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Vital signs: disaster: Mercury prompt new call limit tuna

White tuna contains mercury generally "light" tuna more than than the recommendations of the Federal Government, mercury consumption many women less can be more than one week eating of childbearing age or sufficient light tuna, but rather new consumer reports study impregnation or. You can affect the metals fetal development.

Was part of the mercury found in consumer reports white tuna samples in average amount per 0... 427 million, 0... 353 p.p.m 2002-2004 on average found in the F... D... A... test. Light tuna in results in 0. 118 p.p.m F D A... than low 0... 071 p.p.m. It was

Consumer side mercury, body over time, accumulated for looking for women of childbearing age about tuna consumption more carefully than F... D... A... guidelines currently advise.

Need to limit the intake of tuna weighing less than 45 pounds 4 ounces light or 1.5 ounces per week the white children and children with heavy says consumers Union white tuna is 12.5 oz light or 4 ounces per week.

Consumer report recommendations "reckless" the fish took the report that had problems could harm public health, fisheries Association pregnancy while may be beneficial Omega-3 because it contains fatty acids.

Correction: 12 / 14 / 2010

Vital signs column about consumers Union warning tuna mercury levels on Tuesday of short articles incomplete for children organization recommended consumption limit for referenced. Children weighing less than 45 pounds, and are urged to limit intake of white tuna download depending on the weight of light from 0 to 4 ounces of tuna or 0-1.5 oz. Recommended for at least 45 pounds weight children to limit 4 depending on the weight 5 oz light tuna or 1.5 to 4 ounces is of white tuna.


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Vital signs: toddlers: day care to sick average health school.

Infant care in many ears and other children are older than age gets road upper respiratory infection, new study reports. Reach elementary school, frequency is less disease.

1,238 Canada children 5 months since 1998, after the 8-year-old 2006 Quebec longitudinal study of child development. To compare the infection and researchers have small nursery children in disease rates of those at home childcare young launched at older preschool age children while differentiating cared.

Kids care center of a large group at age 2 ½ 61% by ear and respiratory infections than fever and House many before, there is no difference between fewer respiratory infections and 43% fewer ear infections gastrointestinal infections start going after you reach elementary school is 21%) as was.

Research 7 Pediatrics & adolescent medicine archives was published. Lead author Dr. Sylvana Côté, social, University of Montreal is preventive medicine Professor results comfort said should worry parents ' day care of children's health. "Is read, and is learning to write and to, what the school not to be missed because" these kids advantage attending, she may be.


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Vital signs: Exercise: for type 2 diabetes, 2 types of training

During the regime in diabetes type 2 is recommended, say researchers of the study offers some of the best evidence to date on a combined program itself offers more advantages than aerobics or weight lifting even if it not total increase training time.

"We can now look at you people with diabetes right in the face and you say, 'This is the best exercise prescription for you,'", the newspaper lead author, Dr. Timothy S. Church, Director of preventive medicine said research at Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center.

Such a programme consists of "100 minutes higher intensity aerobics per week, and then treat yourself to two days of strength training for 15 to 20 minutes per day," he said.

The study randomly 262 inactive type 2 diabetics, average age 55,8 four divided into groups - 73 strength training in three days a week, 72, aerobic exercises, 76 study was the combination and 41 a not exercise peer group zugewiesen.Die remarkably, almost half of the participants were not white, and 63% were women.

After nine months who have the combination training observed exercise their blood levels of the glucose HbA1c marker to 7.3 percent reduced by 7.7 percent, on average, a drop which corresponds to a significantly lower risk for heart disease, said Dr. Church.Die were improvements in the other groups of exercise in not exercise group differ significantly.

"Dr. Church said he was surprised, but added that the findings made sense.""" Diabetes is the failure to control the amount of sugar in the blood, and the largest user of blood sugar is skeletal muscle,"he said.""The healthier your skeletal muscle, the more blood sugar is to chew and blood."


