The name Jaya in Hindi means victorious. And little Jaya Maharaj was just that, when she became one of the smallest recipients of a pacemaker when she was just 15 minutes old.
A team of doctors at Stanford University’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital determined the girl born nine weeks premature had only hours to live if they did not perform the surgery.
Jaya, who was diagnosed in the womb with a severe heart ailment, entered the world with a heart rate of 45 beats per minute. A health newborn heartbeat is 120 to 150 beats per minute.
“The only way to save this baby was to deliver the baby right away and then the pacemaker,” said Dr. Katsuhide Maeda, the surgeon whose steady hand stitched the pacemaker’s electrical leads to Jaya’s walnut-sized heart. Stanford announced details of the operation this week.
During a routine prenatal visit, doctors told Leanne Maharaj, 26, and Kamneel Maharaj, 31, that their first child’s heart rate was dangerously low. They learned that their daughter suffered from congenital heart block, in which the mother’s immune system mistakenly attacks the nerve fibers that cause the fetus’ heart to beat.
The Corporations and Pharma companies would make you make you believe in any thing, such is the power of media. especially TV Commercials.
One should watch the ad of Cardia Olive Oil in India on TV, where the setting and the voice over are so sombre in warning you of heart attack by using oils other than Cardia Olive Oil, you would rush to Doctor to check your heart!
Icing on the cake is the statement that people in Europe do not suffer heart attack by using olive Oil
They say there is mounting research that it is the type of oil used, and whether or not it has been used before, that really matters.
The latest study, published in the British Medical Journal, found no association between the frequency of fried food consumption in Spain – where olive and sunflower oils are mostly used – and the incidence of serious heart disease.
Spanish researchers followed more than 40,000 people, two-thirds of whom were women, from the mid 1990s to 2004.
At the outset they asked them how often they ate fried foods, either at home or while out. They then looked to see whether eating fried foods regularly increased the likelihood of falling ill from having coronary heart disease, such as a heart attack or angina requiring surgery.
Dividing participants into four groups, from lowest fried food intake to highest, they found no significant difference in heart disease.
There were 606 incidents linked to heart disease in total, but they were split relatively evenly between the four groups.
The authors concluded: “In a Mediterranean country where olive and sunflower oils are the most commonly used fats for frying, and where large amounts of fried foods are consumed both at and away from home, no association was observed between fried food consumption and the risk of coronary heart disease or death.”
Alcohol becomes your master with out your knowing you becoming you having become its slave.
None of those I have seen have ever admitted that they have become hooked to Alcohol despite visible signs that they are.
When confronted with Scientific evidence that it is root cause for man serious illnesses, they question Science which they normally accept in other cases.
Apart from health problems, a Drunk is never taken seriously and he /she loses social credibility , esteem and respect in the society, even in societies where drinking is accepted as a social culture.
They lose respect from Family,friends and at the work place.
Even when they are right nobody would believe them .
Please correct before it is too late.
We know that drinking too much alcohol is bad for us. It gives us hangovers, makes us feel tired and does little for our appearance – and that is just the morning afterwards.
Research shows that a high alcohol intake can also damage our mental health, impair memory skills and reduce fertility….
We know that drinking too much alcohol is bad for us. It gives us hangovers, makes us feel tired and does little for our appearance – and that is just the morning afterwards.
Long term, it increases the risk of developing a long list of health conditions including breast cancer, oral cancers, heart disease, strokes and cirrhosis of the liver.
Research shows that a high alcohol intake can also damage our mental health, impair memory skills and reduce fertility….
To the best of my knowledge they did not get heart attacks.
It is said that Gingely oil is good for over all Health including Heart.
Best is to follow time tested Food Habits that have been arrived at by the society over hundreds of years by the process of elimination, taking into account the climate as well.These will vary from Region to Region.
Let us follow them.
A recent large government study found that raising levels of HDL “good” cholesterol using a drug did not reduce the risk of heart disease. ..
