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Older fathers are more likely to have
children with bipolar disorder, a mental illness also known as manic
depression, research suggests. The paternal risk goes up when men are older
than 50. It may rise to 37 percent by the time a man is 55 years, lead
researcher Emma Frans said. Children fathered by men 55 years and older were 1.37
times more likely to go on to be diagnosed with bipolar disorder than those of
men aged 20 to 24. Children born to fathers older than 30 had an 11 percent
higher risk of developing bipolar disorder compared to younger fathers.
The study follows the line...
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Although bypass surgery and angioplasty have similar effects for heart patients with clogged arteries, the surgical procedure is recommended in more serious cases, according to a new study comparing Boston Scientific Corp.'s (BSX) Taxus Express drug-coated stents with bypass surgery. The findings, revealed at the European Society of Cardiology meeting in Munich, hinder the progress of stenting, which involves a mesh-metal tube being expanded inside a carotid artery to increase blood flow in areas blocked by plaque. A lack of success in the research would trigger lost sales for stent...
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Physical exercise may help improve memory
in older people and delay the onset of dementia, a new study published in the
Journal of the American Medical Association shows.
A University of Western
Australia study has found that walking for 50
minutes three times a week can lessen memory problems for older people. The
study involved 170 volunteers aged 50 and over who reported some memory trouble
but who did not have dementia.
The number of people with Alzheimer’s
disease, the most common form of dementia, is predicted to quadruple worldwide
over the next half century....
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Kids born to fathers older than 30 stand a higher chance of developing bipolar disorder, Swedish researchers disclosed on Monday. About 14,500 people with the mental disorder have been compared to an estimated 67,000 people without the condition. After taking into consideration the number of children, maternal age, socioeconomic status and family history of psychotic disorders, researchers found that the children of men older than 55 were 1.37 times more likely to develop bipolar disorder than the children of men aged 20 up to 24 years, said Emma M. Frans, MmedSc, of the Karolinska Institute...
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According to the findings of a current study, the suicide rate among American teens was lower in 2005. Except 2004, when researchers observed an 18% increase, the suicide rate among U.S. adolescents had been falling constantly over the previous 10 years. The 2004 increase was regarded by specialists as an anomaly and was mainly caused by a governmental warning about antidepressant. The warning made numerous patients stop taking the pills and this led to more suicides that year. In 2003, widespread ad campaigns linked antidepressants, such as Prozac and Zoloft, to suicidal thoughts in...
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