Silicon Ring Prevent Premature Birth

May 14, 2012 admin No comments

Risk of preterm birth can now be reduced with the installation of special equipment-shaped rings made of silicone material.

Preterm birth is the leading cause of death in newborns and trigger a variety of health problems in adulthood. Doctors in Spain have been testing a 49.5 billion U.S. dollars worth of tools commonly used as a peccary, in women with gestational age of three months.

This tool is intended for pregnant women at risk of preterm birth due to the shortening of the cervix (cervical) – a condition that can weaken the pelvic floor. The tool is designed to strengthen the cervix, so as to support the content of the increasingly heavy weight in the last weeks of pregnancy.

Peccary made of silicon is already in use for 50 years as a method of preventing preterm birth. However, its effectiveness is still being debated and new research was conducted through a randomized trial.

The result was encouraging, where only six percent of women who give birth prematurely fitted with a peccary. While in women who do not use these tools, about 27 percent gave birth prematurely.

Testing performed on 15,000 women who underwent ultrasound testing at five hospitals, while they were pregnant 20 to 23 weeks. Of these, 380 had shortening of the cervix (cervical length is 25 mm or less). They were divided into two groups each consisting of 190 people.

?In the peccary group of 12 women taking birth before the age of 34 weeks, while groups that do not use the peccary at 51. “Installation of peccary is a procedure that is affordable, non-invasive and easily installed and removed,” says lead researcher Maria Goya, a gynaecologist from the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona.

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Elderly Population Prone to Chronic Disease

May 13, 2012 admin No comments

Older people aged over 60 years of the burden of disease is not contagious. The senior citizens in low-and middle-income country four times greater risk of dying or paralyzed due to non-communicable diseases than high-income countries.

Expressed concern that the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Margaret Chan said in a statement related to last week’s World Health Day with the theme “Ageing and Health (Ageing and Health)”.

Proportion of elderly in the world is estimated to reach 22 percent of the world’s population, or about 2 billion by 2020. About 80 percent of elderly live in developing countries.

Prone to illness
Older people are generally prone to degenerative disease, which is due to decreased function of the body that is chronic and holds more than one disease, so long handle and costly.

“The main health problems faced by the elderly are chronic non-communicable diseases, like heart disease, heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, and lung disease,” said Margaret. In fact, these diseases can be prevented and treated with less expensive if treated as early as possible.

World Health Organization stressed the need for countries to anticipate and prevent these diseases by ensuring the health care system. Margaret pointed out, measurement of blood pressure is a key factor for the risk of heart disease and stroke can be done with relatively low cost. “Currently less than 15 percent of the elderly in low-and middle-income countries that require monitoring of blood pressure, get service,” he said.

Prevention of these diseases, among others, with healthy behaviour, physical activity, healthy diet, not drinking alcohol, and not using tobacco products. The earlier people to adopt healthier lifestyles, the greater the chance their parents enjoy a healthy and productive.

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Why are Women More Difficult to Stop Smoking?

May 12, 2012 admin No comments

Recent research shows, women tend to find it more difficult to stop smoking than men. It is assumed, it is because women’s brains tend to respond to nicotine differently.

When a person inhale cigarette smoke, the nicotine receptors in the brain – which bind to nicotine and smoking reinforces – is expected to increase. The study found that male smokers have more nicotine receptors than female smokers. But surprisingly, female smokers appeared to have the same amount of nicotine receptors such as women who do not smoke.

“When you look at it based on gender (sex), you will see there is a big difference,” said the researcher, Kelly Cosgrove, assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine.

During this time, smokers who are trying to quit will usually nicotine replacement therapy, such as nicotine patches and gum. But according to Cosgrove, female smokers would benefit more if the treatment of therapy without the use of nicotine, but with behavioural therapies, such as exercise or relaxation techniques. Women, continued Cosgrove, tend to want to smoke just to smell the cigarette smoke or holding a cigarette than men.

Nicotine receptor sites
In the research, Cosgrove and his team did brain scans on 52 men and 58 women, in which about half of them were smokers. The researchers examined the nicotine receptors in the brain using a radioactive marker that binds an essential part of the receptor – responsible for physical dependence on nicotine or body. Read more

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Suicide Risk in Cancer Patients

May 11, 2012 admin No comments

Diagnosis of cancer in patients not guarantee cancer deaths. A recent study showed that patients diagnosed with cancer are at higher risk of dying from heart problems or suicide.

The experts found that traumatic experiences in a person who is diagnosed with cancer can lead to other health problems.

In his study, epidemiologists from the University of Iceland, Reykjavik, involving more than 6 million volunteers from Sweden who was diagnosed with cancer in 1991-2006. Then the researchers looked at the extent to which the risk of suicide or death from cardiovascular disease in patients who are diagnosed with cancer.

The study results showed that patients newly diagnosed with cancer tend to think to commit suicide and die from heart problems. This research was published on 5 April 2012 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Researchers noted that cancer patients are 12.6 times more likely to commit suicide than non-cancer patients during the first week after they are diagnosed with cancer and 3.1 times more likely to attempt suicide during the first year.

In addition, patients with cancer are also 5.6 times more likely to die from cardiovascular disease than non-cancer patients, in the first week after being diagnosed with cancer. Read more

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Early Heart Attacks More Severe

May 10, 2012 admin No comments

Severity of heart attacks could be influenced by the time it happened. Results of analysis of 1,000 heart attack patients showed those who had a heart attack in the early morning attack more severe than any other time.

Impact damage to the heart of a heart attack, which occurred at 1-5 am, 82 percent worse. So far the new research is conducted on mice.

“We’re trying to understand whether the incident had a profound influence on the impact of heart damage or is this just a phenomenon observed in mice in the lab,” said senior researcher Dr.Jay Traverse, a cardiologist from the Minneapolis Heart Institute.

He explains the understanding of the heart’s ability to repair itself in a cycle of 24 hours is very important.

“Identification of cardiac protection capabilities are highly relevant to the manufacture of drugs so they can develop more effective drugs,” said the researcher who published his research results in the journal Circulation Research is.

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