Please read each snippet of health care news because there are some quite surprising revelations of cancer being transmissable, heart disease and high blood pressure being prevented by walking at least 7,000 steps regularly, and natural light provided by the sun preventing depression and mental health aberrations. Stay informed and realize common sense in health care is a very important fctor too.
I'm numbering these for ease of reference and to indicate the order in which I read this news or researched it. The number is not an effort to rank in importance these news stories.
1)A Newly named cardiovascular phenomenon:
Quote:
"the American Heart Association is identifying a new medical condition that reflects the strong links among obesity, diabetes and heart and kidney disease.
According to an advisory released Monday, the goal in recognizing the condition — cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome, or CKM —
is to get earlier diagnosis and treatment for people at high risk of dying from cardiovascular disease....
Increasing evidence shows how metabolic risk factors such as abdominal fat, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and high blood sugar can negatively affect other organs in the body....
Along with defining the new syndrome, Ndumele and his team devised a system of stages for doctors to identify patients at risk:
* Stage 0: There are no risk factors for heart disease.
* Stage 1: Someone who is overweight with a lot of abdominal fat or who has prediabetes. People in stage 1 would be advised to follow a healthy lifestyle, with a goal of at least 5% weight loss.
* Stage 2: Someone with Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high triglycerides or kidney disease. Treatments could include medications to control blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol. Patients might also be prescribed diabetes drugs such as SGLT2 inhibitors, which protect kidney function, and GLP-1 receptor agonists, such as Ozempic or Wegovy, to help control blood sugar and lose weight.
* Stage 3: People with metabolic risk factors such as high blood pressure and early cardiovascular disease or kidney disease but who don't have symptoms yet. Treatments would include heart and diabetes medications, as well as testing for narrowing of the arteries.
* Stage 4: Someone with diagnosed heart disease, excess body fat, metabolic risk factors or kidney disease. Patients may already have had heart attacks or strokes or may already have developed heart failure. People at this stage would fall into one of two categories: those without kidney failure and those with it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/heart-health/new-heart-diabetes-metabolic-syndrome-rcna119224;
10Oct2023; 6am
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2) Preventing high blood pressure: WALK everywhere
Quote:'According to study co-author Linda Pescatello, professor of kinesiology in the University of Connecticut’s College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources, walking an additional 3,000 steps per day (roughly 2.1 kilometres at an average pace) can reduce blood pressure in older adults with hypertension.
In the U.S., estimates suggest 80% of older adults have high blood pressure....
The results suggest that walking 7,000 steps a day can be the same as taking medications to reduce blood pressure."
https://torontosun.com/health/diet-fitness/walking-extra-3000-steps-a-day-reduces-high-blood-pressure-in-seniors-study;
10Oct2023; 6:45am
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3) Being in green or blue space can positively affect one's mental health
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(23)00212-7/fulltext;
10 Oct 2023; 7:46am
4) And a Quote on same topic in another source:
"The world's largest study on light exposure and its impact on mental health, with almost 87,000 participants, has found that increased exposure to light at night increases a person's risk for psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, bipolar and PTSD severity as well as self-harm. Importantly, the study also found that increasing exposure to daytime light can act like a non-pharmacological means for reducing psychosis risk.
In those exposed to high amounts of light at night, the risk of depression increased by 30%—while those who were exposed to high amounts of light during the day reduced their risk of depression by 20%. Similar patterns of results were seen for self-harm behavior, psychosis, bipolar disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and PTSD."
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-10-largest-exposure-impact-mental-health.html;
; 7:48am; 10 Oct 2023
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5) Researchers trying to find a simple predictive test of who will live to be 100 yrs old, and think a simple blood test might be the method.
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"Centenarians tend to have lower levels of glucose, creatinine and uric acid from their sixties onwards, according to the largest study of its kind that may lead to a simple blood test to predict a person’s chance of reaching 100.
The research, published on Monday in the journal GeroScience, is the biggest to date to measure....
"Those with increased levels of total cholesterol and iron had a greater likelihood of becoming centenarians compared to those with lower levels"...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/longevity-ageing-centenarians-blood-secrets-b2426954.html;
10 Oct 2023; 6:54am
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6) A rare virus caused by tick causes encephalitis and death.
Quote:
"The [ Powassan,] illness is rare and is spread through the bite of an infected tick, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It is not transmittable through person-to-person contact,"
https://thehill.com/homenews/4246213-maryland-records-first-travel-related-death-from-rare-tick-borne-virus/
10Oct2023;6:54am
7) Research on Powassan on NIH database:
a) Powassan Virus Encephalitis.
Piantadosi A, Solomon IH.
Infect Dis Clin North Am. 2022 Sep;36(3):671-688. doi: 10.1016/j.idc.2022.03.003.
PMID: 36116842 Free PMC article. Review.
Powassan virus is an increasingly recognized cause of severe encephalitis that is transmitted by Ixodes ticks..."
b) Ecology of Powassan Virus in the United States.
