Finish School! - It's good for your health!

It has long been noted that lower income people have poorer health. Deductive reasoning would imply that a higher education level effects your income, therefore, it effects your health.

Now there can be various reasons for this, but whatever the slant of view, the facts cannot be denied.

You may not be able to change your situation in life, and you may just now be getting a hold on your own health. But we need to encourage others toward healthy living.

The character that it takes to complete school, and then to go on to higher education will only aid in successful living.

"We found that even after accounting for various risk factors, people in poverty still had higher CRP {C-reactive protein (CRP), a risk factor for heart disease}," said Dawn Alley, another corresponding author and a recent doctoral graduate from the USC Davis School. "This suggests that even beyond issues like health behaviors and chronic conditions, there is something about poverty that makes people sick, and at least part of this effect is working through CRP."

Education IS healthy!

http://www.emaxhealth.com/92/7494.html

HEALTHY HABITS ~ HAPPY HEART!

Trying to become more heart healthy conscious is important. We spend our lives taking for granted the constant strain and the importance of this organ.

We have a new list to ponder. But instead of dealing with a heart attack after it has happened, it would seem prudent to do what we can to prevent it in the first place.

1. Stop Smoking.
2. Cut down on salt.
3. Watch your diet.
4. Monitor your alcohol.
5. Get active.
6. Manage your weight.
7. Get your blood pressure and cholesterol levels checked by your doctor.
8. Learn to manage your stress levels.
9. Check your family history.
10. Make sure you know the signs of coronary heart disease.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/mar/17/NHS1


Have you learned and put to memory the 12 symptoms of a heart attack?? If you have, you're already on your way to a healthier heart!
Educating yourself about the symptoms and remedies will help change your thinking! Changing your thinking, will eventually change your actions! See! It's not so hard!

Guard your Love / Guard your Life

We all want to protect those that we love. Our relationships with them are priceless! When we take precautions and are aware of our own health, we are really doing it more for our loved ones than we are for ourselves.

Our physical health needs to be guarded.

If you don’t guard your health and value it, you will soon notice that your health is not what it was. You don’t have the strength or desire to do what you thought you would at this age.

When we find our health in a condition of disrepair, we have 2 choices. We can continue to do the same things, and expect same results, or we can change or go back to when we lived healthy!

Guard your heart! Keep it healthy! You’ll be glad you did!

Some statistics:

The American Heart Association and the Center for Disease Control both state that Heart Disease is the leading cause of death in Adults in America. In 2006  the number of deaths caused by heart disease was 631,636. That’s 26% of the adults deaths in 2006. Every year about 785,000 Americans have their first heart attack; another 470,000 who have already had one or more heart attacks have another attack.

The best way to survive a heart attack, is to not have one to begin with!

26% -- that’s 1 in 4 – Next time you’re with 3 of your friends – think about that!

If there’s something that you can do to prevent catastrophe, wouldn’t you do it?

“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

Help for a Heart Attack!

The American Heart Association and the Center for Disease Control both state that Heart Disease is the leading cause of death in Adults in America. In 2006 the number of deaths caused by heart disease was 631,636. That’s 26% of adult deaths in 2006. Every year about 785,000 Americans have their first heart attack; another 470,000 who have already had one or more heart attacks have another attack.

But what if there was a way that we could get vital care to a patient that has suffered Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA). According to a study by the Journal of the American College of Cardiology heart attack victims that receive immediate external defibrillation have twice the survival rate as those that do not. Hospitals and doctors are already very aware of the value of defibrillators in the hospital setting. But until recently patients had to wait until the Ambulance came to them.

The most important time to defibrillator a heart that has gone into ventricular fibrillation is the first 3 to 5 minutes. Although cities do not give statistics on 911 response time, independent studies show the quickest response times between 6 and 10 minutes. With all the advances that have been made in medicine in the past years, it seems inconceivable that the leading cause of death is something that, when treated promptly, can have a 50% survival rate. The problem seems, then, to be in the response time.

Cardiac Arrest is the disruption of cardiac function, the heart stops. Ventricular Fibrillation is when the normal electrical activity of the heart is replaced by chaotic electrical activity that causes the heart to stop pumping blood. Medical defibrillators deliver a shock directed at the heart muscle to revive the heart.”

