As researchers continue to wage war against cancer, many have begun to focus on what could be
the most promising ammunition to date: diet.
“The easiest, least-expensive way to reduce your risk for cancer is just
by eating a healthy diet,” says Rachael Stolzenberg-Solomon, PhD, MPH, RD,
a researcher at the National Cancer Institute.
When it comes to a diet rich in cancer-fighting substances, most experts
agree that it should consist of a predominantly plant-based diet. “If you
have two-thirds of plant food on your plate, that seems to be enough to avoid
excessive amounts of food high in saturated fat,” says Karen Collins, RD,
nutritional advisor for the American Institute for Cancer Research.
That seemingly simple advice could mean a drastic change in diet for many
people.
“People who are thinking that this is like a diet, and are trying to
choke this stuff down, it’s never going to last,” Collins tells WebMD.
“You’re looking at creating something for a lifetime. If it takes you
awhile, but each month or so you enjoy [one more vegetable], then that’s
great,” Collins.
You may want to start with some of the following food substances, all of
which show promise as cancer-fighting agents.
Folate-Rich Foods
This B-complex vitamin can be found in many ‘good for you’ foods. Plus,
manufacturers of cereals, pastas, and breads often fortify their products with
folate.
How It Works
“The thought is that when someone has low levels of folate, it’s more
likely for mutations in DNA to occur,” Stolzenberg-Solomon says.
Conversely, adequate levels of folate protect against such mutations.
Cancer-Fighting Abilities
In a large-scale study, researchers evaluated the effects of folate on more
than 27,000 male smokers between ages 50 and 69. Men who consumed at least the
recommended daily allowance of folate — about 400 micrograms — cut by half
their risk of developing pancreatic cancer.
How to Get It
Starting with breakfast, a glass of orange juice is high in folate; so are
most cereals (check the box to see how much). For lunch, try a hearty salad
with either spinach or romaine leaves. Top it with dried beans or peas for an
extra boost. Snack on a handful of peanuts or an orange. At dinner, choose
asparagus or Brussels sprouts as your vegetable.
Vitamin D
This fat-soluble vitamin which helps absorb calcium to build strong teeth
and bones may also build protection against cancer.
How It Works
Researchers suggest that vitamin D curbs the growth of cancerous cells.
Cancer-Fighting Abilities:
A report presented at the latest meeting of the American Association for
Cancer Research (AACR) showed a link between increased vitamin D intake and
reduced breast cancer risk. It found vitamin D to lower
the risk of developing breast cancer by up to 50%.
Vitamin D may also improve survival rates among lung
cancer patients, according to a Harvard study reported in 2005.
Patients who received surgery for lung cancer in the summer, when vitamin D
exposure from sunshine is greatest, and had the highest intake of vitamin D,
reported a 56% five-year survival rate. Patients with low vitamin D intakes and
winter surgeries had only a 23% survival rate.
How to Get It
In light of these recent findings, many researchers consider the current RDA
of 400 international units (IU) too low. William G. Nelson, MD, PhD, of Johns
Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., suggests that the RDA recommendations for
vitamin D be increased to 1,000 IU for both men and women. “Higher amounts
may eventually prove better, but for now that amount is likely to be safe and
have a protective effect,” he tells WebMD.
While vitamin D is often associated with milk, high concentrations also can
be found in these seafood choices: cod, shrimp, and Chinook salmon. Eggs are
another good source. And don’t forget sunshine. In just 10 minutes, you can
soak up as much as 5,000 IU of vitamin D if you expose 40% of your body to the
sun, without sunscreen.
Tea
If you enjoy sipping tea, you’ll be happy to know that it appears promising
against some forms of cancer.
How It Works
Like many plant-based foods, tea contains flavonoids, known for their
antioxidant effects. One flavonoid in particular, kaempferol, has shown
protective effects against cancer.
Cancer-Fighting Abilities:
A large-scale study evaluating kaempferol intake of more than 66,000 women
showed that those who consumed the most of it had the lowest risk of developing
ovarian cancer. Researcher Margaret Gates, a
doctoral candidate at Harvard’s School of Public Health, suggests that
consuming between 10 milligrams and 12 milligrams daily of kaempferol — the
amount found in four cups of tea –offers protection against ovarian
cancer.
