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Your thoughts may harm your neck, back during lifting tasks: Study
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
According to a new study, the emotional distress of mental dissonance - receiving knowledge that contradicts how we act or what we think - might contribute to increased strain on the neck and low back during lifting and lowering tasks.
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Study reveals how managing cardiovascular disease risk helps preserve phys
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Managing cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors, according to a recent study, may have a role in sustaining physical function as we age.
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Managing cardiovascular disease risk helps preserve physical function, say
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
According to new research, managing cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors may play a role in preserving physical function during the ageing process
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Stress-management interventions might help individual healthcare workers:
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Individual healthcare professionals may benefit from interventions targeted at lowering work-related stress for up to a year after they are implemented. The findings of a Cochrane review of the most recent available data built on the findings of a previous analysis in 2015, which revealed lo
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Change in breast density over time associated with cancer risk: Study
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Doctors scan mammograms to determine breast density as well as cancer indications, comparing a woman's past mammograms to her most recent one to search for concerning changes
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Study finds air pollution association with risk of dementia
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
An worldwide study commissioned by the journal Lancet three years ago revealed 12 modifiable risk factors for dementia, including three new ones: excessive alcohol consumption, brain damage, and air pollution.
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Study finds obesity as risk factor for colorectal cancer
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The risk of colorectal cancer is known to increase with obesity. This association has likely been severely underestimated thus far, according to research from the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ). The cause is that a lot of people accidentally lose weight prior to receiving a colon cance
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Air pollution may raise risk of dementia, complicated by genetics: Study
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Three years ago, international research commissioned by the journal Lancet identified 12 modifiable risk factors for dementia, including three new ones: excessive alcohol use, brain injury, and air pollution.
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Study: Slowing down in old age? It can be symptom of dementia
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
New Edith Cowan University (ECU) research suggests that this could also be a sign of another sinister health concern associated with ageing: late-life dementia.
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Combined road noise, air pollution raises blood pressure: Research
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The University of the West of Scotland (UWS) researchers discovered a relationship between loud road traffic and air pollution and an increased incidence of hypertension, a major risk factor for heart attack and stroke.
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Bariatric surgery may reverse diabetes complications for people with obesi
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
A research team led by the University of Michigan Health Department of Neurology followed more than 120 patients who underwent bariatric surgery for obesity over two years after the procedure. They found that all metabolic risk factors for developing diabetes, such as high glucose and lipid
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Higher BMI linked to longer healing time post breast reduction surgery
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Higher Body Mass Index is a risk factor for delayed wound healing in patients undergoing breast reduction surgery (reduction mammaplasty), according to a study published in the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery® the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (
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