Pregnancy Complications Tied to Kids' Poor Thinking Nov 3, 2009
A study from Denmark hints at "a modest association" between such complications and poorer reasoning, intuition, and perception skills in young adult men, report Dr. Vera Ehrenstein, at Aarhus University Hospital, and colleagues. The study compared intelligence tests measures for more than 17,000 men drafted into Danish military service. (MEDLINEplus)
Nepotism Has Its Benefits, Spiders Show Nov 1, 2009
Jutta Schneider and her students Jasmin Ruch and Lisa Heinrich from University of Hamburg, Germany, and Trine Bilde from Aarhus University, Denmark, organized spiders into different groups to collect food. While some groups were entirely made up of siblings, others included only non-siblings. (Science Daily)
'Pear and apple' shape a DVT risk Oct 29, 2009
Lead researcher Dr Marianne Tang Severinsen, of Aarhus University Hospital in Aalborg, said: "Until now, the importance of fat distribution and venous thromboembolism risk has not been evaluated. "The implications to the public are that all types of obesity increase the risk for venous thromboembolism, but the location of body fat also plays some unknown role. "For health professionals, the implication is that all types of fat distribution should be taken into account when evaluating risk of... (BBC News -- Health)
Location Of Body Fat Affects Risk Of Blood Clots In Men, Women Oct 28, 2009
"The BMI is a marker of excess weight and correlates well with body fat content in adults; however, it fails to consider the distribution of body fat," said Marianne Tang Severinsen, M.D., lead author of the study and researcher in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at Aarhus University Hospital in Aalborg, Denmark. "The implications to the public are that all types of obesity increase the risk for VTE, but the location of body fat also plays some unknown role. For health professionals, the... (Science Daily)
Where You Put on Pounds May Influence Clot Risk Oct 27, 2009
Researchers at Aarhus University Hospital followed more than 57,000 Danish men and women, aged 50 to 64 when the study started, assessing the relationships between body mass, fat distribution and VTE. The initial analysis showed that waist circumference was associated with VTE risk in both men and women. "When hip circumference was adjusted for waist circumference, the association between hip circumference and VTE was eliminated for men but was still significant for women," the report said. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Health)
Antidepressants Raise Birth Risks Oct 7, 2009
To study this, Lund and colleagues analyzed data on 57,000 pregnancies and deliveries at Aarhus University Hospital in Skejby, Denmark, between 1989 and 2006. They identified 329 pregnancies in which the mothers took an SSRI medication, another 4,902 with a history of psychiatric illness not treated with an antidepressant, and 51,700 with no history of psychiatric illness. (Newsmax)
Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy Associated With Some Adverse Outcomes In Newborns Oct 7, 2009
Najaaraq Lund, M.D., of the Bandim Health Project, Indepth Network, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, and Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, and colleagues studied women receiving prenatal care from 1989 to 2006. They compared birth outcomes including gestational age, birth weight and Apgar score among babies born to 329 women who were treated with SSRIs, 4,902 who had a history of psychiatric illness but were not treated with SSRIs and 51,770 who had no history of psychiatric illness. (Science Daily)
Antidepressants during pregnancy affect baby Oct 7, 2009
The new study, led by Dr. Najaaraq Lund, of Aarhus University, in Denmark, found that babies whose mothers had taken SSRIs were born earlier and were more likely to require treatment in an NICU. ... All had received prenatal care at Aarhus University Hospital between 1989 and 2006. (CNN)
Telltale Tells Story Of Winds At Phoenix Landing Site Sep 30, 2009
Telltale was designed and constructed in Denmark at the Mars Simulation Laboratory at the Aarhus University as a part of the Canadian built meteorological package for Phoenix. "The challenge was to develop an instrument sensitive enough to detect very light breezes and at the same time able to withstand the violent vibrations during the mission launch. The Telltale instrument, although quite simple, has operated very successfully in the thin atmosphere of Mars, said Dr. Gunnlaugsson. Adapted... (Science Daily)
Antidepressants Linked to Heart Defects in Newborns Sep 26, 2009
"A potential association with malformations must be considered in the choice of treatment of depression during pregnancy," said Dr. Lars Henning Pedersen, lead author and a research assistant in the department of epidemiology at Aarhus University in Denmark ... D., research assistant, department of epidemiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, and visiting scholar, University of California Los Angeles School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology; Jennifer Wu, M.D., obstetrician and... (MEDLINEplus)
Ancient supervolcano made people grit their teeth Sep 26, 2009
"We have very little information on how small scale hunter-gatherer societies would respond to this," said Felix Riede of Aarhus University in Denmark. "Would they just leave? Or would they try and deal with the tephra?". (MSNBC -- Environment)
Anti-depressants pregnancy 'risk' Sep 25, 2009
The researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark said these defects were 0. 4% more prevalent in children of women who redeemed a prescription for an SSRI in the first trimester of pregnancy. (BBC News -- Health)
Dramatic Biological Responses To Arctic Warming Sep 11, 2009
In addition to Eric Post at Penn State University, the team he led was comprised of biologists, ecologists, geographers, botanists, anthropologists, and fish and wildlife experts from the University of Alberta and the Canadian Wildlife Service in Canada; Aarhus University and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark; the University of Helsinki in Finland; the Arctic Ecology Research Group in France; the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources in Greenland; the University Centre on Svalbard, the... (Science Daily)
Effects of Arctic warming seen as widespread Sep 11, 2009
Post's research was funded by Aarhus University in Denmark, the Danish Polar Center and the U.S. National Science Foundation. In addition to the U.S. Geological Survey, funding for its study came from the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Diabetes advance: Researchers find gene that causes resistance to insulin Sep 7, 2009
The research was conducted by an international team including Sladek, Dr. Constantin Polychronakos of McGill's Faculty of Medicine; Dr. Philippe Froguel of the CNRS and Lille 2 University in France and Imperial College London; Dr. Oluf Pedersen of the University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University in Denmark and their colleagues at many institutions across Europe and North America. This study, which used genetic material drawn from more than 6,000 French participants divided into two separate... (EurekAlert!)
