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Knight Watch: Do Health Studies Make Us Healthier?
By Knight Pierce Hirst
A study done at Boston University Medical Center found that people with a parent who lived to be 100 or more lived longer and healthier lives themselves. During the 4-year study in which the average age of the over 600 participants was 72, the offspring of centenarians were 2.8% less likely to have a heart attack, 4.2% less like to develop diabetes, 5% less likely to have a stroke and 81% less likely to die during the study. It seems centenarian parents pass on their good genes to their offspring – giving new meaning to “designer genes”. A study done at Vanderbilt University’s Center of Asthma Research found that autumn babies have a 30% higher risk of developing asthma. After studying the medical records of 95,000 infants and their mothers in Tennessee, the researchers discovered that the timing of birth and the risk of developing asthma coordinate almost to the day with the peak of winter viral infections. Although genetics predispose babies to asthma, environmental exposure is now thought to activate those genes. Coming up with a preventive vaccine for babies won’t be easy, but it will be easier than preventing autumn babies. A study done at Harvard University found that pain hurts more if it is caused intentionally. In the study 43 volunteers used a scale from 1 to 7 to rate the pain from an electric shock. If the volunteers thought they had received the shock randomly, they rated it a 3.00. If they thought their partners had asked for them to be shocked, they rated it a 3.62. That is because feelings of physical pain and feelings of social harm are processed in similar regions in the brain. When both regions are simultaneously involved, pain hurts more. That is the painful truth. Finally, a study done by doctors at Florida’s Nova Southeastern University found that Wikipedia – the free, online, user-edited encyclopedia – is not a safe source for consumers to get drug information. When asked questions about 80 different drugs, Wikipedia was able to answer only 40% of the questions. The good news is the answers were factually accurate. The bad news is there were 48 errors of omission regarding dangerous drug interactions and adverse side effects. The fact that drug company representatives have been caught deleting negative information about their products appearing in Wikipedia is very bad news – that should have been big news in Wikipedia and elsewhere.
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