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Feb- 2023 -19 February
I’m a cardiologist with a higher risk for heart disease. Here’s what I’m doing to lower my risk.
South Asians are all at a higher risk for heart disease, but researchers still don’t know why. A South Asian American cardiologist discussed the ways he lowers his risk for heart disease. South Asians, including people of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nepali, and Sri Lankan descent, are all at a higher risk for heart disease — and researchers don’t know why. South Asians make up a quarter of the world’s population, but a whopping 60% of all heart disease patients, and South Asian Americans tend to develop high blood pressure, abnormal cholesterol, and triglycerides, a type of fat in the blood that increases the risk for heart attacks, at lower body weights compared to other ethnicities. Why South Asians are more at risk for heart…
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16 February
WHO says mpox still international public health emergency
WHO said its experts acknowledged the progress in the global response to the mpox outbreak and a further decline in the number of reported cases during the last few months. Representational Image Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) said that a widespread outbreak of the mpox (monkeypox) remained a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The WHO officially declared in July 2022 that the mpox outbreak outside of the traditional endemic areas in Africa had already turned into a PHEIC, the highest level of alert that the global health authority could issue, Xinhua news agency reported. In a statement on Wednesday, the WHO said its experts acknowledged the progress in the global response to the mpox outbreak and a further decline in the number…
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16 February
Health and Tech: Predicting future pandemics
Statisticians worldwide have started calculating the probability of a Covid-like extreme event happening in the years to come Hyderabad: It took three-years for the Covid-19 pandemic to recede, although there is always a threat looming large from the ever evolving new variants of coronavirus. The Covid pandemic has clearly indicated that intense epidemic events are here to stay and there is a need to be prepared for such exigencies. In the last couple of years, statisticians worldwide have started calculating the probability of such an extreme event happening in the future. A recent study that analyzed infectious disease outbreaks of the past 400 years, published in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), said that the annual probability of extreme epidemics occurring could…
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