A separate study showed a link between consuming flavonoids and reducing the
risk of breast cancer. The study, analyzing the lifestyle habits of nearly
3,000 people, showed that postmenopausal women who got the most flavonoids were
46% less likely to develop breast cancer than those who got the least. However,
flavonoid consumption had no effect on breast cancer risk among premenopausal
women.
How to Get It
Hot tea can be warming in the winter; ice tea offers cool refreshment in the
summer. So enjoy tea year-round to boost cancer prevention.
Cruciferous Vegetables
They may not have been your favorite as a kid, but cruciferous vegetables –
members of the cabbage family that include kale, turnip greens, cabbage,
cauliflower, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts — can help you ward off cancer.
How They Work
In lab experiments, substances released during either cutting or chewing
cruciferous vegetables produced a cancer-killing effect.
Cancer-Fighting Abilities
Recent studies on cruciferous vegetables show promising results against
prostate and colon cancers. In mice grafted with human prostate tumors and then
treated with one of these cancer-killing substances, tumors began to shrink to
half their size after 31 days. In another experiment, mice engineered to be a
model for an inherited colon polyp condition that is at high risk for
developing into colon cancer were fed the antioxidant called sulforaphane, also
released when chewing cruciferous vegetables. The mice developed about half as
many polyps as expected.
How to Get Them
Swallowing them whole won’t do. The protective effect of cruciferous
vegetables seems to occur when they are cut or chewed. They’re great in stir
fry, as side dishes, or tossed into salads raw. Experiment with flavors like
lemon or garlic. “Vegetables can be a fabulous-tasting centerpiece of
cuisine,” says Collins.
Curcumin
By sprinkling curcumin into your favorite dishes, you could be adding much
more than a little zest to your meal — you could add years to your life.
How It Works
Experts credit curcumin’s anti-inflammatory effects for its ability
to fight cancer. “Most diseases are caused by chronic inflammation that
persists over long periods of time,” says Bharat B. Aggarwal, PhD, a
biochemist at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Recent
studies have shown curcumin to interfere with cell-signaling pathways, thereby
suppressing the transformation, proliferation, and invasion of cancerous
cells.
Cancer-Fighting Abilities
Curcumin’s protective effects may extend to bladder and gastrointestinal
cancers. Some say they don’t stop with these types of cancer. “Among all
the cancers we and others have examined, no cancer yet has been found which is
not affected by curcumin. This is expected, as inflammation is the mediator for
most cancer,” Aggarwal tells WebMD.
How to Get It
Curcumin flavors lots of popular Indian dishes, as it is the main ingredient
in curry powder. It complements rice, chicken, vegetable, and lentils. Some
chefs sprinkle the bright, yellow powder into recipes for a burst of color.
Ginger
This popular spice, long used to quell nausea, may soon be used to fight
cancer, too.
How It Works
Working directly on cancer cells, researchers discovered ginger’s ability to
kill cancer cells in two ways. In apoptosis, the cancer cells essentially
commit suicide without harming surrounding cells. In autophagy, “the cells
are tricked into digesting themselves,” explains J. Rebecca Liu, assistant
professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan in Ann
Arbor, who has been studying ginger’s effects on ovarian cancercells. While this preliminary
evidence shows promise, ginger’s cancer-fighting effects must still be proven
in animal and human trials.
Cancer-Fighting Abilities
Armed with ginger, ongoing research is taking aim against the most lethal of
gynecological cancers: ovarian cancer. “Most women [with ovarian cancer]
develop resistance to conventional chemotherapy drugs,” Liu tells WebMD.
Because ginger may kill cancer cells in more than one way, researchers are
hopeful that patients would not develop resistance to it.
Because ginger’s effects on cancer haven’t been tested directly on human
subjects, researchers can’t yet offer specific dietary recommendations. “We
don’t know how it’s metabolized,” Liu says. But that needn’t stop people
from adding ginger to their diet. “We know it’s relatively nontoxic,”
Liu tells WebMD.
How to Get It
Go beyond the obvious choices, like sipping ginger ale and eating
gingerbread cookies. Countless soups, sumptuous marinades, and zesty sauces
call for ginger.
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It may seem like pure indulgence, but chocolate can do good things for Listen to the way people malign chocolate: Sinful! Decadent! To die for!
