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Dark Chocolate: Good for your sweetheart and your heart

June 14, 2012

Getting chocolate from a sweetheart could benefit your romance and your heart. A new study suggests that dark chocolate can help prevent heart problems.

Is one type of spinal pain more debilitating than the next?

June 14, 2012

Suffering from a combination of neck pain and sciatica may prove more debilitating than back pain alone. Although previous research has examined the economic impact of back and neck pain on employees, most studies have evaluated each condition separately. To assess the combined impact of multi-site spinal pain, Finnish researchers surveyed 6, 934 municipal employees. 15% of women and 23% of men suffered from low-back pain, sciatica, or neck pain. While having at least one type of pain increased participants' risk of sick leave, suffering from multiple types of spinal pain exacerbated that risk.

Prediabetes increases stroke risk

June 13, 2012

Prediabetes may contribute to stroke risk but that depends largely on how prediabetes is defined, the authors of a new meta-analysis pointed out in the British Medical Journal. Since definitions of prediabetes vary, it's difficult to determine the exact degree of risk prediabetes presents.