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IMAGE: Obesity and a high-salt diet are both bad for our hearts but they are bigger, seemingly synergistic risks for females, scientists report. view more
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Obesity and a high-salt diet are both bad for our hearts but they are bigger, seemingly synergistic risks for females, scientists report. We see younger and younger women having cardiovascular disease and the question is: What is the cause? says Dr. Eric Belin de Chantemele, physiologist in the Vascular Biology Center and Department of Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. We think the fact that females are more salt sensitive and more sensitive to obesity are among the reasons they have lost the natural protection youth and estrogen are thought to provide.
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The COVID pandemic appears to have triggered about a 44% increase in insomnia disorder among health care workers at a medical-school affiliated health system, with the highest rates surprisingly among those who spent less time in direct patient care, investigators say.
Another surprise was that about 10% of the group of 678 faculty physicians, nurses, advanced practice providers, like nurse practitioners and physician assistants, as well as residents and fellows, reported in a 17-question survey that their insomnia actually got better in the early months of the pandemic, says Dr. Vaughn McCall, chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.
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The STAR program highlights Georgia s outstanding students and teachers. Author: Raynard Churchwell (13WMAZ) Updated: 5:30 PM EDT April 22, 2021
MACON, Georgia It s award season for graduating students, and that includes the Professional Association of Georgia Educators (PAGE) STAR students in Bibb and Houston counties.
One of Bibb s two STAR students is Stratford Academy s Jocelyn Tang. The association named Tang the winner after she scored a 1580 out of 1600 on her SAT.
She got a perfect score on the math test and she plans to attend the Dental College of Georgia at Augusta University.
Tang chose second year calculus teacher Preston Earle as her STAR teacher. They shared what the awards mean to them.
Unexplained drop in resting heart rate increases heart disease risk
By (0) An unexplained drop in resting heart rate as a child can increase risk for later development of heart failure and heart disease. Photo by Semevent/Pixabay
Children who have a sudden lowering of their resting heart rate as they move into young adulthood may be at increased risk for heart disease later in life, researchers report.
For their new study, they assessed data from 759 Black and white participants in the Augusta Heart Study, which was designed to evaluate the development of risk factors for heart disease.
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It followed young participants in the Augusta, Ga., area, who were healthy and aged 5-16 at the time of enrollment, as they grew into adulthood.