Younger women likelier to die from heart attacks than
male counterparts
Young women, ages 55 years or below, are likelier to be
hospitalized for an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and to die within the
first 30 days than men in the same age group, a new study has claimed.
In fact, although overall AMI hospitalization rates declined
for both women and men from 2000-2009 in this Canadian study, the only increase
was for younger women (less than 55 years), in whom the AMI rate rose 1.7 per
cent per year.
Furthermore, Mona Izadnegahdar and co-authors, University of
British Columbia and Providence Health Care Research Institute (Vancouver, BC),
reported that the higher 30-day mortality rate for young women compared to
young men persisted throughout the study period.
Susan G. Kornstein, MD, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of
Women’s Health, Executive Director of the Virginia Commonwealth University
Institute for Women’s Health, Richmond, VA, and President of the Academy of
Women’s Health, said that these findings highlight the need for more aggressive
strategies to reduce the incidence of AMI and improve outcomes after AMI in
younger women.
The study has been published online in the Journal
of Women’s Health.
Source: http://health.india.com
13.12.2013
Pakistanis need to get themselves vaccinated for polio
before entering India
Pakistan
has not fared well in the battle against polio, and as many as 72 cases have
been reported this year. Keeping this in mind, the Indian High Commission has
issued fresh directives for Pakistanis wishing to enter India.
‘All
persons – adults and children – travelling to India from Pakistan after January
30, 2014 are required to obtain Oral Polio Vaccination (OPV) at least six week
prior to their departure to India, but not more than one year before such
departure’, said a press statement issued to Pakistani media. ‘Travellers from
Pakistan to India after January 30, 2014 are required to carry their
vaccination record as evidence of polio vaccination will be requested for entry
into India thereafter’, the statement added.
The
statement however said that Pakistan was not singled out, and the same
conditions will be valid for all countries where Polio was still endemic.
Indian travellers travelling to and from these countries also need to get
themselves vaccinated in order to fulfil the visa requirements.
Pakistan
has the highest rate of Polio in the world and is followed by Nigeria which
reported 50 cases this year. Afghanistan, another country where Polio is still
endemic, reported just 9 cases this year. In comparison, India seems to have
done exceptionally well in the battle against the disease with zero cases
reported in 2013.
What makes
Pakistan’s battle against polio really difficult is that Islamic extremists
believe that polio vaccinations are against the Islamic way of life and may
even be a ploy by western countries to sterilise Islamic men. Also, there is a
belief that these UN backed polio workers might be undercover CIA agents and
they have been regularly killed on this suspicion.
On the
brighter side, a decree was recently issued by Maulana Samiul Haq, saying that
polio vaccinations were not un-islamic. Pakistan only needs to look towards its
neighbour, which has done really well in its battle against the disease, and
hopefully in a few years there will be no polio cases reported in the country.
Source: http://health.india.com
13.12.2013
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