CDC epidemiologist Elena Kuklina reports in JAMA that the share of adults with high LDL fell 11 points from 32% in 1999 by 2006, with 13% on cholesterol drugs. She notes 36% of those with the highest LDL had never been screened.
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Heart Disease Found in Mummies
CT scans of 20 high-status Egyptian mummies found heart or blood vessel tissue in 13, three with definite atherosclerosis and three probable, with calcification more common in those aged 45 or older. Researchers presented the work to the American Heart Association.
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STDs Increase Among Teen Girls
New syphilis cases in women rose 36 percent from 2007 to 2008, with chlamydia and gonorrhea also climbing, and girls 15 to 19 carry the heaviest STD burden. The piece blames the belief that oral sex is safer, and notes HPV-linked oral cancers have doubled among people in their 40s.
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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy, his sister told staff at his investment firm Vulcan, adding that he plans no change to his role. The subtype accounts for about 40 percent of non-Hodgkin lymphoma cases.
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Nearly 4000 Americans Die from H1N1
The CDC now estimates H1N1 has infected 22 million Americans since April and killed about 4,000, including 540 children, four times its earlier figure of 1,000 deaths. Most children who died had underlying health conditions, and Dr Anne Schuchat calls the numbers alarming.
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Fat Producing Hormone May Lower Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
Rob van Dam and colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health reviewed studies covering at least 14,000 patients and confirmed that high levels of adiponectin, a hormone secreted by fat cells, are linked to lower risk of type 2 diabetes. They are not sure why.
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Baby boomers feeling consequences of obesity as they age
UCLA researchers found Americans aged 60 to 69 reported rising rates of several disabilities over time, while those 70 and older did not. Principal investigator Teresa Seeman links the trend partly to higher obesity rates and lower socioeconomic status in that age group.
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H1N1 flu linked to 48 deaths in Illinois
Illinois recorded 48 H1N1 deaths and 1,371 hospitalizations, the state health department said. Only laboratory-confirmed cases with a compatible illness are counted. The figures follow the national pattern: younger people were hospitalized more often, while older people were more likely to die.
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Key Flu Indicators - 11-13-2009
CDC's FluView for November 1-7, 2009 found doctor visits for influenza-like illness fell nationally for a second week while staying above a typical season's peak. Hospitalization rates kept climbing, highest in children under five, and 35 flu-related pediatric deaths were reported.
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Does High Cholesterol REALLY Cause Heart Disease?
Uffe Ravnskov tells Mercola he never accepted the cholesterol theory of atherosclerosis, arguing cholesterol is essential to cells, hormones and vitamin D and makes up over half the brain's dry weight. He also recounts being sidelined after exposing a colleague's fraudulent paper.
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Update: Influenza Activity --- United States, August 30--October 31, 2009
CDC reports that by the week ending October 31, 2009, nearly all states had widespread influenza. Of 163,123 specimens tested, 30% were positive, and 99.8% of subtyped influenza A viruses were 2009 pandemic H1N1, nearly all matching the vaccine strain.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gets leukemia: What you need to know
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 62, told people in his circle that he was diagnosed last December with Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia. The rest of the piece explains what leukemia is and outlines the four common types.
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Breast cancer more likely to return to women with dense breasts
Reviewing records of 335 Toronto women treated for invasive breast cancer, researchers found 21% of those with highly dense breasts had a recurrence over 10 years, against 5% of those with the least dense. They say more research is needed first.
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Legionnaires’ Disease Discovered in Chicago Nursing Home
Two elderly residents of a Chicago nursing home died of Legionnaires' disease, and the home's rain forest, waterfall and spa were shut down. The bacterial pneumonia spreads by inhaling contaminated mist rather than person to person; the CDC now estimates 10,000 to 40,000 US cases a year.
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Dense breast tissue raises risk of breast cancer recurrence
Reviewing the records of 335 women who had lumpectomies, Women's College Research Institute scientists found that breast cancer survivors with dense breast tissue face a higher risk of recurrence and could benefit from radiation, while those with low density may not need it.
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2009-2010 Influenza Season Week 43 ending October 31, 2009
During the week ending October 31, 2009, 37.2% of tested specimens were positive for influenza, and over 99% of subtyped influenza A was 2009 H1N1. Eighteen pediatric deaths were reported, and 48 states reported geographically widespread activity.
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Obesity Linked to 100,000 Cancer Cases a Year
The American Institute for Cancer Research put numbers to obesity's cancer toll, attributing to body fat 49% of endometrial cancers, 35% of esophageal, 28% of pancreatic, 24% of kidney, 21% of gallbladder, 17% of breast and 9% of colorectal cases.
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What is COPD?
COPD covers emphysema, chronic bronchitis and some asthma, blocking airflow and causing cough, mucus, wheezing and breathlessness. Cigarette smoking leads the U.S. causes, and the CDC says a simple lung function test can detect the disease in smokers aged 45 and over.
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