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Less Inflammation, Better Heart Health In Physically Fit Females
Physical fitness may have an anti-inflammatory effect that protects against heart attacks, according to a report in yesterday's rapid access issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
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Two Drugs Are Better Than One To Prevent Return Of Atrial Fibrillation
The high blood pressure drug irbesartan delayed the recurrence of
irregular heartbeats, researchers report for first time in yesterday's rapid
access issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. more
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Importance Of Early Environmental Exposure Pinpointed In Study Of Breast
Cancer Development - UB Study Finds Clustering Related To Site Of Residence At Time Of Menarche
Where a woman lives at birth and puberty may have an impact on her risk
of developing breast cancer later, findings from a novel study conducted by
geographers and epidemiologists at the University at Buffalo have shown.
Taking residential history data provided by a cohort of women with breast
cancer and controls in Western New York, and using geographic positioning
technology, the researchers showed that the women who developed breast
cancer were more likely to have lived closer together at birth and at
menarche, a concept called clustering, than women who didn't develop breast
cancer. more
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Dry Snuff's Oral-Cavity Cancer Risk Higher Than Moist Snuff, Chewing Tobacco
Use of powdered, dry snuff carries a much higher relative risk of oral-cavity cancer than does the use of other smokeless tobacco products -- moist snuff and chewing tobacco -- according to University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers who compiled results from studies done over the past 16 years. more
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Determination Of Nicotine, pH, And Moisture Content Of Six U.S. Commercial
Moist Snuff Products -- Florida, January-February 1999
The Friday, May 21, 1999, issue of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention's (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) contains a
study titled, "Determination of Nicotine, pH, and Moisture Content of Six
U.S. Commercial Moist Snuff Products-Florida, January-February 1999." A
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysis of moist snuff products
found substantial differences in pH and unprotonated (free) nicotine levels
in six best-selling brands of smokeless tobacco. You may read a reprint of that report in today's issue of Vidyya. MMWR materials are in the public domain and we at Vidyya appreciate the ability to provide these materials to our readers. more
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