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Shift Workers Are At Increased Risk for Heart Disease

Posted by Healthyou, Consumer Health Educator on Tuesday, August 14, 2012, In : heart disease

A recent study found shift workers were at increased risk for strokes, heart attacks and coronary disease.

The study involved 2 million participants from 34 studies.

The researchers defined a shift worker as anyone who does not hold a traditional day time job, for example:
people who work the evening shift, the night shift, rotating shifts and on calls.

They found that shift workers had a:

23 % increased risk for a heart attack
24 % for coronary disease
5% for stroke

Working the night...
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Diabetes-Significant Role In Premature Deaths

Posted by Healthyou, Consumer Health Educator on Friday, February 10, 2012, In : research report

Diabetes is a major non-communicable disease and is on the rise globally, 346 million people worldwide have the disease. Eighty percent of these people occur in low and miiddle income countries.

The World Health Organization (WH0) projects that the number of deaths due to diabetes will double between 2005 and 2030.

Fifty percent of people with diabetes will die of cardiovascular disease, this makes diabetes a significant cause of deaths form heart disease or stroke.

In a recent study, researche...
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