High Blood Pressure Can Lead to Kidney Damage
Conclusion
A potential outcome of hypertension is damage to blood vessels and organs such as the kidneys. In addition, a delay in receiving treatment increases the risk of waste fluid build-up, which elevates the chance of complications and, ultimately, renal failure.
If your doctor has diagnosed you with hypertension, you might be recommended adaptations to your lifestyle and medications. It’s vital to take prescription drugs as indicated and attend follow-ups as scheduled to check blood pressure.
References
“High Blood Pressure & Kidney Disease.” National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 8, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Kutryk Tags: Guides Blood Pressure Source Type: blogs
What Are K2 and Spice Anyway?
Chances are, you’ve probably heard about the new trend in synthetic cannabis products either from your local news media or from your ongoing EMS education. Over the past few years, these products have been increasing in prevalence around the US and in Europe. But what are these products anyway? Are they cannabis or not? Are they legal to posses? Are the effects similar to traditional marijuana?
Here’s a quick rundown of what EMS folks should know about this new and growing trend in street pharmacology.
Synthetic cannabis products have a variety of street names including Spice, K2, Herbal Incense, Potpourri, Barel...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 7, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: EMT Source Type: blogs
The Influence of the Commercial Speech Doctrine on the Development of Tobacco Control Measures
Margherita Melillo (Georgetown University), The Influence of the Commercial Speech Doctrine on the Development of Tobacco Control Measures, 50 J.L. Med.& Ethics 233 (2022): Among the attempts to oppose tobacco control legislation, the tobacco industry has alleged violations of... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 7, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 2nd November 2022 - research
Infant feedingText message-based breastfeeding support compared with usual care: a randomized controlled trial (librarian intervention or payment needed for access to full text)DeliverySufentanil for spinal analgesia during cesarean section delivery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trialsMonofilament suture versus braided suture thread to improve pregnancy outcomes after vaginal cervical cerclage (C-STICH): a pragmatic randomised, controlled, phase 3, superiority trialGestational diabetesExercise during pregnancy for preventing gestational diabetes mellitus and hypertensive disorders: An...
Source: Browsing - November 2, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Keeping Track of the 2022 Ballot Measures
Walter OlsonLast week I posted aboutelection ‐related ballot measures in next week ’s vote, and in this post I’ll turn to measures on other subjects.More states are considering cannabis ‐related measures this year than ever more. All five (Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Dakota, and South Dakota) move in the direction of legalization, but with differences in tax and regulatory handling. Chris Edwards has lately looked at thetax implications and Jeff Miron at some ofthe substance ( “More than a century of experience demonstrates that prohibition is a treatment far worse than the ‘disease...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 1, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
Home Remedies for High Blood Pressure
Lower high blood pressure with these effective home remedies that are easy to apply, whether you’re dealing with mild or more severe cases of the condition.
If you’re searching for natural ways to lower your blood pressure, a few home remedies may help.
From making some lifestyle changes to eating mindfully, these tips can help you get your numbers down.
Talk to your doctor before trying new treatments, and read for more information.
Quick Summary
Regular exercise can help lower blood pressure by making the heart stronger and more efficient.
The DASH diet is a tried-and-tested eating pa...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 1, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: bpscore-sibera Tags: Guides Blood Pressure Source Type: blogs
Opiate overdose, without chest pain or shortness of breath. Cognitive dissonance.
I was reading EKGs on the system and saw this one.....What did I put in as my interpretation?Interpretation: " Acute LAD occlusion until proven otherwise. " There is non-diagnostic ST Elevation in V1-V3, with rather large T-waves but in the context of a deep S-wave (high voltage). HOWEVER,lead V4 is diagnostic of OMI. This is massive ST Elevation, huge hyperacute T-wave, and loss of S-wave (which in V4, unlike V2-3,can be normal but should greatly raise suspicion.) There is ST depression in V5-6. This alone could be due to LVH, but V4 could NOT be due to LVH.There was an EKG from 5 years prior:...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - November 1, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 31st 2022
This study used mice to evaluate how their lifestyles - eating fatty foods vs. healthy and exercising vs. not - affected the metabolites of their offspring. Metabolites are substances made or used when the body breaks down food, drugs or chemicals, or its own fat or muscle tissue. "We have previously shown that maternal and paternal exercise improve health of offspring. Tissue and serum metabolites play a fundamental role in the health of an organism, but how parental exercise affects offspring tissue and serum metabolites has not yet been investigated."
