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The experts argue for a new model that looks at signs of obesity affecting organs in the body - such as heart disease, breathlessness, type 2 diabetes or joint pain - and their damaging impact on ...
How might sleeping aids affect brain health? A mouse study aims to shed some light on this matter. Image credit: robert reader/Getty Images. This article originally appeared on Medical News Today
The disease is contagious in livestock like cattle, but poses no risk to humans or food safety. ... While it rarely affects humans, foot-and-mouth is highly contagious in pigs, sheep and cattle ...
Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included. An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time; in meningococcal infections , an attack rate in excess of 15 cases per 100,000 people for two consecutive weeks is considered ...
A localized disease is one that affects only one part of the body, such as athlete's foot or an eye infection. Disseminated disease A disseminated disease has spread to other parts; with cancer, this is usually called metastatic disease. Systemic disease A systemic disease is a disease that affects the entire body, such as influenza or high ...
Vector-borne diseases seriously affect the health of domestic animals and livestock (e.g., trypanosomiasis, Rift Valley Fever, and bluetongue). Therefore, climate change will also indirectly affect the health of humans through its multifaceted impacts on food security, including livestock and plant crops. [16]
Last week, researchers published a new report titled “Added sugar intake and its associations with incidence of seven different cardiovascular diseases” in the journal Frontiers in Public ...
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) remain a major public health challenge in the United States. CDC estimates that there are approximately 19 million new STIs yearly. The country experienced a reduction in reported STIs early in the COVID-19 pandemic, likely due to reduction in care devoted to them, but rates have rebounded in ensuing years. [18]