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• Select Health and safety in recreational waters

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  Health and safety in recreational waters

  Authors:Saverio Giampaoli and Vincenzo Romano SpicaFrom:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 92, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 2014913 words Report 1820LThe recreational use of waters has increased in recent decades all over the world. Swimming pools and other recreational water facilities offer opportunities for enjoyment and health promotion, but they also may involve...
• Select The impact of new research technologies on our understanding of environmental causes of disease: the concept of clinical vulnerability

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  The impact of new research technologies on our understanding of environmental causes of disease: the concept of clinical vulnerability

  Authors:Paolo Vineis, Aneire E. Khan, Jelle Vlaanderen, and Roel VermeulenFrom:Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source (Vol. 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 30, 20096,389 words Report Authors: Paolo Vineis (corresponding author) [1]; Aneire E Khan [1]; Jelle Vlaanderen [2]; Roel Vermeulen [2] Introduction We are still far from completely understanding the etiology and causal patterns for many...
• Select Colorectal surveillance: limit in low-risk patients; postpolypectomy colonoscopy every 5 years. (Shift Toward Population Screening)

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  Colorectal surveillance: limit in low-risk patients; postpolypectomy colonoscopy every 5 years. (Shift Toward Population Screening)

  Author:Jeff EvansFrom:Internal Medicine News (Vol. 36, Issue 5)

  Mar. 1, 2003794 words Article New guidelines on colorectal cancer prevention seek to put a greater emphasis on population screening and scale back follow-up surveillance of patients who have a low risk for recurrent polyps. Surveillance for...
• Select Assessment of myocardial viability: using coronary pressure and flow after acute myocardial infarction. (Commentary)

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  Assessment of myocardial viability: using coronary pressure and flow after acute myocardial infarction. (Commentary)

  Author:M.J. KernFrom:Heart (Vol. 89, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 2003937 words Article Assessment of myocardial viability has been a challenge for revascularisation therapeutics in determining the effectiveness of an intervention and patient prognosis. In most cases, the current standard for viability is...
• Select Atrial fibrillation: relation between clinical risk factors and transoesophageal echocardiographic risk factors for thromboembolism. (Cardiovascular Medicine)

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  Atrial fibrillation: relation between clinical risk factors and transoesophageal echocardiographic risk factors for thromboembolism. (Cardiovascular Medicine)

  Authors:S. Illien, S. Maroto-Jarvinen, G. von der Recke, C. Hammerstingl, H. Schmidt, S. Kuntz-Hehner, et al.From:Heart (Vol. 89, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 20033,389 words Article Objective: To correlate clinical risk factors for thromboembolism with transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) markers of a thrombogenic milieu. Design: Clinical risk factors for thromboembolism and TOE markers of a...
• Select Antipsychotic drugs are a risk factor for diabetes

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  Antipsychotic drugs are a risk factor for diabetes

  From:Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week

  Dec. 20, 2003268 words Brief article 2003 DEC 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Antipsychotic drugs are a risk factor for diabetes. "After 50 years use of antipsychotics, it is pertinent to draw-up a circumspect review of the side effects of these...
• Select CV risk factors hinder antidepressant response in patients free of known coronary disease. (cardiovascular)

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  CV risk factors hinder antidepressant response in patients free of known coronary disease. (cardiovascular)

  Author:Bruce JancinFrom:Internal Medicine News (Vol. 36, Issue 18)

  Sept. 15, 2003583 words Article SAN FRANCISCO--The total burden of cardiovascular risk factors in a patient with major depression is an independent predictor of lack of response to antidepressant therapy with fluoxetine, Dr. Dan V. Iosiffescu reported...
• Select Variants of BMP2 gene may be risk factor for thinning bones

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  Variants of BMP2 gene may be risk factor for thinning bones

  From:Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week

  Nov. 22, 2003440 words Article 2003 NOV 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Linking specific genes with common, complex diseases like osteoporosis is a tricky business. There are likely to be many genetic as well as environmental and lifestyle causes,...
• Select INCREASED NAD(P)H OXIDASE ACTIVITY IN CORONARY ARTERIES FROM PATIENTS WITH CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE

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  INCREASED NAD(P)H OXIDASE ACTIVITY IN CORONARY ARTERIES FROM PATIENTS WITH CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE

  Authors:T Guzik, M Garlicki, K Wierzbicki, B Guzik, M Biernat, A Dziatkowiak, et al.From:Heart (Vol. 85, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 2001221 words Brief article Introduction: Vascular superoxide (SO) production by NAD(P)H oxidases is increased in animal models of atherosclerosis and in human peripheral vessels, but the relevance of these findings to human coronary artery...
• Select Medulloblastomas: New directions in risk stratification

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  Medulloblastomas: New directions in risk stratification

