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Heart Failure Not as Life-Threatening as Heart Attack: Experts

October 14, 2016 SrijitaAs, Attack:, Experts, failure, Heart, life-Threatening, Not

Heart failure may be a serious health hazard but not life-threatening like a heart attack, health experts say. “Heart failure refers to the heart’s inability to circulate blood through the body. Blood flow is slower than normal, which compromises the blood flow to the vital organs of the body like kidneys, liver and brain, leading to the malfunction of these organs,” Subhash Chandra, Chairman, Cardiology, BLK Super Speciality Hospital, New Delhi, told IANS. Heart failure is not similar to a heart attack and it is important for people to understand…

Daycare Not Linked to Child Obesity

October 13, 2016 SrijitaChild, Daycare, Linked, Not, Obesity, to

Working parents who send their children to daycare no longer need to worry about whether this puts their kids at increased risk for obesity, a U.S. study suggests. While several previous observational studies have suggested children in daycare may be more likely to gain too much weight than similar kids cared for by parents at home, the current study looked at data on more than 10,000 youngsters and found no such connection. “Our study casts doubt on previously held beliefs that non-parental is associated with a higher risk of obesity,”…

‘Muscle memory’ may not really exist

September 30, 2016 Srijita'Muscle, exist, May, Memory:, Not, really

A new study suggests that muscle memory may not really exist. The study found that genes activated in response to exercise — shown on the right in color blocks (before on top, after on bottom) — did not differ when som (Malene Lindholm and Carl Johan Sundberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden) Muscle tissue does not have a “memory” of past exercise training, new research suggests. Muscles that have trained hard in the past and those that have not trained show similar changes in the genes that they turn on or…

Moderate drinking may not affect women’s fertility

September 30, 2016 Srijitaaffect, Drinking, fertility, May, Moderate, Not, women’s

(iStock) Although current U.S. guidelines encourage women to stop drinking while trying to get pregnant, a new Danish study suggests giving up alcohol may not be necessary for improving the chances of conceiving. Women in the study who drank up to 14 drinks per week were just as likely as those who didn’t drink at all to get pregnant in the first month of trying. “We tell women not to eat seafood, or consume too much caffeine when trying to conceive,” Dr. Christina Porucznik of the University of Utah in…

Painkillers are not advisable for dengue

September 17, 2016 Srijitaadvisable, Are, dengue, for, Not, Painkillers

Prescribed for joint pain in chikungunya cases NSAIDS, or the common painkillers, are not advisable for dengue patients because they are known to quicken internal bleeding. However, doctors have been prescribing them to relieve joint pain in suspected or confirmed cases of chikungunya. Now, in a worrying trend, these drugs have been found to be counterproductive even in chikungunya patients. Doctors in Safdarjung Hospital, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS), Max Hospital, Saket, and in other medical institutions narrated to TOI instances of chikungunya patients suffering kidney and liver…

Not just cancer, smoking causes heart failure too

September 17, 2016 SrijitaCancer, causes, failure, Heart, Just, Not, Smoking, Too

Thickens walls of key organ. Smoking is associated with thicker heart walls and blood-pumping difficulties that may eventually lead to heart failure, a US research suggests. The research, done in adults who didn’t have any obvious signs of cardiovascular disease, also found that the more people smoke, the greater the damage to the heart’s structure and function, said senior author Dr Scott Solomon of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. “We’ve known for years that smoking could lead to he art attacks, which may result in…