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Health News Archive

2008

January 2008

  • Preventing suicide: a resource for the family
  • Work stress and heart disease
  • Common misperception of health status
  • Erectile dysfunction an early marker for heart disease
  • Key factors that predict diabetes risk
  • Metabolic syndrome and risk of cardiovascular events
  • Adults underestimate their barriers to effective weight loss
  • Fructose intake and risk of kidney stones

February 2008

  • Walking speed and risk of stroke
  • Chronic kidney disease (CKD)
  • Urinary incontinence and high BMI
  • Pancreatic cancer and obesity
  • Taking active breaks to reduce metabolic risk
  • Alcohol intake and risk of high BP
  • Mildly-high glucose levels and risk of dying
  • Effect of diabetes in older people

 

March 2008

  • Abdominal obesity and risk of dying
  • Long-term impact of childhood TV
  • Improve your passive energy output at work
  • Fixing urinary incontinence in women
  • Mental health and risk of stroke
  • Excess body weight and type 2 diabetes
  • Metabolic syndrome and lower quality of life


April 2008

  • Overweight and osteoarthritis, pain and mobility
  • Physical activity: past and present
  • Overweight men, low testosterone and poor sleep
  • Your environment and exercise participation
  • Physical activity and mental health
  • Obesity and sexual dysfunction
  • Metabolic syndrome and heart disease risk
  • Management of CVD risk in Australians

May 2008

  • Smoking behaviour is ‘contagious’
  • More home BP monitoring needed
  • Key heart disease risks in older adults
  • Exercise and premenopausal breast cancer
  • Arthritis, diabetes and physical activity
  • Heartburn, stomach pain and quality of life
  • Preventing falls in older women
  • High-risk drinking and liver disease

 

June 2008

  • Elderly Australians suffer multiple chronic conditions
  • Lung disease increases risk of other chronic conditions
  • Major life changes and chronic daily headache
  • Pedometer tip for healthy daily activity
  • Even a few kilos raises colon cancer risk in men
  • Low vegetable intake awareness
  • Daily and seasonal variation in blood pressure
  • Artificially sweetened drinks and weight gain
  • A brisk walk each day to reduce risk of dying
  • Misrepresentation of health risks by mass media

 

July 2008

  • Physical activity and endometrial cancer
  • Psychological problems underestimated
  • Healthy eating reduces heart disease deaths in women
  • Risk of fractures in women
  • Stress and premature death in middle-aged men
  • Global burden of overweight and obesity
  • Healthy diet is just as important as a healthy weight
  • Physically active lifestyles the best for senior men

 


August 2008

  • Skin cancer associated with risk of other cancers
  • Persuasive TV food marketing to children
  • Australians prefer a universal public health system
  • We should not fear the burdens of ageing
  • Maintaining healthy vitamin D levels
  • Lifestyle factors affect stroke risk
  • Stroke reduced by staying fit
  • Cancer impacts misrepresented in TV media
  • Stroke prevention in women

 

September 2008

  • Poor sleep and risk of breast cancer
  • Lifetime risk of diabetes in 25-year-old Australians
  • Lifetime risk of knee osteoarthritis
  • Healthy lifestyle lowers risk of dying in women
  • Obesity increases the odds for pain in older adults
  • High stress increases premature death in men
  • A smoking spouse raises your stroke risk

 


October 2008

  • Diet quality and heart attack risk
  • Eating habits and risk of overweight
  • Smoking reduces brain function
  • Higher wellbeing improves brain function
  • Improved fitness decreases depressive symptoms
  • Place of activity and risk of dying in older adults
  • Binge drinking increases stroke risk
  • Local park playgrounds needed for healthy kids

 


November 2008

  • Extra kilos increase breast cancer risk
  • Depressed, heart disease patients need to get active
  • No benefit from Vitamin E supplements for arthritis in women
  • No benefit for Vitamin E and C supplements for heart disease in men
  • Normal weight, fit men have lower diabetes risk
  • ‘Extra’ foods are a problem
  • Body mass index and brain volume

 


December 2008

  • Healthy weight reduces heart failure risk in men
  • Central obesity increases risk of depression
  • Reduce your salt intake for healthier bones and blood pressure
  • Smoking and diabetes worsen hearing loss
  • No benefit from Selenium or Vitamin E supplements for prostate cancer
  • Poor glucose control in diabetics increases kidney disease
  • Being overweight and prostate cancer severity
  • Extra kilos reduce male reproductive health 

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