Santo Domingo. – Arterial hypertension afflicts a surprising 41 percent of the more than 5,000 people who took part in a study, which also found a striking similarity in the epidemiologic behavior of the affiliates of the state health risk administrators in the Subsidized and Contributing systems, regarding that ailment and diabetes.
The study by the Dominican Cardiology Institute and the societies of Cardiology and Endocrinology and sponsored by the National Health Insurance (SeNaSa) found that of the affiliates with arterial hypertension 38.7 percent are men and 32.8% are women. The study was conducted in the National District and the South, East and Cibao regions.
SeNaSa director Altagracia Guzmán said the state health risk administrator agreed to fund the research more than one year ago, to detect the main pathologies which afflict its affiliates, locate them and provide preventive treatment, which she affirms constitutes the best way to prevent their situation from deteriorating and becoming high cost patients.
Written by: Atabey, 1 Feb 2012 9:35 AM
From: United States, NYC
Less frying, more fruits and veggies, less drinking sugar laced soft-drinks and alcohol along with some exercise, the cheap variety-walking a few miles a day-might just bring this problem down to decent levels.
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
yes ..they are the obvious ways you can combat hypertension but maybe the high blood pressure is not caused by food but the environment in which some people live.
You can have the best diet in the world but have very high blood pressure caused by nervous tension caused by the continual high noise levels of neighbours, by the constant fear of being mugged or being in an accident in a gua gua with no doors or having peopletrying to break into your home or the constant fear of how you are going to feed your children ,,All those things can cause hyper tension ...and people with this type of hypertension neeed medical assistance
Written by: Atabey, 1 Feb 2012 11:11 AM
From: United States, NYC
There are genetic reasons-predispositions- for the count, but I stand by a healthier diet, less smoking, more FREE walking exercise and, I forgot to mention, having some positive motivating idea or theme to strive for in life. The mental aspect of the disease is sometimes overlooked.
From: United States
Written by: Ricardolito, 1 Feb 2012 10:32 AM
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
yes ..they are the obvious ways you can combat hypertension but maybe the high blood pressure is not caused by food but the environment in which some people live.
Ricardolito, you are 100% right. i had to quit working at one point in my life, because my blood pressure was at life threatening levels. i came to the DR, took a short vacation, and returned to NYC with the levels of a healthy adolescent. within 2 weeks, i almost died from excessievly high pressure. my doctors told me that no amount of medication could fix me, but that i had to get away from the environment. i did, and now i am at enviable numbers.
Written by: RoyStone, 1 Feb 2012 11:22 AM
From: Australia
#1 Lifestyle
#2 Genes
Written by: RonEvane, 1 Feb 2012 11:23 AM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
{" – Arterial hypertension afflicts a surprising 41 percent of the more than 5,000 people who took part in a study, "}
That's a bunch of BS. Common sense will tell you that 5k people does not represent the entire DR population. When considering that 40% is under the age of 25, makes it unlikely they have it.
Did this "study" include people living in campos? It doesn't say. Big city residents generally live under greater stress, hence more prone to it.
We're not told what age group or social strata were tested, hence:.. Pongale esa enema a otros estupidos, como ustedes son, y chequeense la prostata, los unos a los otros!
Written by: Atabey, 1 Feb 2012 11:30 AM
From: United States, NYC
EL cabrón calumniator DREADY HABLA.
WHERE'S THE EVIDENCE?
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
Dreads I also suffer from blood pressure problems but not badly ,,,There is a great medication called Micardis ..I take one Micardis 40 every morning but in the DR you have to buy Micardis 80 and break the tablet in half .
Roy not correct but partially correct ...I am the first in my family to have an elevated blood pressure and I have a good lifestyle ..but a changed one may slightly help
From: United States
Atabey, thou doth protest too much. that suggests that you are trying to cover something up. funny, when i mentioned the same thing in November, you ignored it. now, because someone asked you about it, you have gone ballistic. save yourself the trouble of asking me to reveal the identity of the people who gave me the heads up.that will never happen. so, go burst a blood vessel. see if i care
Written by: Atabey, 1 Feb 2012 11:41 AM
From: United States, NYC
calumniator
PROVIDE YOUR EVIDENCE CABRON!
