Weight Loss in Heavy, Obese Women Boosts Vitamin D Levels: MedlinePlus

Weight Loss in Heavy, Obese Women Boosts Vitamin D Levels
Deficiency may explain link between obesity and chronic disease, expert says




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Vitamin D
Women's Health

FRIDAY, May 27 (HealthDay News) -- Older women who are overweight or obese and lose more than 15 percent of their body weight could significantly boost their levels of vitamin D, new research suggests.

The study, conducted by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, also indicates that the surge in vitamin D could help scientists explore new avenues for the prevention of chronic diseases such as cancer and diabetes.

"Since vitamin D is generally lower in persons with obesity, it is possible that low vitamin D could account, in part, for the link between obesity and diseases such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes," study author Caitlin Mason, a postdoctoral research fellow, said in a Hutchinson news release.

Vitamin D is fat-soluble nutrient that plays many important roles in the body, including promoting calcium absorption, reducing inflammation and influencing cell health and the immune system. It's found in certain foods, such as fatty fish, and produced naturally in the body through exposure to sunlight.

The study, published in the May 25 online issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, assigned 439 overweight or obese postmenopausal women to one of four regimens: exercise only, diet only, exercise plus diet and no intervention.

Although women who lost up to 10 percent of their body weight (10 to 20 pounds) through diet and exercise saw modest increases in vitamin D, those levels were roughly three times higher in women who dropped more than 15 percent of their body weight, regardless of what they ate.

"We were surprised at the effect of weight loss greater than 15 percent on blood vitamin D levels," study senior author Dr. Anne McTiernan, director of the Hutchinson Center's Prevention Center, said in the news release. "It appears that the relationship between weight loss and blood vitamin D is not linear but goes up dramatically with more weight loss."

McTiernan concluded the findings suggest the greater the weight loss, the more meaningful the surge in vitamin D levels.

The researchers noted, however, the degree to which vitamin D is available to the body during and after weight loss remains unclear. They also cautioned that more targeted research is needed to understand any link between vitamin D deficiency and chronic disease.

SOURCE: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, news release, May 25, 2011.

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It's Not Just Fat: Hip Bones Widen With Age, Too
Growth of pelvic bones may continue to age 79, increasing weight & waist size, researchers find




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FRIDAY, May 27 (HealthDay News) -- People continue to grow well into their 70s, but they're not growing taller, they're growing wider, new research shows.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine found that people's pelvic bones (hip bones) continue to grow long after they reach skeletal maturity. The end result: extra inches at the waistline and many extra pounds on the scale.

"Whether or not they also have an increase in body fat, our findings suggest that pelvic growth may contribute to people becoming wider and having a large waist size as they get older," said Dr. Laurence E. Dahners, senior study author and a professor of orthopedics at UNC, in a university news release. "If the rest of the body is widening, this might account for a significant portion of an increase in body weight of about one pound a year."

In conducting the study, published online this week in the Journal of Orthopaedic Research, researchers used CT scans to measure the width and height of 246 patients in various age groups. The study found the width of the patients' pelvises continued to grow, even after skeletal maturity at 20 years of age. Specifically, the researchers noted, the pelvic inlet (the birth canal opening in the middle of the pelvis) widened, which is evidence of actual pelvic growth.

On average, the pelvic width of the oldest patients in the study was nearly an inch larger than the width of the youngest patients. The study's authors explained this one-inch increase alone could amount to three extra inches on the waist between the ages of 20 and 79 years. They also noted this widening could also account for a significant portion of an annual one-pound weight gain.

SOURCE: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, news release, May 25, 2011
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More Sleep May Cut Kids' Risk of Obesity
Lack of adequate slumber negatively affects young children's weight, body fat, study finds




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FRIDAY, May 27 (HealthDay News) -- Youngsters who do not get enough sleep on a regular basis are more likely to be overweight, a new study has found.

Conversely, when children got more shut-eye, they had a reduction in body mass index (BMI) and a significant drop in their risk of being overweight, the researchers found. The investigators also found lower BMIs resulted from differences in fat mass (not any effect on fat-free mass, such as muscle), indicating that poor sleep has negative effects on body composition.

In conducting the study, Rachael Taylor, a research associate professor in the department of human nutrition at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, and colleagues followed 244 children from the age of 3 years to 7 years.

Every six months the children's weight, height, BMI and body composition were measured, and their sleep and dietary habits were recorded. The children also wore accelerometers (devices that monitor body movement) to assess their level of physical activity. Additional factors known to be associated with BMI in kids were also taken into account, such as the children's birth weight and their mother's level of education and income.

The study, published online May 26 in BMJ, revealed that the children got an average 11 hours of sleep per day. Those who consistently slept less, however, had an increased risk of having a higher BMI by the time they turned 7 years old. On the other hand, among 3- to 5-year-olds, each extra hour of sleep per night was linked to a reduction in BMI of 0.49 and a 61 percent drop in the risk of being overweight or obese by the age of 7.

Taylor and colleagues concluded that sleep plays a critical role in children's body composition. Prolonged lack of sleep, they found, may cause children to eat more and exercise less. Based on these findings, the study's authors suggested that good sleep habits should be encouraged in children as a matter of public health.

However, more research is needed to determine whether more sleep or better sleeping patterns contribute to healthier children, they noted in a journal news release.

SOURCE: BMJ, news release, May 26, 2011
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Complexities of Autism Extend to Its Treatment
Parents struggle to find blend of therapies for children with mix of behavioral symptoms




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FRIDAY, May 27 (HealthDay News) -- Parents of children with autism often find themselves struggling to make sense of their child's behavior.

