27 August, 2013

Exercises can keep your vision perfect

Exercising your eyes is important, say experts

Not everyone is blessed with perfect vision but those who are can try and keep your peepers in perfect condition with the help of exercises. Eye surgeon Dr Keki Mehta says, that exercises help in mechanical stability of the eye. He says, "Increasing the range of movement of an eye, especially by exercising a weak muscle. Permitting eye movement, especially in persons who wear spectacles or have their eyes fixed at a particular position for long periods, like typesetters and painters. This permits a more comfortable vision.

In an eye which has a squint, exercising a particular group of muscles can cure or radically reduce a squint. Even if a squint is surgically operated, the use of exercises can build up thecapacity of the eye to virtually normal limits."

Exercises, say the doctor, improve the power of the eye to maintain focus in depressed position (the eye turns in and bends down during the most important activity of modern life which is reading) and thus allow you to work long hours.

Source: www.timesofindia.com

27.08.2013

Blood pressure drugs up breast cancer risk

A new study has found that long-term use of a calcium-channel blocker to treat hypertension (high blood pressure) is associated with higherbreast cancer risk. 

Antihypertensive medications are the most commonly prescribed class of drugs in theUnited States and in 2010 totaled an estimated 678 million filled prescriptions, Christopher I. Li, M.D., Ph.D., of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, and colleagues write in the study background. 

"Evidence regarding the relationship between different types of antihypertensives and breast cancer risk is sparse and inconsistent, and prior studies have lacked the capacity to assess impacts of long-term use," the study said. 

The population-based study in the three-county Seattle-Puget Sound metropolitan area included women ages 55 to 74 years: 880 of the women had invasive ductal breast cancer, 1,027 had invasive lobular breast cancer and 856 of them had no cancer and served as the control group. 

Researchers measured the risk of breast cancer and examined the recency and duration of use of antihypertensive medications. 

According to the results, current use of calcium-channel blockers for 10 or more years was associated with higher risks of ductal breast cancer and lobular breast cancer. 

The research is published by JAMA Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication.

Source: www.timesofindia.com

27.08.2013

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