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500 000 People Die Due TB Each Year | Accord to WHO (World Health Organization) In south east obtain a half of numeral tuberculosis disease (TB) over the world, suggest, every year, 500,000 peoples in this region died due to TB disease.

Samlee Plianbangchang, Regional Director of south east WHO, in his state in Jakarta, request to all stakeholders to strengthen partnerships in the elimination of TB disease, when the World TB Day March 24.

"This partnership, education, and empowerment as part of basic public services is the key to eliminating TB. Partnership with NGOs, government and private hospitals, and others since 1990 has been lowered to 25 per cent of the discovery of new cases," said Pliangbangchang.

In addition, the partnership between the various parties involved have also been raised to the TB treatment success rate reached 90 percent.

"Nevertheless, tuberculosis is a disease that is often caused by poverty, so if it does not reach the poorest among the poor, and focus on education and prevention, we can not eliminate this disease," said Pliangbangchang.

The number of TB patients in South East Asia region has declined by about 40 percent since 1990 to the early detection of process improvement and improved care system. However, the number of TB patients in South East Asia is still relatively high, even the WHO estimates that half the world's TB cases are in Southeast Asia and among the five countries included in the 22 countries with the highest number of TB patients, such as India which accounts for a quarter of new cases of TB.

Know Gall Stone Disease | Actually, what it gallstone disease? According to the explanation Dr.Ari Fahrial, Sp.PD, a disease that has the typical symptoms of heartburn is caused as a result of inflammation of the gallbladder.

Gallstones are shaped like crystals, with variations in the size of a grain of sand to larger than golf balls. "If further analysis consists of gallbladder stones cholesterol stones and pigment stones," he said.

Gallstones that obstruct the cystic duct, the tube that connects the gallbladder to the bile duct center, can cause pain and sometimes inflammation. Attacks and sudden illness usually lasts for several hours.

If you experience constant pain in upper abdomen, consult a doctor to find out if an interruption of bile.

"Through an abdominal ultrasound examination to know whether there is either acute or chronic inflammation of the gall bladder is. Examination is also to determine the presence or absence of bile duct dilation," said the lecturer in the Department of Medicine Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia.

In view of the factors of age, approximately 20 percent of cases of gall bladder disorders occur in those aged over 40 years and more experienced women. "It is rare under the age of 30 years," he added.

Another risk for the occurrence of gall bladder stones include: obesity, diabetes, HDL cholesterol (good cholesterol) is low, high triglycerides, high blood pressure, and also with high blood sugar. Diets high in fat and high cholesterol and low in fiber and a sudden weight loss can also cause the formation of gallbladder stones.

Prevent Stroke with Citrus Fruit - Recent research shows that eating citrus fruit regularly can help reduce the risk of stroke. For this study, researchers focused on compounds called flavanone, which is found in citrus fruits.

"These data provide strong support for eating more fruit juice as a daily consumption to reduce the risk of ischemic stroke," says study leader Aedin Cassidy, head of the nutrition of Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, England.

There is a possibility that flavanone in citrus fruits improve blood vessel function or reduce inflammation, which has been associated with stroke, the researchers said.

Cassidy said, to gain maximum benefit from the flavanone, fruits should be presented in the form of juice and no added sugar.

The study was published online on February 23, 2012 in the journal Stroke, whose research is funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

Flavanones is a type of flavonoid which has been known for its ability to suppress the incidence of stroke risk is lower. In addition to fruits and vegetables, flavonoids are also found in red wine and dark chocolate.

For this study, the researchers focused on the six subclasses of flavonoids, including flavanone.

In the study researchers evaluated data from the U.S. Nurses Health Study for 14 years. The study involved nearly 70,000 women, who each reported their food intake every four years and include details about the consumption of fruits and vegetables. At the end of the study note that there are about 1803 cases of stroke occurring. Approximately half had ischemic stroke (blockage of blood vessels).

Researchers said the number of flavonoid intake did not reduce the risk of stroke, but flavanone intake may reduce the risk of stroke. Women who earn more flavanone intake have an increased risk 19 percent lower risk of ischemic stroke than those who eat them in small amounts.

