What Are The Causes Of High Blood Pressure?
Conclusion
In conclusion, high blood pressure can go unnoticed until it causes serious health issues, making it crucial to understand its causes and take preventative measures.
Lifestyle factors, genetics, and medical conditions can contribute to high blood pressure, but maintaining a healthy weight, exercising regularly, reducing salt intake, eating a healthy diet, limiting alcohol consumption, and quitting smoking can help prevent it.
Additionally, smart blood pressure monitors and natural supplements can aid in managing blood pressure levels and promoting heart health.
By implementing these strategies and re...
Source: The EMT Spot - May 14, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Rotman, MD, FRCPC, PhD Tags: Blood Pressure Source Type: blogs
15 Causes Of High Blood Pressure: Your Essential Guide To Navigating Hypertension Triggers
Conclusion
In conclusion, high blood pressure can go unnoticed until it causes serious health issues, making it crucial to understand its causes and take preventative measures.
Lifestyle factors, genetics, and medical conditions can contribute to high blood pressure, but maintaining a healthy weight, exercising regularly, reducing salt intake, eating a healthy diet, limiting alcohol consumption, and quitting smoking can help prevent it.
Additionally, smart blood pressure monitors and natural supplements can aid in managing blood pressure levels and promoting heart health.
By implementing these strategies and re...
Source: The EMT Spot - May 14, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Rotman, MD, FRCPC, PhD Tags: Blood Pressure Source Type: blogs
A Submission on the Tobacco and Other Smoking Products Amendment Bill 2023
Matthew Rimmer (Queensland University of Technology), A Submission on the Tobacco and Other Smoking Products Amendment Bill 2023, Health and Environment Committee, the Queensland Parliament (2023): This submission builds upon an earlier submission made during the consultations on tobacco control... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - May 14, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
How History Informs FDA Tobacco Regulation: Retrospective Application of a Public Health Assessment Framework to'Low Tar' Cigarettes
Micah L. Berman (Ohio State University), Mahmood A. Alawan (Ohio State University), David T. Levy (Georgetown University), Jonathan M. Samet (University of Southern California), Peter G. Shields (Ohio State University), How History Informs FDA Tobacco Regulation: Retrospective Application of a... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - May 11, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The Power of Connection: Why Building Relationships Is the Key to Personal and Professional Success
Establishing deep meaningful genuine relationships with others is a vital aspect of personal and professional success. Numerous studies have found that social connections are essential for our overall well-being, both physical and mental. Despite this, people often tend to overlook its importance in their lives. There’s plenty of reasons behind it.
Firstly, the hectic nature of modern-day life may involve long working hours and various other responsibilities. Consequently, people fail to allocate adequate time to nurture their relationships with others.
Secondly, we’ve got spoiled by the simplicity of conne...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ilya Rouss Tags: career communication confidence creativity featured internet culture philosophy productivity tips self-improvement success connection Source Type: blogs
How Technology Can Help Us Achieve Health Equity
There has been an incredible rise in technological advancements in the world of healthcare recently due to our sudden need for everything to be digital when COVID hit. While the cases of COVID have gone down and we’ve settled into a new normal, that isn’t the only crisis that we need a tech fix too. We need to start searching for how we can use technology, new or old, to fix health inequality and discrimination.
We reached out to our beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to get their insights on the role technology can play in working towards health equity. The following is what they had to say and be sure to...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Regulations Alex Rothberg Andrew Kobylinski Ben Zaniello MD Bronwyn Spira Cardio Diagnosti Source Type: blogs
High Blood Pressure: An Undetected Danger Among England ’ s Youth
Conclusion: Taking Action for a Healthier Future
The issue of undiagnosed high blood pressure among England’s youth is a pressing concern.
Early detection and intervention are essential to prevent long-term health complications and reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
As Dr. Swift emphasizes:
“Educating young people about the risks associated with high blood pressure and promoting healthy lifestyle choices from an early age is crucial in tackling this growing health issue.”
To safeguard the well-being of future generations, it is vital to raise awareness about the importance of...
Source: The EMT Spot - May 4, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Rotman, MD, FRCPC, PhD Tags: News Source Type: blogs
Translating Pre-Medical Experiences into Clinical Skills
As a pre-medical student in college, it can be overwhelming deciding how to allocate your time outside of classes. A good first step is to try a variety of activities and to intently pursue those that fulfill you the most. While you should take into account admission requirements and experiences to maximize your competitiveness (i.e. clinical experiences, research, and volunteer service), the driving force for how you spend your free time should be where your passions lie. Ultimately, pursuing your passions will inherently make you a stronger (and more unique) applicant.
