Overall obesity, measured by high body mass index (BMI) — the height-to-weight ratio, and abdominal obesity, measured by a large waist circumference, each strongly and independently predict the risk of type 2 diabetes in men, but abdominal obesity appears to be the better predictor, new research shows.
U.S. researchers said they have genetically engineered a strain of mice with bone density up to four times greater than ordinary mice.
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York report they have found a key to controlling the HIV infection.
New York researchers suggest preventing gum disease might significantly improve a person’s chances of avoiding vascular problems.
Most medical journal articles reporting weight-loss studies do not reveal key patient characteristics that can bias the results.
Women who experience vision loss as a symptom of migraine have a 70 percent increase in risk of stroke compared to women who don’t have migraines, researchers reported at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2005.
Pre-diabetes – the term, recently coined by health officials, indicates a partly elevated blood sugar level that will likely develop into full diabetes within 10 years if nothing is done to stop it.
A previously undescribed population of adult human stem cells, derived from bone marrow, is capable of forming three different cell types and of self-renewal.
A healthy diet is very important for the development of good health during the early years of life. A faulty lifestyle and especially faulty food can lead to an unhealthy adult and therefore an unhealthy society and nation.
More expensive pacemakers that pace the heart?s upper and lower chambers are worth the extra cost because they can reduce the risk of hospitalization and disability in patients with heart disease, according to a study published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.