March 3rd - Health Wrap

If a man has a small, low grade, or not highly aggressive prostate cancer, delaying surgery -- even for years -- does not appear to increase the risk of the disease progressing to an incurable form.

That's according to a 10-year Johns Hopkins study published in the latest issue of the Journal of the National CancerIinstitute.

It found the risk of noncurable prostate cancer -- defined as a less than 75 percent chance of remaining disease-free 10 years after surgery -- was the same for men receiving immediate surgical treatment and those who waited -- on average -- two years before having surgery.

Being very obese can increase your risk of dying in an auto accident….according to new research.

But….being a bit overweight might actually save your life due to the cushioning effect in the event of a crash.

Certainly, this isn’t justification for being overweight, though.

Men with the highest body mass index, or BMI, were at greatest risk for death from front or left-side collisions, especially at high speeds.

The current federal motor vehicle safety standards provide protection primarily for the mid-size male with a BMI = 24.3. This standard may apply to fewer people now.

The study appears in the march online edition of American Journal of Public Health and was funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.


According to new University of Utah research, women are at risk for hardening of the arteries and heart attacks if they are hostile to their husbands… or if their husbands are hostile to them.

But in men, the hostility – their own or their wives’…wasn’t related to atherosclerosis.
However, if they acted in a controlling way - or if their wives did---that was related to atherosclerosis in the husbands.

The authors say, overall, a low-quality relationship is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.


And in 2005, what was the most popular cosmetic surgery?

Why, liposuction, of course—around a half million Americans had it done.

But, the most common cosmetic procedure overall…surgical and nonsurgical, was botox injections.

More than three million Americans got the nerve numbing treatment.

Overall, nearly 11.5 million cosmetic surgical and nonsurgical procedures were performed in the united states last year. More than a million and a half had laser hair removal; one point one million got restylane.

After liposuction, breast augmentation and eyelid surgery were the other two most popular cosmetic operations.

By far and away, these procedures were much more common in women than in men still.
For example, while 2.9 million women got botox, only 300,000 men had it done.