Men-smokers to protect the heart should...

medicinenews — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:57:07 +0200

Men who are smoking, consumption of coffee or tea will help reduce the risk of a heart attack caused by blocking blood circulation. These drinks have a powerful antioxidant properties, to prevent adverse effects of smoking. Doctors from the Karolinska Institute / Sweden / and found that coffee and tea also protect the brain from bleeding, strengthening the arteries and atherosclerosis.

The study lasted for 13 years, included 26 thousand 556 adult men from Finland, who were chronic smokers. Taking into account age and other risk factors for heart attack, doctors noticed that men who drank to 8 or more cups of coffee daily, 23% reduced risk of cardiac dysfunction and cerebral infarction, and those who drank two or more cups of tea Have reduced risk by 21%. Favorable impact of the consumption of coffee and tea in large quantities of biologically explained the content of their compositions able to block the inflammatory processes associated with smoking.

Genetic testing had been criticized

medicinenews — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:52:43 +0200

Creators of a new branch of medical business - genetic testing at home - argue that it enables people to predict their future. You are interested in the degree of likelihood of cancer or cardiac ischemia?

Companies offering kits for genetic analysis in the home, consumers are promised to look into the future in terms of medicine, having familiarized with the peculiarities of his genetic sample.

Mother Holly Hagi suffers Alzheimer's and Holly would like to know how it threatens the disease itself: "I have no children. I care for the mother. And who will take care about me? "

Holly Hagi conducted an analysis at home, having hosted saliva sample.

Dr. David Egus, one of the leaders of the company Navigenics, offering a genetic testing at home, said that it enables people to plan very caring about their health: "We give them an opportunity to focus on the disease, which razovetsya in the future, and started now preventive measures ".

For example, if the results of the analysis show that the man threatened the likelihood of thick bowel cancer, he and his attending physician may agree on more frequent colonoscopy procedure.

But not all diseases can be prevented. Moreover, not all people are able to properly respond to bad news, said Dr. Francis Collins.

By the same standards at home genetic tests are not yet fully defined. According to Dr. Collins, there is no assurance that the results of the analysis will be absolutely accurate. The authorities of some states prohibit companies offering genetic testing, advertise their services. In turn, companies refer to the right of citizens to know their genetic information.

Holly Hagi The analysis showed that the likelihood of Alzheimer's disease in the future is 30%. "With this I can accept. I have no feeling that the imminent catastrophe ", - she commented.

Hagi intends to resign from their jobs in the department of marketing and become a nurse. According to her, it was not decided on this step, if the test results were others.

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Men-smokers to protect the heart should...

Genetic testing had been criticized