Now that I have finished my core requirements as ...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - May 3, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Laura Siegel Source Type: blogs
CDC Survey Finds Record Low Number of Adult Cigarette Smokers as Adult Vaping Increases
Jeffrey A. Singer (Source: Cato-at-liberty)
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 28, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Approaching a Half-Century of Life With Type 1 Diabetes (T1D)
On July 24, 2023, I will mark 47 years of having lived with autoimmune Type 1 diabetes (T1D). I was diagnosed as a seven year old, so not quite fifty years ago, but much closer than I ever really anticipated. When I was diagnosed in 1976, no one told me that I should expect horrific complications or that I ' d die young because threats weren ' t part of the conversation; some may have been due to my age. But there was also no such thing as a certified diabetes educator
in 1976; instead, pediatric nurses instructed patients on how to give
themselves an injection. In fact, scientists had only
proven that Type 1 diabetes h...
Source: Scott's Web Log - April 26, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2023 50 years half century half-century joslin medal Source Type: blogs
Ode to a Smoked Trout Lyonnaise
Moving to Philly and being retired means I get to visit Valley Green as often as I want. So, last week I met Susan for lunch at Brunos and a post-prandial walk along Forbidden Drive. There, we encountered a battalion of rubber-booted fisherman standing in the stream and parade of pickups and cars following a small tanker truck along the path.
Yes folks, it was trout-stocking day on the Wissahickon.
Which got me remembering the time Lou caught some gorgeous trout in the Loyalsock River, which we brined and smoked on the Weber in the back yard at our cottage. Gotta’ get Lou back up to the mountains this ...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - April 21, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Fish Salads bacon lyonnaise salade Smoked trout Valley Green Wissahickon Source Type: blogs
Off and on chest pain for 24 hours in a 50s year old man
Submitted by Ali Khan MD and James Mantas MD, MS, written by Pendell MeyersA man in his 50s with history of diabetes, hypertension, and tobacco use presented to the ED with 24 hours of worsening left sided chest pain radiating to the back, characterized as squeezing and pinching, associated with shortness of breath. His pain was initially mild, then became severely worse several hours prior to presentation, but then eased off again and was minimal on arrival. There was no associated diaphoresis, nausea, vomiting, arm pain, jaw pain, syncope, lightheadedness or other acute symptoms.Initial vitals: Temp 36.7 C, BP 161/79, RR...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - April 9, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
I Have No Mouth, Yet Still I Scream
BY KIM BELLARD
In light of the recent open letter from AI leaders for a moratorium on AI development, I’m declaring a temporary moratorium on writing about it too, although I doubt either one will last long (and this week’s title is, if you hadn’t noticed, an homage to Harlan Ellison’s classic dystopian AI short story). Instead, this week I want to write about plants. Specifically, the new research that suggests that plants can, in their own way, scream.
Bear with me.
To be fair, the researchers don’t use the word “scream;” they talk about “ultrasonic airborne sounds,” but just about every ac...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Non-Health Kim Bellard Microbiome Plants Source Type: blogs
From hope to heartbreak: a story of loss in the ICU
Ms. Laura was a vibrant and feisty lady with a personality that filled the room. She had been my patient two months ago when she was admitted for an irregular heartbeat and COPD exacerbation. She was a smoker, and despite her heart issues, she had a strong will to live. I had advised her to
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From hope to heartbreak: a story of loss in the ICU originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 31, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Ton La, Jr., MD, JD Tags: Conditions Critical Care Source Type: blogs
Murderous capitalism
This essay by Hunter is mostly a summary of a Washington Post story but I ' m sending you there because of the WaPo paywall. It ' s rather long-winded and repetitive -- you ' ll pretty much get the idea before you read to the end. To put it in a coconut shell, the first main point is that the only purpose of AR-15 rifles and knockoffs thereof is to kill humans. They are military rifles that can get off a lot of not particularly well-aimed shots quickly and that cause horrendous tissue damage. They are not useful for hunting or target shooting or any other conceivable " sport. " They are military weapons designed to k...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 28, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