Written by: Atabey, 1 Feb 2012 11:43 AM
From: United States, NYC
Ron,
Be careful. According to several studies, RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access
© 2010 Acosta et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article
The Prevalence and social patterning of chronic diseases among older people in a population
undergoing health transition. A 10/66 Group cross-sectional population-based survey in the
Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic. Results: The most prevalent diagnoses were hypertension (73.0%), anaemia (35.0%), diabetes (17.5%), depression (13.8%) and dementia (11.7%), with 39.6% meeting criteria for metabolic syndrome. After direct standardization (for age and sex) the prevalences of stroke (standardized morbidity ratio [SMR] 100) and hypertension (SMR 108) were similar to those in the United States of America National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES reference SMR 100), while those of diabetes (SMR 83) and metabolic syndrome (SMR 72) were somewhat lower.
Written by: Atabey, 1 Feb 2012 11:43 AM
From: United States, NYC
RON,
The prevalence and social patterning of chronic diseases among older people in a population undergoing health transition. A 10/66 Group cross-sectional population-based survey in the Dominican Republic
Background: Very little of the increased attention towards chronic diseases in countries with low and middle incomes has been directed towards older people, who contribute 72% of all deaths, and 14% of all Disability Adjusted Life Years linked to this group of conditions in those regions. We aimed to study the prevalence of physical, mental and cognitive diseases and impairments among older people in the Dominican Republic, their social patterning, and their relative contributions to disability. Methods: A cross-sectional catchment area one-phase survey of chronic disease diagnoses, physical impairments, risk factors and associated disability among 2011 people aged 65 years and over (of whom 1451 gave fasting blood samples) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Results:
Written by: Atabey, 1 Feb 2012 12:34 PM
From: United States, NYC
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
RON ..I used to think what you wrote that hypertension was a city thing,,but I have seen enough proof to know that it is acroos the board with farmers and country people having high blood pressures ..Of course losing weight is a great natural way to reduce blood pressure ...I find that the DR is one of the easiest places to gsin weight .
BUt it is important to have good medication if you have high blood pressure...just to keep things under control
Written by: BASTA, 1 Feb 2012 1:29 PM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs
Presdente= HBP
From: Canada
My last trip in DR I found that in restaurants the food is so salty. In one restaurant I could not finish the dish and I complained to the owner. Cut DOWN on salt!!!
From: Dominican Republic
Salt, fat, sugar without enough exercise or a veggie in sight.. ... plus stressful work/home environments...
Even the store bought fruit juice have the same amount of sugar as a coke...??
Written by: RoyStone, 1 Feb 2012 5:39 PM
From: Australia
Here's a challenge for Atabey and Dready,
Whoever can go the longest without attacking the other wins, okay?
Written by: RoyStone, 1 Feb 2012 5:41 PM
From: Australia
This country produces all the necessary ingredients - sugar, fat, salt, caffeine, nicotine and alcohol.
Written by: RoyStone, 1 Feb 2012 5:52 PM
From: Australia
Ricky, even if there is no history of hypertension in your family, you may still have a genetic predisposition. Also some folk (especially men) can have asymptomatic hypertension without knowing through lack of testing. This is still dangerous. One morning you just might wake up dead.
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
I presume you are using the french vous and not on when you you use the word you ,,and that your last sentance should read one morning one justmight wake up dead . Of course the sentance makes no sense as you do not wake up if dead ..but I assure you that I am a regular hypochondriac and my doctor almost lives on my payments alone ..as I have pointed out the ingrediants you have listed above are only one side of blood pressure problem .
My only desire is that I do not die reading any of the hypertension giving messages on this board ..I prefer to die on the tennis court and be wrapped up in the net and sent to the crematorium .
Written by: mrtibes, 1 Feb 2012 6:39 PM
From: United States
When food is so expensive people have to eat fat back and platanos for breakfast lunch and dinner what do they expect. Slow kill.
Written by: RoyStone, 1 Feb 2012 6:53 PM
From: Australia
Ricky what I meant was, you may not be expecting a heart-attack, so when you have one in the night, and wake up dead, it will be such a shock, it could kill you.
Written by: RoyStone, 1 Feb 2012 7:02 PM
From: Australia
Ricky, likewise, I hope when I go it will be during vigorous exercise, but not tennis.
Written by: RonEvane, 2 Feb 2012 3:20 AM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
{One morning you just might wake up dead.}
I know what you mean. I've been through that a couple of times but, fortunately, I was able to resuscitate and have since resolved to cut down on my drinking.
Worrying, salt, lack of exercise, and arguing pointless issues in this forum, will kill you, too!
Therefore: Don't worry (be happy), take long walks, eat more pussy and veggies, and under no circumstances, engage the likes of Roy, Dread, Atabey,Josean et, al, in an argument... It will cause you to suffer a stroke. No doubt.
