Science news articles about 'selenium levels'

  • Selenium may prevent high risk-bladder cancer

    ... may aid in the prevention of high-risk bladder cancer. Researchers from Dartmouth Medical School compared selenium levels in 767 individuals newly diagnosed with bladder cancer ...
  • Are Selenium Levels Linked to Diabetes?

    Americans with diabetes have high levels of selenium in their bodies, prompting some health experts to suspect that it could contribute to development of the disease. In response to their new findings ...
  • Selenium intake may worsen prostate cancer in some, study reports

    ... as likely to have an aggressive type of prostate cancer as their counterparts with low selenium levels, says Kantoff, who is also a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. The study couldn' ...
  • Too much selenium can increase your cholesterol

    ... 10% increase in non-HDL cholesterol levels (lipoproteins within your total cholesterol ... attack or chest pain). Also, of the participants with the highest selenium levels, 48.2% admitted they regularly ...
  • U.S., Utah in dispute over Great Salt Lake

    SALT LAKE CITY, May 28 (UPI) -- The U.S. government says a Utah law setting permissible selenium levels in the Great Salt Lake is illegal because it violates a treaty on migratory birds.

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