Tuesday 20 December 2016

[www.keralites.net] Could this £5 blood test predict a heart attack 15 years early?

 

Could this £5 blood test predict a heart attack 15 years early? Scientists say it could help doctors spot high-risk patients

PUBLISHED: 19:00 GMT, 19 December 2016 | UPDATED: 08:35 GMT, 20 December 2016

  • When heart muscle is damaged it leaks a protein called troponin into the blood 

  • Testing for this protein can be used to detect the early signs of damage early

  • The simple test would take just 30 minutes to deliver a result straight to doctors

  • It would identify people who would benefit from cholesterol-busting statins

  • It can also assess how well statins are working - and help find another treatment

  • The £5 test, which takes just 30 minutes to deliver a result, could help doctors spot patients who would benefit from treatment that could save their life

Some 188,000 people have heart attacks in Britain each year, and nearly 70,000 die as a result.

Many of these cases are avoidable, with lifestyle factors - particularly drinking, smoking, diet and exercise - having an impact on roughly 85 per cent of cases.

Yet people tend not to take action until they start to suffer warning signs.



A blood test that detects troponin is already used in hospitals to quickly diagnose whether someone has had a heart attack.

But the new study, led by the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, suggests it the troponin test can also be used to detect the early signs of damage years before someone actually has an attack.


In a trial of 3,000 men with high cholesterol but no history of heart disease, the team found high troponin levels accurately predicted the risk of a person suffering a heart attack up to 15 years later.

Those who tested positive for high troponin levels were 2.3 times more likely to have a heart attack, the researchers found.

But the results, published last night in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, also reinforced the use of statins as a treatment for heart disease.




Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4049012/Could-5-blood-test-predict-heart-attack-15-years-early-Scientists-say-help-doctors-spot-high-risk-patients.html#ixzz4TRCcGiWi 
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[www.keralites.net] Quirky Food Facts You Didn't Know About!

 

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[www.keralites.net] There is a scientific way to win an argument!

 

 

TOI Brings you a weekly pick of stimulating ideas and options that have appeared in other media, online & Offline!

There's a scientific way to win an argument!



 



 

It is never easy to get an ideological opponent to yield to your point of view, but science can enable a miracle. First, don't start off drumming the same old points the other side has rejected many times over. Instead, couch your ideas in imagery that the other side finds acceptable. Secondly, play on your opponent's morals. But most important of all, give your opponent a patient hearing.They will be more pliant if they feel they have been heard.

For more: Vox

NO CELLPHONES, TV IN AMERICA'S QUIETEST TOWN

Green Bank in West Virginia, USA, is a place unlike anywhere else in the world.

Its 150-odd residents live with tight restrictions on mobile signals and Wi-Fi to allow the Green Bank Observatory that houses the colossal Green Bank Telescope to listen for signs of extraterrestrial life without disturbance. Nobody resents the absence of TV and phone signals. In fact, the tiny town has become a haven for those who feel they are allergic to electronic interference.

For more: BBC

HOW THE SUPER-RICH HIDE AWAY THEIR MILLIONS

When a millionaire's wife started making enquiries about his wealth on the eve of their divorce, she Getty Images stumbled upon an almost impenetrable array of shell companies, bank accounts and trusts, part of a worldwide financial system catering exclusively to the very wealthy. In recent decades, this system created by lawyers, accountants and private bankers has become astonishingly effective at hiding assets through complex layers of ownership and legal planning in offshore destinations.

For more: The New York Times

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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[www.keralites.net] Thought Is Energy!

 

Thought Is Energy!

 

Energy can not be stocked or blocked. If you do something to prevent your energy from flowing, it will find another way to express itself. If you do not follow your own energy, energy will express itself in sickness, tiredness, depression, skin diseases, temper tantrums, aggressiveness and other not so pleasant things.

So why not follow the road where your energy takes you? This is your road, your way!

 

As long as you try to be somebody else to please your parents, peers, husband, wife, boss, children, neighbors or whatever, your energy will be stuck.

 

You become yourself. That is freedom : to be yourself.

 

See the world like a big wardrobe. Everybody has his own costume. There is only one that fits you perfectly. As long as you try to be someone else, you are walking around with a costume that is either too small or too big for you. You feel uncomfortable in it. That means you are not at the right place doing the right thing with the right people!

 

How can you know if you are at the right place, doing the right thing with the right people?

 

There is a very simple criterion to find out : the questions comes in your mind! You can feel it : you feel good, everything is "right", your talents are asked for and you have the greatest pleasure to offer them to the those around you.

 

As long as you torture yourself with all these questions, it means you still didn't find your right spot on earth. You are doing an activity that somebody else should be doing. And your "job" is getting done by someone else who is not at his right place either! You see? if everyone is at his right place doing the thing he knows the best, everyone would be at peace, filled with energy and health, and everyone would live in wealth.

Go searching for your right place.

 

The moment you stop being harassed by so many questions and you feel your energy flowing in your veins, you know this is it! You are on your road, your road to freedom.

 

This is freedom!

 

 


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[www.keralites.net] Group dynamics!

 

Group dynamics - The Abilene Paradox

 

The Abilene Paradox

 

On my birthday, I wanted to take my family out for dinner. I asked my wife where we can go. Knowing that I like Indian food, she immediately said: "Let's go to Rajdhani - The Thali Restaurant."

