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The final puff: Can New Zealand quit smoking for good?
Smoking kills. Ayesha Verrall has seen it up close. As a young resident physician in New Zealand’s public hospitals in the 2000s, Verrall watched smokers come into the emergency ward every night, struggling to breathe with their damaged lungs. Later, as an infectious disease specialist, she saw how smoking exacerbated illness in individuals diagnosed with tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. She would tell them: “The best thing you can do to promote your health, other than take the pills, is to quit smoking.”
Verrall is still urging citizens to give up cigarettes—no longer just one by one, but by the thousands. As New...
Source: ScienceNOW - December 9, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
Predictors of Intensive Care Unit Admission in Patients with Confirmed Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Cross-Sectional Study
CONCLUSION: A high index of suspicion for ICU admission should be maintained in patients with positive clinical and laboratory predictive factors.PMID:36117577 | PMC:PMC9445874 | DOI:10.30476/IJMS.2021.89916.2068
Source: Atherosclerosis - September 19, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Naeimehossadat Asmarian Farid Zand Parvin Delavari Vahid Khaloo Zahra Esmaeilinezhad Golnar Sabetian Yaldasadat Moeini Mohsen Savaie Fatemeh Javaherforooshzadeh Farhad Soltani Farid Yousefi Ebrahim Heidari Sardabi Maryam Haddadzadeh Shoushtari Anoush Dehn Source Type: research
Abdominal aortic aneurysm ultrasound screening in men with risk factors in Primary Care
CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of aneurysms in our sample was 2.6%, which was lower than expected. The wide use of ultrasound and its progressive generalisation in the Primary Care setting should lead to a decrease in the number of undiagnosed AAA.PMID:34920344 | DOI:10.1016/j.aprim.2021.102234
Source: Atencion Primaria - December 17, 2021 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jes ús Rodríguez Donoso Elena Mart ín Ramos Josefina Aparicio Velasco Leonardo Fonte Eliozondo Estrella Mu ñoz Críspulo Carmen Ruiz Arribas Source Type: research
A case-control analysis of stroke in Covid-19 patients: Results of Unusual Manifestations of Covid-19-Study 11
CONCLUSIONS: The incidence of stroke in COVID-19 patients presenting to EDs was lower than in the non-COVID-19 reference sample. COVID-19 patients with stroke had greater need for hospitalization and ICU admission than those without stroke, and longer hospitalization and greater in-hospital mortality than non-COVID-19 patients with stroke.PMID:34490961 | DOI:10.1111/acem.14389
Source: Accident and Emergency Nursing - September 7, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Eric Jorge Garc ía-Lamberechts Òscar Miró Marcos Fragiel Pere Llorens S ònia Jiménez Pascual Pi ñera Guillermo Burillo Alfonso Mart ín Francisco Javier Mart ín-Sánchez Javier Jacob Aitor Alqu ézar-Arbé Laura Ejarque Mart ínez Bel én Rodrígue Source Type: research
What to know about hypertension: Left undetected can be fatal
In the midst of the outbreak and concerns over Covid-19, another condition that afflicts nearly half of all Americans has come into sharp focus: hypertension. Also known as high blood pressure, hypertension results when the long-term force of blood movement against your artery walls has become too high — so high, it can cause heart disease, kidney disease, stroke, and other potentially fatal heart health problems, especially if left undetected and untreated over time.
It’s an increasingly common…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - January 11, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: TriHealth Source Type: news
Johnson & Johnson Reports 2020 Third-Quarter Results
New Brunswick, N.J. (October 13, 2020) – Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) today announced results for third-quarter 2020. “Our third-quarter results reflect solid performance and positive trends across Johnson & Johnson, powered by better-than-expected procedure recovery in Medical Devices, growth in Consumer Health, and continued strength in Pharmaceuticals,” said Alex Gorsky, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “I am proud of the relentless passion and Credo-led commitment to patients and customers that our colleagues around the world continue to demonstrate as we boldly fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Our wo...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - October 13, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Our Company Source Type: news
The potential role of microvascular pathology in the neurological manifestations of coronavirus infection
We present the hypothesis that pre-existing vascular damage (due to aging, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension or other conditions) facilitates infiltration of the virus into the central nervous system (CNS), increasing neuro-inflammation and the likelihood o f neurological symptoms. We also discuss the role of a neuroinflammatory cytokine profile in both blood–brain barrier dysfunction and macrovascular disease (e.g. ischemic stroke and thromboembolism). Future studies are needed to better understand the involvement of the microvasculature in coronavi rus neuropathology, and to test the diagnostic potential o...
Source: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS - September 9, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research
COVID-19 Infection and Neurological Complications: Present Findings and Future Predictions
The present outbreak caused by SARS-CoV-2, an influenza virus with neurotropic potential, presents with neurological manifestations in a large proportion of the affected individuals. Disorders of the central and peripheral nervous system are all present, while stroke, ataxia, seizures, and depressed level of consciousness are more common in severely affected patients. People with these severe complications are most likely elderly with medical comorbidities, especially hypertension and other vascular risk factors. However, postinfectious complications are also expected. Neurological disorders as sequelae of influenza viruse...
Source: Neuroepidemiology - July 1, 2020 Category: Epidemiology Source Type: research
The epidemiological characteristics of 2019 novel coronavirus diseases (COVID-19) in Jingmen, Hubei, China
In conclusion, all people are susceptible to COVID-19, and older males and those with comorbid conditions are more likely to become severe cases. Even though COVID-19 is highly contagious, control measures have proven to be very effective, particularly wearing masks, which could prevent most infections.
Source: Medicine - June 5, 2020 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Research Article: Observational Study Source Type: research