Hassett EM, Thangamani S.
Microorganisms. 2021 Nov 9;9(11):2317. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms9112317.
PMID: 34835443 Free PMC article. Review.
Zoonotic viruses threaten the lives of millions of people annually, exacerbated by climate change, human encroachment into wildlife habitats, and habitat destruction. The Powassan virus (POWV) is a rare tick-borne virus that can cause severe neurological damage and death, ..."
c) Cite Share
Powassan Virus-A New Reemerging Tick-Borne Disease.
Fatmi SS, Zehra R, Carpenter DO.
Front Public Health. 2017 Dec 12;5:342. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2017.00342. eCollection 2017.
PMID: 29312918 Free PMC article. Review.
Powassan virus is a neurovirulent flavivirus consisting of two lineages causing meningoencephalitis. ...This review highlights Powassan's neurotropic presentation, epidemiology, diagnostic challenges, and prevalence.
d) Cite Share
Powassan Virus.
Kapoor AK, Zash R.
2023 Mar 27. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2023 Jan–.
PMID: 34033361 Free Books and Documents.
Powassan virus (POW) is an arbovirus within the family of Flaviviruses primarily found in the Northeastern United States, Canada, and Russia. It is a zoonotic infection transmitted to humans by several tick species..."
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Powassan
10 Oct 2023; 7am
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8) Long Covid is a recognized phenomenom different from "long colds".:
Quote Scripps News:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists 19 different ailments as common long COVID symptoms. The symptoms can range from prolonged coughs and fevers to neurologic and cardiovascular symptoms. Many people with long COVID complain of persistent fatigue, drowsiness and brain fog."
https://scrippsnews.com/stories/long-covid-is-a-thing-what-about-long-colds/
10Oct2023; 6:54am
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9) Preventing covid naturally:
Quoting "Dr Tamara Alireza, Functional Medicine practitioner at Skinfluencer London, told Express.co.uk that the popular spice could relieve symptoms of Covid or even prevent an infection....
"What’s more, adding around one teaspoon of cinnamon to your tea or coffee could be enough to do the trick. Packed with anti-inflammatory properties, cinnamon is able to increase your levels of nitric oxide while dampening down inflammation."
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1822023/covid-symptoms-improve-cinnamon;
10 Oct 2023; 7:22am
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10) Rabies in midwest:
https://omaha.com/life-entertainment/local/wellness/precautions-urged-around-unknown-animals-after-douglas-county-kitten-found-to-have-rabies/article_98566a94-66cf-11ee-8308-dfa6e79a46b0.html;
10 Oct 2023; 6:56am
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11) Redfining diabetic acidosis to a socio-economic situation??
October 09, 2023; 7am
Quoting Medscape newsletter:
"An upcoming joint society statement on hyperglycemic emergencies in adults with diabetes will de-emphasize glucose from the diagnostic criteria for diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), along with many other updates to the last statement on the topic, published 14 years ago.
Based on extensive literature reviews and observations of current trends, the new document — due to be published soon —
will cover diagnosis and management of the two most serious acute hyperglycemic emergencies seen in adults, DKA and hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state (HHS)."...
The statement will revise the definition of DKA, partly spurred by the increasing occurrence and recognition of euglycemic ketoacidosis arising from the use of sodium–glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors. For all patients with hyperglycemic crisis, the hyperglycemia cutoff is now lowered to 200 mg/dL (11.1 mmol/L) from the previous 250 mg/dL...
"Both of these changes are recognizing the wide range of glucose levels at the presence of DKA. Approximately 10% of DKA occurs with euglycemia or near-normoglycemia," noted co-author Shivani Misra, MD, PhD, senior clinical lecturer and honorary consultant in Metabolic Medicine at Imperial College, London, United Kingdom."
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/997186?form=fpf;
10 Oct 2023; 7:27am
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12) The CDC also tracks abortions, numbers of deaths from abortions, types of abortion, the break-down into ethnic and socio-economic actors of women who procure abortions.
Unmarried women account for the majority of abortions. Reading their report of how many human babies are killed in U S and how many women in U S are brain-washed into killing their offspring always turns my stomach!
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5212a1.htm
10Oct 2023;7:12am
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13) " Anti-aging foods" article:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12549553/anti-aging-diet-foods-improve-skin-longevity-cognitive-function.html;
10 Oct 2023; 7:54am
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14) Transmissable cancer found in mollusks and dogs per news.
Quote:
"The fact that the transmissible neoplasia spreads like a bacteria through water to infect the gills of mollusks suggests that there might be undiscovered rules about the way cancer invades the human body....
There have been some instances of transmissible cancers in humans, but only in medical or research settings when the skin’s protection was breached. For instance, a surgeon removing a tumor from a patient accidentally cut his hand and, five months later, there was a tumor growing there genetically linked to his patient.
The team's findings were published in the journal Nature Cancer."
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12610991/Scientists-discover-ancient-cancer-SPREAD-like-virus-shellfish-warn-transmissible-types-there.html
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