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Women who are walkers, live near green spaces in temperate to warm climates, eat only moderate amounts of fish, and avoid BPA-containing plastic water bottles are more likely to have kids with normal blood pressures during mid to late childhood.  Spanish researchers just published these finding in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

The investigators studied nearly 1300 mother-child pairs from across Europe for whom data was available from their gestational periods through 6-11 years of age.  Their findings confirm and extend previous work that emphasizes the value of exercise, dietary moderation, avoidance of known toxins, and time spent outdoors in the clean air of green spaces.

Normal blood pressure during childhood, like normal body weight, normal cholesterol and lipid levels, and frequent exercise, is critically important for preventing mid-life heart attacks, strokes, kidney disease, and early death.

Charline Warembourg, Léa Maitre, Ibon Tamayo-Uria, etal. Early-Life Environmental Exposures and Blood Pressure in Children. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2019; 74 (10): 1317 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2019.06.069

#Pregnancy #walking #fish #BPA #hypertension

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Women who are walkers, live near green spaces in temperate to warm climates, eat only moderate amounts of fish, and avoid BPA-containing plastic water bottles are more likely to have kids with normal blood pressures during mid to late childhood.  Spanish researchers just published these finding in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

The investigators studied nearly 1300 mother-child pairs from across Europe for whom data was available from their gestational periods through 6-11 years of age.  Their findings confirm and extend previous work that emphasizes the value of exercise, dietary moderation, avoidance of known toxins, and time spent outdoors in the clean air of green spaces.

Normal blood pressure during childhood, like normal body weight, normal cholesterol and lipid levels, and frequent exercise, is critically important for preventing mid-life heart attacks, strokes, kidney disease, and early death.

Charline Warembourg, Léa Maitre, Ibon Tamayo-Uria, etal. Early-Life Environmental Exposures and Blood Pressure in Children. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2019; 74 (10): 1317 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2019.06.069

#Pregnancy #walking #fish #BPA #hypertension

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Here comes another loud cheer for sleep moderation from the Harvard-MIT Broad Biomedical Institute, the University of Colorado-Boulder, and the UK’s University of Manchester.  Those sleeping fewer than 6 hours a night had a 20% higher heart attack risk, but sleeping longer than 9 hours was even more dangerous elevating the risk of heart attack by 34%.

The researchers studied more than 460,000 subjects 40-69 years of age with sleep, cardiovascular, genetic as well as 27 other categories of data in Britain’s huge Biobank The large size of the study group permitted the investigators to isolate the impact of sleep on cardiovascular disease.  Sleep is such a powerful body rejuvenator that the proper amount of it can even help to neutralize those genetic factors that predispose many to heart attacks. 

Hours of sleep is another of those health numbers to track regularly.  Add it to weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, and calories burned in order to keep the machine that is your body chugging along in optimal shape.

Iyas Daghlas, Hassan S. Dashti, Jacqueline Lane, Krishna G. Aragam, Martin K. Rutter, Richa Saxena, Céline Vetter. Sleep Duration and Myocardial Infarction. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2019; 74 (10): 1304 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2019.07.022

#Sleep #heartattack

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Here comes another loud cheer for sleep moderation from the Harvard-MIT Broad Biomedical Institute, the University of Colorado-Boulder, and the UK’s University of Manchester.  Those sleeping fewer than 6 hours a night had a 20% higher heart attack risk, but sleeping longer than 9 hours was even more dangerous elevating the risk of heart attack by 34%.

The researchers studied more than 460,000 subjects 40-69 years of age with sleep, cardiovascular, genetic as well as 27 other categories of data in Britain’s huge Biobank The large size of the study group permitted the investigators to isolate the impact of sleep on cardiovascular disease.  Sleep is such a powerful body rejuvenator that the proper amount of it can even help to neutralize those genetic factors that predispose many to heart attacks. 

Hours of sleep is another of those health numbers to track regularly.  Add it to weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, and calories burned in order to keep the machine that is your body chugging along in optimal shape.

Iyas Daghlas, Hassan S. Dashti, Jacqueline Lane, Krishna G. Aragam, Martin K. Rutter, Richa Saxena, Céline Vetter. Sleep Duration and Myocardial Infarction. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2019; 74 (10): 1304 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2019.07.022

#Sleep #heartattack

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Health News You Should Use, the latest medical discoveries that you can use to keep yourself and your family healthy.