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Vital signs: chemical hazards: work stress raises women's heart risk, study says

A new study suggests women who are stressed out rather than other women, a heart attack at work or to have other forms of heart disease.

The findings at a meeting of the American Heart Association in Chicago, Nov.15 presented were based on data from 17,415 otherwise healthy women the middle age with the in the women's health study, sponsored by the national heart, lung and blood attended Institute.

The researchers found that a 40 percent increase in cardiovascular disease on all and one facing women load reported high job 88 percent at risk for heart attacks alone.("Burden" has been defined as demanding work with little power or ability to use the creativity and abilities).

Women concerned experienced an increase in heart disease about to lose a job, but you were more than women with high job security to be overweight or risk factors for heart disease have high blood pressure or high cholesterol.

Previous research on chronic job stress and heart disease in women had mixed results, although studies of predominantly male subjects have found a clear mapping between the two senior study author, Dr. Michelle A. said Albert, a cardiologist at the Brigham and women's Hospital in Boston and associate professor at Harvard Medical School.

"Cant get rid of stress, but can manage" said


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Vital signs: Perceptions: UV irradiation poses hidden risk for skiers

Skiers, hats you up front: exposed more ultraviolet radiation than you think. Hot chocolate at noon - preferably somewhere shady - might be a good idea.

Scientists study Sun Security have multiple readings of UV radiation on 32 high-altitude ski resorts in North America and thousands of skiers to find out whether you take precautions against the Sun, as it took hats, sunscreen and sunglasses at appropriate times interviewed.Their conclusion was: only occasionally.

""There were many findings, but the large food is that people do not know if UV is high and take precautions,", said Peter A. Andersen, Professor of health communication at San Diego State University.""People not only took precautions when it was sunny but if it was warmer, and this is a wrong calculation in the minds of people.it is absolutely no correlation between temperature and UV radiation."

It said a lot of exposure to UV radiation can on cloudy days, he.

Skiers in the northern hemisphere get the highest exposure at lunchtime and during the late winter and spring, as you closer to the summer solstice, Dr. Andersen sagte.Exposition also increases with height.

Readings were high-altitude resorts in Arizona and New Mexico, but the highest UV rating in general top - 10 UV index units - in Mammoth Mountain in California hit wurde.Dass rating is "just as intense as being smack-dab in the middle of the Sun at Jones Beach in June", said Dr. Andersen.


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Vital Signs: Behavior: Young Marijuana Users Pay Cognitive Price

Marijuana smoking often begins in adolescence - and the timing could not be worse, suggests a new study.

Regularly in their early teens at least 16 use the drug young adults who began substantially worse on tests that were assessing the function of the brain as topics, as you, reported researchers began performed last week.

The findings led researchers at the McLean Hospital to suspect that the young people developing brain can be particularly vulnerable to the negative effects of marijuana.

"We must understand that the developing brain is not the same as the adult brain," said Dr. Staci A. Gruber, the paper the senior author and Director of the cognitive and clinical neuroimaging in McLean, a Harvard-affiliated hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts.

The study relating to brain scans, was small, consisting of 35 chronic marijuana smokers, the average 22 years old waren.Die topics were asked, an assessment of the Executive function - the brain processes responsible for planning and abstract thinking and understanding rules and inhibition inappropriate Aktionen.Der test - where participants asked were cards with various shapes to sort, numbers and colors – is a measure of cognitive flexibility.

15 Dr. Gruber, said, the brain is still changing and "the part the Executive function of the last part is modulated to develop."


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Vital signs: Number of uninsured will increase, report says

The number of uninsured adults in the United States continues with one of four adults younger than 65 years of age reporting you without health insurance at some point last year, according to a recent report by the Federal Centers for disease control and prevention.

Based between January and March of this year said you 50 million adults ages 18 to 64 for at least some time while on a survey were according to the report of the previous 12 months not insured.

