| Major strides in heart disease
Another Father's Day and Mother's Day have come and gone. The older we get, the more we appreciate how lucky we were to have had great parents and their importance in shaping our lives. Peggy's mom is still sacrificing for us - she lives in a house on the other end of our farm and is always doing "chores" for us. Terry's mom died in 1998 with a bleeding aneurysm in her abdomen. Our dads died like most people in the United States - from heart disease. Peggy's dad, George Jaeger, died a couple years ago of sudden death - most likely from a heart arrhythmia. Terry's dad, George McDannold, died in 1980 with congestive heart failure. Although heart disease remains the most common cause of death in the U.S., according to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, the age-adjusted death rate from heart disease has been cut in half since it peaked in 1968.
Kidney disease test may also mark diabetes
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70 percent population never measure blood pressure level
LAHORE, June 29 (APP): Muhammad Ashraf, a Faisalabad-born tailor, the sole breadwinner for a family of eight, had received diagnoses of type 2 diabetes and hypertension at 31 years of age. For the next 15 years, although he felt well and visited his primary care practitioner twice a year, his conditions were poorly controlled. When he was 40, he began to notice fatigue and loss of appetite. After several weeks of the gradual progression of these symptoms, the man sought medical attention with the kind co- opertion of country’s noted nephrologists Tahir Shafi of Sheikh Zayed Medical Hospital and Research Center, and was found to have a serum creatinine concentration of 5.2 mg per decilitre. Twice-a-week sessions of haemodialysis were initiated, but the patient had to take out a loan to pay for them and soon was unable to afford to continue treatment. He has been lost to follow-up ever since. Given pressing medical concerns such as infectious diseases and malnutrition faced by developing countries, why should we even talk about chronic kidney disease in such places? The fact is that many developing countries are facing a silent epidemic of chronic kidney disease one facet of the health transition associated with industrialization.
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