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Identifying and Describing the Impact of Cyclone, Storm and Flood Related Disasters on Treatment Management, Care and Exacerbations of Non-communicable Diseases and the Implications for Public Health
Conclusion Cyclone, flood and storm related disasters impact on treatment management and overall care for people with NCDs. This results in an increased risk of exacerbation of illness or even death. The interruption may be caused by a range of factors, such as damaged transport routes, reduced health services, loss of power and evacuations. The health impact varies according to the NCD. For people with chronic respiratory diseases, a disaster increases the risk of acute exacerbation. Meanwhile, for people with cancer, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes there is an increased risk of their illness exacerbating, which can ...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - September 28, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: jc164421 Source Type: research

Risk of recurrent thromboembolic phenomena after ischemic stroke in patients with malignancy
In the 1860s, Trousseau first described the association between cancer and a hypercoagulable state.1 Ironically, he later diagnosed himself with phlebitis and predicted his own death from pancreatic cancer. Secretion of procoagulants by tumor cells, vascular damage secondary to immune response, and iatrogenic injury from chemotherapeutic agents, radiotherapy, and in-dwelling catheters, among other mechanisms, may contribute to hypercoagulability in the setting of cancer.2 This places oncology patients at high risk of cerebrovascular phenomena, which frequently leads to patients' initial diagnosis.3 Despite this well-define...
Source: Neurology - June 30, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Starke, R. M. Tags: EDITORIALS Source Type: research

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