Patients taking the medicine along with Zocor had higher levels of H.D.L. and lower levels of triglycerides, a fat in the blood. Despite these seeming improvements, the patients fared no better and may have done slightly worse than those taking Zocor alone. That is why the entire theory behind trying to increase H.D.L. levels in patients with heart disease may need rethinking…
Many people, including most physicians, believe that HDL is “good cholesterol” and LDL is “bad cholesterol.” Therefore, anything that raises HDL cholesterol is good….
Not everything that raises HDL is good for you. For example, if you increase the amount ofsaturated fat and cholesterol in your diet, you may increase your HDL because your body is trying to get rid of the extra “garbage” (fat and cholesterol) by increasing the number of available garbage trucks (HDL) if you are genetically able to do so. Eating a stick of butter or having a cheeseburger will raise HDL in those who are able to do so, but that does not mean that butter and burgers are good for your heart. They aren’t…
So, rather than being concerned about how to raise your HDL, eat a whole foods, plant-based diet–and spend a few minutes a day exercising, meditating, and loving more. Heart disease is completely preventable–today–in at least 95 percent of people simply by changing our diet and lifestyle. We don’t need a new drug or breakthrough technology; we simply need to put into practice what we already know.
Most Medical Diagnostic tests are unnecessary and they are being done to fill the pockets of the Diagnostic Centers , a percentage of which goes to unscrupulous Doctors(not all Doctors).
Patients are best advised to seek detailed information from Doctors on Tests on the necessity and relevance of the tests before they take the tests.
They rate cars. They rate electronics. And now Consumer Reports is hoping its product-rating system will better inform consumers about why they should avoid some common heart-disease screening tests.
Blood pressure and cholesterol screenings are definitely helpful, the nonprofit group said in the report. But electrocardiograms and C-reactive protein testing are not a good idea for healthy people, it concluded.
“It’s worrisome that healthy people are getting tests they may not need because a prevention test that is not reliable can lead to a cascade of unnecessary, costly, and in some cases risky follow-up tests and treatment,” Dr. John Santa, director of the Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center, said in a statement about the report.
“It’s easier to understand the benefits than the risks,” he said in an interview Wednesday.
The magazine’s ratings are based on advice from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a government-sponsored group of physicians without medical industry ties. The task force reviews and rates the scientific evidence behind some proposed procedures. (Task force recommendations on mammograms and prostate tests have been controversial the past few years.) Consumer Reports updated and added to the task force advice on cardiovascular screening tests.
Consumer Reports is also providing a heart-risk calculator on its Web site. People who type in their age, gender and cardiovascular risk profiles, such as hypertension or high cholesterol, can see their 10-year risk of having a heart attack, stroke or other cardiovascular event, and the suggested screenings.
Most healthy people, the magazine said, should only test for blood pressure, cholesterol and possibly blood glucose. But it was uncertain whether benefits outweigh risks in screening healthy people for C-reactive protein or clogged peripheral arteries. And it said risks almost certainly outweigh benefits in testing healthy people for clogged carotid arteries, abdominal aortic aneurysms and heart EKGs.
In the interview, Dr. Santa described one example of the cascade effect.
“Let’s say a nonspecific finding on an EKG that suggests you could have a problem,” he said. “The next thing you know, a CT scan is going to be suggested, so you’re going to be exposed to some significant radiation. And let’s say that the CT scan doesn’t completely exclude a problem. Well, now you’re talking about an angiogram that has a 1 or 2 percent significant side effect.
“And then of course, if you had an angiogram, let’s say you had a coronary artery that’s 50 percent blocked. Well, now wait a minute, we now know that blockage itself is not significant. There’s a lot more to having a heart problem. But it’s awful hard to look at that blockage and tell a cardiologist not to do something. But in fact all the evidence for angioplasty and heart surgery is that they help people who have chest pain, and the degree to which they help people with no symptoms at all is very, very limited, and it may not help at all. This cascade can happen quickly.”
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