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Supporting the Women in our Lives: Stroke Prevention
May is Stroke Awareness Month and May 10-16th is National Women's Health Week, making this the perfect time to talk about the special challenges women face related to stroke and how women can reduce their risk and protect their health. Being the mid-Atlantic Regional Health Administrator might make stroke prevention my professional duty, but it's my role as a father, husband, and son to so many special women that makes it my personal responsibility.
It's alarming to think that every 4 minutes someone in the United States dies of a stroke -- most of them women. Stroke -- which is sometimes called a brain attack -- happens...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 18, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
One in 10 men aged 50 'have the heart of a 60-year-old'
"One-tenth of 50-year-old men have a heart age 10 years older than they are," BBC News reports. This is the finding of an analysis of 1.2 million people who used the NHS Heart Age Test.
The principle behind the test is that you can "age" your heart through unhealthy behaviour such as smoking and being obese.
Underlying conditions like high blood pressure and high cholesterol, which often have no noticeable symptoms, can also age the heart.
An obese smoker in their 50s who has high blood pressure and high cholesterol could have the heart of a 60- or 70-year-old.
The quick and simple test tells you the...
Source: NHS News Feed - September 4, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart/lungs Source Type: news
Heat illness and deaths - new york city, 2000-2011.
Abstract
Heat waves kill more persons, on average, than any other extreme weather event in the United States, and additional heat-related deaths are caused by hot weather not classified as heat waves. Summer temperatures in New York City (NYC) are increasing, with longer and hotter heat waves projected into the next century and beyond. To assess current risk factors and vulnerable populations among NYC residents, hospital data, death certificate data, and medical examiner records involving cases of heat illness, including hyperthermia (also known as heat stroke), were analyzed by the NYC Department of Health and M...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - August 9, 2013 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: research
10 Must-Do Health Checks For Women Over 50
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Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 31, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
In Times of Uncertainty, Keep Calm and Get Covered
It's no secret that the Affordable Care Act, President Obama's signature healthcare legislation, is facing an uncertain future. The incoming administration has pledged to repeal the law and offer an alternative in its place. But this uncertain future should not keep you from taking advantage of what is available to you and your loved ones today.
Thursday is the deadline to ensure coverage under the ACA when the calendar turns to 2017. This goes for both uninsured Americans seeking coverage and those who need to re-enroll. Missing the deadline doesn't mean you're out; it just means you won't have coverage Jan. 1. The final...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - December 13, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
In assessing risk of hormone therapy for menopause, dose — not form — matters
FINDINGSWhen it comes to assessing the risk of estrogen therapy for menopause, how the therapy is delivered — taking a pill versus wearing a patch on one’s skin — doesn’t affect risk or benefit, researchers at UCLA and elsewhere have found. But with the commonly used conjugated equine estrogen, plus progestogen, the dosage does. Higher doses, especially over time, are associated with greater risk of problems, including heart disease and some types of cancer, especially among obese women.BACKGROUNDThe Women ’s Health Initiative established the potential of estrogen therapy to increase or decrease the risk of strok...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - July 27, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
California Health Interview Survey releases new 2011-12 data on health of Californians
The California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) today released new data based on interviews with more than 44,000 households in California. The survey, conducted by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, covered hundreds of topics affecting state residents' health and well-being. (See a complete list of topics here.)
Data on nearly 200 of these topics were released today on AskCHIS, the center's award-winning, free, easy-to-use Web tool that provides data by state, region, county and some service-planning areas in Los Angeles and San Diego counties. Even more data were released through free, downloadable pub...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - August 8, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Walking ‘could save 37,000 lives a year’ report claims
The benefits of walking have been reported across the UK media. The BBC reports that “walking more 'would save thousands' of lives in the UK”.
These stories have been prompted by the "Walking Works” report (PDF, 3.4MB). It provides an overview of current evidence on physical inactivity, and makes the case for encouraging more people to take up walking as a form of physical activity.
It lays out that a large proportion of the population is not meeting physical activity guidelines and that if more people did so, this could potentially save 37,000 lives a year in England. It also discusses the specific benefits o...
