Month: March 2012

new YORK (Reuters Health) – infection with the virus of human immunodeficiency ( HIV) increases 70 percent the risk for developing lung cancer regardless of the smoking, according to the largest study reveals up now on this Association. “even after considering the smoking and the risk factors “ traditional lung cancer, we find that there is a independent mechanism associated with HIV increases the “ risk of lung cancer in infected people“, said the Dr. Keith Sigel, the Mount Sinai School of medicine in New York, and author of the study. People with HIV have high risk of developing lung cancer, according to the team Sigel in the magazine AIDS. But it is unknown if it is because they are more likely to smoke or by a bias in the surveillance. Then, the team crossed the Virtual cohort data of the Cohort study on the aging of Veterans of the Central Registry of Veterans Affairs. A total of 37.294 people with HIV and 75.750 people healthy, 1.071 developed lung cancer. The rate of cancer per 100,000 persons per year was 204 in the cohort with HIV and 119 in the control group. After considering smoking, age, ethnicity, the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and previous pneumonias, the reason for the incidence rate of HIV and lung cancer remained significant (1.7). There was no difference in the stadium at the time...

new YORK (Reuters Health) – losing weight and improving fitness physics would protect the mobility problems common to the older adults with overweight and type 2 diabetes. In a new study, lifestyle changes helped patients and patients with mobility to treasure with severe mobility problems to reduce them, at least in the short-term. The main author, w. Jack Rejeski, of Wake Forest University, in North Carolina, said that trends demonstrates the importance of promoting the weight control and the exercise as soon as possible, rather than waiting until the problems. In the study published in New England Journal of Medicine, Rejeski team calculated that slimming the 1 per cent of the body weight reduced more than 7 per cent the problems of mobility. And 1 percent more physical fitness fell 1-2 percent that risk. “if we can change enough lifestyle of “ this population will have more and more mobility and, in time, “ the effect on his life will be enormous”, thought Dr. Vivian Fonseca, President of medicine and science of the Association Diabetes (ADA), American who did not participate in the study. The ADA estimates that nearly 26 million Americans have diabetes (most, type 2, which is the form that is more associated with overweight) and 79 million more are at risk of develop the disease. It is expected that these figures will increase significantly in United...

new YORK (Reuters Health) – people who get or lose health insurance carried out further consultations of emergency than those with more stable coverage. This is worrying considering the 32 million of Americans who get a new health insurance with the reform of the health system of the President Barack Obama. In the new study, the results also suggest that the number of consultations in emergency rooms are stabilized when a person stays with or without insurance for more than one year. “suspect (emergency) queries decrease, “” for what would be only a transient increase”, said the Dr. Adit Ginde, expert in emergentology of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Colorado in Aurora. With his team, Ginde analysed responses from about 160,000 adult to a national survey of health between the 2004 and 2009. El 83 percent had health coverage at the time of answer. 21 Percent of that group had attended a room of emergencies at least once, compared with 20 per cent of those who did not have health insurance. 30 Percent of the 6,200 participants who had had health insurance for less than a year he said that he had made an emergency consultation recently, compared to 20 per cent of the group with coverage during more than one year. And the same thing happened with uninsured participants of health, according to Archives of...