1. A happier heart ?Scientists at the Harvard University School of “Studies have shown heart benefits from increased blood flow, less platelet
2. Better blood pressure ?If yours is high, chocolate may help.
3. Muscle magic ?Chocolate milk may help you recover after a hard
4. TLC for your skin ?German researchers gave 24 women a half-cup of
5. Brain gains ?It sounds almost too good to be true, but preliminary
6. Good loving (maybe) ?Italian researchers wanted to know whether
your heart, skin, brain, and more.
There’s even that popular restaurant dessert known as “Death by Chocolate.” But
is this any way to talk about a loved one? Not at Health. With evidence
mounting that some kinds of chocolate are actually good for you, we come
bearing gifts: six delicious reasons why you should nurture a chocolate habit
(within reason) and taste-tested advice on what to try. Merry munching.
Public Health recently examined 136 studies on cocoa—the foundation for
chocolate—and found it does seem to boost heart health, according to an article
in the European journal Nutrition and Metabolism.
stickiness and clotting, and improved bad cholesterol,” says Mary B. Engler,
PhD, a chocolate researcher and director of the Cardiovascular and Genomics
Graduate Program at the University of California, San Francisco, School of
Nursing. These benefits are the result of cocoa’s antioxidant chemicals known
as flavonoids, which seem to prevent both cell damage and inflammation.
Jeffrey Blumberg, PhD, director of the Antioxidants Research Laboratory at
Tufts University, recently found that hypertensive people who ate 3.5 ounces of
dark chocolate per day for 2 weeks saw their blood pressure drop significantly,
according to an article in the journal Hypertension. Their bad cholesterol
dropped, too. People who ate the same amount of white chocolate? Nothing. (It
doesn’t have any cocoa—or flavonoids.) Word to the wise: 3.5 ounces is roughly
equal to a big bar of baking chocolate, so the participants had to cut about
400 calories out of their daily diets to make room. But you probably don’t have
to go to those lengths. Just a bite may do you good, Blumberg says.
workout. In a small study at Indiana University, elite cyclists who drank
chocolate milk between workouts scored better on fatigue and endurance tests
than those who had some sports drinks. Yoo-hoo!
special extra-flavonoid-enriched cocoa every day. After 3 months, the women’s
skin was moister, smoother, and less scaly and red when exposed to ultraviolet
light. The researchers think the flavonoids, which absorb UV light, help
protect and increase blood flow to the skin, improving its appearance.
research at West Virginia’s Wheeling Jesuit University suggests chocolate may
boost your memory, attention span, reaction time, and problem-solving skills by
increasing blood flow to the brain. Chocolate companies found comparable gains
in similar research on healthy young women and on elderly people.
chocolate truly is an aphrodisiac. In a survey of 143 women published in the
Journal of Sexual Medicine, those who ate chocolate every day seemed to have
more sex drive, better lubrication, and an easier time reaching orgasm. Pass
the Godiva, right? Not so fast. The women who ate chocolate were all younger
than the ones who didn’t; it was age and not chocolate that made the
difference. Still, if a double-chocolate raspberry truffle puts you in the
mood, why let science get in the way?
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When you visit the doctor to talk about next steps in treating the person in your life who has Alzheimer’s disease, print out this list of questions and take it with you. The doctor’s answers will help guide both of you toward the right treatment now. Speaking about the person with Alzheimer’s disease, ask:
10 Questions to Ask Your
Doctor About Alzheimer’s Disease
and Namenda
with Alzheimer’s medication [or, changing to a different Alzheimer's
medication] help slow the decline in symptoms?
differently from other Alzheimer’s medications and can be used in
combination with other medications like Aricept. Would you consider
prescribing Namenda for him/her?
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eyes, move its mouth as if munching and cry to ask for a change of
nappy after drinking water, at the annual Tokyo Toy Show
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EXTREME ADVENTURE
Scientists have for
the first time, by snipping off a single hydrogen atom from a molecule
and then adding it back on again, been able to break and re-forge a
chemical bond in a controlled and reversible way.
The
scientists used a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) for their
cutting tool, which works by manoeuvring a sharp metal tip close to an
object.
It applies a small voltage and measures the trickle of electrons that flow between the two.
The
team first used their STM to locate a methylaminocarbyne (CNHCH3)
molecule that was fixed to a platinum surface. Then they turned up the
voltage, increasing the flow of electrons.
