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Lettuce helps prevent hip fractures

Lettuce helps prevent hip fractures BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. Vitamin K is involved in the synthesis of several blood coagulation factors and also plays a role in bone formation. There is some evidence that low blood levels of vitamin K are associated with low bone mineral density and an increased risk ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a88b.htm 03/02/04, 4458 bytes

NEWSBRIEF – JUNE 2003

... - Nutrition bars may interfere with warfarin therapy Warfarin prevents blood clots by interfering with the synthesis of vitamin K-dependent coagulation factors. Vitamin-K, in turn, inhibits the effect of warfarin thus necessitating the use of higher doses of the drug in order to attain adequate anti ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/n138c.htm 03/02/04, 3311 bytes

Herbal heart remedies

... . Herbal medicines have been used to treat congestive heart failure, hypertension (systolic), arrhythmias, atherosclerosis, angina, and cerebral and venous insufficiency (impaired blood circulation in the brain and legs). Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have just released a comprehensive ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a85l.htm 03/02/04, 4731 bytes

NEWSBRIEF – MAY 2004

... in a major UK hospital has shown that many patients in intensive care units die because doctors fail to spot such major conditions as pulmonary embolism and heart attacks. The researchers involved in the study found that major problems had been missed in 39% of the cases studied. The study involved ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/n147e.htm 09/06/04, 3122 bytes

Magnesium supplementation helps heart patients

... throughout the study. Before and after each phase the researchers measured a range of blood chemistry variables among them platelet-dependent thrombosis (PDT) which is a measure of the blood's tendency to form clots. The average (median) PDT was found to be 35 per cent lower in patients taking magnesium ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a95g.htm 03/02/04, 4369 bytes

Testosterone therapy helps angina patients

... the patients in either group and no significant differences or changes were noticed in prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels, hemoglobin, lipids or coagulation profiles. English, Katherine M., et al. Low-dose transdermal testosterone therapy improves angina threshold in men with chronic stable angina ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a108f.htm 03/02/04, 4286 bytes

NEWSBRIEF – JUNE 2002

... magnetic storms. Russian researchers have found that these storms can have a profound effect on cardiovascular parameters such as blood viscosity, coagulation and adrenaline levels. The storms are imperceptible to people, but can be detected with magnetometers. One of the researchers suggests that intensive ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/n126e.htm 03/02/04, 3054 bytes

Fibrinogen levels linked to cardiovascular disease

Fibrinogen levels linked to cardiovascular disease NAPLES, ITALY. Japanese researchers have reported that high levels of the blood coagulation factor fibrinogen are associated with an increased risk of premature death from cardiovascular disease and cancer. Fibrinogen levels are known to be elevated ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a140c.htm 03/02/04, 4697 bytes

Niacin and intermittent claudication

Niacin and intermittent claudication NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY. Elevated levels of the blood coagulation factor fibrinogen are known to aggravate the symptoms of peripheral vascular diseases such as intermittent claudication. It has also been suggested that a lowering of fibrinogen and low density ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a84k.htm 11/21/05, 3728 bytes

NEWSBRIEF – NOVEMBER 2004

... the University of Southampton in the UK are working on producing pharmaceutical drugs in farmed fish. Their first project involves the production of coagulation factor VII in genetically engineered tilapia, a fast-growing freshwater fish. Factor VII is used to treat people with hemophilia and accident ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/n152b.htm 01/09/05, 3207 bytes