TOP 100 WEIGHT LOSS SITES
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| New Sleep Medicine Research Presented At CHEST 2008 #6480 INSOMNIA DOES NOT PREDICT HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE Difficulty falling asleep may be associated with a lower risk of hypertension than researchers once believed. Researchers from the University of Kentucky proposed the hypothesis that insomnia would predict hypertension, particularly among African-Americans. Data were analyzed from 1,419 older individuals with a mean age of 73.4 years who were not hypertensive at baseline. medicalnewstoday.com |
Health Advocate Releases Obesity White Paper: Strategies And Programs To Reduce Obesity In The Workplace Employers spend more than $13 billion annually in medical costs and lost productivity due to obesity - dubbed the world's number one health threat by the CDC. Obese workers are sicker, miss more days of work, are more prone to injury and accidents and incur higher medical costs than employees of average weight. Now, there is a guidepost to help employers address this issue. medicalnewstoday.com |
New Evidence Of How High Glucose Damages Blood Vessels Could Lead To New Treatments New evidence of how the elevated glucose levels that occur in diabetes damage blood vessels may lead to novel strategies for blocking the destruction, Medical College of Georgia researchers say. They found a decreased ability of blood vessels to relax resulted from increased activity of a natural mechanism for altering protein form and function, says Dr. Rita C.Tostes, physiologist in the MCG School of Medicine. medicalnewstoday.com |
Tissue Scarring Key To Link Between Obesity And Diabetes The team, in collaboration with University Hospital Aintree, the University of Warwick and researchers in Sweden, found that people classified as obese and those with pre-diabetes have raised levels of a protein called SPARC, that can cause tissue scarring. medicalnewstoday.com |
Women At Increased Risk Of Dementia If Prone To Collecting Fat Around The Middle Women who store fat on their waist in middle age are more than twice as likely to develop dementia when they get older, reveals a new study from the Sahlgrenska Academy. The study has just been published in the scientific journal Neurology. "Anyone carrying a lot of fat around the middle is at greater risk of dying prematurely due to a heart attack or stroke," says Deborah Gustafson, senior lecturer at the Sahlgrenska Academy. medicalnewstoday.com |