Unhealthy Lifestyles And Obesity Lead To Higher Levels Of Productivity Losses In The Workplace.
People who absorb in damaging habits such as smoking, eating a awful diet and not getting enough exercise turn out to be less productive on the job, new Dutch scrutinize shows. Unhealthy lifestyle choices also appear to translate into a greater need for sick leave and longer periods of duration off from work when sick leave is taken, the study reveals. The judgement is reported in the Sept 28, 2010 online edition of the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine. "More than 10 percent of ghoulish leave and the higher levels of productivity loss at sweat may be attributed to lifestyle behaviors and obesity," Alex Burdorf, of the department of public health at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and colleagues notable in a news release from the journal's publisher.
Between 2005 and 2009, Burdorf and his associates surveyed more than 10,600 relations who worked for 49 bizarre companies in the Netherlands. Participants were asked to discuss both lifestyle and work habits, rating their beget productivity on a scale of 0 to 10, while offering information about their weight, height, health history and the include of days they had to call in sick during the prior year.
The investigators found that 56 percent of those polled had entranced off at least one day in the preceding year because of poor health. Being obese, smoking, and having unacceptable diet and exercise habits were contributing factors in just over 10 percent of sick turn one's back on occurrences. In particular, obese workers were 66 percent more likely to call in sickened for 10 to 24 days than normal weight employees, and 55 percent more likely to memorandum of time off for 25 days or more, the study noted.
Sunday, 15 December 2019
Hyperemesis Gravidarum Transferred From Mother To Daughter
Hyperemesis Gravidarum Transferred From Mother To Daughter.
The daughters of women who suffered from a undecorated genus of morning sickness are three times more likely to be plagued by it themselves, Norwegian researchers report. This kind of morning sickness, called hyperemesis gravidarum, involves nausea and vomiting beginning before the 22nd week of gestation. In grievous cases, it can leadership to weight loss.
The condition occurs in up to 2 percent of pregnancies and is a common cause of hospitalization for parturient women. It is also linked with low birth weight and premature birth, the researchers said. The different study suggests "a strong influence of maternal genes" on the increment of the condition, said lead researcher Ase Vikanes, a graduate student at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Oslo.
So "However, environmental influences along the nurturing line, shared jeopardy factors such as life styles reflected in BMI (body mass index) and smoking habits, infections and nutrition might also be contributing to the evolution of hyperemesis gravidarum". The report is published in the April 30 online version of the BMJ.
According to Vikanes, hyperemesis gravidarum was once thought to be caused by psychogenic issues, "such as an unconscious rejection of the child or partner". But her team wanted to conscious of if genetics was actually the culprit. For the study, Vikanes's team collected information on 2,3 million births from 1967 to 2006. They tracked the incidence of hyperemesis gravidarum in more than 500,000 mother-daughter pairs and almost 400,000 mother-son pairs.
The daughters of women who suffered from a undecorated genus of morning sickness are three times more likely to be plagued by it themselves, Norwegian researchers report. This kind of morning sickness, called hyperemesis gravidarum, involves nausea and vomiting beginning before the 22nd week of gestation. In grievous cases, it can leadership to weight loss.
The condition occurs in up to 2 percent of pregnancies and is a common cause of hospitalization for parturient women. It is also linked with low birth weight and premature birth, the researchers said. The different study suggests "a strong influence of maternal genes" on the increment of the condition, said lead researcher Ase Vikanes, a graduate student at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Oslo.
So "However, environmental influences along the nurturing line, shared jeopardy factors such as life styles reflected in BMI (body mass index) and smoking habits, infections and nutrition might also be contributing to the evolution of hyperemesis gravidarum". The report is published in the April 30 online version of the BMJ.
According to Vikanes, hyperemesis gravidarum was once thought to be caused by psychogenic issues, "such as an unconscious rejection of the child or partner". But her team wanted to conscious of if genetics was actually the culprit. For the study, Vikanes's team collected information on 2,3 million births from 1967 to 2006. They tracked the incidence of hyperemesis gravidarum in more than 500,000 mother-daughter pairs and almost 400,000 mother-son pairs.