  Authors:Chitra Sarkar, Prabal Deb, and Mehar SharmaFrom:Neurology India (Vol. 54, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  January-March 20067,661 words Article 2020LByline: Chitra. Sarkar, Prabal. Deb, Mehar. Sharma Medulloblastomas (MBs) are the most common malignant brain tumors in children. Current therapeutic approaches combine surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy....
• Select Assessing cardiovascular risk in asymptomatic diabetes: the DIAD study

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  Assessing cardiovascular risk in asymptomatic diabetes: the DIAD study

  Author:Elizabeth Anne FasyFrom:Clinical Diabetes (Vol. 23, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 20051,549 words Article STUDY Wackers FJ, Young LH, Inzucchi SE, Chyun DA, Davey JA, Barrett EJ, Taillefer R, Wittlin SD, Heller GV, Filipchuk N, Engel S, Ratner RE, Iskandrian AE, the Detection of Ischemia in Asymptomatic Diabetics (DIAD)...
• Select Melanoma prognostic markers may peg progression and survival

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  Melanoma prognostic markers may peg progression and survival

  Author:Patrice WendlingFrom:Skin & Allergy News (Vol. 36, Issue 7)

  July 2005421 words Article VIENNA -- Overexpression of metallothionein is a highly significant and independent factor for melanoma progression and survival. Using immunohistochemical staining for metallothionein, "it's quite possible to...
• Select Twin Study Suggests Risk Factors for AD

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  Twin Study Suggests Risk Factors for AD

  From:Psychiatric Times (Vol. 22, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 1, 2005182 words Brief article Environmental factors earlier in life play a key role in determining risk for development of AD. New research, presented in June at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference on Prevention of Dementia in...
• Select Hidden Combat Wounds: Extensive, Deadly, Costly

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  Hidden Combat Wounds: Extensive, Deadly, Costly

  Author:Arline KaplanFrom:Psychiatric Times (Vol. 23, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 1, 20063,115 words Article Byline: Arline Kaplan No Purple Hearts are awarded for the often hidden wounds of posttraumatic stress disorder, but ultimately those wounds can be deadly-linked to suicides, accidents and, over the long term,...
• Select Serum cadmium levels in pancreatic cancer patients from the East Nile Delta region of Egypt

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  Serum cadmium levels in pancreatic cancer patients from the East Nile Delta region of Egypt

  Authors:Alison M. Kriegel, Amr S. Soliman, Qing Zhang, Nabih El-Ghawalby, Farouk Ezzat, Ahmed Soultan, et al.From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 114, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 20067,671 words Article The northeast Nile Delta region exhibits a high incidence of early-onset pancreatic cancer. It is well documented that this region has one of the highest levels of pollution in Egypt. Epidemiologic studies have...
• Select The penetration/aspiration risk in patients presenting with an acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

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  The penetration/aspiration risk in patients presenting with an acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

  Authors:Laura J. Carney, Suzanne Sheppard, and Karen F. LaframboiseFrom:Chest (Vol. 128, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 2005296 words Brief article PURPOSE: To determine the incidence of penetration/aspiration in patients presenting with a COPD exacerbation. Is there a relationship between the severity of tracheal penetration or aspiration and spirometry in...
• Select Insulin resistance: keystone of a deadly cluster

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  Insulin resistance: keystone of a deadly cluster

  Author:Mitchel L. ZolerFrom:Medical World News (Vol. 31, Issue 5)

  Mar. 12, 19903,033 words Article Keystone of a deadly cluster Insulin Resistance It's becoming clear that insulin resistance is more than a benign marker of essential hypertension. Experts are building a convincing, if not airtight, case that the...
• Select Vitamin C seen to help prevent CAD

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  Vitamin C seen to help prevent CAD

  Author:David A. StricklandFrom:Medical World News (Vol. 32, Issue 8)

  Aug. 1991670 words Article Seattle--Two often disparate camps--one of molecular scientists and one of nutritionists and epidemiologists--are moving toward each other in the fight against atherosclerosis, with the antioxidant properties of vitamin...
• Select Risk factors for developing non-insulin dependent diabetes: a 10 year follow up of men in Uppsala

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  Risk factors for developing non-insulin dependent diabetes: a 10 year follow up of men in Uppsala

  Authors:Einar T. Skarfors, K. Ingemar Selinus, and Hans O. LithellFrom:British Medical Journal (Vol. 303, Issue 6805) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 28, 19915,001 words Article In patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, also called juvenile diabetes, the body cannot produce the insulin it needs for normal blood sugar regulation. In adult-onset diabetes, also called...
• Select An end to health scares?

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  An end to health scares?

  Author:Annabel FerrimanFrom:British Medical Journal (Vol. 319, Issue 7211) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 11, 1999 Article