#for cardiovascular disease

[that-one-percy-jackson-fan]

Adam saying he was attracted to Blue “like a heart attack,” and then calling Ronan “a heart attack that never stopped……”

…….Adam Parrish you have a type.

[willowreader]

Statistics don't lie It just blows my mind that people can't see or understand that COVID is a dangerous virus that can damage your body. Getting infected multiple times will have serious consequences for many.

[ricisidro]

According to the latest Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study — published last month by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) — COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in 2021, after cardiovascular diseases and cancer.

These estimates suggest that COVID-19 was responsible for around eight million deaths in 2021. In many countries across South America and sub-Saharan Africa, the IHME reports that it was the leading cause of death.

Global improvements in healthcare have led to a steady reduction in the death rate from infectious diseases in recent decades, but the COVID-19 pandemic has reversed this trend.

Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)00367-2/fulltext

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nationalgeographic.com 

Article:

Now we know how COVID attacks your heart Even patients with mild COVID symptoms could face a higher risk of developing heart disease and stroke

By Sanjay Mishra

Scientists have noticed that COVID-19 can trigger serious cardiovascular problems, especially among older people who have a buildup of fatty material in their blood vessels. But now a new study has revealed why and shown that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, directly infects the arteries of the heart.

The study also found that the virus can survive and grow inside the cells that form plaque—the buildup of fat-filled cells that narrow and stiffen the arteries leading to atherosclerosis. If the plaque breaks, it can block blood flow and cause a heart attack or a stroke. The SARS-CoV-2 infection makes the situation worse by inflaming the plaque and increasing the chance that it breaks free.

This can explain long-term cardiovascular effects seen in some, if not all, COVID-19 patients.

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[mindblowingscience]

High cholesterol is becoming an all-too common health problem, now affecting almost 2 in 5 adults in the US. Now a new vaccine currently in development promises to effectively and affordably lower levels of 'bad' cholesterol in the body. This bad cholesterol – in the form of low-density lipoproteins or LDLs – is the type that can cause dangerous blockages in the arteries, reducing oxygen flow to the heart or causing blood clots that can lead to a stroke.

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[sawyerzt2nt]

Happy disability pride month

[mapsontheweb]

Death from cardiovascular deceases for females (left) and males (right).

by @milos_agathon

[onlinedietarysupplement]

How do CoQ10 Supplements Help Improve Heart Health?

A healthy heart is a primary requirement for healthy living, and your diet has a crucial role in doing so. A nutritious diet containing a balance of vitamins, proteins, and carbohydrates is all you need to take regularly. A balanced diet is not enough as you also need to perform exercise in your daily routine. For some people, following a balanced diet with regular exercising is not possible due to their health condition or any other reason.

What those people can do is look for alternative ways. And, when we talk about alternative ways, taking natural supplements to lower cholesterol is one of the best ways to keep your heart healthy. Supplements such as Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) have proven beneficial, especially among people with cardiovascular disease (CVD). Thus, the risk of experiencing repeat heart attacks will be minimal, and its use will also lower blood pressure. Before going any further, let’s know about CoQ10.

What is Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10)?

CoQ10 is a natural substance present in every cell of the human body. Its role is to convert food into energy, and it does so by making the antioxidant adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is primarily responsible for the transfer of energy and also protects cells from oxidative stress. Even CoQ10 is in the body itself; however, there are foods that speed up its production, and those foods include vegetables, such as cauliflower, broccoli, and asparagus, and organ meats, such as liver or kidneys, and fish, such as mackerel and sardines.

Role of CoQ10 in Heart Health

It has been proven in many researches that CoQ10 is beneficial for many health conditions, especially heart conditions. Let’s shed light on the heart conditions this supplement is helpful for.

Cardiovascular Disease (CVD):

CoQ10 supplements will raise High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol or HDL-C and Apolipoprotein ApoA1 levels and keep cardiovascular disease at bay. CoQ10 supplements also lower inflammatory biomarkers, such as high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, a risk factor for CVD. For your information, a lower CoQ10 level may cause greater tissue damage to the heart, especially during a heart attack and brain stroke.

Heart Failure:

A heart failure is another heart condition that CoQ10 is quite effective, and its continued use improves mortality rate. A research study by a multi-center on 420 patients found that deaths have reduced to almost half. The study has been carried over a period of two years, which is enough time to get to this conclusion.

Statin-Related Muscle Symptoms

Statin therapy is quite effective in minimizing heart attacks and strokes; however, about 25 percent of people quit this treatment within six months because of new health problems, such as body aches and weakness. When those people with statin-related muscle symptoms started taking CoQ10 supplements twice a day, they reported reduced pain.

After Heart Attacks

Patients who started taking CoQ10 supplements found a reduction in subsequent cardiac events in the future. It is like a blessing in disguise for those people. A CoQ10 supplement is the best natural supplement for cholesterol.

High Blood Pressure

CoQ10 is quite effective in lowering systolic blood pressure. When we talk about the exact number, the systolic pressure reading lowers up to 17mm Hg, and the diastolic pressure reading up to 10mm Hg. All this happens without any significant side effects.

In conclusion, CoQ10 supplements are effective in several health conditions, particularly cardiovascular conditions. Whether it is about reducing the risk of heart attacks, improving survival rates in heart failure patients, alleviating statin-related muscle symptoms, or lowering blood pressure, CoQ10 offers a natural and effective solution. Incorporating CoQ10 supplements into your routine, alongside a balanced diet and regular exercise, you can support your heart and overall well-being.