Saturday, 14 December 2019
Adolescents Should Get A Vaccine Against Bacterial Meningitis
Adolescents Should Get A Vaccine Against Bacterial Meningitis.
Teenagers should get a booster endeavour of the vaccine that protects against bacterial meningitis, a United States robustness prediction has recommended. The panel made the recommendation because the vaccine appears not to last as long as some time ago thought. In 2007, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended that the meningitis vaccine - as a rule given to college freshman - be offered to 11 and 12 year olds, the Associated Press reported. The vaccine was initially aimed at on a trip public school and college students because bacterial meningitis is more dangerous for teens and can confiture easily in crowded settings, such as dorm rooms.
At that time the panel thought the vaccine would be true for at least 10 years. But, information presented at the panel's meeting Wednesday showed the vaccine is competent for less than five years. The panel then decided to recommend that teens should get a booster stab at 16.
Although the CDC is not bound by its advisory panels' recommendations, the agency usually adopts them. However, a US Food and Drug Administration official, Norman Baylor, said more studies about the shelter and effectiveness of a espouse dose of the vaccine are needed, the AP reported.
Teenagers should get a booster endeavour of the vaccine that protects against bacterial meningitis, a United States robustness prediction has recommended. The panel made the recommendation because the vaccine appears not to last as long as some time ago thought. In 2007, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended that the meningitis vaccine - as a rule given to college freshman - be offered to 11 and 12 year olds, the Associated Press reported. The vaccine was initially aimed at on a trip public school and college students because bacterial meningitis is more dangerous for teens and can confiture easily in crowded settings, such as dorm rooms.
At that time the panel thought the vaccine would be true for at least 10 years. But, information presented at the panel's meeting Wednesday showed the vaccine is competent for less than five years. The panel then decided to recommend that teens should get a booster stab at 16.
Although the CDC is not bound by its advisory panels' recommendations, the agency usually adopts them. However, a US Food and Drug Administration official, Norman Baylor, said more studies about the shelter and effectiveness of a espouse dose of the vaccine are needed, the AP reported.
Frequent Brain Concussion Can Lead To Suicide
Frequent Brain Concussion Can Lead To Suicide.
When historic National Football League celebrated linebacker Junior Seau killed himself last year, he had a catastrophic wisdom disorder probably brought on by repeated hits to the head, the US National Institutes of Health has concluded. The NIH scientists who intentional Seau's brain unflinching that he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). They told the Associated Press on Thursday that the cellular changes they apothegm were similar to those found in autopsies of people "with exposure to repetitive head injuries".
The brawl - characterized by impulsivity, depression and erratic behavior - is only diagnosed after death. Seau, 43, who played pro football for 20 seasons before his retirement in 2009, jigger himself in the box last May 2012. His family donated his brain for research.
Some experts feel - but can't prove - that CTE led to Seau's suicide. "Chronic wounding encephalopathy is the thing we have typically seen in a lot of the athletes," said Dr Howard Derman, manager at the Methodist Concussion Center in Houston. "Rather than say 'this caused this,' I expect the observation is that there have been multiple pro football players now who have committed suicide: Dave Duerson, Andre Waters, John Grimsley - although Grimsley was just reported as a gun accident".
Some fight that these players became depressed once they were out of the limelight or because of marital or monetary difficulties, but Derman thinks the evidence goes beyond that."Yes, all that may be universal on - but it still remains that the majority of these players who have committed suicide do have changes of chronic injurious encephalopathy. We feel that that is also playing a role in their mental state".
But, Derman cautioned, "I can't verbalize that chronic traumatic encephalopathy causes players to commit suicide". Chronic shocking encephalopathy was first noticed in boxers who suffered blows to the head over many years. In late years, concerns about CTE have led high school and college programs to regulate hits to the head, and the National Football League prohibits helmet-to-helmet hits.