The researchers found that 95 percent of consumption flavanone derived from citrus fruits and juices, especially orange and grapefruit juice. Participants who ate the fruit or orange juice at most, the risk of stroke was reduced by 10 percent.

Women who received the lowest intake of flavanone on average consume about 150 milligrams of flavonoids per day or less. While those who earn large amounts of flavanone intake consumed about 470 milligrams a day.

Heart Attack Symptoms in Women are Different | Chest pain is one of the great heart attack symptom is the most popular. But apparently the symptoms were only experienced by men only. Heart attack symptoms in women are different.

In a study of more than one million women aged less than 55 years found that 42 percent of respondents who ever had a heart attack have no symptoms of chest pain. Meanwhile, the group of men, only 30 percent who do not feel chest pain.

In general, the incidence of heart attacks in women are much less than in men. But the heart attack suffered by women younger than 55 years can be fatal. About 14 percent of women die from the disease at that age.

Research conducted by collecting data from 1,000 hospitals, found the typical symptoms of a heart attack in women. Symptoms include discomfort in the chest, pain spreading to the back, abdomen or arms, and feeling dizzy head.

Cathy Ross, cardiac disease nurse from the British Heart Foundation, said the young woman who suffered heart attacks relatively rare. "Heart attacks are not always dramatic, different symptoms in each person. There is a severe chest pain, but there is also a sense of mild pain," he said.

Therefore, patients often choose to defer to the doctor because it is not considered an emergency condition. In fact, according to Ross, the handling is faster it will increase the chances of recovery.

Although the death rate from heart attacks are now increasingly be suppressed, but health workers and patients should be aware that women can also have a heart attack while not feel chest pain.

2 Signs of Stroke Attack - Stroke is a dangerous disease that can cause death of brain cells. The cause of stroke could be due to a blockage in blood vessels and the presence of a ruptured blood vessel.

Early detection of stroke symptoms is the key to prevent someone falling on a more fatal condition such as paralysis or even death. Therefore, if you have or see one or more signs of a stroke like this, immediately consult a doctor:

1. Sudden numbness or weakness in the face, arm, or leg - especially on one side of the body.

People with stroke will usually have a form of mouth "does not mean" alias oblique. Also need to be aware when they (suspected stroke) had difficulty moving the arm or finger control. For example, when lifting both hands, right hand higher than the other.

2. Sudden confusion and trouble speaking.

Language problem is one of the signs of the most common type of stroke. A person who suffered a sudden stroke may experience problems when they talk. In fact, some of which also decreased comprehension. Ask him (suspected stroke) to repeat a simple sentence to you, for example: "I went to the store today." If he has difficulty repeating the words she could be having a stroke.

Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease

Treat Parkinson's disease by gene therapy has proven successful in clinical trials for the first time, U.S. researchers said. This disease causes uncontrollable motor movements, tremor, rigidity and slow movements as part of the brain dies.

Small study in The Lancet Neurology used a virus to add genes to brain cells, resulting in less than half the patient's symptoms. Parkinson's UK warmly welcome this research, but they say more research is still needed. The disease affects 120,000 people in the UK, especially on over 50 years.

There is no cure for Parkinson's disease, although drugs and deep brain stimulation has shown a reduction in symptoms.

Gene therapy (gene therapy)

In patients with Parkinson's, a decline in the levels of chemicals are: GABA is located in the brain known as the nucleus subtalamikus. The researchers created a virus that "infects" cells with genes to increase the production of GABA (gamma aminobutyric acid).

In a trial of 22 patients, virus was injected into their brains, while 23 patients were "sham surgery", to make them think that they had injected the virus, their motor function and then monitored for six months.

Patients who had performed the gene therapy showed an increase of 23.1% at the level of their motor, while carried out with a "sham surgery" increased by 12.7%. Professor Nicholas Mazarakis, who is a specialist in gene therapy at Imperial College London, told the BBC a positive outcome was "very encouraging."

He added: "These results should be taken though with some caution, because even though the increase is rather small, only 10.4%, the clinical motor scale scores between patients who received gene therapy and placebo groups."

