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this goes to show you disease is no respector of persons. It needs to be addressed in this country and just think of the ones who are walking around and dont even know they have it or cant get treatment. Here we are the greatest country in the world and we dont die from war we are dying from disease . What does that tell you? This is the number one leading killer in the USA and that worries me. We all have younger loved ones who are coming up in this world and just what are they going to be fighting??
So funny... Next to Northern Virginia, the area in which Will and I live is THE ARMPIT of North America!
Seriously, man, you don't want to live here in August.
Seriously, man, you don't want to live here in August.
..wow you guys down there are hard to please..here it is when the temp. goes above freezing !
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and down here it is when the temps stay below 90. Want to swap houses this summer?? :)
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and down here it is when the temps stay below 90. Want to swap houses this summer?? :)
Actually, new studies do point to Hep C as contributing to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease:
http://www.hepatitis-central.com/mt/archives/2010/02/hepatitis_c_is.html
One paragraph from the article:
"Even though the traditional heart health indicators of blood pressure, plasma cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and triglycerides favored the Hepatitis C patients, the researchers found that having Hepatitis C was associated with an approximately 25 percent higher risk of coronary artery disease. The researchers suggested that this elevated cardiovascular risk could be due to increased inflammation, immune activation and blood clotting in people with Hepatitis C."
And another article:
http://www.webmd.com/hepatitis/news/20020111/hepatitis-c-bad-for-heart
"People with hepatitis C infection risk heart disease, a Japanese study suggests.
Many different kinds of infections seem to increase the risk of heart disease. Why this happens isn't clear. The whole issue is still controversial.
University of Tokyo researcher Nobukazu Ishizaka, MD, and co-workers looked at the general health screening tests from 4,784 people. Blood tests showed that 104 of these people carried the hepatitis C virus (HCV).
Ultrasound tests showed that these HCV-infected people were twice as likely to have clogged heart arteries as uninfected people who otherwise had that same risk of heart disease. Even more alarming was the finding that these people with HCV infection were nearly three times more likely to have thickening of the wall of the carotid artery -- a known risk factor for heart disease."
(Go to links to view entire articles.)
http://www.hepatitis-central.com/mt/archives/2010/02/hepatitis_c_is.html
One paragraph from the article:
"Even though the traditional heart health indicators of blood pressure, plasma cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and triglycerides favored the Hepatitis C patients, the researchers found that having Hepatitis C was associated with an approximately 25 percent higher risk of coronary artery disease. The researchers suggested that this elevated cardiovascular risk could be due to increased inflammation, immune activation and blood clotting in people with Hepatitis C."
And another article:
http://www.webmd.com/hepatitis/news/20020111/hepatitis-c-bad-for-heart
"People with hepatitis C infection risk heart disease, a Japanese study suggests.
Many different kinds of infections seem to increase the risk of heart disease. Why this happens isn't clear. The whole issue is still controversial.
University of Tokyo researcher Nobukazu Ishizaka, MD, and co-workers looked at the general health screening tests from 4,784 people. Blood tests showed that 104 of these people carried the hepatitis C virus (HCV).
Ultrasound tests showed that these HCV-infected people were twice as likely to have clogged heart arteries as uninfected people who otherwise had that same risk of heart disease. Even more alarming was the finding that these people with HCV infection were nearly three times more likely to have thickening of the wall of the carotid artery -- a known risk factor for heart disease."
(Go to links to view entire articles.)
Puppies ,love and money...
..wow you guys down there are hard to please..here it is when the temp. goes above freezing !
..wow you guys down there are hard to please..here it is when the temp. goes above freezing !
Does anybody know what is the number one thing in the country that makes us live longer and happier ? ...lol
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Good post james totally on point. I dont think I'll get Alzheimers or Parkinsons because I have liver damage, thank God those diseases are horrible enough.
I'd rather have HCV then 99.9% of the things on that list. I am so glad they aren't related.
HCV has a cure unlike many of the others.
I'd rather have HCV then 99.9% of the things on that list. I am so glad they aren't related.
HCV has a cure unlike many of the others.
To answer the question in your second post. NO! Heart disease, and brain cancer, heart disease, and Parkinson's are NOT complications from Hep C.
Why in the world would anyone think that?
Why in the world would anyone think that?
lol....good one will.
What's the number killer disease all diseases. Well ya people die from cancer heart disease ....ect.
"here we are the greatest county and we don't die from war we die from disease" I would think war is a bit easier to avoid than cancer. Does that mean if we truely were a great country we would die in war and not from disease?
What's the number killer disease all diseases. Well ya people die from cancer heart disease ....ect.
"here we are the greatest county and we don't die from war we die from disease" I would think war is a bit easier to avoid than cancer. Does that mean if we truely were a great country we would die in war and not from disease?
Good posts both of you. And I agree these days America is hardly the number one country in the world and two heart disease is the number one killer.
But then again we've seen this topic bandied about for the past many years.........let's get a celebrity on board! let's start a petition'! let's write Dr Oz and Oprah! These newbies just haven't been around long enough to really get it yet.
But then again we've seen this topic bandied about for the past many years.........let's get a celebrity on board! let's start a petition'! let's write Dr Oz and Oprah! These newbies just haven't been around long enough to really get it yet.
Aside from the fact that this post really doesn't belong on the medical side of MH it is also clearly inaccurate. Hep C/liver disease is nowhere close to being the number 1 cause of death in the US - liver disease is number 12 on the CDC list.
The 15 leading causes of death in 2010 (Table B) were as follows:
1 Diseases of heart
2 Malignant neoplasms
3 Chronic lower respiratory diseases
4 Cerebrovascular diseases
5 Accidents (unintentional injuries)
6 Alzheimer’s disease
7 Diabetes mellitus
8 Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis
9 Influenza and pneumonia
10 Intentional self-harm (suicide)
11 Septicemia
12 Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis
13 Essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disease
14 Parkinson’s disease
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_04.pdf
The 15 leading causes of death in 2010 (Table B) were as follows:
1 Diseases of heart
2 Malignant neoplasms
3 Chronic lower respiratory diseases
4 Cerebrovascular diseases
5 Accidents (unintentional injuries)
6 Alzheimer’s disease
7 Diabetes mellitus
8 Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis
9 Influenza and pneumonia
10 Intentional self-harm (suicide)
11 Septicemia
12 Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis
13 Essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disease
14 Parkinson’s disease
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_04.pdf
Here we are the greatest country in the world
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Nice to see another Canadian here...:0)
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Nice to see another Canadian here...:0)
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