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Is your sleep interrupted every night by your partner’s chronic, loud snoring? If your answer is “YES!”, then you’re probably aware of what a nightmare this can be and how to deal with a snoring partner. Here are several reasons: Resentment is growing in your relationship because your partner isn’t taking the issue seriously and isn’t trying to find a good ...
Understanding Sleep Apnea and Its Types Sleep apnea is a sleep-related breathing disorder that results in poor sleep quality and can lead to daytime fatigue or sleepiness, forgetfulness, and irritability. According to the Mayo Clinic, there are 3 types of sleep apnea to be aware of as follows: OSA or obstructive sleep apnea is the more common form of the disorder and affects roughly 30% of ...
Bleeding disorders, a collection of conditions that prevent blood from clotting correctly, can be life-threatening. They’re caused by issues such as aberrant platelets, abnormal clotting proteins, or problematic blood vessels. Understanding how blood clots normally can help elucidate why these disorders are so serious. In a standard clotting process, platelets, a type of blood cell, act ...
CPR training equips people with life-saving skills that can save lives. Learning CPR can benefit almost anyone. Some careers highly value this training as part of their professional skills. This article explores careers that require CPR training because of their job responsibilities. Medical and Healthcare Industry Professionals Fundamentally, professionals in the medical and healthcare ...
Sepsis is a severe bodily reaction to infection, which can cause fever, breathlessness, disorientation, tissue damage, and organ failure, among other symptoms. While bacterial infections are the primary culprits, any other infection such as from pneumonia or influenza may lead to sepsis if not appropriately treated. Under normal circumstances the immune system of the body fights against any ...
Recent clinical trials investigating sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) have highlighted that this drug is highly effective in treating patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). HFpEF is a complex disease which accounts for more than half of all heart failure (HF) hospital admissions and is an increasing disease burden. [1] The prevalence of HFpEF is ...
Tab Lassiter – an employee of global vaccines leader CSL Seqirus – is about to receive a second transplant in an ongoing battle with a heart condition. He shares his story to explain why it’s critical to spread the word about heart health. Tab Lassiter once spent eight months resting anxiously in a hospital bed with cardiomyopathy, a condition that can lead to heart ...
By not taking care of your teeth there is more on the line than tooth decay and periodontal disease – although that’s bad enough. Practicing good oral hygiene may be lifesaving according to a number of research studies.Studies show a connection between Gum disease and a 63% HIgher Pancreatic Cancer in Men The link between several systemic illnesses including diabetes, heart disease, ...
Dental Problems Linked To Heart Disease and Diabetes Over the last ten years there has been a growing body of evidence linking periodontal disease and systemic diseases. Every day new research is making the link stronger. Periodontal infection is the advanced stages of gum disease that causes bone loss. The bone loss is irreversible. Gingivitis is the early stage of gum disease and with early ...
Ceramides are composed of sphingosine analogs and long-chain fatty acids bound by amide bonds, and are the most important of the sphingolipid compounds. Ceramide is synthesized and secreted by lamellar vesicles, which together with cholesterol (25%) and free fatty acids (15%) constitute the intercellular lipids (ceramide 50%) involved in maintaining the skin barrier function. It also has various ...
As we prepare for this holiday season, with an extra dose of joy and elation, please keep in mind what overindulgence can do to your heart health, even in a relatively short period of time. You shouldn’t be surprised to learn that during the holiday season, when we not only tend to overindulge the most but also stress levels are typically the highest, there is a 33% increase in heart ...
Lifestyle can have a big impact on how your body handles blood glucose and sometimes a change in habits and activities is all that’s needed to prevent or better manage diabetes. But if changes in lifestyle aren’t enough to keep blood sugar levels normal, your doctor may prescribe medication to help lower insulin levels or insulin therapy. We’ll discuss here the most often ...
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) cause 17 million deaths globally every year, making it the leading cause of death around the world. The cardiovascular system—which includes your heart and blood vessels—distributes oxygen through the body and removes waste. Every cell in the body depends on this process to run smoothly. Your cardiovascular system plays a key role in your overall ...
Follow-up data from the landmark SPRINT study of the effect of high blood pressure on cardiovascular disease have confirmed that aggressive blood pressure management — lowering systolic blood pressure to less than 120 mm Hg — dramatically reduces the risk of heart disease, stroke, and death from these diseases, as well as death from all causes, compared to lowering ...
TAILOR-PCI was a 7-year 5,300-patient clinical trial of precision medicine for cardiac stent patients, funded by Mayo Clinic and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Genomadix’s FDA-cleared rapid RX CYP2C19 genotyping test was used to personalize antiplatelet therapy with clopidogrel or ticagrelor. The results were published on August 25, 2020 in the Journal of the American Medical ...
Genomadix’s European Scientific Advisory Board Comments on TAILOR-PCI Results *The largest genetics-based clinical trial in cardiology history supported by Genomadix’s Precision Medicine technology * The results of the TAILOR-PCI trial (Tailored Antiplatelet Initiation to Lessen Outcomes Due to Decreased Clopidogrel Response after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention) were recently ...
When you look to the year ahead, what do you see? Ensia recently invited eight global thought leaders to share their thoughts. In this interview Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, responds to three questions: What will be the biggest challenge to address or opportunity to grasp in your field in 2017? Why? And what should we be doing ...
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The non-cancer disease mortality (1950-1995) among 27 011 medical diagnostic X-ray workers was compared to that of 25 782 other medical specialists employed between 1950 and 1980 to provide evidence of human non-cancer disease death produced by protracted and fractionated exposure to ionising radiation and assess the resultant non-cancer disease death risk. The total non-cancer disease mortality ...
Ensuring basic health care for people in low-income countries is critical to the Plan B goal of eradicating poverty and stabilizing population. While heart disease and cancer (largely the diseases of aging), obesity, and smoking dominate health concerns in industrial countries, in developing countries infectious diseases are the overriding health concern. Besides AIDS, the principal diseases of ...
Heat stress is currently primarily classified by environmental factors and not physiological factors. It is already known that certain cardiovascular metrics such as heart rate, stroke volume, blood pressure and vascular compliance undergo changes as the body traverses the different classifications of heat stress from heat oedema to heat stroke. However, there is no specific metric that provides ...