A dangerous habit, man with oxygen tank and the story of India’s toxic air

In this, the third part, we bring you the story of a nation’s toxic air, a dangerous habit and a man being slowly claimed by a disease killing more Indians than ever before

More than 34 years, as India’s economy extended and prospered, Raj Iyer was progressing, going in any event 14 days a month as an expert with not-for-profit and government organizations.

His vagrant, satisfying life changed 11 years back when he more than once felt shy of breath and was in the long run determined to have interminable obstructive aspiratory malady (COPD), which had crippled his lungs and his capacity to relax.

Smoking 60 cigarettes every day for a long time was most likely the prompt reason, albeit compounding air pollution may have assumed a job. “I realized my manifestations were of a respiratory sickness however I didn’t have any acquaintance with it was COPD,” said Iyer. “I surely didn’t have even an inkling how terrible it gets or that it is hopeless.”

Today, Iyer is 69, and his once far reaching life has contracted to a room in his home in Bengaluru’s eastern Pai Layout, where he lives with his essential guardians, his 34-year-old child and 27-year-old little girl in-law, whose lives, as we clarify later, are surrounded by his sickness. “When I initially got hitched (in 2012), his COPD was not as awful, and he didn’t require ceaseless oxygen support,” said Antara Karthikeyan, Iyer’s little girl in-law and a kindergarten educator.

As the COPD advanced, Iyer required oxygen support, various hospitalisations in light of shortness of breath brought about by abnormal amounts of carbon dioxide- – which is harmful to the body and collects when COPD influences capacity of the lungs to oust carbon dioxide- – and fell much of the time because of his debilitating bones…

Mind-body therapies can help teens with anxiety

Turns out, biofeedback, mindfulness, yoga, and hypnosis provide a promising approach to the very common problem of anxiety in adolescents.

Researchers at Wolters Kluwer Health stated that the currently recommended treatments for adolescent anxiety i.e. cognitive behavioral therapy and antidepressant medications have important limitations.

Anxiety and fear are typical reactions to the academic, social, and developmental challenges that are common during the adolescent years. Clinical or pathological anxiety is excessive, persistent, and disruptive. While anxiety is often situational and time-limited, many teens develop chronic anxiety lasting six months or longer.

Mind-body therapies encompass self-regulation and positive thinking to help promote self-control, physical health, and emotional well-being.

Biofeedback techniques enable individuals to increase self-awareness and physical control through feedback on biological measures whereas mindfulness techniques incorporate aspects of meditation, body scanning…CLICK HERE

Urban, wealthy, educated Indians at higher risk of heart disease: Study

In the 30 to 74-year age group, the overall 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in women was 12.7% compared to 21.4% in men

Heart disease is the highest killer among Indians but the risk of heart disease varies across states, with wealthier and more urbanised states having higher risk, according to a new study.

The 10-year risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) occurrence ranges from 13.2% in Jharkhand to 19.5% in Kerala, according to a study by the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), an advocacy, and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, published in PLOS Medicine, a medical journal, in June 2018.

The risk was higher in northern, north-eastern and southern states. It was also higher for those living in urban areas and belonging to wealthier and more educated families.

Heart disease killed 1.7 million Indians in 2016, IndiaSpend reported in September, 2017. In 2016, the share of non-communicable diseases had increased to 61.8%–causing six in ten deaths in India–an increase of 23.9 percentage points from 1990, we reported in November 2017.

The PHFI study pooled data of 797,540 people aged 30-74 years from two large household surveys in India, the District Level Household Survey–4 (DLHS-4) and the second update of the Annual Health Survey (AHS) conducted between 2012 and 2014..

News Source :- BS

Egyptian national Eman Ahmed, world's 'heaviest' woman, dies in UAE

Eman was admitted to the Abu Dhabi hospital in May and was under the supervision of over 20 doctors

Egyptian national Eman Ahmed Abdelaty, once known as the world heaviest woman, passed away here on Monday, a media report said.

According to medical experts at Burjeel Hospital in Abu Dhabi, Eman died at 4.35 a.m. due to "complications from the underlying comorbid conditions, including heart disease and kidney dysfunction", the Khaleej Times reported.

Eman Ahmed was admitted to the Abu Dhabi hospital in May and was under the supervision of over 20 doctors from different specialities, who were managing her medical condition from the time she arrived in the United Arab Emirates.

The 36-year-old, who initially weighed 500 kg, had undergone a drastic weight reduction surgery in Mumbai in March.

Eman had shed at least 300 kg since undergoing several medical procedures, according to reports.
She was brought to Mumbai from Alexandria on February 11 by an Egypt Air fully-equipped cargo flight. Eman underwent the weight reduction surgery on March 7 at the city's Saifee Hospital and was put on oral fluids. | Readmore...