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| September: Month of the education on the cholesterol |
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Washington Hispanic
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| How does the exercise affect the cholesterol levels? |
In recognition of which September is the national Month of education on the cholesterol (NCEM, for his initials in English), exhorts all the adults, to 98.6 million Americans older than 20 years of age at high cholesterol levels, to consult especially with his doctors on the high cholesterol and to do cholesterol tests to him. The high cholesterol can contribute to the badge accumulation in the arteries, also acquaintance like ateroesclerosis, which can appear in the first years of the adult age.
For the patients at high cholesterol levels, it is important to collaborate with his doctor to establish, to achieve and to support a wished cholesterol goal.
For the patients to those who have already diagnosed theirs high cholesterol, the national Month of education on the cholesterol it they can serve like reminder to see his doctors, to do new cholesterol tests to him and to determine if his current plan of control of the cholesterol still works. To make use to the maximum of an appointment with the doctor, American Heart Association recommends to formulate questions as:
How have my cholesterol levels changed from the last test? Has it lowered the cholesterol LDL ("villain) and increased the ("good") HDL?
Have I managed or am I still to achieve my wished cholesterol levels? Of not being like that: what other measurements must I take?
Should it bear in mind additional changes in my diet and life style? Would an estatina to reduce the cholesterol be anything that it should bear in mind and consult with my doctor?
The NCEM also is important for those who have not carried tests out lately or a test has never been done to determine if they have high cholesterol levels. It is important that these patients collaborate with his doctors to establish a plan to reduce the cholesterol, which might include diet, exercises and, of being necessary, medicines.
For acaban of finding out that they have the high cholesterol, American Heart Association recommends to formulate questions like:
What do they mean the levels of cholesterol that I have?
What is the level of cholesterol that I must take as a goal?
With what frequency must I do to myself tests of the levels of cholesterol?
How does the exercise affect the cholesterol levels?
What class of food must I eat?
Do I need a medicine to reduce the cholesterol?
How long does he delay to achieve the cholesterol goals?
“Many of the patients that I see, between that them who have already done tests of the cholesterol to themselves, often do not understand so important what is to achieve and to support the levels of cholesterol adapted for them”, said Waenard L. Miller, M.D., F.A.C.C., cardiologist of Legacy Heart Center in Plane, Texas. “It is of supreme importance to understand the measures that it must take to support the controlled cholesterol levels.
| The diet recommended for the diabetics has changed |
| Diabetes increases in Hispanic population |
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| The diabetics are more inclined to continue a healthy nutritive plan. photo: Andrea Alemañy/WH. |
Writing
Washington Hispanic
According to statistics of the National Institutes of the Health (National Institutes of Health, NIH) corresponding to 2008, the diabetes turns into a more and more common suffering in the Hispanic population of the United States.
This tendency is equivalent to serious implications of health, due to his increasing predominance, the biggest number of factors of risk and the considerable incidence of complications. In general, the index of diagnosis of diabetes for the Hispanics is the double compared to the American Caucasians.
More than 10 per cent of the Hispanics older than 20 years in the United States have been diagnosed by diabetes, according to the NIH.
In the Hispanics, the indexes of predominance of diabetes are: Cuban, 8.2 per cent; méxico Americans, 11.9 per cent and Puerto Rican, 12.6 per cent.
One of the most common questions that the diabetics formulate is: "Can we consume sugar?”. The answer is: "Yes, but moderately. Now the diabetics have access to a major information, and can enjoy less restrictive diets. The experts in diabetes affirm that who endure it can incorporate the sugar as part of the carbohydrates that compose his diets in general.
Nevertheless, the diets for diabetics must continue depending on the characteristics of every patient.
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| Porcine flu they affect children in school age |
For Mike Stobbe
aP
One of the 13 deaths caused by the porcine flu in the United States has belonged to children, mainly to school age, informed the government in his first study on the youngest victims of this ailment.
More than 40 children have died in the United States because of the virus since it was identified in this country in April. The report of the Center for the Control and Prevention of Illnesses checked the first 36 deaths and found some important differences in the number of victims of minor age between the porcine flu and the common flu of period:
Usually, the half or more of the children who die of flu has 4 years or less. But more than 80 % of the children who died of porcine flu had 5 years or more.
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| Autumn allergies |
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| Going out on the outside to gather the dead sheets or to enjoy the scenery can provoke annoyance photo: PHOTOS.COM |
Agencies
Washington Hispanic
For the millions of allergic that populate the planet, the autumn can be so complicated like the spring, because the pollen and the mold are inconveniences sources.
Going out on the outside to gather the dead sheets or to enjoy the scenery can provoke ocular annoyance, nasal obstruction and other disorders. The problem is that many persons do not realize that the allergies are common in autumn, and impute his sneezes and tupiciones nasals to the common and current cold.
If you suffer from period allergies, do not hope that the symptoms appear in all his intensity to take the necessary measures.
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