Source: NHS News Feed - October 7, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cancer Lifestyle/exercise QA articles Source Type: news
Lower sodium intake reduces blood pressure in adults and children, but is not associated with a reduced risk of all CVD or all cause mortality
Commentary on: Aburto NJ, Ziolkovska A, Hooper L, et al.. Effect of lower sodium intake on health: systematic review and meta-analyses. BMJ 2013;346:f1326 Context More than half a century has passed since the idea that the lower blood pressure (BP) associated with lower sodium intake justifies reduced intake for all. Authoritative bodies have subsequently endorsed this view with increasingly ambitious reduction goals. The US Department of Agriculture and US Department of Health and Human Services currently recommend <1.5 g sodium/day for virtually half the population, with <2.3 g1 levels for the remainder. ...
Source: Evidence-Based Medicine - January 22, 2014 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Alderman, M. H., Cohen, H. Tags: EBM Aetiology, Epidemiologic studies, Drugs: cardiovascular system, Drugs: CNS (not psychiatric), Stroke, Hypertension, Diet, Obesity (nutrition), Ischaemic heart disease, Health education Source Type: research
Brits eating too much salt, sugar and fat
“Too much sugar, salt and fat: healthy eating still eluding many Britons,” The Guardian reports, while the Daily Mail rather bizarrely warns of a “fruit juice timebomb”. Both papers are covering a major survey that looked at the nation’s eating habits over recent years.The survey found that, overall, adults and children are eating too much saturated fat, added sugar and salt. We are also not getting the recommended levels of fruit, vegetables, oily fish and fibre that our bodies need. Who produced the survey?Public Health England, an agency of the Department of Health, has released data from the National Diet an...
Source: NHS News Feed - May 15, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Food/diet QA articles Source Type: news
ANH-Intl News Alerts: Week 23, 2014
GM, statins, vaccinations, saturated fat, package-free shopping, FDA and cheese, diet advise, and protein lowers stroke risk
Source: Alliance for Natural Health - June 18, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sophie Tags: ASO Association for the Study of Obesity BDA British Dietetic Association calorie counting Canadian Medical Association Journal cheese Chinese CMAJ department of health diet advise Dietitians in Obesity Management DoH DOM europ Source Type: news
Oregon gets more Obamacare grants, this time for preventing diabetes and heart disease
Oregon is receiving $2.6 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services to support programs targeting chronic diseases.
Health & Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced the grants on Thursday. They are aimed at programs that prevent heart disease, stroke and diabetes and reduce rates of death and disability due to tobacco use and related to obesity.
Four awards are being made to large and small cities and counties, tribes, tribal organizations and community organizations…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 25, 2014 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Elizabeth Hayes Source Type: research
Ten-point plan to tackle liver disease published
"Doctors call for tougher laws on alcohol abuse to tackle liver disease crisis," The Guardian reports. But this is just one of 10 recommendations for tackling the burden of liver disease published in a special report in The Lancet.The report paints a grim picture of an emerging crisis in liver disease in the UK, saying it is one of the few countries in Europe where liver disease and deaths have actually increased rapidly over the last 30 years. It concludes with 10 recommendations to tackle the burden of liver disease.The media has approached the recommendations from many different angles, with many sources only ...
Source: NHS News Feed - November 27, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Food/diet Lifestyle/exercise QA articles Source Type: news
Delta Region Health Care Providers Get $1.75M in Grants
ARcare and the Greater Delta Alliance for Health Inc. are getting $1.7 million in grant funding in fiscal 2016 to reduce chronic diseases that disproportionately affect Arkansas residents, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
The money will support collaborative efforts among health care providers to address diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, stroke and behavioral health.
Arkansas is among eight states in the Delta are getting a total of $10 million in grant funding in fiscal 2016 from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy at the Health Resources and Services Administration.
Th...
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - August 12, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Observe American Heart Month this February
Untitled by Tim Marshall is licensed under CC0.
A heart means more than just love this February—this month, the United States recognizes American Heart Month, shedding light on heart disease, the leading cause of death for men and women in the U.S.; heart disease affects 1 in 4 Americans, and 1 in 3 American women.
The New Mexico Department of Health is just one organization that hopes it can raise awareness for the disease and the risks associated with it. In New Mexico, 4,000 people die annually from heart disease or stroke.
What’s important to know about heart disease is that it can be prevented. Well-known risk fa...
Source: Network News - February 9, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NN/LM South Central Region Tags: Consumer Health New Mexico Outreach Social Media Source Type: news
