http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay)—Men who are physically fit in middle age have a lower risk of developing and dying from certain cancers, new research indicates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-middle-age-shield-men-cancer.html Cancer Thu, 16 May 2013 17:00:05 EST news287939469 Having too much body fat makes arteries become stiff after middle age, a new study has revealed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-body-fat-hardens-arteries-middle.html Cardiology Wed, 15 May 2013 11:28:14 EST news287836082 Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new mouse model that answers the question of what actually happens in the body when type 2 diabetes develops and how the body responds to drug treatment. Long-term studies of the middle-aged mouse model will be better than previous studies at confirming how drugs for type 2 diabetes function in humans. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-mouse-diabetes.html Diabetes Fri, 03 May 2013 07:50:01 EST news286784059 The suicide rate among middle-aged Americans climbed a startling 28 percent in a decade, a period that included the recession and the mortgage crisis, the government reported Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-suicide-rose-sharply-middle-aged.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 02 May 2013 13:50:01 EST news286721222 Young men who are obese in their early 20s are significantly more likely to develop serious ill health by the time they reach middle age, or not even make it that far, suggests research published in the online journal BMJ Open. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-obesity-early-20s-curbs-chances.html Overweight and Obesity Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:56:10 EST news286480564 Nearly 30% of adult workers suffer from work-related stress, and it is commonly acknowledged that stress has damaging effects on individual's health. Recently published prospective cohort study by Dr. Jenni Kulmala and co-workers from the Gerontology Research Center (GEREC) at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, provides strong evidence that perceived work-related stress in midlife predicts functional limitations and disability later in old age. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-stress-symptoms-midlife-old-age-disability.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:10:03 EST news279190205 According to a new study of more than 75,000 adults, women in that age group are more empathic than men of the same age and than younger or older people. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-empathy-age-middle-aged-pain.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:47:51 EST news278783264 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers from the Sorbonne in France have published the results of a study they carried out to determine if eating a Mediterranean diet helps prevent dementia as people age. They found, as they report in their paper published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, that such a diet had no apparent impact on cognitive decline. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-evidence-mediterranean-diet-cognitive-decline.html Health Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:30:01 EST news278667631 Could marriage, and associated companionship, be one key to a longer life? According to new research, not having a permanent partner, or spouse, during midlife is linked to a higher risk of premature death during those midlife years. The work, by Dr. Ilene Siegler and colleagues from Duke University Medical Center in the US, is published online in Springer's journal Annals of Behavioral Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-marriage-linked-survival-middle-age.html Health Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:57:49 EST news277037242 A new study from Sweden reveals that having low peer status in adolescence is a strong risk factor for regular and heavy smoking in adulthood. Researchers from Stockholm University in Sweden used a large database that followed the lives of more than 15,000 Swedes, mainly from the Stockholm area, from birth to middle age. The researchers isolated 2,329 people who were interviewed once at age 13 about peer status at school and again at age 32 about their smoking habits. The results indicate that the lower a young person's status is among his or her school peers, the more likely that person is to become a regular (less than 20 cigarettes per day) or heavy (20+ cigarettes) smoker in adulthood. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-adolescents-status-peers-adult-smokers.html Addiction Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:11 EST news272562959 If you have optimal heart health in middle age, you may live up to 14 years longer, free of cardiovascular disease, than your peers who have two or more cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-healthy-years-life.html Health Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:38:55 EST news271355925 Uncontrolled high blood pressure damages the brain's structure and function as early as young middle-age, and even the brains of middle-aged people who clinically would not be considered to have hypertension have evidence of silent structural brain damage, a study led by researchers at UC Davis has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-high-blood-pressure-brain-early.html Neuroscience Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:20:01 EST news270932782 (Medical Xpress)—Mathematicians are helping to build a better picture of how populations develop immunity to flu and which groups are most at risk of getting – and transmitting – infection each year. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-antigenic-center-age-specific-influenza-immunity.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:55:03 EST news269157294 Living a healthy lifestyle into old age can add five years to women's lives and six years to men's, finds a study from Sweden published in the British Medical Journal today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-healthy-age-years-life.html Health Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:30:03 EST news265564888 How likely are middle-aged adults to develop kidney failure during their lifetime? A study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN) provides some insights, which may be used to help set priorities related to kidney care and to increase public interest in the prevention of kidney disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-lifetime-kidney-failure.