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| In February the cardiovascular health is celebrated |
| In the month of the heart, take care of it |
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Washington Hispanic
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| In February the cardiovascular health is celebrated. |
As the engine of a motorcar, the heart must look after.
In simple terms, the heart acts like a bomb that impels the blood towards the organs, textiles and cells of the organism.
The blood pumped by the heart gives oxygen and nutrients to every cell and gathers the dioxide of carbon and the substances of waste produced by these cells. But if the blood flow to the heart diminishes or stops or the rhythm of the beats falters, the life might be in danger.
What sound the cardiovascular diseases?
The cardiovascular diseases are those that they affect to the heart or to the blood glasses and are the principal cause of death in the United States, so much in men as women. The cardiovascular diseases almost 2.400 persons kill a person every 34 seconds in the country, that is to say, per day, more than the cancer, the diabetes and the together accidents. New studies and methods of treatment have reduced the number of deaths for cardiovascular disease but not this way the number of the affected people.
What are the risk factors?
nificativamente in the probabilities of which a person endures a cardiovascular disease, the so called “factors of risk”. Some risk factors can be controlled, but others do not.
Those who can change have to do with the life style, like consuming a diet low in fat, salt and cholesterol, without smoking, three times do exercise at least per week, to support a healthy weight and to reduce the blood pressure.
A late symptom
Most of the persons are considered to be healthy if they do not feel illness symptoms. Nevertheless, sometimes the first apparent symptom of a cardiovascular disease is a heart attack.
When the cardiovascular disease symptoms begin to appear, the damage has already taken place. That's why it is an important knowledge what are the factors of cardiovascular risk and to take the measures necessary to reduce it.
Eye with the cholesterol
The cholesterol is a greasy substance (acquaintances like lípidos) present in all the cells of the organism. The liver prepares the whole cholesterol that the organism needs to form the cellular membranes and to produce certain hormones. When we eat food of animal origin, such as meat, eggs and dairy products, we introduce additional cholesterol in the organism. Although often we attribute the elevation of this lípido in the blood to the cholesterol that there contains the food that we eat, the prime mover of this increase is, in fact, the unsaturated fat. The shortening of the milk, the fat of the red meat and the such tropical oils like the coconut oil are some food rich in unsaturated fat.
In simple terms, to reduce the levels of cholesterol LDL (or villain), there is essential a feeding low in unsaturated fats and cholesterol.
A feeding is recommended with a greasy content (principally unsaturated fats) of between 25 to 35 per cent of the entire calories and a consumption of unsaturated fat lower than 7 % of the entire calories.
| Interview |
| How to be liberated of the tobacco |
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| Lourdes Gutiérrez invites the smokers to try to leave the tobacco. photo: Felipe Lagos/WH. |
For Felipe Lagos
Washington Hispanic
The coordinating committee of the Program of Discontinuation of Tobacco of the Latin Initiative of Health of
County of Montgomery, Lourdes Gutiérrez,
he speaks on his new course.
Lourdes Gutiérrez smoked when young man. He says that it was doing it more for fashion than for taste.
Also, as it was sports, him was not difficult to realize that the cigaret was going unwillingly at the time of giving good results physically.
Today, Lourdes Gutiérrez is the coordinating committee of the Program of Discontinuation of Tobacco of the Latin Initiative of Health of the County of Montgomery, which in culturally appropriate form and in Spanish, helps the persons to give the necessary steps to leave the vice.
A new version of this course will begin on February 24 in House of Maryland (if he wants to know more on the program, it can call (240 777 3470), and Gutiérrez invites the smokers to try to leave the cigaret.
“ Our program is adapted especially in cultural and linguistic terms to the Latin community, to help the Latin Americans to stop smoking. There are six meetings, once a week. These contemplate educational information, like knowledge about the addiction to the tobacco, methods to stop smoking and medicines. We know that the persons work during the day and that's why the courses are done in the nights or the weekends. If there are women who have small children, we deliver them nursery. Also snacks happen, because often the persons go straight from the work to the program”, says Gutiérez.
— What is what produces the addiction to the tobacco?
“Many people believe that the nicotine is the one that produces the cancer, but in fact this one substance provokes the sensation of initial pleasure, generating an addictive process that will force the smoker to light another cigaret. Apart from the nicotine, the cigaret produces carbon monoxide, which is poisonous, and other carcinogenic substances. Also, the tobacco can provoke several types of cancer, as of lung, prostate and colon, between others”.
— What is the percentage of success of this program?
“ It is quite high. Immediately after the course it is of more than 75 %, and a year, more than 33 % continues without smoking. The statistics demonstrate that in specializing centers, like the Clinic In May, they have 25 % of success a year”.
— Is there any eligibility?
