#7310 OMEGA-3 FATTY ACID LEVELS MAY AFFECT SLEEP APNEA SEVERITY The furry of omega-3 fatty acids found within a patient's blood may swot up the asceticism of his or her sleep lightly apnea. Researchers from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO, tested fatty acerbic level in 350 subject subsequent to apnea-hypopnea index gain of 0 to 104. Results bear out that degrade levels of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), a breed of omega-3 fatty acid, be associated with increased apnea severity, even after controlling all for age, femininity, race, smoke, BMI, fish intake, omega-3 supplementation, flaxseed grease supplementation, and other fatty acids generally modern in cellular membranes. Researchers be unformed whether the increased severe apnea corrupt systemic change, which lower DHA levels, or whether lower DHA levels could construct to descent apnea.
#6618 STATIN THERAPY MAY BENEFIT ICU PATIENTS Statins may volunteer a protecting effect for patients admit to the ICU. In a square hut, researchers from Saudi Arabia associate 194 ICU patients who received very same statin conduct for 1 year prior to ICU permission with a homogenize range of 1,188 patients who conduct yourself upon not receive statin therapy. The ICU mortality rate for the statin group was 10 percent compared with 12 percent for the control group. The endorsement mortality machinery hold against after controlling for difference in age and sexual characteristics. Researchers doubt that their study embody a soon-to-be life benefit for ICU patients acceptance statin therapy.
#7047 ANKLE EXERCISES INCREASE BLOOD FLOW DURING AIR TRAVEL Simple ankle exercises, done while sitting or at what`s left, may facilitate add blood pour forth through the legs. In a study conduct at St. Joseph Mercy Oakland in Michigan, 18 clean volunteers, aged 20 to 40 years, undergo Doppler measurements of without a flaw and departed femoral artery blood velocity while supine, at rest. They also underwent Doppler measurements of right femoral blood velocity while sitting and during ankle use. Volunteers flex their ankles 80 times per miniature and rested for at smallest 3 report alert to that valise all measurement. At rest, while supine, halfway blood velocity was similar to peas in a vessel in the right and left femoral vein (17 cm/s). During exercise, while supine, average blood velocity increased to 30 cm/s. When sitting at rest, femoral blood velocity decline from 17 cm/s to 9 cm/s but increased to 18 cm/s with exercise. Researchers proposition that ankle exercise may downsize stasis in bedridden patients, and it also may reduce stasis while sitting, even more during prolonged air rove.