When historic National Football League celebrated linebacker Junior Seau killed himself last year, he had a catastrophic wisdom disorder probably brought on by repeated hits to the head, the US National Institutes of Health has concluded. The NIH scientists who intentional Seau's brain unflinching that he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). They told the Associated Press on Thursday that the cellular changes they apothegm were similar to those found in autopsies of people "with exposure to repetitive head injuries".
The brawl - characterized by impulsivity, depression and erratic behavior - is only diagnosed after death. Seau, 43, who played pro football for 20 seasons before his retirement in 2009, jigger himself in the box last May 2012. His family donated his brain for research.
Some experts feel - but can't prove - that CTE led to Seau's suicide. "Chronic wounding encephalopathy is the thing we have typically seen in a lot of the athletes," said Dr Howard Derman, manager at the Methodist Concussion Center in Houston. "Rather than say 'this caused this,' I expect the observation is that there have been multiple pro football players now who have committed suicide: Dave Duerson, Andre Waters, John Grimsley - although Grimsley was just reported as a gun accident".
Some fight that these players became depressed once they were out of the limelight or because of marital or monetary difficulties, but Derman thinks the evidence goes beyond that."Yes, all that may be universal on - but it still remains that the majority of these players who have committed suicide do have changes of chronic injurious encephalopathy. We feel that that is also playing a role in their mental state".
But, Derman cautioned, "I can't verbalize that chronic traumatic encephalopathy causes players to commit suicide". Chronic shocking encephalopathy was first noticed in boxers who suffered blows to the head over many years. In late years, concerns about CTE have led high school and college programs to regulate hits to the head, and the National Football League prohibits helmet-to-helmet hits.
Sharing Photos Online Is A Way Of Dating
Sharing Photos Online Is A Way Of Dating.
A original observe finds that the practice of "sexting" - sending salacious texts or naked photos over the Internet - is now a key tool for Americans bent on infidelity. Sexting, which notoriously back former Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner his job, is "alive and well," said sociologist Diane Kholos Wysocki, the study's result in author. In fact it's a neck of the woods of the whole extra-marital mating ritual, according to Wysocki, who said adulterous interactions that begin online seem to follow a scheduled pattern.
And "People meet, then they send pictures, then they send naked pictures, then they proceed and at meet if they find that they're compatible". The study, based on a survey of almost 5,200 users of a website loyal to extra-marital dating called ashleymadison.com, doesn't say anything about the habits of the American folk in general.
And, as Kholos Wysocki acknowledged, its value is also limited because it only includes those relatives who volunteered to take part and were already using the site. "Any time you get a group of people on the Internet, we can't stipulate it's representative," said Kholos Wysocki, a professor of sociology, University of Nebraska at Kearney. However, she said the appraisal does offer insight into why people choose to hamper married but still have affairs.
As of a year ago, the "ashleymadison dot com" site, whose motto is "Life is short. Have an affair," claimed more than 6 million members. Working with the site, Kholos Wysocki in 2009 posted a examination for members with 68 questions.
The results appear in a current online outflow of the journal Sexuality & Culture. Those who responded tend to be upscale (with a median proceeds of about $86000), mostly married (64 percent) and highly educated (about 70 percent attended college, and 20 percent had advanced degrees). More than 6 out of every 10 respondents were male.
A original observe finds that the practice of "sexting" - sending salacious texts or naked photos over the Internet - is now a key tool for Americans bent on infidelity. Sexting, which notoriously back former Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner his job, is "alive and well," said sociologist Diane Kholos Wysocki, the study's result in author. In fact it's a neck of the woods of the whole extra-marital mating ritual, according to Wysocki, who said adulterous interactions that begin online seem to follow a scheduled pattern.
And "People meet, then they send pictures, then they send naked pictures, then they proceed and at meet if they find that they're compatible". The study, based on a survey of almost 5,200 users of a website loyal to extra-marital dating called ashleymadison.com, doesn't say anything about the habits of the American folk in general.
And, as Kholos Wysocki acknowledged, its value is also limited because it only includes those relatives who volunteered to take part and were already using the site. "Any time you get a group of people on the Internet, we can't stipulate it's representative," said Kholos Wysocki, a professor of sociology, University of Nebraska at Kearney. However, she said the appraisal does offer insight into why people choose to hamper married but still have affairs.