What's worse, there's no single best way to treat the frightening and frustrating neurodevelopmental disorder. Children might have a mix of social impairments, communication problems and repetitive behavior patterns. Each child will require a certain blend of therapies, treatments and interventions, all specifically tailored to the child's particular behavioral problems.

"Every person with autism is different," said Lee Grossman, president and chief executive of the Autism Society. "There's a saying, 'If you've met one person with autism, then you've met one person with autism.'"

That means parents usually have to figure it out for themselves, with help from their medical team.

Experts agree on two basic principles when it comes to treating people with autism, according to the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health:

•Early intervention is key to helping a child with autism find a healthy, happy and satisfying life.
•People with autism respond best to programs and therapies that are highly structured and specialized to their needs.
"The earlier the child is diagnosed, and the better the quality and quantity of the programs they are in, the better their prognosis long-term," said James Ball, president and chief executive of JB Autism Consulting, in New Jersey, and chairman of the Autism Society's board of directors.

Many of the leading therapy options for autism are not medical and instead involve education and behavioral intervention.

Ball said that a type of behavioral therapy called applied behavioral analysis, which focuses on teaching useful skills that build upon each other, has helped many children with autism.

"It teaches things repetitively so a child can learn and then generalize those skills," he said.

For example, teaching children to brush their teeth would involve breaking down the activity into different skills -- squeezing out the toothpaste, brushing the teeth, rinsing the mouth -- that are repetitively taught and ultimately woven together. "You teach all the separate components up to the whole," Ball said.

Other children with the disorder might need speech therapy, occupational therapy or other forms of behavioral therapy, Grossman said. It all rests on finding a child's strongest and weakest areas and using their strengths to help them overcome their weaknesses.

Kids with autism will often have more success in these therapies if visual aids and cues are used, he said.

They often "have trouble with verbal instruction," Grossman said. "If you can provide a learning environment where they see the instrument and incorporate it into their activities, you'll have a better situation."

Children with autism also may benefit from medical interventions tailored to their symptoms. Medication can be used to treat such autism-related symptoms as seizures, depression, anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorder. Kids with severe behavioral problems sometimes benefit from antipsychotic drugs.

Some parents have found that a dietary intervention can help their child, according to the mental health institute. One particular diet that has proven successful for some children involves removing all gluten and casein from their food. Casein is the main source of protein in milk, and gluten is a protein found in wheat and other grains.

Parents also should make sure their child is healthy and not suffering from illnesses that could exacerbate their behavioral problems. "We would encourage all families to get a comprehensive medical exam" for their child, Grossman said.

Health problems such as rashes, gastrointestinal disorders, allergies, asthma and the like can create discomfort and throw children off their beneficial therapies. "These are typically overlooked with a child with autism because they are often nonverbal and noncompliant," Grossman said. "The doctor may miss some other treatable conditions."

Families with an autistic child also should understand that every member will need help and should consider undergoing regular family counseling, Ball said.

"It is a whole-family disorder," he said. "Everyone is affected. Families need to come up with a plan so they can meet everyone's needs."

Finding resources can be challenging, Ball and Grossman said. Grossman knows that firsthand as he has child with autism, who now is 23.

"I was very angry and very frustrated because I couldn't find any help," he recalled. "I didn't know what to do." But he said that the group he now runs, the Autism Society, was key in helping him find doctors and therapists to help his son.

Grossman also speaks from personal knowledge when he says that the best way to help children with autism is to pay attention to how they act and what draws their interest and to then use that knowledge to teach them life skills.

"The goal here is to have a person who has a satisfying quality of life and is a contributing member of their community," Grossman added. "With the proper supports, we believe everyone can achieve that."

SOURCES: Lee Grossman, president and chief executive, Autism Society; James Ball, Ed.D., president and chief executive, JB Autism Consulting, Cranbury, N.J.

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Vision problems in preschoolers need treatment




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Vision Impairment and Blindness
By Genevra Pittman

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - One in 16 preschoolers has visual impairment in at least one eye, suggests a new study of Australian kids.

The majority of those children only had problems in one eye, and the most common causes were astigmatism, farsightedness and amblyopia, or "lazy eye."

Those findings highlight the importance of diagnosing and correcting vision problems in young kids so that their eyes are in good shape to start school, the authors write in the journal Ophthalmology.

"Especially if there is a significant amount of visual impairment, they will get worse," said Dr. Rohit Varma, one of the study's authors from the University of Southern California.

When kids are young, minor vision problems are "a pretty easy fix," with eye glasses, he said. However, "many of them if it's not corrected, it may not be correctable later on," Varma told Reuters Health.

Researchers from the University of Sydney led the study, giving eye exams to more than 1,000 kids between the ages of two and a half years and six years.

In total, between 6 and 7 percent of those kids had visual impairment in at least one eye, and almost 3 percent had problems in both eyes.

Astigmatism, which causes blurred vision, was the most common eye problem, affecting half of kids with impairment. Farsightedness and lazy eye -- when the eye has trouble making out details -- were the next most common.

Boys and girls were equally likely to have vision problems, as were kids of different ethnicities. However, kids that were "low birthweight" babies -- discerned from government health records -- had an increased risk of vision problems, compared to those born at a normal weight.

The overall rate of vision problems seen in this study is similar to what has been shown in studies of young kids in the U.S., the authors note.

Varma, who led one of those U.S. studies, said that together such results show that for kids with vision problems, getting eye glasses quickly is essential for the long run -- as some of those problems may get much worse with time if left untreated.

Kids develop eye problems for a number of reasons, some possibly preventable and others not.

"I think that some of it is certainly hereditary or genetic," said Dr. Michael Repka, of the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins.

"There is at least some suggestion that there are environmental influences, both in terms of diet and other exposures," Repka, who was not involved in the current study, told Reuters Health.