There are concerns about the safety of gene therapy. In 1999, Jesse Gelsinger died during the trial in the U.S. and there are cases of leukemia after treatment in France. The authors say the procedure is safe.

Dr Michelle Gardner, manager of the development of Parkinson's research in the UK, said: "This research shows promise of gene therapy for neurological conditions like Parkinson's, but further research is still needed. "We still do not know for how long the benefits of this treatment is over, or whether there may be long-term problems because the virus is inserted into the brain."

8 Strategies to Prevent Stroke - Stroke or partial loss of all neurological function (nerve), which occurs suddenly has become one of serious diseases in Indonesia, because of a growing number of cases.

In developed countries like the United States, stroke number third as a cause of death. While in Indonesia, stroke is the leading cause of death and top cause of disability.

"It takes a strategy for dealing with stroke. Data in Indonesia showed that 8.3 per 10,000 people suffer a stroke," said dr. Dani Ekawati Yulianti, SpS, neurologist MRCCC Siloam Hospital Semanggi, while seminar Healty Healthty Brain for Life, in Jakarta, Saturday (14/01/2012).

In fact, as much as 23 percent of patients who were hospitalized due to stroke resulted in death.

Eka said

There are many risk factors that lead to stroke such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, smoking, hypercholesterolemia, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, and excessive alcohol consumption. However, these risk factors can actually be altered by treatment of lifestyle.

Here are some Strategies to Prevent Stroke as revealed by dr. Eka:

1. Healthy and Balanced Diet

Healthy and balanced diet can mean eating lots of fruits and vegetables, low fat milk, low cholesterol and low sodium (daily salt intake should not exceed 2300 mg or about 1 teaspoon)

2. Regular physical activity

With moderate exercise (30-60 minutes accumulated) 4 to 7 days a week. For example, brisk walking, jogging, biking, swimming. For high-risk patients is recommended to follow a medically supervised program.

3. Weight Control

Maintain a Body Mass Index (BMI) in the range of 18.5 to 24.9 kg/m2 and a waist circumference of less than 80 cm for women and less than 90 cm for men (standard and South East Asia).

4. Stop Smoking

Smoking is one of the biggest trigger factor for stroke. Soon as possible to quit smoking and live in an environment free from tobacco smoke. There are several ways to stop smoking with nicotine replacement therapy (gum, patch) and behavioral therapy.

5. Limit Alcohol Consumption

Consuming alcohol is actually not be a problem as long as not excessive. Consumption of alcohol should be enough two standard glasses or less per day. For men with no more than 14 drinks per week. While for women less than 9 drinks per week.

6. Control of Hypertension

Lowering high blood pressure to target less than 140/90 mmHg (without other comorbidities).

7. Blood Sugar Control

For diabetics, the target of more aggressive blood pressure reduction of less than 130/80. Blood sugar control target of HbA1c <6.5 percent.  

8. Hypercholesterolemia

For people with high cholesterol (hypercholesterolemia), the provision of statins and lifestyle modifications to target LDL cholesterol levels less than 100 mg/dl.

Quoted from kompas.com

Air Pollution Can Cause Heart Attacks - Highway congestion can cause not only stress but also dangerous for the heart. According to research inhale smoke containing pollutants in a long time can lead to heart attacks.

In research published in the British Medical Journal, researchers found exposure to particulate pollutants and nitrogen dioxide that is released the vehicle dangerous to heart health, although the risk is relatively small at only 1.3 percent.

Yet two-particle exposure in a long time into the lungs can trigger heart attacks about six hours after a person is inhaling pollutants. The experts call this condition as an effect of "harvesting" of pollution.

Krishnan Bhaskaran and his team from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine tested on 79,288 cases of heart attacks that occurred in 15 suburban England and Wales between 2003-2006. Then the researchers measured the amount of pollution in the area at the time of the patients had a heart attack. The data used comes from the UK National Air Quality Archive.

The researchers also measured levels of carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and ozone, as well as other pollutant particles called PM10 and nitrogen dioxide.

"We estimate that within the context of pollutant PM10 and NO2 levels high enough to trigger a heart attack six hours later," said the researcher.

Professor Jeremy Pearson of the British Heart Foundation explains, can cause air pollution thickens the blood making it more easily clogged and are at high risk of heart attack.