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Hypertension has long been known to be a causative factor for a multitude of medical ailments. Hypertension has further been noticed to have significantly increased in recent years, posing a public health concern. While medical costs and inconvenience may deter potential patients from seeking frequent blood pressure monitoring, new advances in wearable medical devices have made it possible to measure blood pressure cheaply and conveniently from the comfort of one’s home. Tsinghua University, China, researchers designed a wearable device and a novel blood pressure measurement technique for continuous monitoring. The wearable device can be generalized across individuals and has considerable promise in personal healthcare applications.

Hypertension is a medical ailment that has received significant scrutiny over the past few decades. A condition wherein the arterial blood pressure is higher than normal over a long period of time, it has been implicated as a significant risk factor in conditions such as heart failure, strokes, and atrial fibrillation, among others. Lifestyle and genetic factors greatly increase the risk of having high blood pressure, and it has been noted to be a cause of premature death all over the world.

We can see that the measurement of blood pressure regularly can have significant positive impacts by letting individuals know about irregularities in a timely and convenient manner. Wearable medical devices also eliminate other factors in the mismeasurement of blood pressure, including human error and blood pressure variability in various settings. Ambulatory monitors have been developed for this purpose, which can be used to measure blood pressure at certain intervals, but even these cannot provide continuous measurement of blood pressure and prove to be inconvenient to the user since they often need to be used at a frequency of once every 15 to 30 minutes, and interrupt the progression of daily life.

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[lannisterdaddyissues]

someone get me off this damn site i have an exam tomorrow at 1030am i gotta study 😭😭😭😭😭

[whitehartlane]

was experiencing toxic old man yaoi withdrawals and started watching house md. wow these guys are so gay you can feel the rainbows emanating in pulses from the screen

[utilitycaster]

I don't know which particular post about chetney you may be referring to in the post regarding to a potentially animated c3, but I personally see no harm in speculating how things could be adapted. It's both fun and a interesting creative exercise, provided one understands that they can't have solid expectations for something that would without a doubt be several years into the future at least. To me it's not much different than coming up with theories for how things may turn out - the fun is in the doing, not in being proven correct (though that would certainly be satisfying). I don't see why speculating how something would be adapted hinders one from enjoying the show as it is right now. Feel free to disregard this if I've misunderstood your post, I'm genuinely curious to hear more of your thoughts about this though

In the interest of keeping a vague post vague I am not going to provide more details, but it was about a hypothetical (ie, future in the current canon of C3) decision they felt would not be satisfying in adaptation, ie, it was not about the nature of adaptation so much as bleeding a little into decision making in Campaign 3. It was verging on "they should think about how this choice will play in the (hypothetical) eventual animated series", and that was what I didn't like. I love speculation on how a finished series might be adapted! I have engaged in a lot of that myself. This was not that.

But more importantly, I love complaining, and that post is me complaining. I think there's a really awful tendency in fandom spaces to think the only things you can complain about must be Problematic And Harmful, and also that complaining about anything means you are trying to shut it down, and those are both incorrect (and lead to the similarly toxic mentality of then trying to justify all dislike by saying things are Problematic And Harmful when they aren't).

Most of the things I complain about are not remotely problematic (though some are); many are just, in my opinion, really fucking stupid. And because I have some small number of manners and do not go onto people's own blogs or inboxes to say "hey your post is stupid" I just make a vague post about it, leave it untagged, and if anyone has a problem with my post I hope they will also either do the same on their blog or if they're really bothered, take steps to ensure they don't see my posts. You know that post that says "this website should function as a matryoshka doll of kvetching?" That is my mission statement. This blog is a place where I will be hating on harmless behavior all the time. Crack theories are a great example! I hate most of those and think the vast majority come from idiots trying to sound smart by over-complicating something that has a very simple explanation. They are also, largely, completely harmless, and people are welcome to come up with them, and I will not stop them. But I will be complaining about them on my own blog.

[themogaidragon]

just curious.... do you know of a general/unspecified chronic illness flag?

Nope so I've made some using those chronic fatigue flags.

Chronic Illness Pride Flag

[IMAGE ID: a flag with six horizontal stripes. The fisrt and last stripes are smaller. Their colors are, from top to bottom, dark bluish green, light salmon pink, soft white, bluish green, light bluish green and dark bluish green. END ID.]

[IMAGE ID: a flag with a dark bluish green background. Lines, like brushstrokes, which go from top to bottom and from bottom to top, partially cross the flag. The line colors are light salmon pink, soft white, bluish green and light bluish green. END ID]

I choose to make the flags main's colour bluish green because light blue is often used to represent chronic illnesses and because green is often used on chronic fatigue/pain flags.

Meanings of flag:

dark bluish green: fighting against ableism

light salmon pink: community and solidarity

soft white: remissions and relapses

bluish green: chronic fatigue and brain fog

light bluish green: all the types of chronic illnesses

*my requests aren't curently opened, I just really wanted to make some flags for chronic illnesses.

[laz-262]

abit of old art but more hanahaki disease with zimelu

[fauvester]

bashir wrestling garak into his cpap machine every night like a genetically augmented steve irwin with an ornery croc

[friedaaaaaaargh]

Currently doing a late night rewatch of some Holby City S20 ft the whole Jac/Frieda shenanigans that persisted over that series. And to think that now, that's me - I get to work with real life Jacs and Friedas everyday. And even though I'm the annoying person in the lab at the back of the hospital hidden from view, it's still surreal. So yeah, thanx to a silly show for being a small part in my career choices.