Health and Fitness for Thursday March 17, 2011

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Sleep apnea, not prostate may wake men BEER-SHEVA, Israel (UPI) -- A significant number of patients with benign prostate enlargement may get up at night to urinate because of a sleep disorder, Israeli researchers say. Dr. Howard Tandeter of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev says the study compared men ages 55-75, who were randomly chosen from primary care clinics, diagnosed with benign prostate enlargement and reported nocturia -- the need to get up in the night to urinate interrupting sleep -- at least once nightly. The comparison control group had no benign prostate enlargement and one or no nocturia episodes per night. The study, published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, found 57.8 percent of patients with enlarged prostates may in fact have the sleep disorder and that the awakenings that patients ascribed to their need to urinate at night may be actually caused by their sleep disorders. Waking during the night to urinate is a common benign prostate enlargement symptom. Obstructive sleep apnea is a sleep disorder characterized by snoring, witnessed apneas, awakenings and day sleepiness. "If nocturia severity in benign prostate enlargement patients is actually a pre-existing sleep disorder, this can now be treated and help improve patients' quality of life," Tandeter said in a statement. He recommends that physicians with patients with benign prostate enlargement who report frequent awakenings from sleep to urinate should suspect obstructive sleep apnea as a possible cause and treat accordingly. Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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Collecting can become obsession, addiction GRANADA, Spain (UPI) -- Collecting dolls, thimbles or toy soldiers can have good psychological effects, but a Spanish researcher says for some collecting can become uncontrolled. Professor Francisca Lopez Torrecillas at the University of Granada says in principle, and as long as the hobby is performed under control, collecting is good from the psychological point of view, as it helps in developing perseverance, order, patience and memory. However, collecting can become an obsession, especially among the vulnerable -- individuals with low self-esteem, poor social skills and difficulty in facing problems. "When people have this feeling of personal inefficiency, compulsive collecting helps them in feeling better," Torrecillas said in a statement. In recent years, "a very significant increase has been observed of cases where uncontrolled collecting has caused obsessive-compulsive disorder and shopping addiction." Torrecillas said certain attitudes such as the need for control, perfectionism, meticulousness and extreme order are very frequent traits in people who enjoy collecting, but they are also closely related to psychological disorders. Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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For 10th year, U.S. death rate lower ATLANTA (UPI) -- U.S. life expectancy at birth increased to 78.2 years in 2009, up slightly from 78 years in 2008, federal health officials said. A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics said the age-adjusted death rate for the U.S. population fell to an all-time low of 741 deaths per 100,000 people in 2009 -- 2.3 percent lower than the 2008 rate. "Life expectancy was up two-tenths of a year for males -- 75.7 years -- and up one-tenth of a year for females -- 80.6 years, while life expectancy for the U.S. white population increased by two-tenths of a year and life expectancy for black males -- 70.9 years, and females, 77.4 years -- was unchanged in 2009," the report said. "The gap in life expectancy between the white and black populations was 4.3 years in 2009, two-tenths of a year increase from the gap in 2008 of 4.1 years." The findings are based on death certificates from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. In 2009, deaths from heart disease declined by 3.7 percent, cancer by 1.1 percent, chronic lower respiratory diseases by 4.1 percent, stroke by 4.2 percent, accidents/unintentional injuries by 4.1 percent, Alzheimer's disease by 4.1 percent, diabetes by 4.1 percent, influenza and pneumonia by 4.7 percent, septicemia by 1.8 percent and homicide by 6.8 percent, the report said. The number of suicides increased from 35,933 in 2008 to 36,547 in 2009 -- a 1.7 percent increase. Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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Fish, omega 3 reduce eye disease risk BOSTON (UPI) -- Eating fish that contains omega-3 is associated with a significantly reduced risk of developing age-related macular degeneration, U.S. researchers say. William G. Christen of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston and colleagues collected data on 38,022 women -- part of the Women's Health Study -- who had not been diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration. The women's consumption of food was ascertained via questionnaire at the beginning of the study and included information on intake of docosahexaenoic acid and eicosapentaenoic acid -- omega-3 fatty acids found in fish -- and arachidonic acid and linoleic acid -- omega-6 fatty acids. The women were tracked for about 10 years of follow-up and 235 cases of age-related macular degeneration were reported. The study, published online ahead of print in the June issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, found women who consumed the most DHA had a 38 percent lower risk of developing age-related macular degeneration than women who consumed the lowest amount. Consumption of one or more servings of fish per week, when compared to less than one serving of fish per month, was associated with a 42 percent lower risk of age-related macular degeneration. "This lower risk appeared to be due primarily to consumption of canned tuna fish and dark-meat fish," Christen says. Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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