Psoriasis could lead to high BP
New York: Patients with severe
psoriasis - a common skin disease - are more likely to have uncontrolled
hypertension, found a study.
The researchers defined uncontrolled
hypertension as blood pressure measured to be at least 140/90 mm Hg. Additional findings indicated that
there is a significant dose-response relationship, meaning that the likelihood
of uncontrolled hypertension increases with greater psoriasis severity.
The patients with the highest risk of
having uncontrolled blood pressure, are those with moderate to severe
psoriasis, which is defined as having at least three percent of one's body
surface affected by the disease, the findings showed.
"To our knowledge, ours is the first study to evaluate
the effect of objectively determined psoriasis severity on blood pressure
control," said co-first author on the study Junko Takeshita from the
University of Pennsylvania in the US.
The researchers examined
data from a random sample of psoriasis patients included in The Health
Improvement Network (THIN), an electronic medical database based in Britain.
"Over the last
several years, studies have shown that psoriasis, specifically severe
psoriasis, is an independent risk factor for a variety of comorbidities,
putting patients suffering with this common skin disease at an increased risk
of other conditions such as heart attack and stroke," Takeshita added.
"Knowing that
psoriasis is tied to other health conditions, it's vital that we have a better
understanding of the systemic effects it has on other areas of the body so that
we can more closely monitor these patients and provide better and preventative
care" Takeshita concluded.
The findings appeared
in the journal JAMA Dermatology.
Source: www.zeenews.india.com
17.10.2014
Washing hands can prevent disease,
death: Harsh Vardhan
New Delhi: The deaths of children due
to preventable causes is "shameful" and simple measures like
hand-washing which can prevent it should be promoted, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said
Wednesday.
"Hand-washing is likely to become
the strongest possible public health movement. This prevents deaths in
children," he said at an event to mark the Global Hand-washing Day here. "It
is a shame that we are not able to avoid deaths which are entirely
preventable," he said.
The minister said that as part of the
National Health Assurance Mission, the government was planning to focus on
preventive and positive health.
He added: "This would be followed by providing Ayush
drugs." Harsh
Vardhan said that in the next couple of months, the government was planning a
slew of programmes to promote a healthy lifestyle.
He said: "I urge
you to make health a social movement."
Global Hand-washing
Day, observed Oct 15 every year, is a campaign to motivate and mobilise
millions around the world to wash their hands with soap as a key approach to
disease prevention.
The health minister
said: "Hand-washing does not cost anything at all because one uses the
same soap for various other reasons. It is a simple and effective
intervention."
After signing on a
board supporting the hand-washing campaign, Harsh Vardhan urged all sections of
society, irrespective of age and social background, to be partners in the
social movement on health.
He said: "All
countrymen are invited to be part of this."
WHO's Country
Representative Nata Menabde said that Global Hand-washing Day has a
significance in the Indian context.
She said: "It is a
simple and inexpensive way to reduce the disease burden. Today, it is aligned
to the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi."
Source: www.zeenews.india.com
17.10.2014
The past cannot be changed; the future is yet in your
power
Mary Pickford
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