News tagged with body measurements
ASH: People with hypertension prefer higher salt taste
(HealthDay)—People with hypertension have a taste for more salt in their food than do individuals with normotension, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Hypertension, ...
Health
May 16, 2013 |
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Doctoral dissertation studies the use of light in measuring cerebral circulation
Tiina Näsi, a researcher of biomedical engineering at Aalto University, studied in her doctoral thesis the use of light in measuring the brain's blood circulation. This optical measurement may in the future help discover ...
Medical research
Apr 12, 2013 |
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A protein enables cardiovascular risk assessment
Researchers at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have managed to predict the probability of a cardiovascular patient suffering a heart attack, stroke or arterial occlusion within three months. In the long-term, ...
Cardiology
Apr 04, 2013 |
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Managing diabetes with data and ingenuity
An EU-funded project has developed a device which can predict sugar highs and lows for people with diabetes and provide them with advice on how to manage their glucose levels.
Diabetes
Mar 25, 2013 |
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'Listening to your heart' could improve body image, study finds
Women who are more aware of their bodies from within are less likely to think of their bodies principally as objects, according to research published February 6 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Vivien Ainley and Ma ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 06, 2013 |
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Disturbed body image after CNS cancer
(Medical Xpress)—Survivors of cancer of the central nervous system (CNS) in childhood are at heightened risk for disturbance in body image and self-image in relation to sports or other physical activities, according to ...
Cancer
Feb 04, 2013 |
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Community-based study IDs prevalence of HTN in children
(HealthDay)—The prevalence of prehypertension and hypertension is lower than previously reported in school-based cohorts, according to a large community-based study published online Jan. 28 in Pediatrics.
Pediatrics
Jan 28, 2013 |
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Just 10 minutes of physical activity multiple times a day improves health
Despite the importance of physical activity, many people feel they don't have enough time to exercise. An active lifestyle that includes engaging in physical activity for less than 10 minutes multiple times ...
Health
Jan 04, 2013 |
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People of normal weight with belly fat at highest death risk: study
People who are of normal weight but have fat concentrated in their bellies have a higher death risk than those who are obese, according to Mayo Clinic research presented today at the European Society of Cardiology Congress ...
Cardiology
Aug 27, 2012 |
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New metric for obesity strongly correlated to premature death
Researchers have developed a new metric to measure obesity, called A Body Shape Index, or ABSI, that combines the existing metrics of Body Mass Index (BMI) and waist circumference and shows a better correlation with death ...
Health
Jul 18, 2012 |
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Study examines use of waist measures among overweight and obese adolescents
Waist measures (waist circumference, waist to height ratio) in conjunction with body mass index appear to be associated with lipid and blood pressure assessments among overweight and obese adolescents, according to a report ...
Overweight and Obesity
Apr 02, 2012 |
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We are getting fatter, whichever way we turn
We are getting fatter - no matter which way we look at it, a Deakin University analysis of two popular obesity testing methods has found.
Arthritis & Rheumatism
Feb 03, 2012 |
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