"My advice to patients already diagnosed with heart disease should avoid being outside the polluted air in a long time," he said.

UK study also concluded that air pollution causes 29,000 premature deaths annually.

Avian Disease and Red Fruit

Bird flu is a disease affecting the poultry.

Symptoms of birds affected by bird flu are high fever and lead to death.

The medicine to cure this disease, the vaccine has actually been found that the AI ​​(Avian Influenza).

When this disease attacks the poultry industry, it will be fatal, because of all poultry farms are in all of them will be infected.

In addition to Al vaccines for the treatment of the disease, a lecturer from the University of Papua Cendrawasih namely: Dr. Made Budi, MS, has been entered into trials through sari "Red Fruit" in the treatment of bird flu and the results are quite satisfactory, from 20 chickens affected by bird flu 19 tail experience healing, and only one tail is dead.

The characteristics of the Red Fruit juice concoction of Dr.. Made Budi MS ie, does not smell acidic, neutral aroma, dark color (red), water content of zero (0), sediment pasta zero, the number of high iodine and peroxide value of zero (0) to 0.5. Boiling point lower red juice.

Bird flu or Avian disease is a disease affecting the poultry.

Symptoms of birds affected by bird flu are high fever and lead to death.

The medicine to cure this disease, the vaccine has actually been found that the AI ​​(Avian Influenza).
When this disease attacks the poultry industry, it will be fatal, because of all poultry farms are in all of them will be infected.

In addition to Al vaccines for the treatment of the disease, a lecturer from the University of Papua Cendrawasih namely: Dr. Made Budi, MS, has been entered into trials through sari "Red Fruit" in the treatment of bird flu and the results are quite satisfactory, from 20 chickens affected by bird flu 19 tail experience healing, and only one tail is dead.

The characteristics of the Red Fruit juice concoction of Dr.. Made Budi MS ie, does not smell acidic, neutral aroma, dark color (red), water content of zero (0), sediment pasta zero, the number of high iodine and peroxide value of zero (0) to 0.5. Boiling point lower red juice.

Prevent and Overcome Liver Cancer - Transmission of hepatitis A through food, while hepatitis B and C through body fluids. Hepatitis A often attack children and young adult age group. How to prevent this disease is to maintain the cleanliness of food and hepatitis A. The vaccine is also available The vaccine is given twice a distance of 6 months.
Hepatitis A although sometimes show clinical symptoms that interfere with, such as fever, nausea, vomiting, and yellow, in general will recover without complications. Thus, hepatitis A does not lead to liver cancer. However, hepatitis B and hepatitis C can become chronic liver cancer. Most liver cancer in our country caused by hepatitis B or hepatitis C.

You have to know that hepatitis B vaccination to prevent transmission of hepatitis B. Hepatitis B vaccination carried out three times in six months. Hepatitis B vaccination is recommended for health workers so as long as contact with the patient, the risk of contracting through the patient's body fluids is high enough. Until now, the hepatitis C vaccine is still in the research, when compared with hepatitis B, hepatitis C more often become chronic so that the risk to liver cancer is also greater.

Because there is no vaccine, if infected with hepatitis C, your doctor will consider whether the patient needs to get a hepatitis C therapy, namely interferon and ribavirin.

6 Disease that Damaging Liver - The liver is the organ in the body that has the important and complex task for the sake of continuity of all functions of the body. Because of its complexity and many are dealing with materials potentially damaging, like chemicals in blood, liver consequently vulnerable to injury. But, naturally, the liver has the ability to protect itself by regenerating.
In general, there are several diseases caused by viruses that can attack the liver.

1. Hepatitis

Hepatitis, or inflammation of the liver is the most common disease attacks the liver. There are several types of hepatitis, namely hepatitis A, B, C, D, E, and autoimmune hepatitis caused by a gene that triggers the immune system attacks liver cells.

Almost all people with hepatitis A can be cured, and not develop into chronic. About 90 percent of people with hepatitis B will also be healed. While hepatitis C and steatohepatitis nonalkoholik often develop into chronic hepatitis.