He added that the only way to detect eye problems in many kids is to screen for them.

The United States Preventive Services Task force, a federally supported expert panel, recommends screening kids for vision problems, specifically lazy eye, at least once between age three and five.

However, at least in the U.S., "there aren't very many good methods of screening and identifying kids early," Varma said.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/jMIxj0 Ophthalmology, online April 29, 2011.

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Scientists Discover 'Ultra-Bad' Cholesterol
Study of super-sticky LDL may spur new heart disease treatments for seniors, type 2 diabetics




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FRIDAY, May 27 (HealthDay News) -- A new, "ultra-bad" form of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol has been discovered in people with a high risk for heart disease, according to British researchers.

They found that the cholesterol, called MGmin-LDL, is super-sticky, making it more likely to attach to the walls of arteries and form fatty plaques, which could lead to heart attacks and stroke.

The discovery provides a possible explanation for the increased risk of coronary heart disease in diabetics and could help researchers develop new anti-cholesterol treatments, the researchers suggested.

In the study, which was funded by the British Heart Foundation, University of Warwick researchers created MGmin-LDL in a lab through glycation, which is the adding of sugar groups to normal LDL cholesterol, commonly referred to as "bad" cholesterol. The process changed the cholesterol's shape, making it stickier and more likely to build fatty plaques, narrow arteries and reduce blood flow and turning it into what they called "ultra-bad" cholesterol.

The findings, released online May 26 in Diabetes, could have significant implications for the treatment of coronary heart disease, particularly in older people and those with type 2 diabetes. Specifically, the researchers said, the results of their study shed light on how a common type 2 diabetes drug, metformin, fights heart disease by blocking the transformation of normal LDL into the super-sticky LDL.

"We're excited to see our research leading to a greater understanding of this type of cholesterol, which seems to contribute to heart disease in diabetics and elderly people," the study's lead researcher, Naila Rabbani, an associate professor of experimental systems biology at Warwick Medical School, said in a university news release.

"The next challenge is to tackle this more dangerous type of cholesterol with treatments that could help neutralize its harmful effects on patients' arteries," she said.

SOURCE: University of Warwick, news release, May 27, 2011

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Rheumatoid Arthritis May Double Risk of COPD
Link between the autoimmune disease and lung disorder revealed in new study




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COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)
Rheumatoid Arthritis

FRIDAY, May 27 (HealthDay News) -- People with rheumatoid arthritis are twice as likely as healthy people to have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a large new study finds.

The link between rheumatoid arthritis, or RA, and the breathing disorder was evident even when factors such as smoking, age, obesity and gender were controlled for, according to Israeli researchers. The study was to be presented Thursday at the European League Against Rheumatism annual conference in London.

"We know that similar changes in core physiological processes cause symptoms in RA and COPD, and we hope that the results of our study prompts new research into potential links between altered genetic and autoimmune processes in the two conditions," researcher Dr. Howard Amital of the Sheba Medical Centre, Israel said in a meeting news release.

Using data from Israel's largest health care provider, Clalit Health Services, the research team compared information on almost 16,000 RA patients over 20 years old with more than 15,000 healthy controls who were matched for age and gender. They found the incidence of COPD in RA patients was 8.9 percent compared with 4.4 percent for the controls. Lifestyle habits and disease risks, including income levels, were also included in their research.

Rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disease, is different from osteoarthritis, the common form of arthritis that typically develops with older age. RA causes pain, swelling and stiffness in joints, but can also affect other body parts, such as the mouth and lungs. The severe form can last a lifetime.

Research presented at meetings is considered preliminary until it is published in a peer-reviewed journal.

SOURCE: European League Against Rheumatism, news release, May 26, 2011
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Gestational Diabetes Predictable Before Pregnancy, Experts Say
Risk 4.6 times higher in overweight women with high blood sugar, even years before conception




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Diabetes and Pregnancy

FRIDAY, May 27 (HealthDay News) -- Whether or not a woman will develop diabetes during pregnancy can be predicted up to seven years before she even conceives, new research suggests.

In the study of 580 ethnically diverse women, investigators found that routine evaluations of blood sugar and body weight -- long before pregnancy -- could help determine those at greater risk for the condition, according to the report published in the May 26 online edition of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Gestational diabetes mellitus is a complication of pregnancy that causes glucose intolerance and can increase the risk for preterm delivery and cesarean sections. This condition, which occurs in as many as 7 percent of pregnancies in the United States, can also lead to health issues for the affected babies later in life, such as obesity, diabetes and metabolic disease.

In conducting the study, researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, Calif., found that women who had known risk factors for diabetes and heart disease (such as high blood pressure, high blood sugar and being overweight) prior to conception were also at greater risk for gestational diabetes.

In fact, having high blood sugar levels and being overweight made women 4.6 times more likely to develop gestational diabetes than other women who did not have those risk factors, the investigators found.

These findings could help diagnose and prevent gestational diabetes even before a woman becomes pregnant, reducing the number of adverse outcomes stemming from the condition, the researchers suggested.

"Our study indicates that a woman's cardio-metabolic risk profile for factors routinely assessed at medical visits, such as blood sugar, high blood pressure, cholesterol and body weight, can help clinicians identify high-risk women to target for primary prevention or early management of [gestational diabetes]," lead author Monique Hedderson, a research scientist at Kaiser Permanente, said in a news release from the organization.

SOURCE: Kaiser Permanente, news release, May 26, 2011
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High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy
Vitamin C
Vitamin E
By Alison McCook

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite hopes that high doses of vitamins C and E might lower a woman's risk of developing a pregnancy complication marked by high blood pressure, a new analysis of the evidence to date finds no benefit.

