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How Exercise Shapes You, Far Beyond the Gym
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By Bradley Stulberg
When I first started training for marathons a little over ten years ago, my coach told me something I've never forgotten: that I would need to learn how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. I didn't know it at the time, but that skill, cultivated through running, would help me as much, if not more, off the road as it would on it.
It's not just me, and it's not just running. Ask anyone whose day regularly includes a hard bike ride, sprints in the pool, a complex problem on the climbing wall, or a progressive powerlifting circuit, and they'll likely tell you the same: A diff...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Self‐Reported Napping Behavior Change After Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Treatment in Older Adults with Obstructive Sleep Apnea
ConclusionLong‐term CPAP treatment in older adults with OSAHS can play a significant role in reducing nap frequency and daily nap duration. Aging or shorter baseline daily nap duration may attenuate this effect.
Source: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society - June 29, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Cheng‐Fang Hsieh, Renata L. Riha, Ian Morrison, Chung‐Yao Hsu Tags: Brief Reports Source Type: research
Self ‐Reported Napping Behavior Change After Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Treatment in Older Adults with Obstructive Sleep Apnea
ConclusionLong‐term CPAP treatment in older adults with OSAHS can play a significant role in reducing nap frequency and daily nap duration. Aging or shorter baseline daily nap duration may attenuate this effect.
Source: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society - June 29, 2016 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Cheng ‐Fang Hsieh, Renata L. Riha, Ian Morrison, Chung‐Yao Hsu Tags: Brief Reports Source Type: research
Spinal Cord Infarction in Clinical Neurology: A Review of Characteristics and Long-Term Prognosis in Comparison to Cerebral Infarction
Spinal cord stroke is rare accounting for 0.3-1% of all strokes and is classified into upper (cervical) and lower (thoracolumbar) strokes. Patients present with severe deficits but later often show good functional improvement. On admission, younger age, male gender, hypertension, diabetes mellitus and elevated blood glucose indicate more severe spinal cord strokes. Treatment of these risk factors is essential in the acute phase. Biphasic spinal cord strokes are seen in one-fifth of the patients. These present with acute or transient sensory spinal cord deficits often preceded by radiating pain between the shoulders, and sh...
Source: European Neurology - August 3, 2016 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Diabetes and Labor Market Exits: Evidence from the Health & amp; Retirement Study (HRS)
The objective of this paper is to estimate the effect of diabetes on labor market exit using longitudinal data from the 1992-2010 Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We estimate a discrete time hazard model to test whether diabetes affects the hazard of leaving employment among individuals who were working for pay at the age of 55-56. Using a probit model, we also estimate the effect of having undiagnosed or poorly controlled diabetes on the probability of labor market exit two years later. Our results indicate that diabetes is associated with an increased hazard of exiting the labor market for males, but not for females. T...
Source: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing - September 17, 2016 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Poster 208 Spasticity Diagnosis Rates in Post-Stroke Adult Patients Among Commercially and Medicare Insured Populations
Sonia Pulgar: Employment (full or part-time) - Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Stock options or bond holdings - Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals
Source: PM and R - August 31, 2016 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Sonia Pulgar, George C. Camba, Martin Taylor, Savreet Bains, Liisa Palmer, Yuanjie Michael Liang, Dominic Marchese, David Charles Source Type: research
Lifestyle factors and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing in UK Biobank: Implications for epidemiological research
Conclusions A variety of sociodemographic, lifestyle and health-related characteristics are associated with PSA testing, suggesting that observed associations of some of these traits with risk for prostate cancer in epidemiological studies may be, at least partially, due to detection bias.
Source: Cancer Epidemiology - September 29, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Brexit cannot be an excuse to trash our rights at work
Last night MPs held their first debate on the terms of Britain’s exit from the EU. Unsurprisingly given recent events, Article 50 was high on the agenda. But crucially, the debate also revolved around the rights at work that we enjoy as part of our EU membership.
Workplace rights was at the heart of UNISON’s campaign to keep Britain in the EU. We may have lost that argument, but our concerns remain. Before the referendum UNISON members told us that rights at work were their top priority – and in the aftermath, preserving those rights has been one of our top priorities.
