By admin | Published:
January 26, 2007
PAT DOYLE, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
REFERENCE: BJOG 2007 114:170
Underweight women were found to be at increased risk of miscarriage in a study published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. A team from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine conducted a survey by questionnaire of 6 000 women among whom 600 had a first trimester miscarriage. Using a “case-control” method of comparison it emerged that women with a body mass index below 18.5 had a 70 per cent increase in their risk of miscarriage. Peter Goodwin heard more about the study from Pat Doyle of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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By admin | Published:
January 19, 2007
RODGER MACARTHUR, Wayne State University, Detroit
REFERENCE: Lancet 2006; 368: 2125-35
A three-class HIV antiretroviral therapy is not necessary, according to data published in the Lancet. The FIRST study had three arms which included non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs), protease inhibitors (PIs), or both, all in the presence of nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors. Derek Thorne heard more from Rodger MacArthur of Wayne State University in Detroit.
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By admin | Published:
January 19, 2007
NILESH SAMANI, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester
REFERENCE: Lancet 2007; 369:107
A new genetic test could help predict which individuals will develop coronary heart disease among those with similar conventional risk factors. The length of the terminating structures of chromosomes, telomeres, can be used to predict cardiovascular mortality in middle-aged men, according to a study from Leicester in the UK which analysed blood samples collected for the West of Scotland Primary Prevention Study, (WOSCOPS). Nilesh Samani gave Helen Morant the details.
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By admin | Published:
January 17, 2007
CHARLOTTE WATTS, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
REFERENCE: Lancet 2006; 368: 1973-83
A large and groundbreaking study has shown that microfinance, combined with a gender and HIV training scheme, can help reduce domestic violence among poor women living in rural South Africa. Charlotte Watts of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine told Derek Thorne about the IMAGE study.
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By admin | Published:
January 8, 2007
RICHARD LEVINE, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
REFERENCE: N Engl J Med 2006; 355:992
In pregnant women circulating levels of the anti-angiogenic substances: soluble endoglin and soluble Flt-1 herald the onset of preeclampsia, according to a publication in the New England Journal of Medicine. Richard Levine told Peter Goodwin about his group’s findings from the Calcium for Preeclampsia Prevention Trial which give hope of designing molecularly targeted drugs to treat preeclampsia or of spotting the disease early.
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