Imperial Valley News Center
Children score low on cardiovascular health measures
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- Written by Darcy Spitz
Dallas, Texas - Proactive strategies for promoting good heart health should begin at birth, yet most American children do not meet the American Heart Association’s definition of ideal childhood cardiovascular health, according to a new scientific statement published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation.
For the first time in history, high blood pressure is more common in lower-income countries
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Dallas, Texas - For the first time in history, people living in low- and middle-income countries have a higher prevalence of hypertension or high blood pressure, than people living in high-income countries, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation.
States Are Making Progress Implementing Policies to Reduce Toll of Cancer
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Washington, DC - While a majority of states are still missing important opportunities to pass and implement legislative solutions proven to prevent and fight cancer, there is progress being made to move the nation closer to ending cancer as we know it, according to a report released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). "How Do You Measure Up?: A Progress Report on State Legislative Activity to Reduce Cancer Incidence and Mortality" rates states on the strength of proven policies that help prevent a disease that kills more than 1,600 people a day nationwide.
AMA and CDC Update Nation’s Physicians on Latest Zika Virus Guidance
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- Written by Kelly Jakubek
Chicago, Illinois - The American Medical Association (AMA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued the following statements Wednesday regarding the Zika virus as they hosted a webinar for American's physicians and clinicians on the current status of the outbreak.
NIH releases improved guidelines for diagnosing fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
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Washington, DC - A group of experts on fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD), organized by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), has produced proposed clinical guidelines for diagnosing FASD, which can result when a mother drinks during pregnancy. The new guidelines clarify and expand upon widely used guidelines issued in 2005, which were the first to help clinicians distinguish among the four distinct subtypes of FASD described by the Institute of Medicine.
Diet Designed To Lower Blood Pressure Also Reduces Risk of Kidney Disease
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- Written by Stephanie Desmon
Baltimore, Maryland - People who ate a diet high in nuts and legumes, low-fat dairy, whole grains, fruits, and vegetables and low in red and processed meat, sugar-sweetened beverages and sodium were at a significantly lower risk of developing chronic kidney disease over the course of more than two decades, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research suggests.
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