“ To be major than age and to live or to be employed at the County of Montgomery. The course is completely free and there are provided, in case of being opportune, free medicines, like patches or chewing gums or what the smoker needs to leave the vice”.
— Generally, the persons who are present at these courses want to allow smoking, but many exist others that are not prepared. How can anybody know that it is ready to leave the cigaret?
“ In fact, there is very complex the mechanism for which the smoker goes so far as to be ready to do an attempt of leaving the tobacco. It is known that someone who wants to leave the cigaret happens for several attempts, and often it implies returning to the initial place, with constant relapsing until finally the person is free to smoke. The course contemplates all that. Whenever we have a new course, we try to integrate smokers who have helped earlier but they have failed, to see what so ready they are in the process. It is really interesting to see how some of them that have not been ready previously try it again. It is a previous commission system, during and after the courses”.
— What is the most difficult thing to manage to help someone to resign from the tobacco?
“ The last meeting is that of closing ceremony. The last group that we had was well heterogeneous since ages were men and women of different and of different level socieconómico. He might say that the persons that initially it seemed that they were going to give up in the course were those who finally were successful. It is not so predictable. It sees one like the smoker who finds out about the damage that provokes the nicotinism easily commits itself, because he listens to the testimonies of smoking ex-others, like that they feel interested and take part much more. But there must be a commitment. For the same we inform him the relatives who must give a maturation period to the smoker and come to a point in which he accepts to look for help”.
| To his health |
| The first Lady supports to community centers |
For Maria Gómez
The president of Mary's Center
It is spent on Tuesday, the 10th, Mary's Center, the organization that I direct, it had the privilege of being provided with the visit of the First Lady of the Nation, Michelle Obama.
It was the first official visit that the First Lady was doing without his husband, to a community organization since the President Barack Obama took possession on January 20.
Personally, I take this honor as a recognition to the work that we have realized during the last twenty years to improve the well-being of thousands of families that they have little or no access to medical, social and educational care.
The intention of the visit of missis Obama was to know first hand the work that Mary's Center has realizing in the capital of the country. Also to know about the options that they have our most disadvantaged families and his most urgent needs to put in action politics of the White House
During his permanence of more than one hour, the First Lady knew some of our participants and listened to his histories as testimony of the daily struggle that there faces our community and the support received in Mary's Center to go out forward. Also he read books to children, shared hope words with participants of the program of adolescents and covered our center.
I hope that this interaction of the First Lady with mothers, children and young people of our community, should have allowed him to understand the need for a reform in the health system and that it should interyield before the President so that it supports the projects that they benefit to the neediest, because well we know that our community always does part of this group.
So much the visit of the First Lady to Mary's Center as the invitation that did the White House to me the previous week for the signature of the law of re-approval of the SCHIP (State Children Health Insurance Program or Program of Medical Insurance for Children in Spanish) and the enlargement of the funds of the same insurance so that four more millions of children have access to an insurance of health, they give to me to think that there are change intentions and that finally the health system is going to bear in mind.
In an ideal world, we all would have right to health insurance and our community - that is always most harmed in all these processes - would not have to suffer so much for the discrimination of this fundamental right of the human being, but at least we see the commitment of the President Obama and of his wife to reform the system of health and of social support in the country.
For the prompt thing, we will keep on pleading so that the government stays firm and expires with his promises to improve the health of his inhabitants.
| The death of a Brazilian of an infection acquired in a hospital of this country does important that the persons find out about how these illnesses are acquired, and how to prepare them |
| How to avoid the hospitable infections |
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| The pseudomonkey aeruginosa (in the photo) is the causative bacterium of the severest hospitable infection. foto:cdc |
Writing / agency
Washington Hispanic
The hospitable infections are defined as any illness caused after the revenue of a patient to a welfare center. The diagnosis of this infection needs of the direct observation of the patient for the doctor and some laboratory examinations.
The symptoms
Any individual who should be hospitalized for some treatment is in certain risk of acquiring this infection. This depends on the type of treatment to which it is submitted and the quantity of time that the person is going to be hospitalized.
The symptoms in general are related to the area in which the patient was treated, but commonly they compromise the respiratory or urinal system. Serious patients can present a commitment in the whole organism and they are more exhibited after a widespread infection suffered a septicemia, that is to say.
Later that has realized the diagnosis of hospitable infection, the treatment is realized principally with antibiotics by a period from 14 until 30 days.
How to prepare
The prevention of hospitable infections depends much more of the welfare center and of his workpeople than of the patients.
The care of prevention and control involve measurements of qualification of the hospitable assistance.
Some advices for the patients involve to demand from the doctor that he should wash its hands. Also it is requested the persons that they do not abuse the antibiotics, since this can provoke that the bacteria become more resistant.
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