Here are this weeks stories :

Listening Equal To Reading For Comprehending Information

Dogs Help Your Heart

Smartphone Use Not Driving Our Teens Crazy After All

Polluted Air Kills You Faster

Any Physical Activity Cuts Risk of Early Death

A Your Partner IS An Excellent Pain Killer

Heavy Drinking Curbs Immunity To HIV

Don’t Sugar-coat Your Cancer Risk

Zinc Boosts Resistance To Bacterial Pneumonia

Women Do Have Typical Heart Attack Symptoms

Simpler Parental Speech Speeds Baby’s Language Development

Pomegranate Juice During Pregnancy Yields Healthier Neonate Brains

Cannabis Flower The Most Effective Pain Reliever

Green-space Drives Happiness

Even Nicotine-Free, Flavor-Free Vaping Is Toxic

For show notes and references to for the stories, check out my website at:

https://www.drhowardsmith.com/aug-2019-4th-week-health-news

#Reading #listening #comprehension #semanticmaps #Dogs #heartdisease #exercise #Smartphone #teen #mentalhealth #Airpollution #mortalityrates #Moving #exercise #prematuredeath #Pain #analgesic #lover #significantother #Immunity #HIV #alcohol #Sugar #cancer #diabetes #Zinc #immunity #pneumonia #Heartattack #women #underdiagnosis #Babbling #simplifiedlanguage #linguistics #parenting #IUGR #pomegranate #intrauterinegrowthrestriction #placentalinsufficiency #Cannabis #pain #THC #Releafapp #Greenspace #happiness #twitter #Christmas #Vaping #nicotine #lungdisease #ecigarettes

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/5H_y0xIrTgo

Health News You Should Use, the latest medical discoveries that you can use to keep yourself and your family healthy.

Here are this weeks stories :

Listening Equal To Reading For Comprehending Information

Dogs Help Your Heart

Smartphone Use Not Driving Our Teens Crazy After All

Polluted Air Kills You Faster

Any Physical Activity Cuts Risk of Early Death

A Your Partner IS An Excellent Pain Killer

Heavy Drinking Curbs Immunity To HIV

Don’t Sugar-coat Your Cancer Risk

Zinc Boosts Resistance To Bacterial Pneumonia

Women Do Have Typical Heart Attack Symptoms

Simpler Parental Speech Speeds Baby’s Language Development

Pomegranate Juice During Pregnancy Yields Healthier Neonate Brains

Cannabis Flower The Most Effective Pain Reliever

Green-space Drives Happiness

Even Nicotine-Free, Flavor-Free Vaping Is Toxic

For show notes and references to for the stories, check out my website at:

https://www.drhowardsmith.com/aug-2019-4th-week-health-news

#Reading #listening #comprehension #semanticmaps #Dogs #heartdisease #exercise #Smartphone #teen #mentalhealth #Airpollution #mortalityrates #Moving #exercise #prematuredeath #Pain #analgesic #lover #significantother #Immunity #HIV #alcohol #Sugar #cancer #diabetes #Zinc #immunity #pneumonia #Heartattack #women #underdiagnosis #Babbling #simplifiedlanguage #linguistics #parenting #IUGR #pomegranate #intrauterinegrowthrestriction #placentalinsufficiency #Cannabis #pain #THC #Releafapp #Greenspace #happiness #twitter #Christmas #Vaping #nicotine #lungdisease #ecigarettes

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It’s all over the news: currently more than 200 mostly young people have been hospitalized with life-threatening respiratory illness.  At least one of them has died.  

A new study from the University of Pennsylvania shows that even vaping once without any nicotine leads to significant blood vessel lining damage.

The study analyzed 31 healthy non-smoking adults before and after vaping a single e-cigarette that did not contain nicotine but only the usual propylene glycol-glycerol base with tobacco flavoring added. Each participant took only 16-3-second puffs.

Even this limited exposure drove a 34% reduction in major arterial dilatation, a 17% reduction in peak blood flow, a 20% reduction in venous oxygenation, and a 26% reduction in blood acceleration.  The electric heating and vaporization process converts the e-cigarette liquids into toxic substances that damage blood vessels.