They found it was
enough to break one bond — between the molecule’s nitrogen and hydrogen
atom — but not to disturb any of the other bonds, leaving a molecule of
methylisocyanide (CNCH3).
To
reverse the process, the group bathed the sample in hydrogen gas. The
platinum surface catalysed the splitting of the hydrogen molecules into
their hydrogen atoms, which reacted with nitrogen in the
methylisocyanide molecule to re-form methylaminocarbyne.
According
to Yousoo Kim at the Surface Chemistry Laboratory in Wako, Japan, who
carried out the experiment with colleagues, this kind of reversible
alteration could be used in molecular electronics. Changing the bonding
of a molecule like this also changes its electrical contact with the
metal surface — if it could be reversibly changed from conducting to
insulating, it would become a molecular switch, he said.
The scientists are however, unclear how to extend this result to other systems.
SPRUCE
up your appearance ladies and take grooming very, very seriously. Let
us not blame women who go in for asset-enhancing techniques anymore.
For, where a man is concerned, nothing seems to have changed so far as
his mating instincts go. He is still the visual creature he was many
centuries ago — appearances are all to him!!
And even with
appearance, he goes straight for the jugular — those aspects that
signify a woman’s sexuality are most attractive to him. For a man, the
seduction game is all about sex, sex and more sex. Only then comes —
even more sex! A woman might as well accept this and be resigned to the
fact that it’s the sex appeal she oozes that scores over all other
attributes she may possess — mental, emotional, spiritual, whatever.
Evolution
has geared men to look for facial sexual signals. Research shows men
are most attracted to a childlike face, for this arouses their paternal
instincts to touch and protect. With eyes, men world over go for the
large, luminescent variety. When a woman is attracted to a man, her
pupils dilate. Contact lenses give the impression of glistening eyes
and permanent dilation of pupils. And sure enough, studies reveal that
men find women with contact lenses very sexy! Lips, if we are to
believe Freud and zoologists, are an outer manifestation of a woman’s
sexuality and fill with blood and swell up when she is excited. Men
find full, sensual lips attractive. Do you wonder at the silicon
injects women undergo to get the bee-bitten swollen look?
For the rest, men find a woman with long neck and long hair more appealing. Long necks signify gender difference, while long hair indicates good health and so potential to produce healthy offspring.
Coming
to body shape, a man’s ideal for women is a waist-hip ratio of about 70
per cent — and this ratio is actually an indicator of high fertility in
a woman. All men love breasts and cleavage, and find a rounded,
protruding behind attractive — a symbol of fertility since time
immemorial. So, ok, with a man, looks do matter. And how! To the extent
that over time, women’s bodies have evolved as sexual signals to beckon
men!
However, things are different when a man is looking for a
long-term partner. Unlike women, men, with their age-old hunting
instincts, know exactly what they are looking for when their search for
a partner begins. And, a man makes a difference between short-term and long-term partners, with criteria for both differing.
If
it is a fling or a one-night stand he is looking for, he looks out for
women who are provocatively dressed, sexy and a little drunk and loud.
If she doesn’t drink, confesses a male colleague, forget about it! You
aren’t in luck that night. For a short-term affair, she must also be friendly and warm into the bargain. However, if a man is looking
for a long-term relationship, the criteria changes. Now he’s looking
for a beautiful girl, warm and friendly. She should be sexy but not
overtly so — after all you wouldn’t want a Mallika Sherawat as
long-term girlfriend, would you, exclaims the colleague in horrified
tones! She should be ‘different’ from others — warm, attractive and a
good conversationalist. Research shows personality, good looks, brain
and humour is a man’s wish list in order of priority for a partner.
A
man likes a woman to say positive things to him, ask questions about
and show interest in whatever he does. Of course the one thing that
puts him off is a woman who clings — is too needy and wanting all the
time. A woman must give him his space. A trick the colleague shares
is that the woman must keep withdrawing a bit and coming back again —
so as to keep him on his toes. A man appreciates a slight aloofness
over a clingy attitude.
If a man needs to appeal to a woman’s
vanity to be attractive to her, she needs to appeal to his ego if she
is to make an impact on him. Most men are susceptible to compliments
that boost their selfesteem. And nobody knows this better than a woman.
