News tagged with heart metabolism

If you want to lose weight, find a mountain retreat

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has found the secret to effortless weight loss: spend some time at high altitude. Even a week on a mountain retreat can produce weight loss in sedentary people eating as much as ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

Biochemists develop promising new treatment direction for rare metabolic diseases

A research team led by biochemist Scott Garman at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has discovered a key interaction at the heart of a promising new treatment for a rare childhood metabolic disorder ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'SORTing' out the genetic and biological links between cholesterol and coronary heart disease

The true power of genomic research lies in its ability to help scientists understand biological processes, particularly those that - when altered - can lead to disease. This power is demonstrated dramatically in a pair of ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify 95 genetic variants associated with cholesterol, triglycerides

A global team of researchers co-led by the University of Michigan School of Public Health has discovered or confirmed 95 regions of the human genome where genetic variants are associated with blood cholesterol and triglyceride ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 04, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study: 10 minutes of exercise, hour-long effects

(AP) -- Ten minutes of brisk exercise triggers metabolic changes that last at least an hour. The unfair news for panting newbies: The more fit you are, the more benefits you just might be getting.

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 31, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (25) | comments 5

Grapes reduce risk factors for heart disease and diabetes, animal study shows

Could eating grapes slow what's for many Americans a downhill sequence of high blood pressure and insulin resistance leading to heart disease and type 2 diabetes?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 26, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Biochemists Provide New Key for Treating Fabry Disease, a Rare Childhood Disorder

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team led by biochemist Scott Garman at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has for the first time determined the mechanism of one of the cell’s 'recycling' enzymes, human alpha-galactosidase ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Being pear shaped protects against heart disease: study

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you’re prone to worrying whether your ‘bum looks big in this’, particularly after the Christmas period, you can take comfort that there may be health benefits.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New evidence that dark chocolate helps ease emotional stress

The "chocolate cure" for emotional stress is getting new support from a clinical trial published online in ACS' Journal of Proteome Research.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 2

High-fat diet affects physical and memory abilities of rats after 9 days

Rats fed a high-fat diet show a stark reduction in their physical endurance and a decline in their cognitive ability after just nine days, a study by Oxford University researchers has shown.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Research says older people need more sun

Spending more time in the sunshine could help older people to reduce their risk of developing heart disease and diabetes.

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Key protein in cellular respiration discovered

Many diseases derive from problems with cellular respiration, the process through which cells extract energy from nutrients. Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have now discovered a new function ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Body clock regulates metabolism

(PhysOrg.com) -- UC Irvine researchers have discovered that circadian rhythms - our own body clock - regulate energy levels in cells. The findings have far-reaching implications, from providing greater insights ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Heart Hazards of Woeful Wives

(PhysOrg.com) -- Women in strained marriages are more likely to feel depressed and suffer high blood pressure, obesity and other signs of "metabolic syndrome," a group of risk factors for heart disease, stroke and diabetes, ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Scientists find way to block stress-related cell death

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have uncovered a potentially important new therapeutic target that could prevent stress-related cell death, a characteristic of neurodegenerative diseases ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0