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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

Prevalence of Stroke and Its Risk Factors in Urban Sri Lanka: Population-Based Study Brief Reports
Conclusions— Age-adjusted stroke prevalence in urban Sri Lanka lies between high-income and low-/middle-income countries. The prevalence of stroke and its risk factors were higher among men.
Source: Stroke - September 28, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Chang, T., Gajasinghe, S., Arambepola, C. Tags: Cerebrovascular disease/stroke, Acute Cerebral Hemorrhage, Acute Cerebral Infarction Brief Reports Source Type: research

Evaluating the impact of type 2 diabetes mellitus on cardiovascular risk in persons with metabolic syndrome using the UKPDS risk engine.
CONCLUSION: MS was more common in subjects with T2DM compared with controls (irrespective of the diagnostic criteria used) and MS appears to increase the risk of a coronary event in subjects with T2DM by threefold. Also from this study, MS did not appear to cause an additional increase in the risk of stroke in subjects with T2DM. PMID: 26396537 [PubMed]
Source: Diabetes Metab - September 26, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Ogedengbe OS, Ezeani IU, Chukwuonye II, Anyabolu EN, Ozor II, Eregie A Tags: Diabetes Metab Syndr Obes Source Type: research

UK women's life expectancy 'second worst' in Western Europe
"British women have second worst life expectancy in Europe," The Guardian reports. This is one of the findings of a Europe-wide health report carried out by the World Health Organization (WHO). The report also warned that European levels of alcohol consumption, smoking and obesity are alarmingly high, which could result in the following possibility: "Young Europeans may die at an earlier age than their grandparents". In the interests of accuracy, we should point out that the claim British women have the second worst life expectancy in Europe is incorrect. This figure is based on an analysis of countrie...
Source: NHS News Feed - September 23, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lifestyle/exercise Cancer Heart/lungs Food/diet QA articles Source Type: news

Evaluating the impact of type 2 diabetes mellitus on cardiovascular risk in persons with metabolic syndrome using the UKPDS risk engine
Conclusion: MS was more common in subjects with T2DM compared with controls (irrespective of the diagnostic criteria used) and MS appears to increase the risk of a coronary event in subjects with T2DM by threefold. Also from this study, MS did not appear to cause an additional increase in the risk of stroke in subjects with T2DM.Keywords: diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome, coronary heart disease, cardiovascular disease, UKPDS risk engine
Source: Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy - September 15, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy Source Type: research

Recurrent vascular events in lacunar stroke patients with metabolic syndrome and/or diabetes
Conclusion: METS and DM were significant comorbid conditions in lacunar stroke patients and they were associated with stroke recurrence. In patients with lacunar infarcts, a vigilant approach to prevent development of DM in those with METS may be a potential strategy to reduce recurrent strokes.
Source: Neurology - September 14, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Zhu, S., McClure, L. A., Lau, H., Romero, J. R., White, C. L., Babikian, V., Nguyen, T., Benavente, O. R., Kase, C. S., Pikula, A. Tags: All Cerebrovascular disease/Stroke ARTICLE Source Type: research

Stroke incidence and risk factors in Havana and Matanzas, Cuba
Conclusions Stroke incidence was similar to rates reported in developed countries and lower than that in low- to middle-income countries. Given that diabetes mellitus, heart disease, arterial hypertension, smoking, APOE4, etc. are associated with higher mortality rates, they will require separate analysis in a study of stroke risk factors.
Source: Neurologia - September 12, 2015 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Claims that 'butter is safe' and 'margarine deadly' are simplistic
ConclusionThis careful systematic review and meta-analysis of research into the effects of saturated and trans fat on health found no evidence that eating more saturated fat raises the risk of death from any cause, death from cardiovascular disease, or risk of getting heart disease, stroke, or type 2 diabetes. However, the authors say they can only have "very low" confidence in their findings, because of the methodological limitations of the individual studies that contributed data.The study did find a link between eating more trans fats and death from any cause, from heart disease or risk of getting heart diseas...
Source: NHS News Feed - August 12, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart/lungs Food/diet Source Type: news

