Doctors warn the gradual hardening of arteries is causing a surge in heart attacks and strokes, urging urgent prevention Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | Atherosclerosis, the gradual hardening and narrowing of arteries, is quietly driving a surge of heart attacks, strokes, and premature deaths in Uganda. Experts now …
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KAYUNGA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | In the heart of Gwanika-Kokotero village, in Ntenjeru town council, Kayunga district, 75-year-old Gorette Nakalyowa’s daily life revolves around her granddaughter, Hamidah Gwokyalya, a vibrant four-year-old who was born with a heart defect that nearly stole her future. Gwokyalya’s journey started under the shadow …
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KITGUM, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | For years, Grace Achola, 48 years-old businesswoman in Omiya-Anyima village, Kitgum District did not think about her blood pressure. At 43 years, she was focused on her career and raising her children. It was not until on her normal business journey to Lira City when …
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But rather than vegetarian or vegan, a flexitarian diet is best ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | A new scientific literature review has found that vegetarian and vegan diets help improve cardiometabolic risk factors, such as elevated lipids, blood sugar, body weight, BMI, and inflammation. The individuals studied also had a lower risk …
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People with type 2 diabetes should discuss the risks of using ibuprofen with their doctors Kampala, Uganda | AGENCIES | Researchers and clinicians know that people with type 2 diabetes face an elevated risk of heart failure. Even without a heart disease diagnosis, they have more than double the risk of …
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Eating 5 eggs per week may help lower your risk Kampala, Uganda | AGENCIES | A study has found that people who ate five or more eggs weekly had improvements in some risk factors for cardiovascular disease. They had lower blood pressure and blood sugar and less risk for high blood …
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Kampala, Uganda | Flavia Nassaka – URN | More than seven thousand babies born with birth defects of the heart each year are missing out on life saving surgeries, the Uganda Heart Institute (UHI) revealed on Saturday as they hosted Jennifer Jones the Rotary International President. Dr. John Omagino, the UHI …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Healthy Heart Africa Programme supported by AstraZeneca will be in joint delivery with the Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau. At least 10 Million Ugandans can now hope to be screened for heart related conditions following the launch of the Healthy Heart Africa Programme. Dr Diana Atwine, the …
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Kampala, Uganda | AGENCIES | A team of researchers from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland that was trying to figure out why we do not hear our heart beat, has made a surprising discovery; that our heart affects what we see. They explain that humans have spectacularly …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | It looks like a real heart. And this is the goal of the first entirely soft artificial heart: to mimic its natural model as closely as possible. The silicone heart has been developed by Nicholas Cohrs, a doctoral student in the group led by …
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