2. Hemokromaatosis

The disease is caused by a genetic disorder that causes the intestine to absorb too much iron, so the levels are excessive. Excess iron is going into the bloodstream and accumulate in certain organs, especially the liver.

3. Cirrhosis

Cirrhosis is characterized by progressive liver damage and can not be repaired. Often caused by infection, hepatitis B and C chronic, excessive alcohol use, or autoimmune disease.

4. Liver cancer

Usually liver cancer originating from other parts of the body, then spread to the liver. Liver quite vulnerable to attack cancer cells.

5. Liver abscess

Abscess, fluid or pus that meets the cavity, sometimes formed in the liver due to bacterial or parasitic infections. If caused by bacteria usually immediately followed by fever and chills. While the abscess because the parasite develops more slowly. The disease is identified by CT scan or ultrasound of the liver.

6. Congenital disorders of the liver

There is some inherited liver disorder and is usually seen when childhood.

Beware of Foot Bone Disease - Leg Bone Disease may sound strange to our ears, because if we hear the word bone, we only know about bone loss, or better known as osteoporosis.

But you need to know, the foot bone disease is also dangerous for your health, especially for you who have advanced age. Why? Because the leg bone disease can cause paralysis. So beware of early bone disease leg.

Recognize early

Surely you do not want this disease is not it? For that recognize the signs of this disease early.

1. Sprain
2. Fracture
3. Arthritis
4. Nekrois aseptic
5. Pain in the cartilage
6. Stiff joints when you wake up and people are very difficult to move and activity

This foot bone disease usually attacks in people who have more than 45 years of age due to calcium in the body has been slightly reduced in number, if you find the above symptoms consult your doctor as soon as possible.

The cause of leg bone disease include the following:

1. Likes to wear high heels, since legs will stand not as it should, but legs like a tiptoe through the back heel lifted and cause the leg had to restrain him.

2. Do not like to consume calcium. Most women do not like milk, the reason they are a weight problem, even though milk production may increase the calcium in your body.

Another fact you need to know, that bone disease affects women more vulnerable than men. You can eat low-fat milk to increase calcium in your body.

3. Inflammation of the bone. Other causes that arise because of the occurrence of uric acid in the body.

Insomnia due to death - There have been many accidents and health problems due to sleep disorders. Research on mice in the laboratory that continually forced to get up eventually die within two weeks. However, did not sleep in humans also lead to death?


According to medical records, the longest human survive without sleep is 11 days. That is evidenced by Randy Gardner, teens 17 years in 1967 continued to get up for 11 days for a competency dance. Over the past does not sleep he does not suffer pain and still be able to follow the competition. Finished the competition, he then slept for 14 hours and recovered his strength back as usual.

However, the example is a lack of sleep, which is very different from insomnia. "It is not unusual when someone can not sleep for several days because of insomnia," said Dr. Michael Thorpy of Sleep-Wake Disorder Center, USA.

Indeed there is a very rare case of insomnia, which is caused by genetic factors, that is fatal familial insomnia (FFI). The interference experienced only 40 families worldwide.

As a result of FFI, a person will suffer from panic attacks, hallucinations, decreased body weight, demenisa, and sometimes death. Sleep disturbance causes impairment of nerve function in the brain. FFI usually occurs in people of middle age and ends with death during the period of one or two years.

Thorpy explained, in most people, chronic insomnia is was not directly cause death . However, lack of sleep can lead to serious health problems that increase the risk of death.

"Sleeping less than seven hours per day associated with declining cognitive function, especially loss of concentration, impaired memory, and tired hands and eyes," said Thorpy.

The study also showed that people who suffer from insomnia more at risk of depression and anxiety. Insomnia is also associated with risk of heart disease and hypertension, obesity, diabetes, breast cancer, and headaches. That is why, people who suffer from insomnia must get a doctor's treatment.

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Trends in health risks shifted from the traditional risks (malnutrition, sanitation, hygiene, etc) to modern risks (obesity, diabetes, cholesterol, etc.), said Dr. John Chandrawinata, MND, SpGK.

Dr. Johanes, nutritionist RS. Boromeus Bandung expresses, the transition is to make lifestyle changes become a major killer disease 10 in Indonesia, especially urban residents.