 The Phillips On-Site Defibrillator removes these risk factors. By monitoring and evaluating the patient, defibrillation is only allowed by the unit if it detects that defibrillation is required.

There are only a couple of types of defibrillators that allow for non-medical personnel to employ, but the Phillips EAD defibrillator is the only one that is sold without a prescription. The Phillips on-site defibrillator also comes equipped with clear voice prompts to give instruction to its use in an emergency.

It’s only been recently that laws are being made that require provision of defibrillators in public areas. They’re already required to be provided by public schools that have a sports program, dentist offices, gyms, and in assisted living facilities. Soon, as news gets around, we’ll be seeing them in all kinds of places like malls, restaurants, and work sites.

ALF Defibrillator Law

ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY Law H-945
A law, effective July 2010, mandates and helps to fund the placement of Automated External Defibrillators in all Assisted Living Facilities that have 17 or more beds.
H-945 is designed to aid in the initial response and survival time of a heart attack victim.

a) An assisted living facility licensed under this part with 17 or more

beds shall have on the premises at all times a functioning automated

external defibrillator as defined in s. 768.1325(2)(b).

(b) The facility is encouraged to register the location of each automated

external defibrillator with a local emergency medical services medical

director.

(c) The provisions of ss. 768.13 and

The law also makes notation of the added cost and provides funds to help defray the expense to the facility.

Section 2. The sum of $22,447 in recurring funds and $11,200 in

nonrecurring funds from the General Revenue Fund and two full-time

equivalent positions with associated salary rate of 70,229 is appropriated to

the Agency for Health Care Administration for the 2010-2011 fiscal year to

implement the provisions of this act. An additional $113,030 in recurring

funds from the General Revenue Fund is appropriated to the Agency for

Health Care Administration for the 2011-2012 fiscal year for the same

purpose.

Section 3. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this act, this act

shall take effect July 1, 2010.

Approved by the Governor June 3, 2010.

Filed in Office Secretary of State June 3, 2010.

The Deadline to comply is July 2011.

http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2010-200.pdf

TIMING IS EVERYTHING

There is so much to be understood by the common person about the types of heart attacks and the various symptoms that are detected.  But this is one of those occasions when ignorance is NOT bliss. And you would think that as we further educate ourselves, and as we become increasingly aware of our own health, that we would be more vigilant in getting treatment for something that we cannot understand or diagnose ourselves.

But in a report by Jennifer Warner of WebMD we learn that statistics show that from the years 2001 to 2006 the time between when a patient observes symptoms and when that person seeks medical attention averages two hours. TWO HOURS! 60% of these patients reported waiting more than two hours to seek treatment, and even more alarming 11% of these waited as much as 12 hours after experiencing symptoms.

The ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), the most dangerous type of heart attack occurs when one of the hearts arteries has a sudden and complete blockage. But whether the heart attack is discovered to be a STEMI or non-STEMI immediate attention will lessen the damage done to the body.

http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20101107/many-with-heart-attack-symptoms-delay-care

AHA Shares 2020 Impact Goal

From the American Heart Association 2010 report Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics, we see the importance of keeping a constant vigil against the deadliest disease to Americans. According to this report more than one in three adults in America have one or more types of Cardiovascular disease (81,100,000). Approximately 47 percent of these are over the age of 60 (38,100,000).

The AHA lists high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, heart failure, and stroke as Cardiovascular Diseases.

The most recent statistics for one year are from 2006. And in 2006 More than 151,000 American killed by CVD were under the age of 65. Nearly 33 percent of people who died from CVD died before their 75^th birthday.

To put these numbers in better perspective, here is a comparison of other leading causes of death and their mortality rate.

Cardiovascular Diseases: ................... 1,347,000

Cancer................................................. 559,888

Alzheimer’s disease............................... 72,432

HIV (AIDS).............................................. 12,113

In hopes to change these statistics, the American Heart Association has committed to what they are calling the 2020 Impact Goal.

“By 2020, to improve the cardiovascular health of all Americans by 20 percent while reducing deaths from cardiovascular disease and stroke by 20 percent.”