Written by: RoyStone, 2 Feb 2012 6:37 AM
From: Australia
Much has been said about bad Dominican diet but little about Dominican aversion to physical exercise. Not even school-children walk more than half a block - they ride a motorbike or take a lift. Push-bikes are so rare as to be an oddity. Dancing is little more than standing on the dance-floor and wobbling the flab. Going to the beach means sitting in a beach-side bar drinking and eating then going for an occasional paddle. Dominicans are very conscious about appearance, yet don't seem to worry about being fat. Women spend hours on their hair, but don't have time to take a walk. The only part of the body that seems to get a good work-out is the tongue.
Bad diet and lack of exercise are a lethal combination.
Perhaps the aversion to exercise has the same cause as aversion to reading - laziness?
Written by: yari4u, 2 Feb 2012 12:13 PM
From: United States
Like Jamie Foxx said: " Blame it on the Alcohol." !!!!
Written by: RoyStone, 3 Feb 2012 8:24 PM
From: Australia
I went to my local doctor and told him i wanted to lose 10 pounds of unsightly fat, to which he replied, "what do you want me to do, cut off your head?"
Written by: RonEvane, 3 Feb 2012 9:29 PM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Tell us, Roy, once you're back in Brisbane, how are you going to manage without anything to complain about? .. You know well enough that what makes your day is the constant crap that goes on in this land. Without it, you'll probably feel miserable and deprived of good fodder for the release of anger, frustration and as point of reference as to what NOT to do in life.... You'll be lost there.. .Everything's well-managed and people behave very civilized. No controversy...Oh, the agony!...
BTW, That's a pitiful joke; not at all funny.... Separation anxiety?
Written by: RoyStone, 3 Feb 2012 10:50 PM
From: Australia
Melbourne, actually, Ron.
Regardless there is plenty to grumble about in Australia, just different from here. In fact I'd say opposite things to here. Australia is over-regulated. This county is lawless. Australia is over-taxed, this country is under-taxed. Australians are too politically-correct. Dominicans are rude. My suburb is too quiet. Here it is too noisy. Australian men are demonized. Dominican women are oppressed.
Still I enjoy both countries, and I will be taking the best of this country with me.
From: United States
for those who would like to understand one of the principal contributors to hypertension, and underperformance of school children in the country, i suggest a few articles
1...Noise Pollution; the Auditory Effects on Health...bmb.oxfordjournals.org
2...Traffic Noise and Cardiovascular Risk...outdoor niose levels and Risk Factors..Babisch
3..Increase Prevalence of Hypertension in a Population Exposed to Aircraft Noise.
i can cite a million more studies, and articles, and books, but i guess that you get the point. the DR is entirely too noisy to promote child learning and basic good vascular health.
Written by: Atabey, 16 Feb 2012 12:29 PM
From: United States, NYC
Sugar Should Be Regulated As Toxin, Researchers Say
By Christopher Wanjek | LiveScience.com – Thu, Feb 2, 2012
A spoonful of sugar might make the medicine go down. But it also makes blood pressure and cholesterol go up, along with your risk for liver failure, obesity, heart disease and diabetes.
Sugar and other sweeteners are, in fact, so toxic to the human body that they should be regulated as strictly as alcohol by governments worldwide, according to a commentary in the current issue of the journal Nature by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
The researchers propose regulations such as taxing all foods and drinks that include added sugar, banning sales in or near schools and placing age limits on purchases.
From: United States
Atabey, did the study make a distinction between the high fructose corn syrup, and sucrose? is there any difference in the effects?
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You can have the best diet in the world but have very high blood pressure caused by nervous tension caused by the continual high noise levels of neighbours, by the constant fear of being mugged or being in an accident in a gua gua with no doors or having peopletrying to break into your home or the constant fear of how you are going to feed your children ,,All those things can cause hyper tension ...and people with this type of hypertension neeed medical assistance
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
yes ..they are the obvious ways you can combat hypertension but maybe the high blood pressure is not caused by food but the environment in which some people live.
Ricardolito, you are 100% right. i had to quit working at one point in my life, because my blood pressure was at life threatening levels. i came to the DR, took a short vacation, and returned to NYC with the levels of a healthy adolescent. within 2 weeks, i almost died from excessievly high pressure. my doctors told me that no amount of medication could fix me, but that i had to get away from the environment. i did, and now i am at enviable numbers.
#2 Genes
{" – Arterial hypertension afflicts a surprising 41 percent of the more than 5,000 people who took part in a study, "}
That's a bunch of BS. Common sense will tell you that 5k people does not represent the entire DR population. When considering that 40% is under the age of 25, makes it unlikely they have it.
Did this "study" include people living in campos? It doesn't say. Big city residents generally live under greater stress, hence more prone to it.