Cigarette Smoking and Alcohol use as Predictors of Disability Retirement: A Population-Based Cohort Study
Tobacco use and excess alcohol consumption are both risk factors for several chronic diseases. Tobacco use is a leading preventable risk factor for premature mortality (World Health Organization (WHO), 2009), accounting for 18% of deaths in high-income countries (WHO, 2009a,b), and being second only to high blood pressure globally (9% vs. 13% of deaths, respectively). Smoking raises the risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancers (WHO, 2009a,b). Compared to never smokers, smokers have a 25-fold risk of death due to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), a 2.5-fold risk due to ischemic heart ...
Source: Drug and Alcohol Dependence - August 10, 2015 Category: Addiction Authors: Tellervo Korhonen, Eero Smeds, Karri Silventoinen, Kauko Heikkilä, Jaakko Kaprio Tags: Full length article Source Type: research

Studies support broader use of cholesterol-lowering statins
The latest guidelines used to determine who should take a cholesterol-lowering statin to prevent heart disease appear to be more accurate and cost-efficient than the previous guidelines. That’s according to two studies led by Harvard researchers, both published in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association. For many years, the main deciding factor in who needed to take a statin was the level of an individual’s harmful low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL). Updated guidelines published in 2013 by the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association moved away from LDL and ...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - July 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Julie Corliss Tags: Drugs and Supplements cholesterol high cholesterol statins Source Type: news

Metabolic Burden and Disease and Mortality Risk Associated with Impaired Fasting Glucose in Elderly Adults
ConclusionIFG was an intermediary condition for heart disease, inflammation, and oxidative stress in elderly adults but not for 2‐year incident disease or all‐cause mortality. Longer‐term prospective studies are needed to clarify whether IFG in elderly adults portends greater morbidity and mortality.
Source: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society - July 3, 2015 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Katherine Samaras, John Crawford, Helen L. Lutgers, Lesley V. Campbell, Bernhard T. Baune, Ora Lux, Henry Brodaty, Julian N. Trollor, Perminder Sachdev Tags: Brief Reports Source Type: research

The Quality Of Health Care You Receive Likely Depends On Your Skin Color
Unequal health care continues to be a serious problem for black Americans. More than a decade after the Institute of Medicine issued a landmark report showing that minority patients were less likely to receive the same quality health care as white patients, racial and ethnic disparities continue to plague the U.S. health care system. That report, which was published in 2002, indicated that even when both groups had similar insurance or the same ability to pay for care, black patients received inferior treatment to white patients. This still hold true, according to our investigation into dozens of studies about black health...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 29, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Climate change a medical emergency, experts say
(Reuters) — The threat to human health from climate change is so great that it could undermine the last 50 years of gains in development and global health, experts warned today. Extreme weather events such as floods and heat waves bring rising risks of infectious diseases, poor nutrition and stress, the specialists said, while polluted cities where people work long hours and have no time or space to walk, cycle or relax are bad for the heart as well as respiratory and mental health. Almost 200 countries have set a 2°C global average temperature rise above pre-industrial times as a ceiling to limit climate change, but s...
Source: Mass Device - June 23, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Brad Perriello Tags: Business/Financial News Climate change Source Type: news

Seattle in Deep Sleep This Week
Seattle wasn't sleepless this week. Not after more than 4,000 sleep experts from around the world descended upon the Emerald City for SLEEP 2015, an annual conference sponsored by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society. Topics and research on all things related to sleep -- how much we need, how much we don't get, how much is disrupted by undiagnosed sleep disorders and how a better, cheaper, less obtrusive way to detect sleep apnea is needed -- were discussed. "Right now we don't have enough sleep clinics, sleep laboratories and sleep specialists in the country to address all the sleep apn...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 10, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Obesity: single house for many evils.
Authors: Kumar A, Nayak BP, Kumar A Abstract World Health Organization (WHO) considers obesity as one of the fastest growing metabolic disorders other than diabetes. It is a complex interplay of lifestyle and associated genes. Obesity has been considered as a disease with multiple targets and very often compared in this sense with its sibling disease type 2 diabetes. The disease is pathology of the adipocytes and develops as a result of hypertrophy and hyperplasia of these cells, former being the major concern but its effects could be seen on various organs in the form of cardio-vascular disease, stroke, cancer, di...
Source: Minerva Endocrinologica - June 4, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Minerva Endocrinol Source Type: research