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Health & Fitness tips
| One million don’t know they have diabetes
An estimated 2.8 million people in Britain have diabetes, but more than a third of them do not know they have the disease, according to the Diabetes UK charity. the disease afflicts three per cent of the British population, but it is estimated that many more may be suffering minor symptoms of diabetes, such as excessive thirst and hunger, unusual weight loss and increased fatigue, but have yet to be diagnosed. |
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It’s official - traffic jams are bad for your heart
Traffic jams are not only bad for your mood - they may actually kill! A German study has found that people caught in traffic are three times more likely to have a heart attack within the hour than those who are not stuck in a jam. The researchers, who studied hundreds of heart attacks, concluded nearly one in 12 was linked to traffic. Women and the over-60s were found to be particularly at risk. |
...bad for the heart. |
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Doctors are more accurate... | Blood-loss test aids recovery
A simple system that checks how much blood a patient loses during surgery can speed up recovery, according to details of NHS trials published in the journal ‘Anaesthesia’. Surgical teams using the device were better able to predict how much fluid to give the patient, preventing post-op problems.
A probe inserted into the gullet measures waves of ultrasound bounced off blood cells flowing through the body’s main artery, the aorta. This gives the doctors performing an operation an idea of how much blood is being pumped around the patient’s body by the heart, how much blood the patient has lost and how much fluid needs to be replaced. |
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