Environmental stress might be shrinking polar bears Aug 27, 2009
"Because the ice is melting, the bears have to use much more energy to hunt their prey," explained Cino Pertoldi, professor of biology from Aarhus University and the Polish Academy of Science, and lead scientist in this study ... The team, which included colleagues from Aarhus University's Department of Arctic Environment, also found shape differences between the skulls from the different periods. (India Times, India)
Preoperative Staging of Lung Cancer with Combined PET–CT Jul 2, 2009
From Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen (B.F., U.L., J.M., A.L., A.B., J.R., I.S., G.J., J.P., L.H.); Odense University Hospital, Odense (B.F.); Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen (S.L., K.L., H.H., V.B., H.N.); Gentofte Hospital, Hellerup (P.C., A.D., P.V., N.M.); Naestved Hospital, Naestved (A.H.); Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus (T.R., S.K., H.M.); University of Southern Denmark, Odense (O.G.); and Herlev Hospital, Hellerup (B.S.) all in Denmark. Address reprint... (New England Journal of Medicine)
Big Spiders Getting Bigger -- Global Warming to Blame? May 6, 2009
Nobody has any idea what effect these larger spiders will have on the local environment, according to study co-author Toke Hye of Aarhus University. But he's pretty sure the spiders will be not only bigger but more plentiful. (National Geographic)
Tufted Bacteria Cause Infection In Premature Babies May 1, 2009
21, 2008) In a new study researchers from Aarhus University, Denmark found bacteria in the follicles of acne patients and healthy individuals to be those of previously known species, disputing the theory that. . (Science Daily)
Newsweek: Return of Europe's prehistoric beasts Apr 15, 2009
Europe is the best place to re-create some semblance of the Pleistocene, argues Jens-Christian Svenning, a biologist at Aarhus University in Denmark. Whereas most of North America's megafauna vanished shortly after humans crossed the Bering Strait, Homo sapiens continued to coexist in Europe with the continent's largest animals, with extinctions happening over a long period. (MSNBC -- International)
Burping Worms May Contribute to Climate Change Mar 5, 2009
The research was supported by a European Union Marie Curie Fellowship, the Danish Research Agency and Aarhus University, Denmark. Copyright. (Fox News)
Head Injury While Young Ups Epilepsy Risk Feb 25, 2009
"Traumatic brain injury is a significant risk indicator for epilepsy many years after the injury. Drug treatment after brain injury with the aim of preventing post-traumatic epilepsy has been discouraging, but our data suggest a long time interval for potential, preventive treatment of high-risk patients," wrote Dr. Jakob Christensen, of the neurology department at Aarhus University Hospital, and colleagues. Their analysis of national data on young people revealed that the risk of epilepsy was... (MEDLINEplus)
Children,adults may develop epilepsy after traumatic brain injury Feb 25, 2009
Therefore, there could be an opportunity to protect these patients from epilepsy, said Jakob Christensen, neurologist, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark. Approximately 1. (Hindu)
Brain injury raises epilepsy risk for years - study Feb 23, 2009
The risk remained even 10 years on, more so in people older than 15, Jakob Christensen and colleagues at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark and colleagues wrote in the journal Lancet. "Traumatic brain injury is a significant risk indicator for epilepsy many years after the injury," they wrote. (Reuters India)
Heart Drug Linked to Breast Cancer Feb 7, 2009
Dr. Thomas P. Ahern of Boston University and colleagues there and at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark identified 5,565 postmenopausal women diagnosed with breast cancer between 1991 and 2007, and matched them with 55,650 healthy comparison subjects. The researchers estimated the risk of breast cancer with digoxin use after accounting for age, county of residence, use of anticoagulants, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents (NSAIDs), aspirin, and hormone replacement therapy. (MEDLINEplus)
