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Does COVID Harm the Heart? Maybe Not
By Ernie Mundell and Robert Preidt
HealthDay Reporters
FRIDAY, March 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) Does COVID-19 help create heart problems, or are people with preexisting heart issues simply more prone to getting the illness?
The issue remains unclear, with a new British study finding that people with heart problems appear to have an increased risk of contracting COVID-19. In this research, we ve discovered that poorer heart structure and function is linked to a higher risk of subsequent COVID-19. This is important because some studies have suggested that COVID-19 may cause structural damage to the heart. However, these studies only use heart scans from people after infection, so they cannot be certain whether the poor heart structures preexisted COVID-19, explained study lead researcher Zahra Raisi-Estabragh. She s a clinical research training fellow at Queen Mary University of London.
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Published 13 March 2021
After a lecturing career spanning 40 years, Prof. Chioma Agomo, who is the first female Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, bowed out on March 1 as she clocked 70 years. She speaks to OLADIMEJI RAMON about her childhood, career journey and related issues
Your profile says you were born on March 1, 1951 at Nkpa, Abia State. Can you describe the kind of setting you grew up in and what growing up was like for you at that time?
It was a typical rural setting. Growing up was fun. The communal life provided security and protection. It also made for accountability. You could be disciplined by an elder and your parent or guardian would not come fighting. Rather, you may get punished twice for the same offence. People could display their goods, and even if no one was watching over them, you would pick what you wanted and drop the money. Nobody would steal it.
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
Reading aloud is an activity that we associate with the cosy comfort of children s bedtime stories. Certainly, children s classics from The Gruffalo to the Alice books are produced knowing that when they come to be read, the chances are that an older person will be reading them aloud to a younger one.
The extensive benefits of reading aloud to children are well documented. Researchers have found that toddlers who are read to become children who are more likely to enjoy strong relationships, sharper focus, and greater emotional resilience and self-mastery.
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Unsurprisingly, then, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends reading aloud to children. It s even used by sociologists as one of the most important indicators of life prospects.