A meta-analysis of 25 studies in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease linked Alzheimer's incidence to spirochetal and Chlamydophila pneumoniae infection, with spirochetal infection tied to as much as a 10-fold higher risk and Cpn to about five times the risk.
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CDC’S 2013 State Obesity Map
CDC's 2013 state data put adult obesity between 21.3 percent in Colorado and 35.1 percent in Mississippi and West Virginia. Twenty states were at 30 percent or higher, the South led the regions at 30.2 percent, and non-Hispanic blacks reported the highest prevalence, 37.6 percent.
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Invasive Cancer Incidence Rates for the 10 Primary Sites in Female Americans in 2011
A table of age-adjusted invasive cancer incidence rates for US women in 2011, listing the 10 most common sites by race and ethnicity. Female breast cancer ranks first in every group, at 122.0 per 100,000 overall, followed by lung and bronchus and colon and rectum.
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Cancer Death Rates for the 10 Primary Sites in Female Americans in 2011
A table of age-adjusted cancer death rates per 100,000 U.S. women in 2011 for the 10 leading sites, broken out by race and ethnicity; lung and bronchus led every group except Hispanic women, where female breast ranked first.
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Cancer Death Rates for the 10 Primary Sites in Male Americans in 2011
A CDC table of age-adjusted cancer death rates per 100,000 U.S. men in 2011, listing the ten deadliest sites within each race and ethnic group. Lung and bronchus cancer leads every group, ranging from 70.1 among black men to 29.0 among Hispanic men.
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Invasive Cancer Incidence Rates for the 10 Primary Sites in Male Americans in 2011
A table of age-adjusted invasive cancer incidence rates for US men in 2011, listing the 10 most common sites by race and ethnicity. Prostate cancer ranks first in every group, at 128.3 per 100,000 overall and 194.7 among black men, followed by lung and colorectal cancer.
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Type 2 diabetes mellitus linked to bladder dysfunction
An Indian study compared women with and without type 2 diabetes who had lower urinary tract symptoms. Among the diabetic women, 67% had symptoms attributable to bladder dysfunction and 53% had overactive bladder; those with neuropathy, nephropathy or metabolic syndrome had more severe symptoms.
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Diabetes mellitus affects sperm quality
Comparing 65 men with diabetes to 77 without, a study found worse sperm morphology among diabetic men with no sexual problems and lower semen volume and motility among the 50 with erection problems. The author calls the harm to ejaculate quality clear but highly variable between individuals.
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LDL cholesterol needs to be lowered in diabetes mellitus patients - report
A report argues type 2 diabetes patients should aggressively lower LDL cholesterol, not just blood sugar, because LDL appears to have the greatest effect on early atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease. It puts their cardiovascular risk at two to four times higher.
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Ten leading causes of death in the U.S. in 2010
Final death certificate data rank heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory diseases, stroke and accidents as the top five causes, followed by Alzheimer's, diabetes, kidney disease, flu and pneumonia, and suicide. Together the ten account for 75 percent of all US deaths.
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NIH and Italian scientists develop nasal test for human prion disease
NIH and Italian scientists report in the New England Journal of Medicine that a nasal brush test can rapidly and accurately diagnose Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which until now required brain tissue taken by biopsy or after death.
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Induced abortion increases breast cancer risk
A meta-analysis of 36 Chinese studies in Cancer Causes and Control found women who had an induced abortion were 44 percent more likely to develop breast cancer, with risk rising to 76 and 89 percent after two or three abortions. The authors say the link still needs confirmation.
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What can you do to reduce risk of death from ebola infection?
Citing reports that ebola has killed more than 600 people and kills 60 to 90% of those infected, the piece relays naturalnews.com suggestions for avoiding it — hygiene, bleach, hydrogen peroxide, iodine, UV light — and argues supplements may cut death risk rather than prevent infection.
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HPV also causes oral cavity cancer, oropharynx cancer
A case-control study of 1,670 patients found HPV DNA in 3.9% of oral cavity cancers and 18.3% of oropharyngeal cancers, and patients reporting oral sex or multiple partners were more likely to carry it. The authors say HPV appears to play a role in many oropharyngeal cancers.
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Diabetes mellitus linked to head and neck cancer, and other cancers
In a Taiwanese cohort of 89,089 people newly diagnosed with diabetes and matched controls, head and neck cancer occurred 1.5 times as often among the diabetes patients. Oral, oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal cancers were 75%, 53% and 40% more likely.
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Sexually transmitted infections linked to prostate cancer
A meta-analysis of 47 studies published between 1971 and 2011 found men who had contracted any sexually transmitted infection were at 49% higher risk of prostate cancer. Gonorrhoea was significantly associated on its own; no other individual infection was.
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SCHIZOPHRENIA’e genetic skyline rising
Pooling all available schizophrenia genetic samples turned up 108 chromosomal sites carrying risk-linked variation, 83 of them newly reported, against five significant peaks in 2011. NIMH's Thomas Insel notes the variants found so far explain only about 3.5 percent of the risk.
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First Chikungunya case acquired in the United States reported in Florida
CDC reports the first locally acquired chikungunya case in the continental United States, in a Florida man who had not traveled abroad. The US has averaged 28 imported cases a year since 2006 and has logged 243 travel-associated cases this year in 31 states and two territories.
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