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Exercise During Pregnancy May Save Children From Metabolic Diseases by Anjanee Sharma on March 16, 2021 at 10:18 PM Research suggests that exercise during pregnancy may substantially decrease their offspring s chances of developing diabetes and other metabolic diseases later in life. A mice study discovered that maternal exercise during pregnancy prevented the transmission of metabolic diseases from an obese parent (mother or father) to the child. Zhen Yan, researcher, states, Most of the chronic diseases we talk about today are known to have a fetal origin. This is to say that the parents poor health conditions before and during pregnancy have negative consequences to the child, potentially through chemical modification of the genes. ....
Aspirin Use for Heart Disease may Down Chance of COVID-19 by Angela Mohan on March 12, 2021 at 2:21 PM Aspirin, due to its well-known anti-inflammatory effects, could modulate the innate and adaptive immune responses helping the human immune system battle viral infections. With this information in mind Israeli researchers hypothesized that pre-infection treatment with low-dose aspirin (75mg) use might have a potential beneficial effect on COVID-19 susceptibility and disease duration. A joint team from Leumit Health Services, Bar-Ilan University, and Barzilai Medical Center conducted an observational epidemiological study, utilizing data from Leumit Health Services, a national health maintenance organization in Israel. Their findings were recently published in ....
Oral Hormone Therapy Women Linked To Heart Disease by Pooja Shete on December 22, 2020 at 7:35 PM Oral hormone therapy can significantly alter the products of metabolism in post menopausal women. For this research, blood samples from the landmark Women s Health Initiative (WHI) study were examined. This can help explain the disease risks and the protective effects which are linked to different hormone therapy regimen. The study led by a team of scientists including a University of Massachusetts Amherst biostatistician was published in the Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine. Raji Balasubramanian, associate professor in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, whose research connects biostatistics, molecular epidemiology and women s health said, ....
Exercise During Adolescence may Prevent Schizophrenia by Colleen Fleiss on December 16, 2020 at 10:05 PM During adolescence, low intensity exercise was found to have protective effects in a mouse model of schizophrenia, said University of Tsukuba researchers. Although schizophrenia is increasingly understood as a neurodevelopmental disorder, environmental factors are known to play an important role in the disease onset and progression. In a study published this month in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, researchers from the University of Tsukuba have revealed that low-intensity exercise during adolescence, which is a critical developmental period, significantly reduced abnormal behaviors in a mouse model of schizophrenia. ....