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Pregnant women who smoke face a higher risk of developing diabetes during pregnancy — a condition known as gestational diabetes.
Rates of gestational diabetes were highest among women who smoked (4%) and lowest among those who had never smoked (2%), the investigators found. Women who quit before or during pregnancy had intermediate rates of gestational […]
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People who are frequent users of marijuana during their teens and early adulthood may have an increased risk of developing psychosis later in life.
Those who used marijuana had a moderately increased risk of psychotic symptoms. That risk was much greater among people with a predisposition for psychosis.
It is believed that marijuana disrupts levels of […]
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Medication to reduce heartburn-causing gastric acids has been linked to increased risk for pneumonia, a group of Dutch researchers has concluded.
Heartburn drugs, such as the commonly prescribed Nexium or Prilosec, reduced stomach acid but allowed germs to multiply.
The risk for pneumonia was twice as high in people using heartburn medication for three years than […]
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Those who drank at least two glasses of milk every day or consumed at least four daily servings of dairy products were twice as likely to develop serous epithelial ovarian cancer as those who consumed less than two servings of dairy a day.
High intakes of lactose and dairy products, especially milk, may increase the […]
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Staying away from peanuts after outgrowing the allergy greatly increases the risk of your allergy coming back.
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Current smokers are 33% more likely to develop asthma. People who had given up smoking are 49% more likely to develop asthma than those who never smoked.
The risk of asthma was proportional to the number of cigarettes smoked each day - and the total number smoked during a lifetime so far.
Female smokers and ex-smokers […]
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Widely used heartburn and ulcer drugs such as Nexium, Pepcid and Prilosec can make people more susceptible to pneumonia, probably because they reduce germ-killing stomach acid.
The highest risks occurred with more powerful acid-fighting drugs called proton pump inhibitors, which are sold in the United States under such brand names as Nexium, Prevacid and Prilosec. […]
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Childhood obesity increases the risk of cancer in adulthood.
‘If the cancer risk among today’s young people mimics that of previous generations, our observations suggest that the impact of current childhood obesity on the cancer burden in the second half of this century may be substantial,’ say the authors, adding: ‘Efforts to reverse the increasing […]
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Transient exposure to traffic may increase the risk of heart attacks in susceptible persons.
An association was found between exposure to traffic and the onset of a heart attack within one hour afterward. The time the subjects spent in cars, on public transportation, or on motorcycles or bicycles was consistently linked with an increase in […]
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High birth weight, high stature at 14 years of age, low body-mass index (BMI) at 14 years of age, and peak growth at an early age were independent risk factors for breast cancer. Height at 8 years of age and the increase in height during puberty (8 to 14 years of age) were also […]