A 10-year study in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation linked half of fatal heart disease cases and a quarter of non-fatal ones to being overweight by BMI or waist size. Its authors say the two measures may help predict risk, not just describe it.
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Dental disease may be associated with diabetes
A Journal of Public Health Dentistry study of 2,923 adults found 93 percent of those with periodontal disease met American Diabetes Association criteria for high diabetes risk, against 63 percent of those without it. The author argues gum-disease patients should be screened.
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Autism cases spike dramatically
The CDC's monitoring network put autism prevalence at 1 in 110 eight-year-olds, a 57% rise, with community rates ranging from 1 in 80 to 1 in 240. Increases averaged 60% among boys and 48% among girls. Better detection may explain part of it, but the CDC says a true rise cannot be ruled out.
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Some basics about heart disease
CDC figures: heart disease killed 631,600 Americans in 2006, 26 percent of all deaths, with coronary heart disease the most common form. About 785,000 people have a first heart attack each year, and the disease cost the country $304.6 billion in 2009.
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Some basics about cardiac arrest
Sudden cardiac arrest strikes when an arrhythmia stops the heart, cutting blood flow to the brain and killing within minutes. It kills 325,000 Americans a year, often with no warning, and needs defibrillation fast. Undiagnosed coronary artery disease is the main risk factor.
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Actress Brittany Murphy dies of cardiac arrest
Actress Brittany Murphy, 32, died of cardiac arrest in Los Angeles and was pronounced dead on arrival at Cedars-Sinai, TMZ reported. No major medical condition had been reported for her. An estimated 325,000 Americans die of sudden cardiac arrest each year.
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Hacker Claims Form of Autism
Hacker Albert Gonzalez asked a Boston federal judge to weigh his claim of Asperger's syndrome at sentencing for the largest identity theft case in US history. The judge delayed sentencing three months so prosecutors could examine the claim.
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Autism rate on the rise in the United States
CDC's ADDM Network estimated autism spectrum disorder prevalence among eight-year-olds by reviewing evaluation records at 11 US sites for 2006 and comparing them with 10 sites in 2002. Because no biological marker exists, identification depends on professional developmental evaluations.
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Low Cholesterol Transfer Protein Activity Associated with Heart Disease Risk (PR)
Tufts and Boston University researchers tracked 1,978 Framingham participants with no heart disease history for 15 to 18 years, during which 320 had a first cardiac event. Low plasma CETP activity was associated with higher risk, cutting against the idea that blocking CETP to raise HDL helps.
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Can an Abnormality in Your Neck Cause MS?
Using Doppler ultrasound, Dr. Paolo Zamboni found nearly all the MS patients he examined had narrowed, twisted or blocked veins draining the brain, a condition he named CCSVI. Surgery on 65 patients showed preliminary drops in attacks and lesions and better quality of life.
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Diabetes Epidemic Expected to Double
Researchers project US diabetes cases will nearly double from 23.7 million to 44.1 million by 2034, with annual treatment costs almost tripling from $113 billion to $336 billion. The estimates assume obesity levels plateau and then decline.
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Pediatric cancer survivors at risk of dying from heart disease
A BMJ study compared 14,358 five-year survivors of childhood cancer with 3,899 siblings and found survivors face higher rates of heart failure, heart attack, heart inflammation and valve abnormalities as late as 30 years after treatment, even at lower drug and radiation doses than expected.
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Genetic Anomaly Linked to Childhood Obesity
A University of Cambridge scan of 300 obese children's genomes found many were missing part of a gene on chromosome 16, an absence the researchers say produces a strong desire to eat. An earlier twin study attributed about three quarters of obesity risk to genetics.
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CDC H1N1 Flu Website Situation Update, December 5, 2009
CDC's FluView for Nov. 22-28, 2009 reported flu activity falling across all key indicators for a fifth straight week but still above normal for the season. Hospitalization rates stayed highest in children under 5, pneumonia and influenza deaths remained above the epidemic threshold.
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Weekly 2009 H1N1 Flu Media Briefing - Dec 4
At CDC's weekly H1N1 briefing, director Thomas Frieden said 73 million vaccine doses were available, twice the number a month earlier, and urged priority groups to use the window. He praised school-based vaccination programs in Arkansas, Maine and Rhode Island.
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CDC: Few serious reactions to swine flu vaccine
CDC director Thomas Frieden said on Dec. 4 that serious reactions to the H1N1 vaccine are rare and no more common than with seasonal flu shots. Mercola counters with a Virginia teenager reported to have developed Guillain-Barre syndrome hours after his shot.
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Does High Cholesterol REALLY Cause Heart Disease?
Uffe Ravnskov says he never believed the cholesterol theory of atherosclerosis, calling the idea that slightly raised blood cholesterol kills as silly as claiming yellow fingers cause lung cancer. He recounts leaving academic nephrology after exposing a colleague's fraudulent paper.
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Wrestling superstar Umaga dead at 36 _ What you need to know
Eddie Fatu, the WWE wrestler known as Umaga, died at 36 after a heart attack, his family confirmed. He was found unresponsive at his Houston home, put on life support and pronounced dead after a second attack. The piece then explains what causes heart attacks.
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