After reviewing nine studies including nearly 20,000 women, researchers found that women taking 1,000 milligrams of vitamin C and 400 IU of vitamin E - much higher doses than in most prenatal multivitamins - were no less likely to develop the potentially deadly pregnancy complication known as preeclampsia.

Instead, they saw that women given extra doses of C and E had a higher risk of certain other pregnancy complications.

Most doctors do not suggest women concerned about their risk of preeclampsia take these vitamins, and with good reason, study author Dr. Sonia S. Hassan of Wayne State University told Reuters Health. "We are not routinely recommending the use of vitamin C and E, due to the findings of this systematic analysis," she said.

Indeed, this is not the first study to cast doubt on vitamins' ability to curb preeclampsia. Last year, a 4-1/2-year study of nearly 5,000 women found those taking very high doses of vitamins C and E were 10 percent more likely to develop high blood pressure during pregnancy than volunteers taking placebo pills.

Preeclampsia, which is characterized by high blood pressure, protein in the urine and swelling, occurs in about 5 percent of American pregnancies every year. If left untreated, it can lead to severe - and sometimes fatal - complications for the woman and baby.

Some past studies have found a connection between vitamin C deficiency and an elevated risk of preterm birth, including those caused by what's known as premature rupture of membranes -- where a woman's "water breaks" before the pregnancy has reached full-term and labor has begun.

Vitamin C has been thought to play a role in maintaining the placenta and the membranes that surround the fetus during pregnancy, possibly by limiting so-called oxidative stress -- vitamins C and E are both "antioxidants."

So researchers have been studying whether they might help lower the risk of not only preterm birth but also preeclampsia.

However, the current study - in which Hassan and her colleagues combined results from nine studies including 19,810 pregnant women - found that 9.6 percent of women overall developed preeclampsia, regardless of whether they received extra doses of C and E or a placebo drug.

It's not clear why taking antioxidants doesn't reduce women's risk, said Hassan, who is also based at the Perinatology Research Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, along with her co-authors Dr. Agustín Conde-Agudelo and Dr. Roberto Romero. "It is likely that although oxidative stress seems to play a major role in the disease of preeclampsia, it may not play a major role in the pathway that leads to preeclampsia."

In addition, those taking higher doses of vitamins C and E were more likely to develop high blood pressure without the protein in urine and other hallmarks of preeclampsia, and to experience a premature rupture of membranes.

Women given extra C and E did, however, have a lower risk of abruptio placentae, in which the placenta detaches from the uterine wall, the authors report in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

This is an interesting result, Hassan said in an email. "The finding of the decreased risk of abruptio placentae in women receiving vitamins C and E certainly may provide some insight into potential causes of abruptio placentae and can guide areas of future research."

More than 10 years ago, Dr. Lucy Chappell at King's College London co-authored a study suggesting extra vitamin C and E could help prevent preeclampsia, but large studies conducted since have convinced her otherwise, Chappell told Reuters Health. "These findings should persuade women that they should not take vitamins C and E at these high doses."

Chappell explained in an email that her study was small, and therefore the results may have been due to a "chance statistical finding." Since the results fit all the biological theories, however, they were "jumped on with gusto," she said. However, "many initial promising studies turn out to be less so when repeated in larger numbers."

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/lwgRfM American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, online April 29, 2011.

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Nutrition
By Adam Marcus

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The flavor enhancer monosodium glutamate (MSG), most often associated with Chinese food and after-dinner headaches, may also be enhancing waistlines, a new study finds.

Researchers found that people who eat more MSG are more likely to be overweight or obese. And the increased risk wasn't simply because people were stuffing themselves with MSG-rich foods. The link between high MSG intake and being overweight held even after accounting for the total number of calories people ate.

Ka He, a nutrition expert at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who led the study, said that although the risk of weight gain attributable to MSG was modest, the implications for public health are substantial. "Everybody eats it," He told Reuters Health.

MSG is one of the world's most widely used food additives. Although it tends to be more popular in Asian countries, Americans manage to get their share in processed foods, from chips to canned soups, even when it's not labeled as such.

Americans' typical daily intake of MSG is estimated to be only about half a gram, whereas estimates for Japan and Korea put average intakes anywhere between a gram-and-a-half and 10 grams a day.

MSG is considered safe, but some people complain of headaches, nausea and other bad reactions it.

Several studies have examined the potential link between MSG and body weight, with conflicting results. Scientists have speculated that people may eat larger helpings of food with MSG because it just tastes better. Other evidence suggests that MSG might interfere with signaling systems in the body that regulate appetite.

In the latest research, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, He and his colleagues followed more than 10,000 adults in China for about 5.5 years on average.

The researchers measured MSG intake directly by before-and-after weighing of products, such as bottles of soy sauce, to see how much people ate. They also asked people to estimate their intake over three 24-hour periods.

Men and women who ate the most MSG (a median of 5 grams a day) were about 30 percent more likely to become overweight by the end of the study than those who ate the least amount of the flavoring (less than a half-gram a day), the researchers found. After excluding people who were overweight at the start of the study, the risk rose to 33 percent.

Obesity is not as much of a problem in China as it is in the United States, which might suggest that MSG is not a significant culprit in weight gain. But the Chinese tend to be physically active, which might help offset the pound-producing properties of the additive, He said.

Why MSG and weight gain may be linked isn't clear, He added, but it may have something to do with the hormone leptin, which regulates appetite and metabolism. He's group found that people who consumed more MSG produced more leptin. "MSG consumption may cause leptin resistance," He said, so that the body cannot properly process the energy it receives from food. That, He added, could explain why people who ate more MSG gained weight regardless of how many calories they consumed.

But Ivan E. de Araujo, a Yale University neurobiologist who has studied the effects of MSG on leptin, was not convinced by the new findings.

