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HEALTH TIPS - Tuesday, February 13, 2007
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ASPIRIN KEY TO PREVENT SECOND STROKE
A Swiss study finds stroke survivors who stopped taking
their prescribed daily aspirin tripled their risk of hav-
ing another stroke within a month. "This is the first
controlled retrospective study to investigate the poten-
tial risk of suffering ischemic stroke shortly after
discontinuing aspirin," said study co-author Dr. Patrik
Michel, director of the acute stroke unit at Lausanne
University Hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland. This study
reinforces the importance of compliance with aspirin
therapy in patients with symptomatic arteriosclerosis,
including previous stroke, Michel told the American Stroke
Association's International Stroke Conference in New
Orleans.
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STEROID AS EFFECTIVE AS SURGERY FOR CARPAL TUNNEL
Carpal tunnel syndrome or CTS affects 3 percent of the U.S.
population but there is no universally accepted therapy.
Madrid researchers suggest steroid injection is just as
effective as surgery for the long-term symptomatic relief
of carpal tunnel syndrome -- for a year, at least -- and
actually more effective over the short term. "This is the
first randomized controlled clinical trial comparing the
two most common therapies for CTS," writes study author Dr.
Domingo Ly-Pen in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism. "Our
findings suggest that both local steroid injections and
surgical decompression are highly effective in alleviating
the symptoms of primary CTS at 12 months of follow-up.
Nevertheless, local injection seems superior to surgery in
the short term."
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CELL PHONES AFFECT YOUNG DRIVERS
A University of Utah study finds when young motorists talk
on cell phones, they drive like elderly people -- with
slower reaction times. "If you put a 20-year-old driver
behind the wheel with a cell phone, their reaction times
are the same as a 70-year-old driver who is not using a
cell phone," says study author David Strayer. "It's like
instantly aging a large number of drivers." The study, pub-
lished in the journal Human Factors, finds drivers young
or old using hands-free phones were 18 percent slower in
hitting their brakes than drivers who didn't use cell
phones. They also had a 12 percent greater following dis-
tance and took 17 percent longer to regain the speed they
lost when they braked.
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