http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Cancer survivors are no more likely to stop smoking, cut down on alcohol, or exercise more often than the general population, according to new research published in the British Journal of Cancer today (Wednesday) http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-cancer-survivors.html Cancer Wed, 22 May 2013 07:50:04 EST news288426370 Spanish researchers have studied how job stress affects cardiovascular health. The results, published in the 'Scandinavian Journal of Public Health', link this situation to dyslipidemia, a disorder that alters the levels of lipids and lipoproteins in the blood. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-work-related-stress-linked-blood-fat.html Health Thu, 16 May 2013 10:28:41 EST news287918828 Cancer is a disease that invokes fear, so it is not surprising that the public is eager to identify ways to decrease the risk. The media often features information on "Miracle Foods" and publicizes whether these foods can actually decrease the risk of cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-miracle-foods-decrease-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:36:36 EST news284038579 People with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression can lose weight and keep it off through a modified lifestyle intervention program, a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded study reported online today in the New England Journal of Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-people-mental-illnesses-weight.html Overweight and Obesity Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:30:02 EST news283096256 Teens who were depressed as children are far more likely than their peers to be obese, smoke cigarettes and lead sedentary lives, even if they no longer suffer from depression. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-depression-kids-linked-cardiac-teens.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:10:01 EST news282571622 Weight loss—by dietary changes alone or combined with physical exercise—has a positive impact on the production of adipose tissue hormones: Adipose tissue produces less leptin but, instead, more adiponectin, which counteracts diabetes and cancer. This explains, at a molecular level, the health-promoting effect of physical exercise and dietary changes. Heidelberg cancer researchers have published their results in collaboration with colleagues from the US. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-healthier-hormones-diet.html Health Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:23:14 EST news281877785 Visceral fat, or fat stored deep in the abdominal cavity, is directly linked to an increased risk for colon cancer, according to data from a mouse study published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-visceral-fat-causally-linked-intestinal.html Cancer Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:10:02 EST news281724370 Researchers at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid have found that regular and supervised exercise by experts during pregnancy can reduce the rate of instrumental and cesarean deliveries in healthy pregnant women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-c-section.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:10:01 EST news281691937 William Leonard has conducted extensive research on the diets and ways of prehistoric populations. A paper on his research will be presented Friday, Feb. 15, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The research shows that the transition from subsistence to a modern, sedentary lifestyle has created energy imbalances that have increased rapidly—evolutionarily speaking—in recent years and now play a major role in obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-evolutionary-human-dietary-patterns.html Health Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:57:47 EST news280159051 Standing and walking for longer stretches improves insulin sensitivity and blood lipid levels more than an hour of intense exercise each day does, but only if the calories spent in both forms of exercise are similar. The findings are published February 13 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Hans Savelberg and colleagues from Maastricht University, Netherlands. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-intensity-health-benefits-relative-short.html Overweight and Obesity Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:20:01 EST news279996988 Heart disease continues to be the leading cause of death in the United States, and a sedentary lifestyle is often cited as a major contributing factor. Among the Tsimane, an indigenous population in the lowlands of Bolivia's Amazon basin, however, indicators of heart disease are practically non-existent –– cholesterol is low, obesity is rare, and smoking is uncommon. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-anthropologists-effects-modernization-physical-heart.html Health Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:26:36 EST news278936693 February is American Heart Month, a perfect time to remind people that small steps can reduce their risk of heart disease, the No. 1 killer of men and women. Mayo Clinic cardiologists offer several simple tips to reduce the risk. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-simple-daily-heart-disease-experts.html Cardiology Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:48:25 EST news278830096 A team of scientists at Umea University, in collaboration with colleagues in Melbourne, Australia, have found that television viewing and lack of exercise at age 16 is associated with the risk of developing metabolic syndrome at 43 years age. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-tv-viewing-sedentary-lifestyle-teens.html Health Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:18:56 EST news278759928 Children who frequently eat fast food are far likelier to have severe asthma compared to counterparts who tuck into fruit, a large international study published on Monday said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-fast-food-linked-child-asthma.html Inflammatory disorders Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:46:19 EST news277379172 on purpose – quicker than their male counterparts, and live a more sedentary life than they do, according to a study by the University of Vigo. Results show that 56.1% of female students are considered binge drinkers, as opposed to 41.3% of males. