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MONDAY, May 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Being obese or overweight can increase the odds of developing several types of cancers, new research from the United Kingdom reveals.But shedding the excess pounds can lower the risk, researchers say. Reducing obesity cuts the risk for endometrial cancer by 44% and uterine cancer by 39%, and could also prevent 18% of kidney cancers and 17% of stomach and liver cancers, according to the study."It all depends on keeping the weight off," said lead researcher Carlos Celis-Morales of the BHF Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. He noted that many people lose weight only to regain it back -- and then some."What we need is kind of a long-term healthy weight and people that achieve that will reduce...

MONDAY, May 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- You're getting no real benefit from taking weight-loss supplements like garcinia cambogia, green tea extract, glucomannan, conjugated linoleic acid or chitosan, two new reviews show.Most of the clinical trials studied didn't show these supplements producing any weight loss among users, the researchers said. In the rare cases where people did lose weight, they didn't drop enough pounds to have a positive impact on their health."The results of our systematic review highlight that taking herbal medicines or dietary supplements is not an effective weight-loss strategy," said lead researcher Erica Bessell, a doctoral student with the University of Sydney in Australia. "We would recommend that people trying to lose weight should save their money and...

MONDAY, May 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- When young women land in the emergency room with chest pain, they wait longer and get less treatment than their male counterparts, a preliminary study finds.Using a federal survey of U.S. hospitals, researchers found that younger women with chest pain were treated less urgently than men their age. That included a lower likelihood of receiving standard tests for diagnosing a heart attack.Chest pain can have a range of causes, including minor issues like muscle strain and acid reflux.But it's also the most common symptom of heart attack in both women and men, said study co-author Dr. Harmony Reynolds, a cardiologist at NYU Langone Health in New York City.It's not clear why young women were treated differently for their chest pain. But implicit...

MONDAY, May 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Could having heart disease risk factors in childhood sow the seeds of thinking declines in middle-age?It looks like it might, new research claims."I think it was not so big of a surprise for us, but maybe for the scientific community who have been focusing mainly on the midlife risk factors and old-age cognition," said study co-author Suvi Rovio. She is senior researcher of cardiovascular medicine and adjunct professor in the department of clinical medicine at the University of Turku, in Finland. "It is something really novel to put it down to the childhood, and show the same associations beginning from childhood," Rovio said.For their research, her team used data from the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study, a national, longitudinal study....