Researchers used targeted metabolomics - the study of metaboli...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 30, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Burden of Somatic Mutation with Age
Mutational damage occurs constantly to nuclear DNA throughout life. Little of that damage goes unrepaired, and little of the lasting breakage occurs in active parts of the genome. Where mutations go unrepaired in active parts of the genome, little of that occurs in important genes. Where it does occur in important genes, that only matters to the extent that (a) the mutation can spread, and (b) the mutation is potentially cancerous. Comparatively few cells in the body have the capacity to create many descendant cells through replication, as the Hayflick limit ensures that near all cells are limited in the number of times th...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 24, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 24th 2022
This study shows the uncoupling of lifespan and healthspan parameters (aerobic fitness and spontaneous activity) and provides new insights into SIRT3 function in CR adaptation, fuel utilization, and aging.
HDL Level, Age, and Smoking are the Largest Determinants of Mortality Risk in Old People
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/10/hdl-level-age-and-smoking-are-the-largest-determinants-of-mortality-risk-in-old-people/
An interesting epidemiological study here stratifies the contributions of various metrics to mortality in later life, age 70 and older. The authors find that the largest effects arise...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 23, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Male moths and butterflies often fire blanks but nobody knows why
A few days ago I tweeted about a famous picture of a moth, the Death’s Head Hawk-moth used in the artwork surrounding the 1991 psychological thriller “The Silence of the Lambs”. At first glance, the moth looks genuine, but closer inspection reveals that what is thought of as markings resembling a skull on the moth’s thorax is, in the movie illustration, actually an imprint of a well-known 1951 creation of Salvador Dali and photographer Philippe Halsman.
In that image, In Voluptas Mors, a group of naked women were posed in such a way as to create the illusion of a skull. Of course, this morbid allus...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 18, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Lepidoptera Source Type: blogs
What Could You Do With Cheap Genome Sequencing Now?
Genome sequencing does definitely not equal fortune telling: it cannot predict how long you will live or what your body mass index will look like. However, it can tell you a lot about your sensitivity to drugs, your family history or whether you are a carrier of monogenic conditions.
After the Human Genome Project was completed 20 years ago (for a whopping $2.7 billion), the dream was to be able to sequence a person’s genome for 1000 USD. After this became feasible, the next dream was to make it even cheaper: now it costs around 200 USD after Illumina’s innovation came to life.
What is the next dream? To...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 18, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Genomics Personalized Medicine DNA dna testing Genetic testing genetics Genome Healthcare Innovation gc3 genome sequencing Source Type: blogs
HDL Level, Age, and Smoking are the Largest Determinants of Mortality Risk in Old People
An interesting epidemiological study here stratifies the contributions of various metrics to mortality in later life, age 70 and older. The authors find that the largest effects arise from HDL level, chronological age, and smoking. The largest single cause of death in our species is atherosclerosis, a progressive malfunction in clearance of cholesterol from blood vessel walls that leads to fatty plaques, narrowed arteries, stroke, and heart attack. HDL particles carry excess cholesterol from blood vessel walls back to the liver for excretion, and - thus over a lifetime - the more HDL in circulation one has, the greater the...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 17, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 17th 2022
This study investigated whether multimorbidity is associated with incident dementia and whether associations vary by different clusters of disease and genetic risk for dementia. The study used data from the UK Biobank cohort, with baseline data collected between 2006 and 2010 and with up to 15 years of follow-up. Participants included women and men without dementia and aged at least 60 years at baseline. The presence of at least 2 long-term conditions from a preselected list of 42 conditions was used to define multimorbidity.
A total of 206,960 participants (mean age 64.1 years) were included in the final sample, of...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 16, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
