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When people lie, the facial blood flow on the cheeks decreases, and the facial blood flow on the nose increases.
And we found in our pre-clinical work that you can implant these scaffolds into the body, and the body will send in cells and a blood supply and actually keep these things alive.
This image reminds me of two things: our blood vessels and the structure and organization of our nerves and spinal cord.
Pancreatic cancer tumors have very few blood vessels.
Why should we care about the blood vessel of a tumor?
Numerous medications, including those for asthma, high blood pressure, birth control, and depression can also have unintended effects on the LES.
There's a lot of talk about high blood pressure in the barbershop.
That means that almost every single black man either has high blood pressure or knows a black man who has it.
Sometimes, those conversations in the barbershop would be about what happens when high blood pressure is not adequately addressed.
More black men die from high blood pressure than from anything else, even though decades of medical wisdom and science have demonstrated that death from high blood pressure can be prevented with timely diagnosis and appropriate treatment.
So why is high blood pressure so differentially deadly for black men?
Because too often, high blood pressure is either untreated or under-treated in black men, in part because of our lower engagement with the primary healthcare system.
Black men, in particular those with high blood pressure, are less likely to have a primary care doctor than other groups.
You can feel just fine while high blood pressure ravages your most vital organs.
With this kind of activism, and community investment that typifies the black barbershop, of course the barbershop is a perfect place to talk about high blood pressure and other health concerns in the community.
Second, because the barbershop is a place of connection, loyalty and trust, it's a place where you're more open to have a conversation about health and especially about high blood pressure.
After all, conversations about high blood pressure have all the elements of great shop talk: stress and high blood pressure, food and high blood pressure, relationships and high blood pressure, and yes, what it's like to be a black man in America and high blood pressure.
But you can do more than just talk about high blood pressure in the barbershop.
When high blood pressure screening expanded from clinics and hospitals to communities in the 1960s and '70s, black physicians like Dr. Eli Saunders in Baltimore and Dr. Keith Ferdinand in New Orleans were at the forefront of bringing health promotion to community hubs in urban black neighborhoods.
We teamed up with an amazing cadre of black barbers and taught them how to measure blood pressure and how to counsel their customers and refer them to doctors to help manage high blood pressure.
Over a three-year period, the barbers measured thousands of blood pressures resulting in hundreds of black men being referred to doctors for medical care of their high blood pressure.
These barber-doctor partnerships resulted in a 20 percent increase in the number of men who were able to achieve target blood pressure levels and a three-point drop, on average, in the blood pressure of each participant.
If we were to extrapolate that three point drop to every single black man with high blood pressure in America, we would prevent 800 heart attacks, 500 strokes and 900 deaths from high blood pressure in just one year.
And we've offered high blood pressure screening and counseling to each and every one of them.
Thanks to Denny Moe and the myriad other barbers and community leaders who shared the vision of opportunity and empowerment to make a difference in their communities, we've been able to not only lower blood pressure in our participants, but we've also been able to impact other health indicators.
But one thing sets the phantoms that appear after amputation apart from their flesh and blood predecessors: the vast majority of them are painful.
When you eat healthier, manage stress, exercise and love more, your brain actually gets more blood flow and more oxygen.
Your skin gets more blood flow when you change your lifestyle, so you age less quickly.
Your heart gets more blood flow.
And the cardiac PET scan shown on the lower left, the blue means no blood flow.
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