Give him
single-minded attention, flirt with him, prod him on to talk about his
day and work, make appropriately appreciative sounds at the right
places and soon you will have him eating out of your hands. Till you
keep him guessing, he will dance attendance; the moment he knows you
are hooked, he will relax his guard and start taking you for granted. A
man somehow is convinced that a woman dresses and grooms herself for
him, though research shows women dress more for other women! Men,
however, draw a straight correlation between the amount of effort women
take with their appearance and their interest in them. As a result, if
somewhere along the line a woman stops looking after her appearance, a
man sees it as a signal that he is no longer important to her!
And
so, just like a man must never stop complimenting a woman as we
discussed in last week’s column, a woman must always look after her
appearance for her man’s sake. If he must always pander to her vanity,
she needs to pander to his ego. When a woman looks for a sense of
humour in a man, she means he should be able to make her laugh; when he
seeks a woman with a sense of humour, a man means she should be able to
laugh at his jokes! While a woman looks for a bit of a scoundrel in a
short-term relationship, he is looking for a bit of a vamp. However for
longterm, both change criteria and look for more mind than matter! Now
she seeks a guy with potential for moving ahead, while he looks for a
good homemaker.
Sounds so clinical and unromantic, doesn’t it?
And yet, knowingly or unknowingly, it all boils down to just that!
What’s so different about the 21st century? Primal instincts are still
as much at play beneath a veneer of civilization.
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This Man Doesn’t Eat At All!!!!!
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Author: ik1989
In: Dating, Romance & Relationships, Food, Drinks & Eating out
Jane
This man survives on sunshine, fruit juice
Fryer Brunswick (Germany): Michael Werner looks normal enough. He’s six
foot tall, grey and bespectacled, weighs in at 12-and-a-half stone and
enjoys playing tennis, socialising and jogging — three miles before
breakfast with his wife Angelica, a nice fry-up for her and a quick
coffee for him. All very ordinary. It’s just that Michael doesn’t eat.
At all.
In fact, the last item of food that passed his lips
was a huge helping of potato salad and a slice of cake on New Year’s
Eve 2001. Extraordinarily, the 58-year-old doctor of chemistry and
father of three from Brunswick, northern Germany, claims he gets all
the sustenance he needs from the sun. Oh, and the occasional coffee,
fruit juice or a glass of wine if he and Angelica are enjoying a night
out.
“I call it light nutrition,” he explains. “But one can
also talk of ethereal, Prana, Chi or cosmic energy… it’s all the same
thing.” It’s also known as Breatharianism, or the belief that the
elements contained in air — nitrogen, carbon dioxide, oxygen and
hydrogen — can sustain a body.
So far, so daft. But Dr Werner
isn’t your average nutter. He’s a bright, well-spoken scientist who was
so surprised at the consequences of his bizarre diet — just four
coffees and two fruit juices every day for six-and-a-half years, plus
that occasional glass of wine — that he’s written a book about it
called Life From Light.
“I’m actually a really normal person,” he insists. “Not a freak, or someone with some amazing phenomenon.”
It all started in 2000 when the Werners had a friend over for supper who was living from “light nourishment alone”.
Michael
was intrigued. And, finally, after nine months of build-up and the New
Year’s Eve potato salad blow-out, he gave it a whirl — starting with a
strict acclimatisation programme to help his body adapt. To be frank,
it’s a miracle Werner hasn’t died.
Experts differ as to the
absolute maximum time that human life can continue without water, but
the broad consensus rests at somewhere between seven and ten days,
though severe dehydration and confusion (due to the build-up of sodium
and potassium in the brain) would set in sooner. In the desert, of
course, lack of water can kill in a matter of hours.
So if
Werner is telling the truth, then his body really is extraordinary. And
at six foot and 12-anda-half stone, he’s not even particularly skinny.
And he claims to feel wonderful.
And what of his libido — has
it been diminished by a diet of coffee, juice and air? “The opposite!”
he trills. “Every perception — whether it is sight, skin or other sense
organ — is more intense. My potency has become even stronger.”
In the cutthroat business of real estate, US-based firm Baytree
Capital Associates has been chosen to market Dracula’s castle. Archduke
Dominic Habsburg, who lives in New York State, and his family retained
the private investment firm to market Bran Castle and the surrounding
property in the Transylvanian region of Romania.
