Roughly 16 months later, the researchers checked to see which patients had had further heart problems, such as congestive heart failure, stroke, or a subsequent heart attack. Moreover, patients whose microvessels had obstructions were five times more likely to have complications than were patients whose capillaries were clear. Why the tube makes kids tubby One out of four American children is obese, and television-watching appears to be fueling such childhood obesity. In the March 25 Journal of the American Medical Association , assistant professor of medicine Ross Andersen reports that the more hours of TV a child watches each day, the fatter that child is likely to be. Andersen based his results on a national survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of 4,063 children ages 8 through 16.
Girls also become far more sedentary than boys as they enter adolescence.
These can become prompts for them to eat. TV becomes associated with eating. Heart gene therapy begins For the first time, cardiologists at Hopkins and collaborators around the country are performing gene therapy directly on the human heart. The new procedure, they say, could one day become a safer, more effective alternative to bypass surgery and angioplasty. The 125 heart disease patients who will volunteer in the nine-center clinical trial will receive doses of a gene for fibroblast growth factor.