Washington, Oct 24 : A new study from the Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine in the UK has found that people with even minimally symptomatic obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may be at increased risk for cardiovascular disease because of impaired endothelial function and increased arterial stiffness.

"It was previously known that people with OSA severe enough to affect their daytime alertness and manifest in other ways are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease, but this finding suggests that many more people—some of whom may be completely unaware that they even have OSA—are at risk than previously thought," said lead author of the study, Malcolm Kohler, M. D.

Dengue took the death toll to four when a 21-year-old, Rupesh Kumar Mishra died at a city’s nursing home by suffering from the same.

The deceased who originally hailed from Jaunpore in Uttar Pradesh was living with his father at Bechu Chatterjee Street in Ward 38, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and was admitted to the nursing home on Saturday.

A recent survey by an insurance company, ‘Sheila’s Wheels’ revealed that women wearing heels while driving cars stand a chance of risking their lives. It was reported that out of every five female car drivers, four are at risk due to inappropriate footwear they endorse while driving.

The company questioned around 750 women out of which 75 admitted that they have experienced accident or a “near miss” as their footwear slipped or got under the pedals and made driving difficult. A quarter of them agreed that before they started to drive even though they believed that the shoes they are wearing are uneasy denied of changing them as they felt it wouldn’t bother them that much.

London, October 24: British scientists have developed a revolutionary “universal test” that can enable prospective parents to screen embryos to detect almost any genetic disease in unborn children.

The 1,500-pound “genetic MoT” may be available as early as next year.

The test will allow couples at risk of passing on gene defects to conceive healthy children using IVF treatment.

Its developers at the Bridge Centre in London claim that their test just takes some weeks from start to finish, and is suitable for couples at risk of almost any condition.

US researchers say hydrogen sulfide, known for its bad smell is important for regulating our blood pressure. According to the study published in Science, researchers at John Hopkins University, in Maryland found that hydrogen sulfide; a toxic gas responsible for the foul odor of flatulence is also produced by an enzyme called CSE in the thin lining of the blood vessels. This regulates blood pressure by relaxing the blood vessels.

Guangdong Yang, PhD, of the University of Saskatchewan and Lakehead University in Canada, and colleagues examined two groups of mice in the study. One group of mice was normal while the second group of mice had been engineered to not have CSE, an enzyme long suspected of making hydrogen sulfide.

A recent study has suggested that warm hands lead to warm thoughts about the person.

The study headed by Lawrence Williams of the University of Colorado studied a group of college students in a controlled experiment.

The volunteers were tested at the psychology building of Yale University of Colarado.

During an elevator ride a woman handed over cups of coffee to the volunteers. Half the volunteers were given hot cup of coffee whereas the other half were given iced coffee. They held the cups while riding an elevator which means just for a few seconds.

Thereafter the students were asked to fill up a questionnaire.