Lung Disease And Flying

Rusty, ya spamming Canuck Dickwadd
Get out of your mom's basement, go into Rehab so you
won't be an eternal drain on the Canadian economy, but
don't come to the U.S. or you will have to register as a
sexual predator with a proven mental deficiency.

For your sake, and your mother's as well, you need to
get help with your copraphagic impulses. Let the neighbors
throw their kid's diapers away without having to see you
rummaging through their garbage bags. And your feces-
breath may be keeping those job interviews from being
productive.

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Your arteries on Wonder bread
Published: Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 13:08 in Health & Medicine


AFTAU
Doctors have known for decades that foods like white bread and corn
flakes aren't good for cardiac health. In a landmark study, new
research from Tel Aviv University now shows exactly how these high
carb foods increase the risk for heart problems. "Looking inside" the
arteries of students eating a variety of foods, Dr. Michael Shechter
of Tel Aviv University's Sackler School of Medicine and the Heart
Institute of Sheba Medical Center -- with collaboration of the
Endocrinology Institute -- visualized exactly what happens inside the
body when the wrong foods for a healthy heart are eaten. He found
that
foods with a high glycemic index distended brachial arteries for
several hours.


Elasticity of arteries anywhere in the body can be a measure of heart
health. But when aggravated over time, a sudden expansion of the
artery wall can cause a number of negative health effects, including
reduced elasticity, which can cause heart disease or sudden death.


Using a clinical and research technique pioneered by his laboratory
in
Israel, Dr. Shechter was able to visualize what happens inside our
arteries before, during and after eating high carb foods. It is a
first in medical history. The results were published in the Journal
of
the American College of Cardiology.
Time to skip the wedding cake?


"It's very hard to predict heart disease," says Dr. Shechter, a
fellow
of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart
Association. "But doctors know that high glycemic foods rapidly
increase blood sugar. Those who binge on these foods have a greater
chance of sudden death from heart attack. Our research connects the
dots, showing the link between diet and what's happening in real time
in the arteries."


Like the uncomfortable medical warnings on packets of cigarettes,
this
new research could lead to a whole new way to show patients the
effects of a poor diet on our body.


Using 56 healthy volunteers, the researchers looked at four groups.
One group ate a cornflake mush mixed with milk, a second a pure sugar
mixture, the third bran flakes, while the last group was given a
placebo (water). Over four weeks, Dr. Shechter applied his method of
"brachial reactive testing" to each group. The test uses a cuff on
the
arm, like those used to measure blood pressure, which can visualize
arterial function in real time.


The results were dramatic. Before any of the patients ate, arterial
function was essentially the same. After eating, except for the
placebo group, all had reduced functioning.
All roads lead to the endothelium


Enormous peaks indicating arterial stress were found in the high
glycemic index groups: the cornflakes and sugar group. "We knew high
glycemic foods were bad for the heart. Now we have a mechanism that
shows how," says Dr. Shechter. "Foods like cornflakes, white bread,
french fries, and sweetened soda all put undue stress on our
arteries.
We've explained for the first time how high glycemic carbs can affect
the progression of heart disease." During the consumption of foods
high in sugar, there appears to be a temporary and sudden dysfunction
in the endothelial walls of the arteries.


Endothelial health can be traced back to almost every disorder and
disease in the body. It is "the riskiest of the risk factors," says
Dr. Shechter, who practices at the Chaim Sheba Medical Center -- Tel
Hashomer Hospital. There he offers a treatment that can show patients
-- in real time -- if they have a high risk for heart attacks.
"Medical
tourists" from America regularly visit to take the heart test.


The take-away message? Dr. Shechter says to stick to foods like
oatmeal, fruits and vegetables, legumes and nuts, which have a low
glycemic index. Exercising every day for at least 30 minutes, he
adds,
is an extra heart-smart action to take.


Source: American Friends of Tel Aviv University


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"Pre-Flight Testing Urged for All Travelers With Restrictive Lung
Disease"


Would this BE because of their PREdisposal to too many red blood
cells / polycythemia ?
Lung disease is accompanied by erythrocytosis / polycythemia /
increased red blood cells.
The lung disease induced blood cell production is NOW increased even
more / red blood cell production / low cabin pressure .. leads to
increased chance of .. death / stroke .. ?


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Pre-Flight Testing Urged for All Travelers With Restrictive Lung
Disease


(Reuters Health) Jun 24 - All patients with severe extrapulmonary
restrictive lung disease should undergo a hypoxic challenge test
prior
to air travel, according to a report in the June issue of Thorax.


The authors of the paper, led by Dr. M. W. Elliott from St. James's
University Hospital, Leeds, UK, note that according to British
Thoracic Society guidelines, travelers with respiratory disease do
not
need to be assessed for a need for supplemental in-flight oxygen if
their resting oxygen saturation is greater than 95%. These
guidelines,
the authors say, are based "on anecdotal evidence and little data."


To assess the appropriateness of the British guidelines, the
researchers administered hypoxic challenge tests to 19 adults with
kyphoscoliosis or neuromuscular disease, all of whom were at risk for
nocturnal hypoventilation and 15 of whom used home ventilators while
sleeping.


All subjects completed the challenge with no adverse effects,
although
testing was aborted in 5 patients when oxygen saturation fell below
85%. Three of these 5 had resting oxygen saturation levels above 95%.


Based on the results of the hypoxic challenge tests, supplemental in-
flight oxygen would be recommended for 50% of the patients with
resting oxygen saturation above 95% (who would not be deemed by the
British Thoracic Society guidelines to require in-flight oxygen) and
71% of patients with borderline baseline oxygen saturation (92-95%).


Only 4 of the 19 patients in this study would definitely not require
in-flight oxygen based on the test result, the researchers note.


There was no consistent relationship between the change in partial
pressure of arterial oxygen (PaO2) and the change in partial pressure
of arterial carbon dioxide (PaCO2) during hypoxic challenge, the
investigators say.


"This finding suggests that all patients with severe extrapulmonary
restrictive lung disease should undergo assessment with hypoxic
challenge test prior to air travel," the authors conclude. "The study
confirms that even patients with a resting saturation of 95% can
desaturate significantly during hypoxic challenge."


"A decision as to whether it is safe for a patient to fly should be
made by an experienced clinician...based on a number of factors,
which
should include previous travel experience, the patient's overall
condition, and the results of a hypoxic challenge test," they add.


Thorax 2009;64:532-534.
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Who loves ya.
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Jesus Was A Vegetarian!
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Man Is A Herbivore!
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DEAD PEOPLE WALKING
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