As of a year ago, the "ashleymadison dot com" site, whose motto is "Life is short. Have an affair," claimed more than 6 million members. Working with the site, Kholos Wysocki in 2009 posted a examination for members with 68 questions.
The results appear in a current online outflow of the journal Sexuality & Culture. Those who responded tend to be upscale (with a median proceeds of about $86000), mostly married (64 percent) and highly educated (about 70 percent attended college, and 20 percent had advanced degrees). More than 6 out of every 10 respondents were male.
New Way To Fight Mosquitoes
New Way To Fight Mosquitoes.
Researchers have scholastic more about how mosquitoes spot skin odor, and they say their findings could lead to better repellants and traps. Mosquitoes are attracted to our coat odor and to the carbon dioxide we exhale. Previous research found that mosquitoes have special neurons that sanction them to detect carbon dioxide. Until now, however, scientists had not pinpointed the neurons that mosquitoes use to catch skin odor.
The new study found that the neurons used to detect carbon dioxide are also worn to identify skin odor. This means it should be easier to find ways to block mosquitoes' faculty to zero in on people, according to the study's authors. The findings appeared in the Dec 5, 2013 culmination of the journal Cell.
Researchers have scholastic more about how mosquitoes spot skin odor, and they say their findings could lead to better repellants and traps. Mosquitoes are attracted to our coat odor and to the carbon dioxide we exhale. Previous research found that mosquitoes have special neurons that sanction them to detect carbon dioxide. Until now, however, scientists had not pinpointed the neurons that mosquitoes use to catch skin odor.
The new study found that the neurons used to detect carbon dioxide are also worn to identify skin odor. This means it should be easier to find ways to block mosquitoes' faculty to zero in on people, according to the study's authors. The findings appeared in the Dec 5, 2013 culmination of the journal Cell.
Friday, 13 December 2019
Doctors Are Using A New Method Of Treatment Of Peyronie's Disease
Doctors Are Using A New Method Of Treatment Of Peyronie's Disease.
The at the outset upper treatment for unusual curvature of the penis has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, the instrumentality announced Friday Dec 2013. Men with the condition, called Peyronie's disease, have a wad in the penis that causes curvature of at least 30 degrees during an erection. The disorder, which is caused by scratch tissue under the skin of the penis, can cause bothersome symptoms during sex.
Until now, surgery was the only medical way out for men with the condition, according to an FDA scandal release. The FDA's approval of the drug Xiaflex (collagenase clostridium histolyticum) to daily men with Peyronie's disease calls for a maximum of four treatment cycles. Each recycle consists of two injections and one penile remodeling procedure performed by a health care professional. The endorsement is based on two studies involving more than 800 men with Peyronie's disease.
The at the outset upper treatment for unusual curvature of the penis has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, the instrumentality announced Friday Dec 2013. Men with the condition, called Peyronie's disease, have a wad in the penis that causes curvature of at least 30 degrees during an erection. The disorder, which is caused by scratch tissue under the skin of the penis, can cause bothersome symptoms during sex.
Until now, surgery was the only medical way out for men with the condition, according to an FDA scandal release. The FDA's approval of the drug Xiaflex (collagenase clostridium histolyticum) to daily men with Peyronie's disease calls for a maximum of four treatment cycles. Each recycle consists of two injections and one penile remodeling procedure performed by a health care professional. The endorsement is based on two studies involving more than 800 men with Peyronie's disease.
Alcohol Affects The Child Before Birth
Alcohol Affects The Child Before Birth.
Children who are exposed to fire-water before they are born are more odds-on to have problems with their social skills, according to new research in Dec, 2013. Having a or formal who drank during pregnancy was also linked to significant emotional and behavioral issues, the study found. However, these kids weren't certainly less intelligent than others. The researchers, Justin Quattlebaum and Mary O'Connor of the University of California, Los Angeles, demand their findings point to an urgent insufficiency for the early detection and treatment of social problems in kids resulting from exposure to alcohol in the womb.
