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3 Major Health Problems That Disproportionately Affect Vets
Veterans are more likely to report very good or excellent health than their civilian counterparts, so they may not realize that they’re also at greater risk than civilians for some long-term health problems.
Of course, many veterans have acute physical health problems, like wounds and amputations, and trauma-based mental health issues like depression and PTSD. Indeed, mental health issues affect 30 percent of Vietnam veterans, 20 percent of Iraqi veterans and about 10 percent of Gulf War and Afghanistan veterans.
Less known are some of the ordinary, chronic conditions that disproportionately affect ser...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - November 11, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Ask About Adherence: How poorly managed blood pressure is placing older Americans at risk for heart disease and stroke
Ask About Adherence is a blog series featuring Q&A ’s with experts and new medication adherence resources. In this post, we feature a recently released report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which found that a high number of Medicare Part D beneficiaries using antihypertensives were non-adherent.Stay tuned for the next blog and be sure to share your thoughts in the comments section below.
Source: The Catalyst - October 5, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: adherence Part D Medicare #Adherence123s Ask About Adherence Source Type: news
In the Raw: To Cook or Not to Cook?
Imagine never again savoring the smell of baking cakes or charbroiled steak.
Could you? Why would you?
Yet some people worldwide are turning away not only from meat and processed food, but also from cooking.
Welcome to the raw food diet.
As the Standard American Diet becomes more fat-laden, sugar-sated, and processed, the prevalence of metabolic disorders, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease (CVD) are soaring.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), obesity now affects nearly 35 percent of the population of the United States, over 29 million people have been diagnosed with t...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
More Coca-Cola Ties Seen Inside U.S. Centers For Disease Control
In June, Dr. Barbara Bowman, a high-ranking official within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, unexpectedly departed the agency, two days after information came to light indicating that she had been communicating regularly with - and offering guidance to - a leading Coca-Cola advocate seeking to influence world health authorities on sugar and beverage policy matters.
Now, more emails suggest that another veteran CDC official has similarly close ties to the global soft drink giant. Michael Pratt, Senior Advisor for Global Health in the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - August 1, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
What FDA ’s new sodium guidelines could look like in practice
With nine out of 10 U.S. adults and children consuming too much sodium, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released draft proposed voluntary guidelines to encourage companies to significantly reduce sodium in processed and restaurant foods by 2020. Some of the recommended changes may be eye-opening for patients who don ’t closely monitor their sodium intake. The need to decrease sodium consumption
High sodium intake has a direct correlation to high blood pressure, which leads to heart disease and stroke —the most common causes of death in the U.S., contributing to more than 1,000 deaths per day. “...
Source: AMA Wire - June 8, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
Muhammed Ali's Death Underscores Importance of Prehospital Sepsis Detection
Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest athletes of all times and a world-class treasure, passed away on Friday, June 3, 2016, as result of sepsis. Imagine if an EMS crew could have detected that he was becoming septic and was able to treat him in the field, helping the hospital attack this deadly condition before it attacked his vital organs? Soon, crews all over the world will be capable of doing so.
Severe sepsis is caused by overwhelming infection, and is responsible for significant morbidity and mortality among hospitalized patients. Clinical identification of sepsis includes two or more of the systemic inflammatory respons...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - June 6, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: A.J. Heightman, MPA, EMT-P Tags: Patient Care Source Type: news
Reversing long-term trend, death rate for Americans ticks upward
The long decline in Americans' death rates has reversed course, according to preliminary 2015 numbers for all causes of mortality as compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Many factors are implicated in the turnaround, including a rise in deaths from firearms, drug overdoses, accidental injuries, suicides, Alzheimer's disease, hypertension and stroke. In a […]
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - June 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Joel Achenbach Tags: cancer cdc/who data health heart disease prescription drugs Source Type: news
What The Government's Latest Asian-American Health Report Got Wrong
Asian-Americans fare better than the general population on five different measures of health, according to a new national study.
But though it may appear that the "model minority" myth about the 15 million Asians in America extends even to physical and mental health, experts say this finding obscures the truth about vast disparities between Asian subgroups -- and that the study's methodology may have prevented the elderly, immigrants and people who don't speak English from contributing to a more nuanced picture of the health status of Asians in America.
The report, published by the U.S. Center fo...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - May 20, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Teens may need to be much thinner if they want to be healthy adults
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We’ve long known that being overweight can lead to cardiovascular disease and early death. We also know that being overweight as a teen makes it more likely that someone will be overweight as an adult, which is why we pediatricians talk so much to teens and their parents about getting to — and staying at — a healthy weight.
But we may have set the bar too low. A study just published in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) says that if we really want to prevent heart disease in adulthood, our teens should be much thinner than we currently tell them to be.
The number doctors use to figure o...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - April 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Parenting Prevention Source Type: news
How much should teens weigh to prevent heart disease as adults?
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We’ve long known that being overweight can lead to cardiovascular disease and early death. We also know that being overweight as a teen makes it more likely that someone will be overweight as an adult, which is why we pediatricians talk so much to teens and their parents about getting to — and staying at — a healthy weight.
But we may have set the bar too low. A study just published in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) says that if we really want to prevent heart disease in adulthood, our teens should be much thinner than we currently tell them to be.
The number doctors use to figure o...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - April 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Parenting Prevention Source Type: news
Majority of L.A. tenants favor smoke-free apartments, but 80 percent of units are still not protected
Eight of 10 Los Angeles apartment dwellers are not protected from secondhand smoke, and an even bigger percentage — 82 percent — would support smoke-free policies in their buildings, according to a pair of new studies by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
The research was released today to coincide with the kickoff of a new citywide campaign to reduce secondhand smoke in multi-unit apartment buildings.
The two studies outline findings from nearly 1,000 door-to-door interviews with tenants in some of the most densely populated areas of the city of Los Angeles, as well as reports submitted to UCLA by 93 owner...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - April 6, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
More Than A Third Of Americans Don't Get Enough Sleep
We spend about one-third of our life doing it, but more than one in three Americans still aren’t getting enough sleep, according to a new government report. In their first study of self-reported sleep length, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 34.8 percent of American adults are getting less than seven hours of sleep -- the minimum length of time adults should sleep in order to reduce risk of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, mental distress, coronary heart disease and early death. In total, an estimated 83.6 million adults in the U.S. are sleep deprived, the CDC repor...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - February 18, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
How to prevent diabetes from sneaking up on your patients
An AMA Viewpoints post by AMA Board Chair Stephen R. Permut, MD
A major health threat has been silently taking hold of 86 million Americans, with 90 percent of them unaware of it. A new public health campaign is about to change that—and you’re the key to helping these patients take their health back.
A campaign to prevent type 2 diabetes
If you’re not already talking to your patients about prediabetes and the risks associated with it, it’s time to start. People with prediabetes—more than 1 in 3 adults—are at higher risk of developing serious health problems such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease and s...
Source: AMA Wire - January 21, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Amy Farouk Source Type: news
P2 receives $2M from feds to fight obesity, chronic diseases
New state funds are coming to Western New York to help fight obesity, diabetes, heart disease and stroke.
The P2 Collaborative of Western New York will receive $2 million over three years from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to fight chronic disease in the eight-county region.
P2 is among four organizations across New York that will receive $7 million in all, with funds flowing through the state Department of Health’s Local Initiatives for Multi Sector Public Health Action,…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - January 14, 2016 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Tracey Drury Source Type: news