Don’t use these devices.  If you want to quit smoking and need to withdraw from nicotine, use nicotine gum or the patch.  Save your lungs, your blood vessels, and your life.

Alessandra Caporale, Michael C. Langham, Wensheng Guo, Alyssa Johncola, Shampa Chatterjee, Felix W. Wehrli. Acute Effects of Electronic Cigarette Aerosol Inhalation on Vascular Function Detected at Quantitative MRI. Radiology, 2019; 190562 DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2019190562

#Vaping #nicotine #lungdisease #ecigarettes

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/T3LMa31YJEk

It’s all over the news: currently more than 200 mostly young people have been hospitalized with life-threatening respiratory illness.  At least one of them has died.  

A new study from the University of Pennsylvania shows that even vaping once without any nicotine leads to significant blood vessel lining damage.

The study analyzed 31 healthy non-smoking adults before and after vaping a single e-cigarette that did not contain nicotine but only the usual propylene glycol-glycerol base with tobacco flavoring added. Each participant took only 16-3-second puffs.

Even this limited exposure drove a 34% reduction in major arterial dilatation, a 17% reduction in peak blood flow, a 20% reduction in venous oxygenation, and a 26% reduction in blood acceleration.  The electric heating and vaporization process converts the e-cigarette liquids into toxic substances that damage blood vessels.

Don’t use these devices.  If you want to quit smoking and need to withdraw from nicotine, use nicotine gum or the patch.  Save your lungs, your blood vessels, and your life.

Alessandra Caporale, Michael C. Langham, Wensheng Guo, Alyssa Johncola, Shampa Chatterjee, Felix W. Wehrli. Acute Effects of Electronic Cigarette Aerosol Inhalation on Vascular Function Detected at Quantitative MRI. Radiology, 2019; 190562 DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2019190562

#Vaping #nicotine #lungdisease #ecigarettes

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A visit to your favorite park can give you a happiness boost equivalent to Christmas.  In a first-of-its-kind-study, a University of Vermont study analyzed the word contents of tweets from nearly 4700 users as a function of their publicly identified geolocation.

Those users in the largest green spaces with the most vegetation used the happiest words in their tweets.   They also tended show less narcissism dropping the use of first person pronouns such as “I” and “me.” 

Their burst of happiness on Twitter was statistically equivalent to that coming from users over the traditional winter holiday.  The park visit even showed a positive tail, since tweets following the visit used fewer negative words.

The researchers caution that the “twitter-addicted” may not always be representative of the population at large.  I’d take that chance, and get yourself out into the great outdoors.  So many other studies have demonstrated the benefits of frequent visits with good ol’ Mother Nature.

Aaron J. Schwartz, Peter Sheridan Dodds, Jarlath P. M. O'Neil‐Dunne, Christopher M. Danforth, Taylor H. Ricketts. Visitors to urban greenspace have higher sentiment and lower negativity on Twitter. People and Nature, 2019; DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10045

#Greenspace #happiness #twitter #Christmas

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/EoNbGsjDUns

A visit to your favorite park can give you a happiness boost equivalent to Christmas.  In a first-of-its-kind-study, a University of Vermont study analyzed the word contents of tweets from nearly 4700 users as a function of their publicly identified geolocation.

Those users in the largest green spaces with the most vegetation used the happiest words in their tweets.   They also tended show less narcissism dropping the use of first person pronouns such as “I” and “me.” 

Their burst of happiness on Twitter was statistically equivalent to that coming from users over the traditional winter holiday.  The park visit even showed a positive tail, since tweets following the visit used fewer negative words.

The researchers caution that the “twitter-addicted” may not always be representative of the population at large.  I’d take that chance, and get yourself out into the great outdoors.  So many other studies have demonstrated the benefits of frequent visits with good ol’ Mother Nature.

Aaron J. Schwartz, Peter Sheridan Dodds, Jarlath P. M. O'Neil‐Dunne, Christopher M. Danforth, Taylor H. Ricketts. Visitors to urban greenspace have higher sentiment and lower negativity on Twitter. People and Nature, 2019; DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10045

#Greenspace #happiness #twitter #Christmas