Special oral
health hospitals across India soon
New Delhi: The government plans to
set up hospitals exclusively for oral health care at both the national and
regional levels, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said Thursday.
"Facilities
for dental treatment and oral health are still inadequate in India. In rural
areas, they are practically absent," he said while inaugurating the Centre
for Oral Health Promotion at the Centre for Dental Education and Research at
the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here.
The minister said the coming years
would see more investment in dental hospitals and colleges at the national and
regional levels.
These would have the latest
sophisticated equipment and research facilities.
The new centre at AIIMS has been
recognised by the World Health Organization as a partner.
"Doctors on their own should
act as points of dissemination of information on positive and healthy
habits," Harsh Vardhan said.
"While
the government will do its duty of framing policies and schemes and
implementing them, it would require the cooperation and involvement of all to
make 'health for all' a social movement," he said.
Source: www.zeenews.india.com
22.08.2014
Obesity in
30's increases risk of dementia in later life
Washington: A new study has found that people who are obese
in their early to mid-life face more risk of dementia in their later lives,
with the ones in their 30's facing triple the risk.
The researchers used the anonymised data from hospital
records for the whole of England for the period 1999-2011, and data in which
obesity had been recorded were then searched for any subsequent care for, or
death from, dementia.
During the study period, 451 232 of
those admitted to hospital in England were diagnosed with obesity, 43 percent
of whom were men.
The analysis revealed an incremental decrease in overall
risk of hospital admission for dementia the older a person was when a diagnosis
of obesity was first recorded, irrespective of gender.
For those aged 30-39, the relative risk of developing
dementia was 3.5 times higher than in those of the same age who were not obese.
For those in their 40s, the equivalent heightened risk fell to 70 percent more;
for those in their 50s to 50 percent more; and for those in their 60s to 40
percent more.
People in their 70s with obesity were neither at heightened
or lowered risk of developing dementia, while those in their 80s were 22
percent less likely to develop the disease, the findings indicated.
There were some age differences between the risk of
developing vascular dementia or Alzheimer's disease, with those in their 30s at
greater risk of both. A diagnosis of obesity in the 40s through to the 60s was
associated with an increased risk of vascular dementia, while the risk of
Alzheimer's disease was lower in those diagnosed with obesity from their 60s
onwards.
The researchers concluded that while
obesity at a younger age was associated with an increased risk of future
dementia, obesity in people who had lived to about 60-80 years of age seemed to
be associated with a reduced risk.
Source: www.zeenews.india.com
22.08.2014
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