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One of the worst public health prophecies seem to be more than met in Argentina. As in the rest of the region, diabetes is increasing, and its prevalence in urban areas of the country and more than 50% world average: 6.2% compared with 4%, as revealed Carmela study.

If everything continues as before, will comply with the provisions of the World Health Organization (WHO), which forecast an increase of diabetes of 75% for 2030, said Dr. Herman Schargrodsky, director of the study, which evaluated the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in Latin American cities.

“If so, by 2030 we expect 11% of diabetes in the urban population of Argentina, which will lead to increased cardiovascular disease, especially coronary disease,” he added Schargrodsky, Cardiology Service, Hospital Italian. Read the rest of this entry »

Elevated levels of cholesterol cause 60% of cardiovascular diseases, which are the leading cause of death in Argentina, said today Sociedad Argentina de Cardiología (SAC).

A medical report presented at a press conference in this city, on the occasion to develop the “Heart Month”, pointed out that high cholesterol causes 18% of cerebrovascular disease and 59% of coronary artery disease.

Ricardo Iglesias, cardiologist SAC president, said that “despite these data, the good news is many of these diseases are preventable, and the vast majority are caused by an unhealthy lifestyle.”

Iglesias said that “smoking, physical inactivity and poor eating habits are cardiac risk factors, but taking simple preventive measures can reduce it and especially lowering levels of bad cholesterol.” Read the rest of this entry »

The most widely consumed beverage worldwide after water is tea. In this case we again mention this drink black tea specifically, to highlight its benefits for diabetes, which have been highlighted by a Chinese lab that examined their levels of polysaccharides.

Polysaccharides are a type of carbohydrate that delay the absorption of glucose by the body and which are present in various types of tea. However, researchers in China Tianjin Key Laboratory have compared the levels of polysaccharides in oolong tea, green tea and black tea, the latter finding higher levels of polysaccharides.

This implies that black tea infusion is very important to prevent diabetes, but that’s not all. Black tea polysaccharides also have a destructive effect of free radicals, implying a preventive action against cancer and rheumatoid arthritis.

These benefits of black tea, published in the Journal of Food Science in addition to its antioxidant properties that strengthen the immune system and their actions against hypertension.

By air, the new security conditions prohibit the transport of liquid in the cabin. This measure is problematic for diabetics when their treatment based on insulin injections.

No liquid in the cabin, does it say that the insulin-diabetic patient must leave his medication in the checked baggage?

First problem: The carriers simply can not guarantee that they, or the airport of embarkation will not misplace baggage and thus deprive the stopover, the passenger diabetic treatment.

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