My son and daughter both nodded in agreement. On return my son said: "I wish Pappa had taken us to Mainland China – he loves Chinese food." "Or at least to Copper Chimney for the wonderful Punjabi food" added my daughter. "Yes, I too would have loved to go Mainland China", I said.

My wife looked surprised: "But didn't we all unanimously agree to go to Rajdhani" she asked.

I said sheepishly "I didn't want you to feel bad." And both my children nodded in agreement.

Here were four people who of their own volition would not have gone to 'Rajdhani - The Thali Restaurant', but collectively agreed to go there.

This is the Abilene Paradox.

Prof. Jerry Harvey calls it "The Inability to Manage Agreement".

Abilene Paradox occurs when a group of people collectively decide on a course of action that is contrary to the preferences of many of the individuals in the group.

Prof. Harvey explains, organisations frequently take actions in contradiction to what they really want to do and therefore defeat the very purpose they are trying to achieve".

The inability to manage agreement, not the inability to manage conflict, is the essential symptom that defines organisations caught in the web of the Abilene Paradox.

When the top boss throws an idea, the group immediately agrees. This is because everyone in the group thinks he would look stupid if he disagrees.  Standing out as a lone voice is very embarrassing and also requires a lion's heart to stand alone which isn't very. Rather, this leads the group to decide on 'yes' when 'no' would have been the personal (and the correct) response of the majority.

Ayn Rand on this paradox:

"If we have an endless number of individual minds who are weak, meek, submissive and impotent – who renounce their creative supremacy for the sake of the "whole" and accept humbly the 'whole's verdict' – we don't get a collective super-brain. We get only the weak, meek, submissive and impotent collective mind."

 

 


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[www.keralites.net] Woman of 50kgs!

 

How to bring 500 kilograms woman to Mumbai for operation

Mumbai Mirror

Highlights

·  Eman Ahmed, 36, has been bedridden for over two decades now.

·  Egypt's Eman Ahmed, said to be world's heaviest woman, 

·  is struggling to find a plane willing to ferry her to Mumbai.

·  No airline has so far agreed to charter a plane for her.

Eman Ahmed, 36, has been bedridden for over two decades now

Eman Ahmed, 36, has been bedridden for over two decades nowIt has been 25 years that Eman Ahmed, an Egyptian national who weighs 500 kilograms, has been unable to step out of her home in Cairo.


And now that External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has stepped in to ensure that the 36-year-old gets medical visa to come to Mumbai for a weight-loss surgery, bringing her to the city is proving to be a mighty challenge.

 

There are no direct flights to Cairo; private carriers have thrown up their hands; and no airline has so far agreed to charter a plane for her; in any case, it will likely have to be modified for the flight. 

 

Jet Airways rules, for instance, put up on its website, say its stretchers are capable of carrying patients weighing less than 136 kilos. "Guests weighing more than 136 kgs will be unable to avail of the stretcher service while travelling on our flights," it reads. 

 

The national carrier, meanwhile, does not have any guidelines on the weight limit of fliers, but experts anticipate some hurdles in finding a plane to ferry Ahmed. AI chairman and managing director Ashwani Lohani said if a formal request for a plane is made, they will consider it.
 

"Air India does not fly to Africa at the moment. 


The nearest airport is Frankfurt in Germany. 


But we'll be happy to explore the feasibility of flying Ahmed," she told Mirror.

 

The carrier's website stresses on completion of paperwork to avail of

a stretcher for patients, but makes no mention of weight restrictions on medical tourists. "A pro forma duly filled along with signature of the passenger/next of kin/escort and of the attending physician, is required to be submitted. One able-bodied adult escort must accompany the stretcher. Carriage of a stretcher passenger is upon advance arrangement and subject to availability of space," its website says. 

 

Dr Muffazal Lakdawala, attached to Saifee hospital where Ahmed's bariatric surgery is scheduled, told Mirror that they have approached several air ambulances but their requests haven't elicited a positive response. 

 

"Now we are trying to speak to private airlines," he said.

 

He said that Eman's family cannot afford a chartered flight to Mumbai.

"We are trying to generate the funds needed to airlift her. 

 

The rest we can manage. I have promised her free surgery, which is slated to be performed at Saifee hospital. We will waive all the expenses including the hospital stay," he said.

 

Eman will have to spend at least three months in hospital after the surgery.

 

As for the medical equipment, Dr Lakdawala said they have arranged for a 450-kg operation table "on which I think we can operate her".  The rest of the equipment has been arranged, he said. 

 

It was Dr Lakdawala who on Monday tweeted about Ahmed's condition after an "emotional mail" he received which said every doctor she had approached denied her treatment. After the tweet, Minister Swaraj, herself hospitalised at AIIMS in Delhi for a kidney ailment, assured her help+ . 

 

"Right now the main challenge is to bring her in Mumbai," said Dr Lakdawala, who has started an online campaign called 'Save Eman' to generate funds for her transport and treatment. 

 

Eman Ahmed's obesity, which has confined her to bed since she was 11, has over the years spawned a clutch of associated ailments like diabetes, asthma, hypertension, pulmonary problem, depression and more. Her surgery is therefore riddled with complications, to say the least. 

 

Ahmed's sister Chaymaa Abdulati takes care of her daily needs.


It was she who got in touch with Dr Lakdawala about the possibility of treatment back in October. Abdulati told Mirror: "Eman had to drop out of primary school after suffering a cerebral stroke, which left her bedridden.

 

I perform her everyday tasks for her like changing, washing and feeding her."

 

 


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