Early intervention could enhance the benefits since children's developing brains have the most "plasticity" - ability to swop and adapt - as they learn, the study authors pointed out. The study, published online and in a new print edition of Child Neuropsychology, involved 125 children between 6 and 12 years old. Of these kids, 97 met the criteria for a fetal liquor spectrum disorder.
Children who are exposed to fire-water before they are born are more odds-on to have problems with their social skills, according to new research in Dec, 2013. Having a or formal who drank during pregnancy was also linked to significant emotional and behavioral issues, the study found. However, these kids weren't certainly less intelligent than others. The researchers, Justin Quattlebaum and Mary O'Connor of the University of California, Los Angeles, demand their findings point to an urgent insufficiency for the early detection and treatment of social problems in kids resulting from exposure to alcohol in the womb.
Early intervention could enhance the benefits since children's developing brains have the most "plasticity" - ability to swop and adapt - as they learn, the study authors pointed out. The study, published online and in a new print edition of Child Neuropsychology, involved 125 children between 6 and 12 years old. Of these kids, 97 met the criteria for a fetal liquor spectrum disorder.
Patients With Alzheimer's Disease Observed Blunting Of Emotional Expression
Patients With Alzheimer's Disease Observed Blunting Of Emotional Expression.
Patients with Alzheimer's virus often can seem shrinking and apathetic, symptoms frequently attributed to memory problems or tribulation finding the right words. But patients with the progressive brain disorder may also have a reduced knack to experience emotions, a new study suggests. When researchers from the University of Florida and other institutions showed a undersized group of Alzheimer's patients 10 positive and 10 negative pictures, and asked them to berate them as pleasant or unpleasant, they reacted with less intensity than did the group of healthy participants.
And "For the most part, they seemed to empathize the emotion normally evoked from the picture they were looking at ," said Dr Kenneth Heilman, superior author of the study and a professor of neurology at the University of Florida's McKnight Brain Institute. But their reactions were unalike from those of the healthy participants. "Even when they comprehended the scene, their irrational reaction was very blunted". The study is published online in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences.
The examine participants - seven with Alzheimer's and eight without - made a attend on a piece of paper that had a happy face on one end and a sad one on the other, putting the mark closer to the in seventh heaven face the more pleasing they found the picture and closer to the sad face the more distressing. Compared to the robust participants, those with Alzheimer's found the pictures less intense.
They didn't find the pleasant pictures (such as babies and puppies) as gregarious as did the healthy participants. They found the negative pictures (snakes, spiders) less negative. "If you have a blunted emotion, hoi polloi will say you look withdrawn". One important take-home bulletin is for families and physicians not to automatically think a patient with blunted emotions is depressed and appeal for or prescribe antidepressants without a thorough evaluation first.
Patients with Alzheimer's virus often can seem shrinking and apathetic, symptoms frequently attributed to memory problems or tribulation finding the right words. But patients with the progressive brain disorder may also have a reduced knack to experience emotions, a new study suggests. When researchers from the University of Florida and other institutions showed a undersized group of Alzheimer's patients 10 positive and 10 negative pictures, and asked them to berate them as pleasant or unpleasant, they reacted with less intensity than did the group of healthy participants.
And "For the most part, they seemed to empathize the emotion normally evoked from the picture they were looking at ," said Dr Kenneth Heilman, superior author of the study and a professor of neurology at the University of Florida's McKnight Brain Institute. But their reactions were unalike from those of the healthy participants. "Even when they comprehended the scene, their irrational reaction was very blunted". The study is published online in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences.
The examine participants - seven with Alzheimer's and eight without - made a attend on a piece of paper that had a happy face on one end and a sad one on the other, putting the mark closer to the in seventh heaven face the more pleasing they found the picture and closer to the sad face the more distressing. Compared to the robust participants, those with Alzheimer's found the pictures less intense.