Leptin is released by fat cells, so as people gain weight they have more leptin in their blood, Araujo said. The effect of MSG on leptin levels, then, may simply be a reflection of growing body mass.

Araujo called the researchers' suggestion that prolonged exposure to high quantities of MSG may trigger leptin resistance by damaging an area of the brain called the hypothalamus, "rather speculative, given the current lack of direct evidence that" MSG in normal dietary amounts could produce a physical injury to that part of the brain.

Araujo added, it is "somewhat intriguing" that moderate weight gain was only seen in the group with the very highest MSG intakes. People who consumed the most MSG also consumed the most salt in their diets, Araujo noted, which can itself cause water retention and weight gain.

For a follow-up study, He and his colleagues hope to see whether people who stop using MSG experience any health benefits attributable to the change in diet.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/kv9cvF American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, June 2011.

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American Academy of Pediatrics says sports drink mostly unnecessary; energy drinks dangerous for minors


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MONDAY, May 30 (HealthDay News) -- Although sports drinks and energy drinks are marketed heavily toward children and teens, a leading association of pediatricians is sounding the alarm about these beverages for kids.

Young children and teens should avoid energy drinks entirely, the American Academy of Pediatrics said in a report issued Monday, and routine consumption of sports drinks should be limited or eliminated.

"There's no place for energy drinks for kids," said report co-author Dr. Marcie Beth Schneider, an adolescent physician in Greenwich, Conn. "There's a place for sports drinks, but that place is very specific."

Energy drinks include such popular brands as Red Bull, AMP and Rockstar and tend to be heavily caffeinated, potentially having several times the level of caffeine found in a cup of coffee. Manufacturers often add sugar and herbal stimulants such as guarana and taurine to the drinks, which are popular among kids.

The caffeine and herbal stimulants found in energy drinks can be dangerous to kids, the researchers noted. Some cans or bottles of energy drinks, in fact, may contain more than 500 mg of caffeine, which is equivalent to the caffeine found in 14 cans of caffeinated soda, according to Schneider.

The caffeine in energy drinks can lead to high blood pressure, high heart rate and insomnia, said Schneider. The other ingredients can boost the power of the caffeine, she said, adding that the drinks will have a greater effect on children because they're smaller than adults.

"Kids don't need to have this," she said. "This is not something they should be drinking."

Schneider declined to identify any energy drinks that may be better than others for kids who insist on drinking them. If kids use energy drinks because they're tired, she said, they should get more rest instead of chugging caffeine. "It's not a solution," she said.

The manufacturer of Red Bull defended its drink, saying a can has about as much caffeine as a cup of coffee and includes ingredients that European health officials have declared to be safe. However, users of energy drinks may chug them more quickly than they would hot coffee because they're served cold.

The authors of the current report and a study published in the journal Pediatrics last February pointed to statistics that showed about half of the nation's 5,448 reported caffeine overdoses in 2007 were in people under age 19, although it's not known how many of the cases were the result of energy drink consumption.

The study also reported that many teens consider energy drinks and sports drinks interchangeable, which they are not.

Sports drinks like Gatorade -- designed to replace water and electrolytes lost through sweating during exercise -- have been around for decades, but they now come in a wider selection of flavors and types. The report raps them for coming with too many calories and potentially boosting the risk of obesity, weight gain and dental erosion. Most kids will do just fine drinking water instead, Schneider said.

However, "kids who are doing a lot of vigorous aerobic activity can benefit from sports drinks," she said. "For the rest of the crowd, it certainly doesn't need to be served at lunch. We want kids to be focusing on water and calcium."

If kids insist on sports drinks, Schneider said there are low-calorie types to consider.

The report appears in the May 30 issue of the journal Pediatrics.

Dr. David Weldy, an assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Toledo, said he hasn't seen young patients report problems due to energy drinks, and he acknowledged that direct evidence saying that they're harmful is lacking.

"There isn't a whole lot of research into these things," Weldy said.

But the drinks do seem to keep kids from sleeping and cause concentration problems, he said, and they may also dangerously boost the heart rate.

Weldy said that doctors should talk to kids about both energy and sports drinks as part of discussions about nutrition. "It should be part of the conversation a lot more," he said.

SOURCE: Marcie Beth Schneider, M.D., adolescent physician, Greenwich, Conn.; David Weldy, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor, family medicine, University of Toledo, Ohio; May 30, 2011, Pediatrics

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Longer Maternity Leave Ups Breast-Feeding Rates
Staying home at least 3 months makes bottle-feeding far less likely, study finds




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MONDAY, May 30 (HealthDay News) -- Women who stay home longer after having a baby are more likely to breast-feed their babies, a new study indicates.

Researchers found that new mothers who were at home for three months or more were about twice as likely to be predominantly breast-feeding beyond three months. Results of the study are published in the June issue of Pediatrics.

"Women need to be helped. If the government could make changes, like extending the Family and Medical Leave Act, women would know they have job security, and it would help those who want to breast-feed," said study author Dr. Chinelo Ogbuanu, a senior maternal and child health epidemiologist in the division of public health at the Georgia Department of Community Health in Atlanta.

Even better, she said, would be making paid maternity leave available to all women. "That could help women stay home longer," Ogbuanu said. "Some women don't take leave because they don't get paid."

The U.S. Family Leave and Medical Act, which became law in 1993, requires that employers offer 12 weeks of unpaid leave after the birth of a child. But, the law does not apply to all employers. Businesses that have fewer than 50 workers are exempt and, in all cases, women must have held the job for a year or more and worked at least 1,250 hours in the past 12 months to be eligible. Just five states offer maternity leave that goes beyond the federal law. California, Hawaii, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island provide partial wage compensation to women after the birth of a child.

