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At-Home Blood Pressure Monitoring Helps to Spot Cognitive Decline

At-home (ambulatory) blood pressure monitoring is a readily accessible method for health assessment.  William B. White, from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine (Connecticut, USA), and colleagues, evaluated 72 men and women, ages 75 to 89 years, who underwent 24-hour at-home blood pressure monitoring.  The process revealed statistically significant white matter hyperintensities – lesions of the brain associated with cognitive decline – as compared with clinic blood pressure measurements.  Further, the changes in home blood pressure monitoring were more closely associated with changes in functional parameters, including nonsignificant changes for walking time, and tests that measured the speed of visual search, attention, mental flexibility, and motor function. Submit

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Botulism is a rare but extremely serious illness thats caused by eating foods contaminated with the Clostridium botulinum bacteria. The severe poison can also be contracted though open wounds, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Theres fear of botulism in certain foods including hot dogs and thats why theyre treated with nitrites and nitrates, but the most common occurrences happen in preserved and canned foods, such as home canned vegetables, cured pork, and smoked or raw fish. Its common in babies and most of the average 110 U.S. cases are in babies, often from eating improperly handled honey.

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Dry elbows are a huge problem for many people because dryness on your elbows will ultimately lead to skin that does not look very healthy or pleasant.

In modern society, it’s important to keep up appearances and make sure you look professional at all hours of the day. It’s rather hard to keep yourself looking sharp and well put together when the skin on your elbows seems to be peeling off.

Dry elbows are similar to sun damage in a way because they result from a lack of moisture on your skin and an inability for your skin to create more moisture. Tho

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It seems like everyone I know is expecting or trying to get pregnant.

But births are at a 11-year low. And these individual decisions are having far-reaching consequences, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.

Similar decisions to postpone or forgo having babies may delay the recovery from the five-year U.S. housing slump and restrain future consumer spending on goods and services from child care to diapers, soaps and toothpaste. Expenditures associated with one child for a middle-income family are $226,920 over 17 years, with housing the biggest expense, the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated in June.

The number of births fell to an estimated 4 million last year, the fewest since 1999, according to National Center for Health Statistics data.

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