The government have tried to claim that our righ...
Source: UNISON Health care news - November 8, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: Dave Prentis Tags: Blogs General secretary's blog BREXIT employment rights EU Source Type: news
MassDevice.com +5 | The top 5 medtech stories for November 16, 2016
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5. St. Jude Medical’s HeartMate 3 implantable pump beats HeartMate II in pivotal trial
The next-generation HeartMate 3 implantable pump St. Jude Medical acquired when it paid $3 billion for Thoratec last year proved superior to ...
Source: Mass Device - November 16, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: MassDevice Tags: News Well Plus 5 Source Type: news
Neurocognitive functioning in adults with congenital heart disease
ConclusionsFindings suggest concerns about neuropsychological functioning that need to be more comprehensively assessed in adults with CHD. Understanding the cognitive limitations of this aging population can help guide access to resources, transition of care, and medical care engagement, thus improving quality of care and quality of life.
Source: Congenital Heart Disease - November 30, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dawn Ilardi, Kim E. Ono, Rebecca McCartney, Wendy Book, Anthony Y. Stringer Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Prevalence of hypotension and its association with cognitive function among older adults.
CONCLUSION: The study showing hypotension is significantly associated with decreased cognitive function in later life, implies more attention to low blood pressure in old age.
PMID: 28060530 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Aging and Mental Health - January 5, 2017 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Momtaz YA, Hamid TA, Haron SA, Bagat MF, Mohammadi F Tags: Aging Ment Health Source Type: research
The mediational role of physical activity, social contact and stroke on the association between age, education, employment and dementia in an Asian older adult population
Our study aimed to investigate the pathways by which socio-demographic factors, modifiable health and lifestyle risk factors influence each other, and subsequently, lead to dementia.
Source: BMC Psychiatry - March 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Edimansyah Abdin, Siow Ann Chong, Chao Xu Peh, Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar, Boon Yiang Chua, Swapna Verma, Anitha Jeyagurunathan, Saleha Shafie and Mythily Subramaniam Source Type: research
Abstract 043: Health Insurance and the Risk of Incident Cardiovascular Disease in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis Session Title: Poster Session I
Conclusions: The association of health insurance with CVD incidence varied by insurance group, and private insurance was associated with a lower risk of incident CVD. Further exploration of the features of health insurance coverage that impact CVD incidence may facilitate improvements in the primary prevention of CVD.
Source: Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes - March 31, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Crim, M. T., Xie, J. X., Ko, Y.-A., Blumenthal, R. S., Blaha, M. J., Nasir, K., Budoff, M. J., Shaw, L. J. Tags: Session Title: Poster Session I Source Type: research
Segregated Neighborhoods May Influence Blood Pressure
(Reuters Health) - African-Americans who move from segregated neighborhoods to more racially diverse communities might experience improvements in their blood pressure, a U.S. study suggests.
When researchers looked at the “top number” known as systolic blood pressure - the pressure blood exerts against artery walls when the heart beats - they found moving away from segregated neighborhoods mattered. Relocating to less segregated communities was associated with average decreases of 1.2 to 1.3 mmHG (millimeters of mercury) in systolic blood pressure.
“At the population level, a reduction of this magnitude i...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 16, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A Point ‐based Prediction Model for Cardiovascular Risk in Orthotopic Liver Transplantation: The CAR‐OLT Score
Conclusion: The point‐based CAR‐OLT risk score can identify patients at risk for CVD complications after OLT surgery (available at: www.carolt.us). This score may be useful for identification of candidates for further risk stratification or other management strategies to improve CVD outcomes after OLT. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Source: Hepatology - July 1, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Lisa B. VanWagner, Hongyan Ning, Maureen Whitsett, Josh Levitsky, Sarah Uttal, John T. Wilkins, Michael M. Abecassis, Daniela P. Ladner, Anton I. Skaro, Donald M. Lloyd ‐Jones Tags: Liver Failure, Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension Source Type: research
