Although diabetes natural remedies may help curb the severity of the disease, smokers may be at a higher risk for developing type 2 diabetes.
A new study adds onto the previous notion that smokers are more likely to develop the illness. Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine suggest that quitting smoking may increase a patient’s chances of developing type 2 diabetes even more.
Researchers had found that smoking is a risk factor for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a new analysis of 16 studies confirms.
The effect is especially strong in men and heavy smokers, the researchers found. And men who tested positive for rheumatoid factor (RF), a self-attacking antibody found in about 80 percent of RA patients, were at even higher risk if they smoked.
Research over the past two decades has linked smoking to RA, especially in men, Dr. S. Kumagai of Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine in Kobe, Japan and his colleagues write. But findings on smoking and RA in women have been “inconsistent.”
Scientists believe it may be possible to combat malaria by interfering with the sex lives of the mosquitoes which spread the disease.
They have shown that the insects can only mate successfully if the male is able to seal his sperm inside the female using a “mating plug”.
Without the plug, fertilisation cannot occur, and the animals cannot reproduce. Read the rest of this entry »
Having sex at an early age can double the risk of developing cervical cancer, a study of 20,000 women suggests.
The investigation into why poorer women have a higher risk of the disease found they tended to have sex about four years earlier than more affluent women.
Previously, it had been thought the disparity was the result of low screening uptake in poorer areas.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer findings are published in the British Journal of Cancer. Read the rest of this entry »
Study had found that people who had the highest levels of leptin were far less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease or any sort of dementia than those in the study with the lowest levels of leptin.
People with higher leptin levels also had more brain volume at the end of the study, something that is lost in people with Alzheimer’s, a mind-robbing form of dementia that affects more than 26 million people globally. Read the rest of this entry »
Irregular arm swings while walking could be an early sign of Parkinson’s disease, according to neurologists who believe early detection may help physicians apply treatments to slow further brain cell damage until strategies to slow disease progression are available. Parkinson’s disease is an age-related disorder involving loss of certain types of brain cells and marked by impaired movement and slow speech.
“The disease is currently diagnosed by tremors at rest and stiffness in the body and limbs,” said Xuemei Huang, associate professor of neurology, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine. Read the rest of this entry »
