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...Look at health care as preventing an illness instead of treating. Change what goes on inside of us. We’ve got to exercise more, eat better,” he said, adding that preventive care could reduce the prevalence of conditions such as obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease...
...link between protective mental health benefits and estrogen therapy appears to conflict with the findings of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), which found that women who took estrogen alone or estrogen plus progestin from age 65 increased their risk of mild impairment or dementia - along with other cardiovascular problems. But the authors of the Neurology studies stress that the age-dependent window is key when considering therapy and mental health. "Below 50, estrogen is protective. After 65 it is harmful. But nobody really knows between 50 and 65," says Rocca. "In the middle it's still unclear...
...build-up in their arteries compared with women on a placebo. In the coming years, other trials, such as the Early Versus Late Intervention Trial With Estradiol (ELITE) and the Kronos Early Estrogen Prevention Study (KEEPS), will provide more data on estrogen's effect on women's health, particularly cardiovascular health, says Rocca...
...reduced risk of death from the disease in surgery patients -findings that support what has been emerging in other experiments. "In more than 80% of patients who are severely obese and have diabetes and then have gastric bypass surgery, the diabetes is cured," says Ted Adams, professor of cardiovascular genetics at the University of Utah School of Medicine and lead author of the new study. "The interesting thing is that the resolution of diabetes happens within a few weeks following surgery, long before patients have lost their weight." Like some other researchers in the field, Adams believes that the surgery...
Christakis and Fowler arrived at their conclusions by analyzing data from the ongoing Framingham Heart Study, which began in 1948 as an observational study of Cardiovascular Disease in subjects from Framingham, Mass. and is now studying a third generation of subjects...