"Heart disease is the highest cause of death due to unhealthy lifestyles," he said at the MoU with Tipco Kalbe Farma in Jakarta, Wednesday (31/3).

He specified the 10th of the disease are: stroke (19.4 percent), diabetes mellitus (9.3), hypertension (7.5), TB (7.3), heart iskesmik (6.5), tumor violent ( 5.8), liver/Lever (5.5), NEC (5.3), other heart disease (5.1), and the breath of chronic cardiovascular disease (4.7).

While 10 major killer diseases of the villagers, according to him were: stroke (16.1 percent), TB (9.1), hypertension (8.3), under the breath of chronic cardiovascular disease (7,1), tumor violence (6, 6), liver (6.0), ischemic heart disease (5.6), NEC (5.4), other heart disease (4.7), diabetes mellitus (4.4).[Poskota]

Heath disease - The heart is the center of circulation. So, should also be said that the heart is the center of life. For people who suffer from heart disease can be identified: one foot planted on the graves.


For patients with heart disease when it came to experiencing swelling in his heart, it will experience pain and pain in his heart. If there are people who experienced such a manner, then there is the recipe, so in order to try to use the recipe suggested below:

Material:
1. Take three pieces of betel leaves that meet both of it position (temorose - Javanese language).

2. Take 3 medium red onion cauliflower.

3. Take 4 pieces of fruit seeds cubeb (7 match)

4. Take a small spoon of caraway is also white.

Once you get it all, so now I set it up is as below:

Betel leaf, onion and cubeb washed, while the white cumin do not have to be washed. Then beat the four ingredients until smooth, then mix with water [4] tablespoons, after that you clean the filter, then drink the water of the herb twice a day/morning and afternoon. God willing, heart disease will be cured. Perform regular basis.

World health - Urinary pain that can not pass, though haltingly and often accompanied by pain when urinating, the water was very hot, and intermittently also want to go pee, people who suffer from this, it can be healed using traditional ingredients.

How to Make it:
Take the cat's whiskers leaves quite a lot. Then, drying under the hot sun for a week so that leaves the cat's whiskers completely dry and harden. Every morning, noon and afternoon pick up little leaves already dried cat's whiskers as a substitute for the use of leaf tea is brewed in a glass and drink water by steeping the cat's whiskers mixed with palm sugar, one teaspoon only.

If you really drink steeping it with a regular cat whiskers, just four days you are not bothered by the halting of urine or pain when urinating. Your pee will be smooth.

We need to explain, too, that the steeping water use cat whiskers can be used. Within one month with daily drinking herbal potions as above, breakfast, lunch and evening. Certainly the illness can be cured.

Ginkgo - For a long time, many experts have advocated the use of dietary supplements of ginkgo as a way to promote memory. However, a recent study conducted by the University of Virginia School of Medical has found that ginkgo did not prevent the development of dementia and Alzheimer's disease in older people.

Previous research conducted on ginkgo does not indicate that the extract of ginkgo tree leaves do have anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties but the results for the connection between the ginkgo and memory inclusive. However, this does not stop the wave of sales of ginkgo extract and many Americans across the country, especially the older ones, took the ginkgo extract diligent. It is believed that ginkgo prevents the formation of proteins associated with Alzheimer's disease.

The new study took 3000 men and women, 75 years or more, and half of them were randomized to receive 120 milligrams of ginkgo twice daily while the other half were given placebo.

Every six months the group was screened for dementia and after 6 years found that dementia occurred in both groups at the same speed. 277 people have dementia in the group assigned to daily ginkgo and dementia in 246 people get assigned to the placebo group. Same speed events was found when the two groups were tested for Alzheimer's disease.

The study concludes that ginkgo is safe for consumption. However, the rate of heart attacks and gastrointestinal bleeding were similar in both groups, although the ginkgo group had taken 16 strokes from bleeding in the brain compared with 8 in the placebo group. The researchers feel that the difference in the number of strokes was too small to be of any consequence.**www.scumdoctor.com**

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A study found that prostate cancer-suppressing drugs may increase the risk of heart attack. This surprising discovery, reduced enthusiasm for use of the drug.