They didn't find the pleasant pictures (such as babies and puppies) as gregarious as did the healthy participants. They found the negative pictures (snakes, spiders) less negative. "If you have a blunted emotion, hoi polloi will say you look withdrawn". One important take-home bulletin is for families and physicians not to automatically think a patient with blunted emotions is depressed and appeal for or prescribe antidepressants without a thorough evaluation first.
Thursday, 12 December 2019
New Promise Against Certain Types Of Lung Cancer
New Promise Against Certain Types Of Lung Cancer.
An tentative cancer painkiller is proving effective in treating the lung cancers of some patients whose tumors communicate a certain genetic mutation, new studies show. Because the mutation can be produce in other forms of cancer - including a rare form of sarcoma (cancer of the soft tissue), youth neuroblastoma (brain tumor), as well as some lymphomas, breast and colon cancers - researchers assert they are hopeful the drug, crizotinib, will prove effective in treating those cancers as well. In one study, researchers identified 82 patients from in the midst 1500 patients with non-small-cell lung cancer, the most base type of lung malignancy, whose tumors had a mutation in the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene.
Crizotinib targets the ALK "driver kinase," or protein, blocking its occupation and preventing the tumor from growing, explained retreat co-author Dr Geoffrey Shapiro, director of the Early Drug Development Center and affiliated professor of medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston. "The cancer cubicle is actually addicted to the activity of the protein for its flowering and survival. It's totally dependent on it. The idea is that blocking that protein can put an end to the cancer cell".
In 46 patients taking crizotinib, the tumor shrunk by more than 30 percent during an usual of six months of taking the drug. In 27 patients, crizotinib halted lump of the tumor, while in one patient the tumor disappeared.
The drug also had few side effects. The most common was compassionate gastrointestinal symptoms. "These are very positive results in lung cancer patients who had received other treatments that didn't do or worked only briefly. The bottom line is that there was a 72 percent chance the tumor would contract or remain stable for at least six months".
The study is published in the Oct 28, 2010 version of the New England Journal of Medicine. In recent years, researchers have started to suppose of lung cancer less as a single disease and more as a group of diseases that rely on specified genetic mutations called "driver kinases," or proteins that enable the tumor cells to proliferate.
That has led some researchers to concentration on developing drugs that target those specific abnormalities. "Being able to repress those kinases and disrupt their signaling is evolving into a very successful approach".
An tentative cancer painkiller is proving effective in treating the lung cancers of some patients whose tumors communicate a certain genetic mutation, new studies show. Because the mutation can be produce in other forms of cancer - including a rare form of sarcoma (cancer of the soft tissue), youth neuroblastoma (brain tumor), as well as some lymphomas, breast and colon cancers - researchers assert they are hopeful the drug, crizotinib, will prove effective in treating those cancers as well. In one study, researchers identified 82 patients from in the midst 1500 patients with non-small-cell lung cancer, the most base type of lung malignancy, whose tumors had a mutation in the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene.
Crizotinib targets the ALK "driver kinase," or protein, blocking its occupation and preventing the tumor from growing, explained retreat co-author Dr Geoffrey Shapiro, director of the Early Drug Development Center and affiliated professor of medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston. "The cancer cubicle is actually addicted to the activity of the protein for its flowering and survival. It's totally dependent on it. The idea is that blocking that protein can put an end to the cancer cell".
In 46 patients taking crizotinib, the tumor shrunk by more than 30 percent during an usual of six months of taking the drug. In 27 patients, crizotinib halted lump of the tumor, while in one patient the tumor disappeared.
The drug also had few side effects. The most common was compassionate gastrointestinal symptoms. "These are very positive results in lung cancer patients who had received other treatments that didn't do or worked only briefly. The bottom line is that there was a 72 percent chance the tumor would contract or remain stable for at least six months".
The study is published in the Oct 28, 2010 version of the New England Journal of Medicine. In recent years, researchers have started to suppose of lung cancer less as a single disease and more as a group of diseases that rely on specified genetic mutations called "driver kinases," or proteins that enable the tumor cells to proliferate.
That has led some researchers to concentration on developing drugs that target those specific abnormalities. "Being able to repress those kinases and disrupt their signaling is evolving into a very successful approach".
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