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(HealthDay)—For U.S. adults with diabetes there has been an improvement in achievement of targets from 1999 to 2010, but many still do not meet the recommended goals, according to research published in the April 25 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-diabetes.html Diabetes Thu, 25 Apr 2013 05:40:01 EST news286086296 (HealthDay)—The prevalence of self-reported hypertension among U.S. adults increased slightly, but significantly from 2005 to 2009, and the proportion of adults using anti-hypertensive medications also increased, according to research published April 4 in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-prevalence-self-reported-hypertension.html Health Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:20:01 EST news284367994 Both daughters and sons from divorced families are significantly more likely to initiate smoking in comparison to their peers from intact families, shows a new analysis of 19,000 Americans. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-children-divorced-parents.html Health Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:10:20 EST news282478146 A woman's health status before pregnancy is critical for the health and wellbeing of the fetus and mother-to-be. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has set Healthy People 2020 national objectives for women of reproductive age, and young women are making important gains toward achieving some of those health goals, while some trends are less encouraging, as reported in a study published in Journal of Women's Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-big-preconception-health-trends-women.html Health Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:47:42 EST news282476856 (HealthDay)—Patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes have a greater prevalence of cancer with longer diabetes duration and with insulin use, according to a study published online Jan. 8 in Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-cancer-prevalence-higher-duration-diabetes.html Diabetes Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:10:01 EST news278272564 Americans' cardiovascular health varies greatly from state to state, according to new research in the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-americans-heart-health-varies-significantly.html Cardiology Fri, 04 Jan 2013 06:47:52 EST news276504416 Vision insurance for working-age adults appears to be associated with having eye care visits and reporting better vision, compared with individuals without insurance, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Ophthalmology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-vision-eye-care.html Ophthalmology Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:00:05 EST news274370391 The age-adjusted prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) varies considerably within the United States, from less than 4 percent of the population in Washington and Minnesota to more than 9 percent in Alabama and Kentucky. These state-level rates are among the COPD data available for the first time as part of the newly released 2011 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-cdc-nih-survey-state-level-copd.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:19:47 EST news272726363 Cancer survivors who self-identified as being lesbian, gay or bisexual were more than twice as likely as heterosexual cancer survivors to have participated in cancer clinical trials, according to data from a small study presented at the Fifth AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities, held here Oct. 27-30, 2012. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-clinical-trials-high-gay-lesbian.html Cancer Tue, 30 Oct 2012 06:40:01 EST news270797144 (HealthDay)—Many households in the United States are ready should a disaster—such as a hurricane or earthquake—strike, federal officials said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-households-ready-disasters-cdc.html Health Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:30:02 EST news266783034 Despite the increasing awareness of the problem of obesity in the United States, most Americans don't know whether they are gaining or losing weight, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-americans-gaining-weight.html Overweight and Obesity Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:12:14 EST news263038285 People who survive cancer when they are teenagers or young adults are more likely than their peers who never had cancer to engage in risky behaviors like smoking later on, a US study said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-health-woes-persist-young-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 11 Jun 2012 04:30:46 EST news258607558 Researchers have forecast the cost savings and rise in obesity prevalence over the next two decades in a new public health study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-obesity-billion-decades.html Health Mon, 07 May 2012 11:50:01 EST news255605512 A study published by University of Kentucky researchers shows that survivors of multiple cancers report unhealthier behaviors post-diagnosis than control counterparts. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-unhealthy-behaviors-prevalent-survivors-multiple.html Cancer Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:55:08 EST news251632501 (HealthDay) -- Male veterans with multiple sclerosis (MS) have an increased prevalence of chronic diseases compared with the general population and with veterans without MS, according to a study published online Feb. 9 in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Preventing Chronic Disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-vets-ms-higher-prevalence-chronic.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 17 Mar 2012 06:12:19 EST news251183523 Smoking, the leading preventable cause of mortality in the United States, continues to disproportionately impact lower income members of racial and ethnic minority groups. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-discrimination-impact.html Health Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:29:14 EST news251051314 The declining rate of smoking is unlikely to be a major contributor to the recent increases in the incidence of obesity. While quitting smoking might cause some people to gain weight, the amount gained will probably be small, reports a new study in Health Services Research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-results-minimal-weight-gain.html Addiction Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:10:03 EST news248690305 Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that laws permitting children to stay on their parents' health insurance through age 26 result in improved access to health care compared to states without those laws. This analysis indicates the potential positive impact of a key provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA). The study appears in the March issue of the journal Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-young-adults-parents-health-access.html Health Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:30:01 EST news248325629 Although there is an effective vaccine for hepatitis B and public health officials have a strong sense of who is at highest risk for the infectious liver disease, tens of thousands of people in the United States contract the virus every year. According to a new study by researchers at Brown University, missed opportunities to administer the vaccine continue to be a reason why infections persist. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-high-risk-americans-dont-hepatitis-vaccine.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:00:01 EST news246191223 Racial discrimination may be harmful to your health, according to new research from Rice University sociologists Jenifer Bratter and Bridget Gorman. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-discrimination-health.html Health Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:20:01 EST news245591866 A groundbreaking new study shows that laws legalizing medical marijuana have resulted in a nearly nine percent drop in traffic deaths and a five percent reduction in beer sales. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-medical-marijuana-laws-traffic-deaths.html Health Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:00:04 EST news241796833 Previous studies have documented that women with disabilities are more likely to be sexually assaulted than women without disabilities. A new study published online today in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine is the first population-based investigation to examine sexual violence victimization against men with disabilities. Researchers report that men with disabilities are more than four times more likely to be victimized by sexual assaults compared to men without disabilities. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-men-disabilities-sexually-abused.html Health Tue, 11 Oct 2011 04:13:08 EST news237525176 People with frequent mental distress are markedly more likely that than those with frequent physical distress to lack health insurance, according to research appearing the October issue of Psychiatric Services, a journal of the American Psychiatric Association. Uninsured adults have less access to recommended care, receive poorer quality care, and experience worse health outcomes than insured adults. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-people-experiencing-mental-distress-health.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:50:38 EST news236947777 Perceived racial discrimination is associated with an increased risk of sleep disturbance, which may have a negative impact on mental and physical health, suggests a research abstract that will be presented Tuesday, June 14, in Minneapolis, Minn., at SLEEP 2011, the 25th Anniversary Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC (APSS). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-problems-link-racism-poor-health.html Health Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:33:34 EST news227244790