By comparison, Canada generally provides 17 weeks of paid maternity leave at 55 percent of a woman's wages, although this does vary by province, according to the United Nations Division of Statistics. Sweden offers 16 months of parental leave, with 80 percent of the worker's salary, and Japan offers 14 weeks, but at two-thirds pay, according to the U.N.

Previous research had pointed to the length of maternity leave as a significant factor in a woman's decision on whether to even try to breast-feed, as well as for the early cessation of breast-feeding, according to background information in the study.

"Many women have to return within six weeks of giving birth," said Dr. Deborah Campbell, director of neonatology at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. "But, it takes time to establish breast-feeding. Not every baby is born knowing how to breast-feed. Mothers can have feeding challenges. Mom and baby need time to become in sync with each other. Even with high rates of breast-feeding initiation, when women have to go back to work, they often choose to combo-feed with bottle and breast, and the bottle undermines breast-feeding."

To get a better idea of the impact of maternity leave length on breast-feeding, the researchers reviewed data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort. This group included a nationally representative sample of 6,150 women who had given birth to a single child. All of the women had worked in the 12 months leading up to the birth of their child.

Slightly more than two-thirds of the women started breast-feeding, according to the study. About 74 percent of those who took at least 13 weeks of maternity leave initiated breast-feeding, compared with about 65 percent of women who took one to six weeks of leave.

Among women who stayed home more than three months, 34 percent continued to predominantly breast-feed for more than three months, compared with 18 percent of women who returned to work one to six weeks after childbirth, the study found.

"This study provides further support that we need to have more maternity leave for women to establish and promote the continuation of breast-feeding," Campbell said.

SOURCES: Chinelo Ogbuanu, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., senior maternal and child health epidemiologist, Maternal and Child Health Program, division of public health, Georgia Department of Community Health, Atlanta; Deborah Campbell, M.D., director, division of neonatology, Montefiore Medical Center, and professor, clinical pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City; June 2011 Pediatrics

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Exercise for Children
Underage Drinking
By Genevra Pittman

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Teens who exercise and play team sports are less likely to be smokers or use marijuana and other drugs, according to a new study.

However, the results also showed that high school students on athletic teams drank more alcohol than their peers.

While the findings don't prove cause and effect, they could have important implications for preventing drug and alcohol abuse in young adults, the authors write in the journal Addiction.

Promoting exercise in young people and making sure that student athletes are targeted for alcohol prevention, for instance, would be important first steps in addressing the issue, said Yvonne Terry-McElrath, one of the study's authors from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Still, she cautioned that the links found in the study "were not staggeringly large," and that encouraging exercise is "certainly not a cure for anything."

The researchers used data from a study sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse that followed high school seniors through young adulthood with regular surveys.

Those surveys asked about recent use of alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs, as well as participation in athletics and general exercise.

The current report included data on close to 12,000 students, about half of whom filled out follow-up surveys until they were 25 or 26 years old.

At the first survey, students had drunk alcohol between one and five times, on average, in the previous month and smoked marijuana between zero and two times. The average senior smoked cigarettes not at all or less than one per day. About nine percent of students had used other illicit drugs in the previous month.

Students who participated in team sports or general exercise more often were less likely to use cigarettes, marijuana, and other illicit drugs as seniors. And those that upped their physical activity over the next few years also reported smoking and using drugs less often as time went on.

About 38 percent of teens who didn't exercise reported smoking cigarettes at some point in the past month, and 23 percent had smoked marijuana. That compared to 25 to 29 percent of frequent exercisers and athletes who had smoked cigarettes and 15 to 17 percent who smoked marijuana.

Being involved in team sports meant teens were more likely to drink frequently -- but that didn't extend to people who exercised, though not as part of a team.

About 45 percent of non-exercisers said they had drunk alcohol in the last month, which rose to 57 percent in those who regularly played a team sport.

In general, the authors also note, high school seniors who reported drinking more at the first survey were also the heavier drinkers throughout young adulthood.

It's not the first time a study has linked participation in team sports to drinking -- although it's not necessarily the case that playing sports causes a teen to drink more. Terry-McElrath said there are still many theories as to why these athletes tend to drink more than others.

Drinking may be an important social activity on some teams, and there may be peer pressure to drink in post-game environments. And, sports are closely tied to the alcohol industry -- just consider all the beer advertisements during the Super Bowl, she said.

Especially in more competitive athletes, "their competitive spirit on the athletic field may translate over into drinking behaviors as well," said Darren Mays, a researcher at Georgetown University Medical Center who has studied alcohol use in adolescent athletes.

Or it could be related to stress, said Mays, who did not participate in the new research.

"These are young people who are typically under pressure to perform athletically and academically (and) drinking might be a coping mechanism," he told Reuters Health.

Young athletes should be sent the message that "being a competitor and being at the top of your game does not have to mean high alcohol consumption," Terry-McElrath said -- and high school coaches should be educated about this issue as well, she added.

Nadra Lisha, a graduate student at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California who has also studied this association, said that people who exercise a lot and those that use alcohol might be so-called sensation-seekers who get a thrill from both activities.

"Drinking might not be as detrimental to their life, whereas smoking something -- it would be much harder to exercise the next day," Lisha, who was not involved in the current study, told Reuters Health.

Terry-McElrath agreed. "Individuals who tend to be high drug-users often can't keep up in a really competitive environment," she said. Also, they're likely to get kicked off of teams that do drug testing, she added.

She said the results can be seen as "encouraging" for the possibility of both treating and preventing drug use in young people.

"If we can encourage an enjoyment in general exercise, we may be able to see a lowering of participation in drug use," she said. "It's at least a starting point."