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-percent-female-university-students-drunk.html Health Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:06:47 EST news275915196 (HealthDay)—Holiday eating and drinking could pose a risk for people who do not know that they have type 2 diabetes, an expert says. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-holidays-folks-unaware-theyre-diabetic.html Diabetes Tue, 25 Dec 2012 17:12:42 EST news275677952 (HealthDay)—For women who love that great, self-satisfied feeling after a workout, a new study could be a disappointing surprise. Regular exercise, the study found, does not reduce the risk of an otherwise sedentary lifestyle. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-women.html Health Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:28:26 EST news273504387 (HealthDay)—Diabetes robs people of their lives—their vision, their mobility, even their limbs—if it is not controlled, yet the real tragedy of this modern-day scourge is that its most common form, type 2, is largely preventable. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-diabetes-small-experts.html Diabetes Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:10:01 EST news272217627 A preliminary study of 127 post-menopausal women on hormone replacement therapy in Portugal suggests that there are several risk factors associated with osteoporosis and bone fracture these include age, low bone mineral density, a sedentary lifestyle, coffee consumption and ovariectomy. Details are reported later this month in the International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-osteoporosis-factors-menopause.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:35:15 EST news272018077 Contrary to popular perception, menopause does not cause weight gain, although it does increase fat around the waist, a specialist journal reported Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-menopause-tyre-weight-gain.html Health Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:27:39 EST news269601868 Daily activities, such as fast walking and jogging, can curb the development of risk factors for heart disease and stroke by as much as 50 percent, whereas an hour's daily walk makes little difference, indicates research published in the online journal BMJ Open. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-fast-halve-heart-disease-factors.html Cardiology Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:05:10 EST news268999502 Leading a sedentary lifestyle increases risk of developing type 2 diabetes. European scientists focused on delineating the mechanisms responsible for the beneficial effects of exercise on our metabolism. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-molecular-mechanisms-benefits.html Other Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:30:06 EST news267347965 Twenty minutes of daily, vigorous physical activity over just three months can reduce a child's risk of diabetes as well as his total body fat - including dangerous, deep abdominal fat – but 40 minutes works even better, researchers report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-longer-added-benefit-children-health.html Health Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:58:26 EST news267184699 A sedentary lifestyle is a common cause of obesity, and excessive body weight and fat in turn are considered catalysts for diabetes, high blood pressure, joint damage and other serious health problems. But what if lack of exercise itself were treated as a medical condition? Mayo Clinic physiologist Michael Joyner, M.D., argues that it should be. His commentary is published this month in The Journal of Physiology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-doctors-lack-medical-condition-mayo.html Health Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:45:23 EST news264091400 Fewer people died or needed expensive long-term care when their physicians focused on the top risk factors for stroke and dementia, according to research reported in the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-physicians-focus-dementia-money.html Cardiology Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:00:12 EST news261750736 Lung transplant patients who took part in a three-month structured exercise program when they were discharged from hospital improved their health-related quality of life and reduced their risk of cardiovascular problems. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-health-lung-transplant-patients-cardiovascular.html Health Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:11:16 EST news259506640 Type 2 diabetes is popularly associated with obesity and a sedentary lifestyle. However, just as there are obese people without type 2 diabetes, there are lean people with the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-jack-spratt-diabetes-gene.html Genetics Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:40:02 EST news257762388 Researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona, Spain)) have discovered that deficiency of a single protein, Mitofusin 2, in muscle and hepatic cells of mice is sufficient to cause tissues to become insensitive to insulin, thus producing an increase in blood glucose concentrations. These are the two most common conditions prior to development of diabetes type 2. Published in this week's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the study validates Mitofusin 2 as a possible target for the treatment of diabetes type 2. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-validate-potential-protein-treatment-diabetes.html Diabetes Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:25:11 EST news251717103 (Medical Xpress) -- Researchers from the University of Hertfordshire have found that magnesium supplements may offer small but clinically significant reductions in blood pressure. In a paper published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the researchers also discovered that the size of the effect increased in line with increased dosage. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-magnesium-lowers-blood-pressure.html Health Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:50:02 EST news251023121 Significant numbers of teens regularly carry rucksacks for school which top 10 to 15 per cent of their body weight and risk back pain and other related disorders, finds research published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-heavy-rucksacks-problems-school-kids.html Health Thu, 15 Mar 2012 05:13:08 EST news251007156