Posted by admin On September 8, 2008
According to a study it has been found that common painkillers reduces the level of PSA of man . PSA(prostate-specific antigen) is a blood biomarker which is used by physicians to test whether a person is at risk of prostate cancer. The study showed that it is helpful in reducing the risk of prostate cancer but use of painkillers as a treatment of this is not prescribed till by the authors of the study . As addressed by the authors on Sept. 8 in the journal Cancer,
“We showed that men who regularly took certain medications like aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDS, had a lower serum PSA level,” these lines are said by Eric A. Singer, M.D., M.A., a urology resident at the University of Rochester Medical Center. “But there’s not enough data to say that men who took the medications were less likely to get prostate cancer. This was a limited study, and we do not know how many of those men actually got prostate cancer.”
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Posted by admin On September 1, 2008
It has been observed that men are more prone to heart risk as compared to women . According to a new research led by University of Leicester sex hormones are responsible for it. According to Dr Maciej Tomaszewski, New Blood Lecturer in Cardiovascular Medicine in the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences at the University of Leicester this problem of males occur due to naturally occurring sex hormones .The research was done by studying at least 1000 men having age group about 19 years at Young Men Cardiovascular Association study .They studied the interaction of sex hormones with the major heart disease like blood pressure,cholesterol and weight .
Estradiol and Estrone, called together Estrogens increases the level of bad cholesterol (LDL-cholesterol) and decrease the level of good one(HDL-cholesterol) . According to a talk with Dr Tomaszewski he commented that :“We examined associations of circulating estrogens (estradiol and estrone) as well as androgens (testosterone and androstenedione) with major cardiovascular risk factors (lipids, blood pressure, body mass) in 933 young (median age – 19 years), apparently healthy men. Read the rest of this entry »
