600 Thousand Passive Smokers Die Every Year

World No Tobacco Day

HealthNewsPoint.com, London: Better late than not at all, this sentence may be appropriate for those who still choose to continue to smoke.
The worst risk is the exposure to secondhand smoke damage the lungs and other vital organs.

Passive smoking is just terrible impact, especially for active smokers.

The first global study shows secondhand smoke is estimated to cause 600,000 deaths annually around the world reported by the BBC, Friday (05/31/2013).

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) one third of passive smokers who have died are children who are often exposed to smoke at home.

Studies in November 2010 in 192 countries, concluded passive smoking is very harmful to children, high risk of sudden infant death syndrome, pneumonia and asthma.

Passive smoking has been linked to heart disease, respiratory disease and lung cancer.
"It helps us understand the real victims of tobacco," said Armando Peruga, of the WHO's Tobacco-Free Initiative, who led the study.

In Southeast Asia and Africa estimated 165,000 children die from respiratory infections due to haze.
"Mixed infectious diseases and secondhand smoke is a deadly combination," said Peruga.

Research conducted in 2004 found 40 percent of children, 33 percent of men and 35 percent of women into the class of second-hand smoke.

This caused 379,000 deaths from heart disease, 165,000 due to lower respiratory infections, 36,900 from asthma and 21,400 from lung cancer.

According to the study, the highest number of second-hand smoke are in Europe and Asia and the lowest levels were in the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean and Africa.

This research also revealed that passive smoking killed about 281 000 women around the world, caused 50 per cent in all parts of the world is a passive smoker.

However, the researchers say is the study's limitations, including uncertainty about the underlying health data and gaps in the data associated with secondhand smoke.

Writing in the journal Lancet, Dr Heather Wipfli of the University of Southern California and his colleague, saying "There is also acknowledged uncertainty in the estimates of disease burden. However, 1.2 billion smokers in the world exposing billions of non-smokers to become passive smokers, which cause disease
indoor air pollutants ".

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Alert, High Blood Pressure Can Lower Brain Function

High blood pressure, aka hypertension synonymous with heart disease. But a new study has revealed that hypertension, especially in the arteries that supply blood to the head and neck may be associated with cognitive decline, brain.

The research team from Australia said that people with high blood pressure in the artery or central veins, including the aorta and carotid arteries (the vessels that supply blood to the neck and head) has a test score lower visual processing, including slower thinking speed aka slow and
recognition ability (recognize something) worse.

"Usually the blood pressure measurements taken from brachial artery in the arm, but it turns out to observe the condition of the central artery may be a more sensitive way to assess a person's cognitive abilities. Central controls Because arterial blood flow to the brain directly," said researcher Matthew Pase of the Center for Human Psychopharmacology, Swinburne University, Melbourne.

"So if we can estimate the blood pressure in the central artery, then we can predict cognitive function and cognitive decline that may occur in a person," he added.

In the study, Pase and his colleagues looked at which of the blood pressure measurements from the arm or from a central artery that has a strong connection with the person's cognitive abilities.

In this case the researchers recruited 493 participants aged 20-82 years from Australia.
Most researchers are Caucasians and non-smokers with no history of stroke or dementia.

Then participants were asked to perform a number of tasks to measure their cognitive abilities such as visual processing, memory, recognition ability (recognize something) and information processing speed.
Not forgetting the researchers also measured the participants' blood pressure both arms and a central artery.

As a result, high blood pressure in the brachial artery is associated with performance on tests of visual processing is worse. But high blood pressure in the central artery is associated with a poor performer on other cognitive tests, including visual processing, recognition and information processing speed.

"This shows that central blood pressure is a more sensitive predictor of aging-related cognitive," Pase node as reported by FoxNews, Friday (31/05/2013).

Pase suspect someone with age then tightened and the main arterial elasticity decreases, the brain receives more blood high pressure, which in turn can damage the brain's cognitive abilities.

The study will be published in the journal Psychological Science.

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5 Facts About Corona Virus

Reappear after some time there are no reports of new cases, corona virus instantly seized the attention of the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) as a new threat vote.

"We do not know where the virus is hiding. We also do not know how people could be infected. Until we can answer these questions, we do not have anything to prevent attacks of this infection," said Margaret Chan, WHO director of the 66th World Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland recently.

So what do I need to know about the novel corona virus (nCoV) is? Here's the explanation as quoted from Time.Healthland, Thursday (30/05/2013).

1. nCoV be transmitted individually

 

WHO has not been able to say exactly how the virus is spread from person to person , but from a number of suspected cases could be ascertained transmission through coughing and sneezing or display environment has been contaminated nCoV.

 

Despite this, the contact can cause infection risk for the casual nature or not yet be confirmed by the WHO.

2. nCoV comes from the Middle East

The virus began to be detected in 2012 in Jordan and has since spread to several countries in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The problem is many a traveler who 'accidentally' take the infection to their home countries, such as Tunisia, France, Germany and Britain.

This fact is reinforced by the least cases of transmission of infection in individuals who do not visit the Middle East but to interact with them when she gets sick traveler from the region.

3 .Dominated disordered breathing symptoms

 

Symptoms of infection due to serious respiratory disorders such nCoV accompanied with fever , cough and shortness of breath .Even a number of patients also showed cases of pneumonia or kidney failure up to this new infectious diarrhea .

 

It could be that the people who have disorders such nCoV also susceptible to infection , although symptoms may vary from case nCoV in general .

4 .No taboo associated traveling nCoV

 

WHO has not made disallowance or limitation of trading or traveling to countries where the reported cases of infection appear nCoV .

5. nCoV unlike SARS infection

 

WHO said that if SARS is a distant relative of nCoV. However, as part of the same family of viruses , both infections they cause can lead to severe symptoms, although SARS is only characterized by muscle pain and fever .The difference, nCoV not contagious from one person to another with ease as well as SARS.

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