He
donated blood 108 times
Nothing is more fulfilling
in life than donating blood for this septuagenarian retired professor of an
engineering college in the city.
Waman Sambrani, aged 77,
(Gulbarga-Karnataka) has donated blood 108 times, starting at the age of 35.
Sambrani, who has donated about 38 litres
of blood till 2002, was drawn to the noble mission accidentally.
In 1970, he donated blood to a woman who had suffered burns in a case of stove burst. “The woman had suffered burns due to stove burst. There were not many blood banks at that time nor was there any awareness about blood donation.
In 1970, he donated blood to a woman who had suffered burns in a case of stove burst. “The woman had suffered burns due to stove burst. There were not many blood banks at that time nor was there any awareness about blood donation.
Seeing the plight of the woman, for the
first time I realised the importance of blood donation,” said Sambrani.
Realising the worth of his act that
saved the woman’s life, he resolved to donate blood every three months. Since
then he never missed the schedule: on January 1, April 1 and October 2, he
donated 350 ml of blood at the blood bank in the city.
His blood group being ‘O positive’, a
universal group, was an advantage, Sambrani said.
“There are a lot of misconceptions among
people about blood donation. It is a very healthy and noble practice. Man’s
body contains five to six litres of blood and it makes no difference if 350 ml
is donated.
Within a few days, blood is
replenished,” Sambrani said.
Any healthy adult in the age group 18-60
years can safely donate blood four times a year. One time donation is only
seven per cent of the blood in the body.
There is no substitute for human blood;
it can neither be manufactured nor be stored for long, hence, donating blood is
a noble act, he said.
Source: www.deccanherald.com
14.06.2012
Indians
sleep less than American adults
A new study led by an Indian origin researcher has found that Indians
sleep lesser as compared to white, American-born adults.
Two studies have reported sleep disparities among Americans based on racial and ethnic background. The first study, out of the State University of New York (SUNY), looked at 400,000 respondents from the National Health Interview Surveys between 2004 and 2010.
Results show that Americans born in the United States were more likely to report sleeping longer than the recommended seven to nine hours each night. African-born Americans were more likely to report sleeping six hours or less, and Indian-born Americans reported six to eight hours a night.
"We think social desirability might be playing a role in the self-reported data," Abhishek Pandey, lead author of the study, said.
"We think that insufficient sleep might be more prevalent in the population than the actual self report data, but under- or over-reported to project a better image of one's perceived sleep health," he said.
On a smaller scale, sleep researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago analyzed the sleep measurements of 439 randomly selected Chicago men and women, including surveys about sleep quality and daytime sleepiness.
They found that white participants slept significantly longer than the other groups, and blacks reported the worst sleep quality. Asians had the highest reports of daytime sleepiness.
"These racial/ethnic differences in sleep persisted even following statistical adjustment for cardiovascular disease risk factors that we already know to be associated with poor sleep, such as body mass index, high blood pressure and diabetes," Mercedes Carnethon, principal investigator and lead author of the Northwestern study, said.
"And we excluded participants who had evidence of mild to moderate sleep apnea. Consequently, these differences in sleep are not attributable to underlying sleep disorders but represent the sleep experience of a 'healthy' subset of the population," Carnethon said.
Pandey's investigation also indicated that foreign-born Americans were less likely to report short or long sleep than U.S.-born Americans after adjusting for effects of age, sex, education, income, smoking, alcohol use, body mass index (BMI) and emotional distress.
The findings of the study will be presented at SLEEP 2012.
Source:
www.timesofindia.com
14.06.2012
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