September 10th, 2007
Today kicks off National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week. It runs September 10th through the 16th. What is an invisible chronic illness? If you have an illness and it can’t be seen from the outside, you have it. That would include diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, autism, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, migraines, chronic back pain, eating […]
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September 9th, 2007
After yesterday’s post I began thinking… how much sleep do women really get? While at work this AM I asked around and found that for most, 6 hours was a good night.
Unfortunately I am in this category. I go to bed at 11 PM with good intentions of getting 7.5 hours of sleep but between 3 kids, […]
By Kendra James, RN -- 8 comments
September 8th, 2007
The study, published in the journal Hypertension, revealed women who slept five hours or less were twice as likely to suffer from hypertension as women who slept seven hours or more a night. There was no difference between those men sleeping less than five hours and those sleeping seven hours or more.
Well great! You […]
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September 6th, 2007
Twice as many women as men ages 45 to 64 have undetected or “silent” myocardial infarctions, suggesting a general diagnosis problem; however, Warwick University Medical School researchers say doctor’s gender may hinder early diagnosis of heart disease in women.
This is sort of interesting. The doctors gender affects the diagnosis of heart disease. And […]
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September 5th, 2007
Do you want to hear something scary? On average, doctors spot only 1 in 4 children that have high blood pressure. I would say that is a reason for concern. And when you do the math, that would mean that there are over 1.5 million kids that are “living” with undiagnosed hypertension.
What […]
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September 3rd, 2007
A Heart failure pump has been developed to assist those patients awaiting their gift of life. I really do hope that this is a success.
The pump is implanted into the patient’s body and pumps blood from the weakened left ventricle to the rest of the body at the same rate as a healthy heart. […]
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