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/kEOz84 Addiction, online May 11, 2011.

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Veterans and Military Health
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with post-traumatic stress disorder may be at a higher risk for heart disease, according to researchers.

In a study of U.S. war veterans, they found that those with PTSD were more likely to have fatty buildup, or plaque, in the arteries leading to the heart, called coronary artery disease.

The disease had also progressed farther in the mentally troubled vets, and they were more likely to die of any cause over the next three and a half years than their peers.

Joseph Boscarino, an investigator at Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pennsylvania, told Reuters Health the new results confirm earlier findings.

Studies "keep showing this link between PTSD and various forms of cardiovascular disease," said Boscarino, who was not involved in the current work.

"Something needs to be done in terms of better interventions" for these individuals, he added.

The military has already been under pressure to better address PTSD in returning troops, as accounts of vets plagued by combat flashbacks, fearful and avoidant behavior, and depression have been piling up.

According to the National institute of Mental Health, about 1 in 30 adults in the U.S. suffer from PTSD in a given year -- and that risk is much higher in war vets.

The new results highlight the importance of integrating medical and psychological care in vets, and quickly identifying those who are at risk for PTSD and thus heart disease as well, the researchers write in The American Journal of Cardiology.

Dr. Ramin Ebrahimi of the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center and colleagues screened a group of 637 vets suspected of having heart disease for PTSD and signs of coronary artery disease.

The vets were an average of about 60 years old, and most were men. Eighty-eight of them fit the criteria for PTSD.

Calcium scans of their hearts showed the majority of participants had some sort of plaque buildup in their arteries. More than three-quarters of the vets with PTSD had narrowed arteries, compared to 59 percent of those without PTSD.

After their initial tests, the researchers followed participants for an average of three and half years. Over that time, 17 percent of the vets with PTSD died, compared to 10 percent without PTSD.

Even among those with the same degree of plaque buildup, participants with PTSD died at a higher rate.

Although the study doesn't mean that PTSD necessarily causes heart disease, it does suggest that it's not enough to worry about the mental toll of the disorder.

"For the longest time (PTSD) was basically known as a psychological or psychiatric disorder," Ebrahimi told Reuters Health. "Little by little we understood that these patients actually do have a fair amount of other medical problems."

Boscarino said that it's still unclear what exactly is behind the link between mental and physical health.

It's possible that stress hormones related to PTSD could affect the chance of getting heart disease or that the behavior of people with PTSD -- such as higher rates of heavy alcohol use and smoking -- puts them more at risk, he explained.

It could also be that certain genes influence a person's risk for both PTSD and heart disease, rather than PTSD causing heart problems, he added.

Ebrahimi emphasized that PTSD strikes not only people involved in combat or other violence, but survivors of rape and natural disasters as well. Often, it can be treated successfully with psychotherapy.

According to Boscarino, screening for heart disease and trying to prevent it is key in people with PTSD. But addressing the psychological problems may be even more important.

"If you treat someone for PTSD early on...you should prevent not only the psychological problems, but you're also potentially preventing the medical problems" that may come later, he said.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/j0loTJ The American Journal of Cardiology, online April 29, 2011.

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Having a stressful home or work environment doesn't make a person more likely to develop multiple sclerosis, hints a large new study.

Previous research has suggested that in people who already have the chronic disease -- which affects the brain and spinal cord -- stressful events make flare-ups more likely. In the new study, the authors looked at whether stress raised a woman's risk of getting the disease, and couldn't find a link.

Despite studying more than 150,000 women, though, the researchers said they couldn't rule out a connection either because they couldn't account for all stressful life events and their impact on the body's disease-fighting systems.

"These results do not support a major role of stress in the development of the disease, but repeated and more focused measures of stress are needed to firmly exclude stress as a potential risk factor for MS," they report today in the journal Neurology.

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society estimates that about 400,000 people in the U.S. have MS. There is no cure for the disease, which occurs when the protective coating around nerve fibers begins to break down -- slowing the brain's communication to the rest of the body.

Symptoms include fatigue and problems with balance and muscle coordination, as well as memory loss and trouble with logical thinking in some people.

To determine if stress is linked to the onset of MS, researchers including Harvard Medical School's Dr. Alberto Ascherio analyzed data from two large nationwide studies of female nurses.

Starting in 1976 for one study and 1989 for the other, women were regularly asked about any new diseases they were diagnosed with, including MS, and diagnoses were confirmed by their doctors.

The first group of about 93,000 nurses was also given a questionnaire about their levels of stress at home and at work, six years after the study began. The second group of about 68,500 nurses filled out questionnaires about physical and sexual abuse during childhood and adolescence -- another possible cause of stress.

As of 2004 to 2005, 77 women in the first group and 292 in the second had been diagnosed with MS and responded to questionnaires about stress. The number in the second study was higher because researchers included women who had been diagnosed with MS before the study was initiated, and that group was younger.

MS is typically diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 40.

How much stress women reported both at home and work was not linked with their chance of having MS. For example, 44 percent of all women said in their questionnaire that they experienced moderate stress at work, compared to 39 percent of women with MS. Those numbers were similar for moderate stress at home.

Severe stress at work was reported by 11 percent of all women and 5 percent of the MS group in particular.

Nor did a history of physical abuse make women any more likely to get MS.

The researchers found a slight increase in MS in women who said they were touched multiple times in a sexual way as a child -- but they note that result is hard to interpret, especially because women who said they were touched once seemed to have a lowest risk of MS.

One limitation of the study was that it only included female nurses, so the findings may not apply to men, the authors say.

Another limitation was that the study only asked about stress at a single time point.

Dr. Thomas Mack, who studies MS at the University of Southern California, said that one question when considering stress is whether to ask people how they feel or to measure the body's stress response.

