tigecycline is antibiotic that approved by U.S. Food and Drug Administration used for complicated intra-abdominal infections and complicated skin and skin-structure infections, as well as for community-acquired pneumonia. However, this antibiotic not approved for diabetic foot infections or hospital-acquired pneumonia. Recent alert in September 1, 2010 from FDA, the agent suggest clinicians ...

Although there is possible potential benefits in intensive control of blood pressure for patients with a protein-to-creatinine more than 0.22, however, from recent finding, it has no effect on kidney disease among black patients. Published in September 2, 2010 of the New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers said that it ...

Previously, the International Society from Stem Cell Research warned of rogue stem cell clinics around the world seeking to exploit desperate patients oblivious to the risk. Now, a specialists panel highlighted individual clinics in Germany and China where go for unlicensed stem cell treatment. They said, there may be up to ...

Recently, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that coring may lead to infection, damage or death of tissue, swelling, or other serious adverse health consequences, occurring as a result of the core traveling through blood vessels into the patient's lung. The needles were distributed by Navilyst as a component of ...

Recent findings support evidence that foods are beneficial for health rather than isolated components such as antioxidants. According to the authors of the study, increasing daily intake of vegetable and fruit not significant reduce he risk of diabetes type 2 than increasing intake of green leafy. However, the study authors, Patrice Carter, ...