Most people get allergic conjunctivitis when their eyes come into contact with an allergen - a substance which makes the body’s immune system overreact. The eye becomes sore, inflamed and sometimes painful. Symptoms occur because the overreacting immune system makes the body release histamine and other active substances by mast cells - these cause dilation of blood vessels (blood vessels expand, widen), Read the rest of this entry »
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers, in a collaboration with colleagues from the University of Leipzig, Germany, have identified a signaling pathway that is operational in intra-abdominal fat, the fat depot that is most strongly tied to obesity-related morbidity.
The paper was just published in the Endocrine Society’s the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism ( J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 2009; 94:2507-251)
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According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), about two-thirds of people over the age of 65 have high blood pressure. What’s more, they report that if you haven’t had it by the time you reach age 55, there is a 90 percent chance you will end up with it during your lifetime. It is something that almost all of us will encounter in our lifetime. But the good news is that watching what you eat can Read the rest of this entry »
A study just published on bmj.com concludes that the defects in a particular gene known as the filaggrin gene are linked to a considerably amplified risk of developing allergic disorders such as eczema, rhinitis, and asthma.
Over the past years, allergic diseases have increased. In economically developed countries, those diseases now affect up to one in three children. For a long time researchers have looked for genes Read the rest of this entry »
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have shown that patients with uncontrolled hypertension respond to treatment intensification regardless of their degree of adherence to antihypertensive medications. This study, which has been published online in Hypertension could have an immediate impact on clinical care, as it challenges a widely held assumption.
The BUSM researchers studied 819 patients Read the rest of this entry »