"The main difficulty in studying stress specifically is, what does the word mean?" said Mack, who was not involved in the current study.

"Does it have a specific physiologic meaning, or is it a very general term? Some people feel more stressed than others -- whether there's any physiologic meaning to that is very difficult to know," he told Reuters Health.

Researchers sometimes measure stress by looking at the presence of certain hormones in the blood.

Mack said this issue of stress as a possible cause of MS hasn't been studied much -- mostly because doctors who treat MS are more interested in what causes exacerbations in their patients than why they developed the disease in the first place.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/lUcacJ Neurology, online May 30, 2011.

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Safety Alerts for Human Medical Products > Birth Control Pills Containing Drospirenone: Possible Increased Risk of Blood Clots

Birth Control Pills Containing Drospirenone: Possible Increased Risk of Blood Clots



AUDIENCE: OBGYN, Family Practice, Patient

ISSUE: FDA is aware of two newly published studies that evaluated the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in women who use birth control pills that contain drospirenone. The two recently published studies looked at whether there is a higher risk of blood clots in women taking birth control pills containing the progestin drospirenone when compared to similar women taking birth control pills containing a different progestin called levonorgestrel. These two new studies reported that there is a greater risk of VTE associated with birth control pills that contain drospirenone. This risk is reported to be up to 2 to 3 times greater than the risk of VTE associated with using levonorgestrel-containing pills. Other studies have not reported an increase in risk. The FDA is currently evaluating the conflicting results from these studies and will look at all currently available information to fully assess the risks and benefits of drospirenone-containing birth control pills. FDA will continue to communicate any new safety information to the public as it becomes available. Read the drug safety communication for more information on these studies.


BACKGROUND: Drospirenone is a type of female sex hormone called a progestin. Most birth control pills contain two types of hormones--estrogen and progestin. Birth control pills work by preventing the release of eggs from the ovaries (ovulation) and changing the cervical mucus and the lining of the uterus to prevent pregnancy. Brand names of drospirenone-containing products include Yaz (generics Gianvi and Loryna), Yasmin (generics Ocella, Syeda, and Zarah), Beyaz, and Safyral.


RECOMMENDATION: If your birth control pill contains drospirenone, do not stop taking it without first talking to your healthcare professional. Contact your healthcare professional immediately if you develop any symptoms of blood clots, including persistent leg pain, severe chest pain, or sudden shortness of breath. If you smoke and are over 35 years of age, you should not take combination oral contraceptives because they increase the risk that you could experience serious cardiovascular events, including blood clots.

Healthcare professionals and patients are encouraged to report adverse events or side effects related to the use of these products to the FDA's MedWatch Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program:

Complete and submit the report Online: www.fda.gov/MedWatch/report.htm
Download form or call 1-800-332-1088 to request a reporting form, then complete and return to the address on the pre-addressed form, or submit by fax to 1-800-FDA-0178

Read the MedWatch safety alert, including a link to the Drug Safety Communication and Questions and Answers, at: http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/SafetyInformation/SafetyAlertsforHumanMedicalProducts/ucm257337.htm

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[05-31-2011] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is informing the public about new information that is being assessed as part of FDA's ongoing safety review of birth control pills that contain drospirenone. This review will further evaluate the risk of blood clots in women who use these products.

Two recently published studies reported a greater risk of blood clots for women taking birth control pills containing drospirenone as compared to the risk in women taking birth control pills containing another progestin known as levonorgestrel.

Previously published studies have also addressed the risk of blood clots in women using birth control pills containing drospirenone. These studies had conflicting findings--two postmarketing studies required by the FDA or European regulatory agencies did not report any difference in the risk of blood clots between drospirenone-containing products and products containing levonorgestrel or other progestins.4,5 Two other publications in 2009, however, reported that the risk of blood clots is higher in women using drospirenone-containing products than in women who use levonorgestrel-containing products.

Information from these latter four studies is already presented in the Warnings and Precautions section of current labels for drospirenone-containing birth control pills. An additional large study exploring the association of blood clots with hormonal contraception has been commissioned by FDA, and results of that study are currently being finalized and reviewed.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced on May 27, 2011, that it is updating the product information on oral contraceptives containing drospirenone and ethinyl estradiol regarding the risk of venous thromboembolism after review of all available data, including the same newly published data FDA is reviewing.

The FDA is currently evaluating the conflicting results from these studies and will look at all currently available information to fully assess the risks and benefits of drospirenone-containing birth control pills. FDA will continue to communicate any new safety information to the public as it becomes available.

To Learn More:
Drug Safety Communication: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm257164.htm

Q&As: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/PostmarketDrugSafetyInformationforPatientsandProviders/ucm257175.htm

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FDA Drug Safety Communication: Safety Review of possible increased risk of blood clots with birth control pills containing drospirenone

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is informing the public about new information that is being assessed as part of FDA's ongoing safety review of birth control pills that contain drospirenone. This review will further evaluate the risk of blood clots in women who use these products.

Drospirenone is a type of female sex hormone called a progestin. Most birth control pills contain two types of hormones--estrogen and progestin. Birth control pills work by preventing the release of eggs from the ovaries (ovulation) and changing the cervical mucus and the lining of the uterus to prevent pregnancy.

All birth control pills pose a risk of blood clots. Several epidemiological studies have reported that the risk of blood clots for women who use birth control pills containing drospirenone is higher than that for women who use birth control pills containing the progestin levonorgestrel. Other studies have not reported an increase in risk.

The FDA is currently evaluating the conflicting results from these studies and will look at all currently available information to fully assess the risks and benefits of drospirenone-containing birth control pills. FDA will continue to communicate any new safety information to the public as it becomes available.


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