We're not told what age group or social strata were tested, hence:.. Pongale esa enema a otros estupidos, como ustedes son, y chequeense la prostata, los unos a los otros!
WHERE'S THE EVIDENCE?
Roy not correct but partially correct ...I am the first in my family to have an elevated blood pressure and I have a good lifestyle ..but a changed one may slightly help
PROVIDE YOUR EVIDENCE CABRON!
Be careful. According to several studies, RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access
© 2010 Acosta et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article
The Prevalence and social patterning of chronic diseases among older people in a population
undergoing health transition. A 10/66 Group cross-sectional population-based survey in the
Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic. Results: The most prevalent diagnoses were hypertension (73.0%), anaemia (35.0%), diabetes (17.5%), depression (13.8%) and dementia (11.7%), with 39.6% meeting criteria for metabolic syndrome. After direct standardization (for age and sex) the prevalences of stroke (standardized morbidity ratio [SMR] 100) and hypertension (SMR 108) were similar to those in the United States of America National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES reference SMR 100), while those of diabetes (SMR 83) and metabolic syndrome (SMR 72) were somewhat lower.
The prevalence and social patterning of chronic diseases among older people in a population undergoing health transition. A 10/66 Group cross-sectional population-based survey in the Dominican Republic
Background: Very little of the increased attention towards chronic diseases in countries with low and middle incomes has been directed towards older people, who contribute 72% of all deaths, and 14% of all Disability Adjusted Life Years linked to this group of conditions in those regions. We aimed to study the prevalence of physical, mental and cognitive diseases and impairments among older people in the Dominican Republic, their social patterning, and their relative contributions to disability. Methods: A cross-sectional catchment area one-phase survey of chronic disease diagnoses, physical impairments, risk factors and associated disability among 2011 people aged 65 years and over (of whom 1451 gave fasting blood samples) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Results:
Ron,
The link above
BUt it is important to have good medication if you have high blood pressure...just to keep things under control
Even the store bought fruit juice have the same amount of sugar as a coke...??
Whoever can go the longest without attacking the other wins, okay?
My only desire is that I do not die reading any of the hypertension giving messages on this board ..I prefer to die on the tennis court and be wrapped up in the net and sent to the crematorium .
{One morning you just might wake up dead.}
I know what you mean. I've been through that a couple of times but, fortunately, I was able to resuscitate and have since resolved to cut down on my drinking.
Worrying, salt, lack of exercise, and arguing pointless issues in this forum, will kill you, too!
Therefore: Don't worry (be happy), take long walks, eat more pussy and veggies, and under no circumstances, engage the likes of Roy, Dread, Atabey,Josean et, al, in an argument... It will cause you to suffer a stroke. No doubt.
Bad diet and lack of exercise are a lethal combination.
Perhaps the aversion to exercise has the same cause as aversion to reading - laziness?
Tell us, Roy, once you're back in Brisbane, how are you going to manage without anything to complain about? .. You know well enough that what makes your day is the constant crap that goes on in this land. Without it, you'll probably feel miserable and deprived of good fodder for the release of anger, frustration and as point of reference as to what NOT to do in life.... You'll be lost there.. .Everything's well-managed and people behave very civilized. No controversy...Oh, the agony!...
BTW, That's a pitiful joke; not at all funny.... Separation anxiety?
Regardless there is plenty to grumble about in Australia, just different from here. In fact I'd say opposite things to here. Australia is over-regulated. This county is lawless. Australia is over-taxed, this country is under-taxed. Australians are too politically-correct. Dominicans are rude. My suburb is too quiet. Here it is too noisy. Australian men are demonized. Dominican women are oppressed.
Still I enjoy both countries, and I will be taking the best of this country with me.
1...Noise Pollution; the Auditory Effects on Health...bmb.oxfordjournals.org
2...Traffic Noise and Cardiovascular Risk...outdoor niose levels and Risk Factors..Babisch
3..Increase Prevalence of Hypertension in a Population Exposed to Aircraft Noise.
i can cite a million more studies, and articles, and books, but i guess that you get the point. the DR is entirely too noisy to promote child learning and basic good vascular health.
By Christopher Wanjek | LiveScience.com – Thu, Feb 2, 2012
A spoonful of sugar might make the medicine go down. But it also makes blood pressure and cholesterol go up, along with your risk for liver failure, obesity, heart disease and diabetes.
Sugar and other sweeteners are, in fact, so toxic to the human body that they should be regulated as strictly as alcohol by governments worldwide, according to a commentary in the current issue of the journal Nature by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
The researchers propose regulations such as taxing all foods and drinks that include added sugar, banning sales in or near schools and placing age limits on purchases.