Word: emphysema
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Like Copeland, he says that the new regulations stymie critical education about asthma and emphysema for doctors in underprivileged communities. He routinely meets physicians who do not have access to pulmonary function machines, which are critical for diagnosing these diseases...
...nearly 34% of American adults and 17% of kids had emphysema or heart disease, we'd hardly consider it a cause for celebration. But an announcement on Wednesday that that same share of us now qualify as obese - and that a whopping 68% of adults and 32% of kids are at least overweight - is being hailed as encouraging news. Why? Because the numbers aren't even higher...
...connections became clear: compared with a person with no adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, a person with four or more has almost double the risk of obesity. Having four or more ACEs more than doubles the risk of heart attack and stroke, and nearly quadruples the risk of emphysema. The risk for depression is more than quadrupled. Although many of these outcomes could reflect the influences of genes and other environmental influences - beyond those occurring in childhood - the tight relationship between increasing ACE numbers and increasing health risks makes the role of child trauma clear. Dr. Jack Shonkoff, director...
...abused or otherwise traumatized is painful, and food can be a numbing or comforting escape. Hence, abused children may turn to overeating, which causes obesity. Indeed, ACEs are also strongly linked with other types of unhealthy "self-medication": for instance, cigarette smoking (which accounts for the increased rate of emphysema among high ACE scorers) and drug abuse (having four or more ACEs increases the risk of injectable-drug use by a factor of 10). As Felitti puts it, "Being fat [or having other unhealthy behaviors] is not the problem. It's the solution...
...first place (thanks to their residual immunity to the virus from previous outbreaks of H1N1), their risk of death from the disease may be higher than that of younger patients, primarily because of their higher rates of underlying conditions, such as heart disease, reduced lung function, diabetes and emphysema. (See how not to get the H1N1...