Previously, GlacoSmithKline PLC asking the FDA (Food and Drug Inspection Institute for the U.S.) to approve the drug Avodart for cancer prevention for men with risk above the average for this disease. This drug has been used for urination problems and no cardiac risk of such use, said the doctor.

"The conclusion from this study as an antidote to cancer medicine is mentioned at the conference last year, but no known cardiac risk information at the time," said Glaxo spokeswoman.

Overall results of this study can be viewed at the New England Journal of Medicine, this Thursday edition.

This study followed 6700 men with a high value of the PSA blood test, but has no signs of cancer on biopsy. They were then given a fake pill Avodart and as well as a new biopsy for four years. Prostate cancer was found in 25% of those using fake pills and 20% users Avodart.

This is a risk reduction similar to other studies which found him in the same drug, Finasteride, which is sold in generic form as Proscar, manufactured by Merck & Co.. Inc. This study found no higher risk of heart attack on Proscar. In the study, Avodart, heart failure developed in 30 men compared to 16 drug users from fake pills.

"Further analysis suggested for men at risk of heart failure during the use of Avodart was also inclined to use additional medications," said a spokesman for Glaxo, Sarah Alspach. He added that the high risk of heart failure was considered not described and not consistent with previous research.

Last year, a discussion panel of cardiologists to recommend men choose Proscar or Avodart if they regularly tend to prostate cancer. However, Avodart study is not compatible with previous suggestions.

"Two of these drugs work with the different ways and may not have the same safety profile," said Dr Barnett Krammer, scientists from the National Institutes of Health who led the panel and no relation with the research.

In conclusion Avodart as a whole, according to Kramer's most important is the possibility of heart attacks that have not been anticipated.

Dr. Otis Brawley, who helped research this before he became chief of medicine at the 2007 American Cancer Society, said that the risk of heart attack may happen. However, men may need to pay attention to this risk. "This is probably a good reason to stop the consumption of the drug," said Brawley.

The number of people who choose to use these drugs for cancer prevention has not been clear until now. On the other hand, the cost is about U.S. $ 3 (Rp28 thousand) per pill. "To prevent additional cases of cancer, men should consume 71 Proscar for seven years," says doctor

Prostate cancer, is a nonskin cancer, the most common in American men. Approximately 192,000 new cases and 27,000 deaths from this cancer last year.**inilah.com**


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Do not drink coffee, then heart disease! This layman assumption was not entirely correct. Because the coffee was friends with the heart.

At the conference the American Heart Association (AHA) in San Francisco, plus record number of coffee drinkers. Coffee drinkers have a lower risk for abnormal heart rhythm disease. And there is no indication by sipping a few cups of coffee can increase the risk of Atherosclerosis, or hardening of the blood vessel wall which causes a heart attack. Other Ingredients in coffee, but caffeine can reduce the risk of diabetes for women who regularly drink it.

However, one report found a potential link between drinking coffee with high blood pressure. But do not worry, its effects can still be tolerated.

"The study of heart rhythm was examined 130,054 members of Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program is being treated by a heart rhythm disturbance. About two percent experienced Atrial Fibrillation. However, for drinkers of four cups of coffee per day 18 percent lower risk of heart than those who do not drink coffee, "said Dr. Arthur Klatsky, a senior cardiac consultant.

Another study followed 3000 men and women aged 20 years found no relationship between coffee consumption and atherosclerosis, both male and female, black or white, smokers or nonsmokers.

This was agreed by Jared Reis, Epidemiologi experts from the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, said there was no substantial relationship between drinking coffee and an increase or decrease in Atherosclerosis.

Not only is the Women's Health Study explains that diabetes type 2 (diabetes as a lifestyle) experienced fewer coffee drinkers. Researchers compared 359 postmenopausal women who suffer from type 2 diabetes and 359 women without the disease. Found women who drank four cups of caffeinated coffee a day, have a risk of 56 percent lower than those who did not consume coffee.

"Coffee reduces the risk of the effects of caffeine because caffeine hormone binding," said Dr. Liwei Chen, assistant professor of the University of California, Los Angeles.**seoku.net**


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