Among adults in middle-income families - level employees with an income of two to three times the poverty, or between $43,000 and $65,000 per year for a family of four - one in three adults younger than 65 years without insurance was a part of the previous year. Over all, an estimated 59.1 million Americans of all ages had no health insurance for at least part of the year before your interview of 58.7 million in 2009 and 56.4 million in 2008.

"The data cover us to two myths about health care, to expose" the said C.D.C.-Director, Dr. Thomas R. peace."The first myth is that only the poor uninsured deliver half of the uninsured are on the poverty level."

The second myth, Dr. said peace, is that "it is only healthy people who are not insured-, young people are healthy and a choice not to be insured."In fact, he said two of each of the five people without insurance during the previous year suffered from one or more chronic conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure and asthma, and were you far more likely than go insured without care needed.

The study on the basis a C.D.C. analysis of data from the national health interview survey from 2006 to the first quarter 2010, was reported in the November 9 Edition of morbidity and mortality weekly report.


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Vital signs: Study ties ovarian cancer and hormone therapy

More bad news about post-menopausal hormone therapy: a new European study reported that, to take hormones significantly increased risk of ovarian cancer are's women rarely but often deadly.

Findings from the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition that some 126,920 post-menopausal women included, were at a Conference of the American Association for cancer research presented this week in Philadelphia.

After nine years follow-up 424 ovarian cancer had diagnostiziert.Sogar after controlling for body mass index, smoking and several other risk factors, the researchers found that women, post-menopausal hormone therapy had 29 percent higher risk of ovarian cancer than women not using hormones.

Women hit, facing an increased risk of 63 percent over estrogen used only hormone therapy, after a hysterectomy, not consumers during the increased risk of ovarian cancer in women, with a combination of estrogen and progestin not statistical significance.

Yet, said study author, Konstantinos k. Tsilidis, a cancer epidemiologist at the University of Oxford's cancer epidemiology in England, it was a clear increase in the risk for current user all hormones, but only if you had used hormones for at least five years.

"" It is important that the message out to women ", said Dr. Tsilidis."This is a very fatal cancer."

The number of women hormone therapy dropped after a large trial funded by the national institutes of health, find that hormones has increased the risks of stroke and blood clots, and that the combination therapy increases the risk of breast cancer and heart attacks. many women still, hormones use to treat menopausal symptoms, although you get the lowest dose for as short a period a time as possible to take.


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Vital signs: Behavior: too much texting is linked to other problems

A new study suggests that most high school students to spend time texting or social network sites (or both) at risk for a variety of disturbing behaviors sex, depression, eating disorders, drug and alcohol abuse and absenteeism are risky, including smoking,.

The study by researchers at case presented Tuesday at a meeting of the American public health association in Denver, based Reserve University, Western data from questions, last year to more than 4,000 students at 20 urban high school in Ohio.Etwa one-fifth were sent at least 120 SMS messages per day, one-tenth on social networks for three hours or more, and 4% have both.

That 4% were at risk of non users twice for fighting smoking binge-drinking, becoming Cyber victims consider suicide, missing school and fall asleep in class.

The researchers stressed that SMS and social networking not necessarily caused other problems haben.Aber lead author, Dr. Scott Frank, a family physician, Director of the public health master programme at the case Western Reserve School of medicine, said:

"It makes sense that these technologies it easier work for children in a case make hard to fit in fall.""If you work that hard to fit in through their social networks, also try to fit by other behaviors perceive as popular as smoking or drinking alcohol, sex and always higher risk involved adolescent behaviors."

Girls, members of minorities, and young people from low-income backgrounds or households were more at risk, but the pattern persisted even after researchers for these factors controlled.(No texting and no online social-networking ever reported one of five young people.)

"Dr. Frank noted that the most ardent Texters and social networkers rated your parents as more permissive.""This is a red flag for parents - a red flag for their education," he said, "because you need to monitor and their children want to record of the decisions machen.Wir parents for their children with regard to texting and networking, to put more restrictive rules as you rules about whether your child can go on a school night and socialize for three hours would set."


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