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These people are particularly vulnerable to non-communicable diseases like heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.
If we stroke our left palm with our right hand the sensation is minimal.
In fact, we have found precisely that: patients with delusions of control report that the sensations that occur when they stroke their own palm are just as intense as the sensations caused when someone else strokes their palm.
The government issued no a formal statement about Zadari’s health, but his supporters disclosed that he had suffered a mild stroke, which left him unconscious for several minutes.
Indeed, North Korea has become increasingly bold and impetuous ever since Kim became ill (probably from a stroke) in August 2008.
Beyond heart disease, that extra weight raises the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, and more.
We understand that abnormally high blood pressure puts us at greater risk of heart attacks and stroke.
And those who know they have high blood pressure may not know that it is linked to stroke and other cardiovascular diseases.
Hospital wards are filled with dozens of debilitated or dying young adults – working-age people who are responsible for families – suffering the effects of stroke or other complications of hypertension.
Since suffering a stroke last year, Bouteflika has barely appeared in public, whether to campaign ahead of the vote or to acknowledge his victory after it.
In one stroke, Putin has jeopardized his considerable accomplishments.
Most Chinese doctors and patients have, for example, long regarded acupuncture as an effective treatment for stroke, using it to improve motor, speech, and other functions that have been destroyed.
One survey showed that 66% of Chinese doctors use acupuncture routinely to treat the effects of stroke, with 63% of the doctors surveyed believing it to be effective.
Almost all trials on acupuncture as a treatment for stroke conducted within China have been positive.
But another recent study done in the UK showed that research conducted in several countries was uniformly favorable to acupuncture as a treatment for the damage caused by stroke.
Acupuncture started within 30 days of stroke onset, with control groups receiving a placebo – sham acupuncture – or no treatment.
Indeed, another analysis, including 14 randomized trials with 1,213 patients six months after a stroke, compared the effects of conventional stroke rehabilitation with and without acupuncture as a supplement.
Indeed, the efficacy of acupuncture without stroke rehabilitation remains uncertain, mainly because of the poor quality of such studies—a problem that has affected most of trials undertaken so far.
This difficulty makes random studies of the effects of acupuncture treatment on stroke patients particularly difficult in a traditional Chinese medicine hospital.
More fundamentally, however, Chinese doctors who use traditional medicine argue that outcome measures of acupuncture as a treatment for stroke should be different from conventional measures used in Western trials, because the theory of acupuncture is different.
A recent study conducted in China, including 862 patients who were between the second and tenth day after onset of acute stroke, is the largest truly randomized trial using death or dependency as the primary outcome.
The results will be reported after analysis of the trial data and could prove useful for therapy of stroke patients.
At present, however, there is insufficient evidence for routine use of acupuncture in stroke.
Particularly at a time when standard rehabilitation is not available for most Chinese stroke patients, few will wait to try acupuncture until its role is confirmed or refuted by reliable evidence.
A person who is obese, with high blood pressure and high levels of cholesterol, is statistically far more likely to have a serious heart attack or stroke than a person who exhibits none of these vulnerabilities.
At a single stroke, Buffett has given purpose to his life.
If Xi’s efforts to root out corruption in the PLA can accomplish these three objectives, one must grudgingly admit that it will be a stroke of political genius.
But stress is worrisome precisely because even misinterpretations can add to, or result in, a wide variety of health problems, including heart disease, stroke, cancer, musculoskeletal and gastrointestinal diseases, anxiety and depression, accidents, and suicides.
The downside is increased risk for stroke and myocardial infarction.
It may seem innocuous, but consuming too much salt can lead to hypertension or high blood pressure, and greatly increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke.
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