Hypertension, or high blood pressure, affects almost half of all people in the U.S. and can lead to serious health issues, including heart attack, stroke and kidney problems. Monitoring your blood pressure levels regularly is a key part of managing it, and the American Heart Association (AHA), with support from Elevance Health Foundation, is working… Continue reading Equalizing Health Care
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Racial Inequity in Epilepsy Care
Among people with epilepsy, Black, Latino and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander people are less likely to be prescribed newer drugs than white people, which can be a marker of the quality of care, according to a study published in the January 11, 2023, online issue of Neurology® Clinical Practice, an official journal of… Continue reading Racial Inequity in Epilepsy Care
Organ Transplant Patients Have Increased Skin Cancer Risk
While anyone can develop skin cancer, regardless of age, race or gender, certain groups of people have a higher risk of getting the disease than others. Because organ transplant patients must take medication to suppress their immune system, they are among those with an increased risk — and the skin cancers that develop in these… Continue reading Organ Transplant Patients Have Increased Skin Cancer Risk
How to Fight Prediabetes and Win
Editor’s note: Diabetes is one of the most significant health problems today; according the American Diabetes Association, 9.3 percent of the population has this serious illness, and the rate among people 65 and older is 25.9 percent. But if you are diagnosed with prediabetes, you can work to postpone the onset of diabetes and, in… Continue reading How to Fight Prediabetes and Win