Depression, anxiety raise risk of stroke death; Protein greatly increases risk of slow growing fetus, small baby; Smoking rates drop but heavy drinking rates rise in Canada

Depression, anxiety raise risk of stroke death; Protein greatly increases risk of slow growing fetus, small baby; Smoking rates drop but heavy drinking rates rise in Canada (June 24, 2012 - Insidermedicine) From London - Depression and anxiety raise risk of dying from stroke, according to a report published in CMAJ. Researchers analyzed data on nearly 70,000 adult men and women over an 8 year period, and found that psychological distress was strongly associated with risk of death from stroke. From Ottawa - Research published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism identifies a protein that may help predict which women will have dangerously small babies. Researchers studied 72 pregnant women, half who gave birth to dangerously small babies and half who had normal weight babies. They found that women with high levels of the protein IGFBP-4 in the first trimester were 22x more likely to give birth to a dangerously small baby. From Ottawa - Canada's smoking rates have decline, but heavy drinking has increased, according to a report released by Statistics Canada. From 2001 to 2011, researchers found that smoking rates among men declined by 5%, while rates among women declined by 6%. Rates of heavy drinking however, rose from 17% in 2001 to 19% in 2012.

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