News tagged with sympathetic nerve activity

For women with PCOS, acupuncture and exercise may bring relief, reduce risks

Exercise and electro-acupuncture treatments can reduce sympathetic nerve activity in women with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), according to a new study. The finding is important because women with PCOS often have elevated ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

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Researchers identify mediator of blood pressure regulation in the liver

For 60 years, scientists have puzzled over the possibility of a hepatic osmoreceptor that influences blood pressure regulation. Now, researchers of the Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, the Experimental ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers discover important link between adrenal gland hormone and brain in hypertension

A hormone already responsible for increasing blood pressure by prompting the kidneys to retain salt appears to moonlight as a major stimulator of the brain centers that control the vascular system and blood pressure.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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New undertsanding of gut hormones and gut function sheds light on obesity

Research on obesity examining the role of hormones and the autonomic functions of the digestive system was presented at the 75th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American CoIlege of Gastroenterology.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 18, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Needles improve exercise tolerance in heart patients

Acupuncture can improve exercise tolerance in patients suffering from chronic heart failure. This was determined in a clinical pilot study by the team headed by Dr. Johannes Backs, physician and study director ...

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created Jul 01, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Social scientists build case for 'survival of the kindest'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are challenging long-held beliefs that human beings are wired to be selfish. In a wide range of studies, social scientists are amassing ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (40) | comments 61

Chronically Sweaty Hands? Surgery May Help

Everyone sweats to some degree during exercise or other exerting activities. But for some people, profuse sweating is a constant that can quickly impact quality-of-life, according to University of Cincinnati ...

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Stress and Depression Worsen Childhood Asthma

(PhysOrg.com) -- Young people with asthma have nearly twice the incidence of depression compared to their peers without asthma, and studies have shown that depression is associated with increased asthma symptoms and, in some ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

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Excessive increase in heart rate before exercise doubles risk of sudden cardiac death in later life

French researchers have discovered a simple and cheap method of predicting who is at greater risk of dying suddenly and unexpectedly from a heart attack.

Medicine & Health / Health

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Researchers study whether yoga can calm overactive hearts

Can doing the downward-facing dog keep your heart from racing out of control? Alicia Jones is hoping so.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers shed light on fat burning

Researchers at Georgia State University have found that fat cells give feedback to the brain in order to regulate fat burning much the same way a thermostat regulates temperature inside a house.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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