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For example, using this technology, we can help this mathematics teacher to identify the student in his classroom who may experience high anxiety about the topic he's teaching so that he can help him.
They will reach healthy organs, resulting in high toxic effect for the patients overall, but very little will go to the tumor.
And we did so by analyzing the recorded speech of 34 young people who were at a high risk of developing schizophrenia.
The LES contracts, squeezing the stomach entrance and creating a high pressure zone that prevents digestive acids from seeping out.
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.
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.
I was 17, just graduated from high school that past summer, living in the back room of my parents' house paying rent, in the small town I was raised in in Northern Indiana, called Mishawaka.
I was serious enough about acting that I auditioned for Juilliard when I was a senior in high school, didn't get in, determined college wasn't for me and applied nowhere else, which was a genius move.
(Drum beat) And if you look up high enough, you can see me standing on the edge of an 87-story building.
If you look up high enough, you could see me.
To start with, you have to understand that to get views like this, most of my time is spent up high, and I'm usually in a cherry picker or a crane.
And the first thing my mom asks me is, "How can we buy these?" (Laughter) And obviously, my salary is not that high, so I was like, "We can't actually do that, mom.
And only one quarter of children complete high school because they lack school fees.
College is the new high school, we already say that.
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