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:00:02 EST news264345420 (HealthDay) -- Evidence is building that poor sleep patterns may do more than make you cranky: The amount and quality of shuteye you get could be linked to mental deterioration and Alzheimer's disease, four new studies suggest. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-poor-age-brain.html Health Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:29:50 EST news261678185 (HealthDay) -- Middle-aged women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) are at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a prospective long-term study published online June 14 in Diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-polycystic-ovarian-syndrome-ups-diabetes.html Diabetes Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:25:51 EST news259572328 Startling new statistics from Bowling Green State University's National Center for Family and Marriage Research (NCFMR) paint a bleak future for the largest generation in history, the baby boomers, as they cross into old age. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-baby-boomers-age_1.html Health Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:00:24 EST news253800017 Until now, illicit drug use has not been common in older people. However, it is likely to become more common as generations that use drugs more frequently reach an older age. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-drug-year-olds-fold-england.html Addiction Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:08:19 EST news252817685 (Medical Xpress) -- Maintaining a healthy lifestyle from young adulthood into your 40s is strongly associated with low cardiovascular disease risk in middle age, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-heart-healthy-choices-early.html Cardiology Fri, 02 Mar 2012 06:06:01 EST news249890748 Simple tests such as walking speed and hand grip strength may help doctors determine how likely it is a middle-aged person will develop dementia or stroke. That's according to new research that was released today and will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 64th Annual Meeting in New Orleans April 21 to April 28, 2012. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-fast-middle-age-dementia.html Neuroscience Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:00:01 EST news248541357 The cancer-causing potential of fetal exposure to carcinogens can vary substantially, a recent study suggests, causing different types of problems much later in life depending on the stage of pregnancy when the fetus is exposed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-cancer-fetal-exposure-carcinogens-dose.html Cancer Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:18:03 EST news243177425 Levels of health disparity have increased substantially for people born in the United States after 1980, according to new research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-health-gap-grown-young-adults.html Health Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:40:01 EST news241928616 (AP) -- The International Diabetes Federation predicts that at least one in 10 adults could have diabetes by 2030, according to its latest statistics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-group-522m-diabetes.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:25:20 EST news240467111 People with prehypertension have a 55 percent higher risk of experiencing a future stroke than people without prehypertension, report researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in a new meta-analysis of scientific literature published in the September 28 online issue of the journal Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-blood-pressure-slightly.html Neuroscience Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:38:57 EST news236446729 Women who drink 15 grams or less of alcohol a day (the equivalent of one drink of any alcoholic beverage) at midlife may be healthier when older than women who do not drink at all, who consume more than two drinks a day, or who consume four drinks or more at the one time. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-day-good-health-women-older.html Health Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:05:45 EST news234551118 A new study suggests smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes and being overweight in middle age may cause brain shrinkage and lead to cognitive problems up to a decade later. The study is published in the August 2, 2011, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-high-blood-pressure-diabetes-obesity.html Neuroscience Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:18:12 EST news231433979 (Medical Xpress) -- Public health researchers, based at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, have identified a link between men being overweight or obese at age 18 and death from cancer in later life. The study shows the link is apparent even if they reduce their weight during middle age. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-weight-linked-cancer-men-decades.html Health Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:30:01 EST news227443398 Scientists at the University of Birmingham have found that survivors of childhood cancers are four times more likely than the general population to develop a new cancer. The results are published online today in the Journal of the American Medical Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-childhood-cancer-survivors-greater-middle.html Cancer Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:22:25 EST news226563629 (Medical Xpress) -- In a recent study published in the journal Neurology, scientists say that individuals who develop early-onset Alzheimer's in middle age are at a high risk of being misdiagnosed because many of their initial symptoms are not memory related. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-early-onset-alzheimer-memory-loss.html Neuroscience Thu, 19 May 2011 11:35:01 EST news225023673