MedausPharmacy 30/07/10

Department of Medical Pathophysiology, Sapienza University of Rome.
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the most important causes of morbidity and mortality in the developed and developing world. Particularly, coronary heart disease is the commonest cause of death worldwide. Testosterone (T) is an anabolic hormone with putative beneficial effects on men's health and restoration of normal T levels in deficient men represents an important key-point of male well-being. In the lasts years it has emerged a possible linkage between androgen deficiency and CVD. Many studies noted that T deficiency might contribute to increased risk of CVD. Furthermore, androgen deficiency is frequently associated with increased levels of glucose, total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein, increased production of pro-inflammatory cytokines, and increased thickness of the arterial wall that all contribute to worsen endothelial function.

THE JOURNAL OF PAIN 30/07/10

Aunque investigaciones anteriores ya habían demostrado que las personas que tienen sobrepeso están en mayor riesgo de dolor crónico, sobre todo debido al exceso de peso sobre las articulaciones, un estudio reciente, publicado en “The Journal of Pain”, sugiere que tanto la obesidad como el dolor crónico se relacionan con los antecedentes familiares y con los trastornos del estado de ánimo.

Archieves of Neurology 29/07/10

Elizabeth E. Devore, ScD; Francine Grodstein, ScD; Frank J. A. van Rooij, DSc; Albert Hofman, MD; Meir J. Stampfer, MD; Jacqueline C. M. Witteman, PhD; Monique M. B. Breteler, MD, PhD
The Rotterdam Study previously found that higher dietary intakes of vitamins E and C related to lower risk of dementia and Alzheimer disease (AD) over 6 years of follow-up.
Objective  To study consumption of major dietary antioxidants relative to long-term risk of dementia.

Worldhealth 27/07/10

Several longitudinal epidemiological studies have related physical activity and cognitive decline, dementia and/or Alzheimer’s disease (AD); of these the majority demonstrated a significant and independent inverse relationship between physical activity and cognitive decline and/or risk of dementia, although several large cohort studies failed to show an association. Most of these studies followed participants for

Health & Medicine 13/07/10

Stockholm, Sweden: Men who enter adult life obese face a life-long doubling of the risk of dying prematurely, new research has found. In a study presented today (Tuesday) at the International Congress on Obesity in Stockholm, researchers tracked more than 5,000 military conscripts starting at the age of 20 until up to the age of 80. They found that at any given age, an obese man was twice as likely to die as a man who was not obese and that obesity at age 20 years had a constant effect on death up to 60 years later. They also found that the chance of dying early increased by 10% for each BMI point above the threshold for a healthy weight and that this persisted throughout life, with the obese dying about eight years earlier than the non-obese.