“They’re
looking to flat out sell the entire project, but they are particular
about who they sell it to,” said Michael Gardner, Baytree chairman.
“While they are amenable to someone building a resort that continues
the castle and such, they’re not amenable to blood dripping on swords.
This is not going to be Vampire Land.”
While he would not say how much the prop
erty would go for, he suspects it would be in the nine-figure
euro range. He expects to start marketing the property in about 60
days. The castle and ancillary buildings are located on 22 acres.
Additional acres may also be attached to the sale. The property is
about 20 minutes away from an international airport near the Brasov ski
area that is currently under construction.
The association of
Bran Castle as Dracula’s Castle can be traced back to Irish author Bram
Stoker, who used the castle as his inspiration for the settings of his
1897 novel, Dracula. The Romanian government has about two years left
to operate the castle as a museum, which hosts about 450,000 visitors a
year, Gardner said. The property will probably be marketed to private
equity firms and hotel real estate investment trusts, but the buyer
will probably be European.
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Hearts and kidneys: If one’s diseased, better keep a close eye on the other.
Surprising new research shows kidney disease somehow speeds up heart disease well before it has ravaged the kidneys. And perhaps not so surprising, doctors have finally proven that heart disease can trigger kidney destruction, too. The work, from two studies involving over 50,000 patients, promises to boost efforts to diagnose simmering kidney disease earlier. All it takes are urine and blood tests that cost less than $25, something proponents want to become as routine as cholesterol checks. "The average patient knows their cholesterol," says Dr. Peter McCullough, preventive medicine chief at Michigan’s William Beaumont Hospital. "The average patient has no idea of their kidney function." Chronic kidney disease, or CKD, is a quiet epidemic: Many of the 19 million Americans estimated to have it don’t know they do. The kidneys lose their ability to filter waste out of the bloodstream so slowly that symptoms aren’t obvious until the organs are very damaged. End-stage kidney failure is rising fast, with 400,000 people requiring dialysis or a transplant to survive, a toll that has doubled in each of the last two decades. And while CKD patients often are terrified of having to go on dialysis, the hard truth is that most will die of heart disease before their kidneys disintegrate to that point, something kidney specialists have recognized for several years but isn’t widely known. Indeed, the new research is highlighted in this month’s Archives of Internal Medicine with a call for doctors who care for heart patients to start rigorously checking out the kidneys — and for better care of early kidney disease. The link sounds logical. After all, high blood pressure and diabetes are chief risk factors for both chronic kidney disease and heart attacks. But the link goes beyond those risk factors, stresses McCullough: Once the kidneys begin to fail, something in turn accelerates heart disease, not just in the obviously sick or very old, but at what he calls "a shockingly early age." Triple the risk of death The odds of having heart disease rose steadily as each of the kidney markers worsened. More striking was the death data. At this age, few deaths are expected, and indeed just 191 people died during the study period. But those who had both CKD and known heart disease had a threefold increased risk of death in a mere 2 1/2 years, mostly from heart problems. "This study is very much a wake-up call," McCullough says. What about the heart’s effect on the kidneys? Researchers at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston evaluated more than 13,000 people who had participated in two large heart-health studies. People diagnosed with heart disease at the studies’ start had twice the risk of declining kidney function in the next nine years. That makes sense. Heart disease narrows arteries all over the body, kidneys included. Also, some heart imaging tests use compounds that may harm kidneys.
But McCullough suspects a more complex culprit: Both the heart and kidneys send various signals to the bone marrow, which produces a type of stem cell that keeps those organs in good repair. When either starts to fail, this key repair mechanism falters, too, he explains. What patients can do McCullough adds that CKD patients should have other heart-related risk factors controlled even more tightly than doctors often recommend. Systolic blood pressure — the top number — should never be above 130, and the so-called "bad" or LDL cholesterol should be below 70.
McCullough and colleagues tracked more than 37,000 relatively young people — average age 53 — who volunteered for a kidney screening. Three markers of kidney function were checked: The rate at which kidneys filter blood, called the GFR or glomerular filtration rate; levels of the protein albumin in the urine; and if they were anemic. They also were asked about previously diagnosed heart disease.
Cause aside, what does the research mean for patients today?
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