scholarly journals The Change in Health Biomarkers for Bodyweight and Glucoses Between the PreVirus Period and COVID-19 Period Based on GH-Method: Math-Physical Medicine (No. 468)

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
World Population ◽  
Lifestyle Modifications ◽  
Lifestyle Management ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

This paper describes the author’s quantitative improvements on his weight and glucose resulting from lifestyle modifications. Special attention has been placed on both the pre-virus period from 5/5/2018 to 1/18/2020 (total 624 days with 1,934 meals and snacks) and the COVID-19 quarantined period from 1/19/2020 to 6/16/2021 (total 514 days with 1,536 meals). This article emphasizes on bodyweight, glucoses, and glucose fluctuations (GF) during the two compared periods. In general, his health conditions of weight and glucoses in the COVID-19 period (514 days) are better than his health conditions in the pre-virus period (624 days). The COVID-19 pandemic is more than 100 times worse than SARS that occurred in 2003, in terms of its spreading speed, fatality number, and emotional impact on the world population. People belonging to the “vulnerable” groups” such as the elderly, with existing chronic diseases and history of complications, require special attention to their health conditions and lifestyle management during this COVID-19 quarantine period. In this particular period, the author achieved better results on both his diabetes control and overall metabolism management. The knowledge and experience he has gained in the past 11 years of medical research and his developed metabolism index (MI) model along with his four diabetes prediction tools assisted him in many ways. During the quarantine period, he has stopped traveling and suffered no jet-lag, eating home-cooked meals, maintaining nutritional balance, continuing his daily walking exercise of 16,000 steps (~10.7 km or 6.7 miles each day), sleeping 7.2 hours each night, living a stressfree life, avoiding negative news of politics and the pandemic, and keeping a regular daily life routine. The author enjoys conducting medical research, which is his obsessive hobby, and does not need to make a living off his work. Therefore, he feels no pressure at all to continuously perform research over the past 11 years. As a result, he has actually turned the COVID-19 crisis into his health advantage!

scholarly journals Diabetes Control and Metabolism Maintenance During Covid-19 Period in Comparison to Three Other Periods Using GH-Method: Math-Physical Medicine

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Gerald C. Hsu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Diabetes Control ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
World Population ◽  
Lifestyle Management ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Diabetes Prediction ◽  
Quantitative Results

This paper describes the author’s quantitative results of diabetes control and metabolism maintenance within a 4.5-year period covering two years from 7/1/2018 to 6/30/2020. Special attention has been placed on the COVID-19 quarantine period from 1/1/2020 to 6/30/2020. COVID-19 is more than 100 times worse than SARS that occurred in 2003, in terms of its spreading speed, fatality number, and emotional impact on the world population. People belonging to the “vulnerable” groups, such as the elderly with existing chronic diseases and history of complications, or people with psychological disorders, who require special attention to their health conditions and lifestyle management during this quarantine period. However, during this time, the author has achieved better results on both of his diabetes control and metabolism management. The knowledge and experience he has acquired in the past 10 years of medical research and his developed MI model and diabetes prediction tools have assisted him in many ways. As a result, he has turned the COVID-19 crisis into his health advantage!

scholarly journals Diabetes control and metabolism maintenance during COVID-19 period in comparison to three other periods using GH-Method: math-physical medicine (No. 288)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Diabetes Control ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
World Population ◽  
Lifestyle Management ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Diabetes Prediction ◽  
Quantitative Results

This paper describes the author’s quantitative results of diabetes control and metabolism maintenance within a 4.5-year period covering two years from 7/1/2018 to 6/30/2020. Special attention has been placed on the COVID-19 quarantine period from 1/1/2020 to 6/30/2020. COVID-19 is more than 100 times worse than SARS that occurred in 2003, in terms of its spreading speed, fatality number, and emotional impact on the world population. People belonging to the “vulnerable” groups, such as the elderly with existing chronic diseases and history of complications, or people with psychological disorders, who require special attention to their health conditions and lifestyle management during this quarantine period. However, during this time, the author has achieved better results on both of his diabetes control and metabolism management. The knowledge and experience he has acquired in the past 10 years of medical research and his developed MI model and diabetes prediction tools have assisted him in many ways. As a result, he has turned the COVID-19 crisis into his health advantage!

scholarly journals A postprandial plasma glucose (PPG) comparison study between pre-COVID-19 and during COVID-19 using GH-Method: math-physical medicine (No. 317)

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Respiratory Illness ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Time Instant ◽  
Diabetes Control ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
World Population ◽  
Lifestyle Management ◽  
Postprandial Plasma Glucose ◽  
Index Model

The author utilizes quantitative analysis results based on diabetes control for two periods: the pre-COVID-19 period, from 5/5/2018 to 1/18/2020, and the COVID-19 period, from 1/19/2020 to 8/24/2020, within a duration of 2.3 years. Special attention has been placed on his specific lifestyle management during the COVID-19 quarantine period from 1/19/2020 to 8/24/2020. The COVID-19 period has a lower average Finger PPG (-6 mg/dL) along with a lower sensor PPG (-12 mg/dL). By comparing these two periods, the two glucose waveforms are similar in shape (with high correlation coefficient) and the differences between these two curves at each time instant are quite close to each other (about 12 mg/dL glucose difference). As a result, during this period, the author achieved 0.3% to 0.4% lower HbA1C value. COVID-19 is more than 100x worse compared to the fatal respiratory illness known as severe acute respiratory syndrome or SARS that occurred in 2003, in regard to its spreading speed, fatality number, and emotional impact on the world population. People belonging to the “vulnerable” groups, such as the elderly with existing chronic diseases and history of complications require special consideration to their health conditions and lifestyle management during the COVID-19 period. However, during this period, the author collected better results with his diabetes control in terms of both PPG and HbA1C values. The knowledge and experience he acquired in the past 10 years of medical research and his developed mathematical metabolism index model along with four diabetes prediction tools assisted him in many ways. As a result, he achieved a reduction of -6 mg/dL for finger PPG, -12 mg/dL for sensor PPG, -13 mg/dL for K-line PPG, and -0.3% to -0.4% for HbA1C. In fact, he turned the COVID-19 crisis into his health advantage!

Changes in treatment for NSTEMI in women and the elderly over the past 16 years in a large real-world population

2020 ◽  
Vol 316 ◽  
pp. 7-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonhard Riehle ◽  
Birga Maier ◽  
Steffen Behrens ◽  
Leonhard Bruch ◽  
Ralph Schoeller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
World Population ◽  
The Past

scholarly journals Self-reported health without clinically measurable benefits among adult users of multivitamin and multimineral supplements: a cross-sectional study

BMJ Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. e039119
Author(s):  
Manish D Paranjpe ◽  
Alfred C Chin ◽  
Ishan Paranjpe ◽  
Nicholas J Reid ◽  
Phan Q Duy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Functional Health ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Secondary Outcome ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Distress Scale

ObjectiveMultiple clinical trials fail to identify clinically measurable health benefits of daily multivitamin and multimineral (MVM) consumption in the general adult population. Understanding the determinants of widespread use of MVMs may guide efforts to better educate the public about effective nutritional practices. The objective of this study was to compare self-reported and clinically measurable health outcomes among MVM users and non-users in a large, nationally representative adult civilian non-institutionalised population in the USA surveyed on the use of complementary health practices.DesignCross-sectional analysis of the effect of MVM consumption on self-reported overall health and clinically measurable health outcomes.ParticipantsAdult MVM users and non-users from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey (n=21 603).Primary and secondary outcome measuresFive psychological, physical, and functional health outcomes: (1) self-rated health status, (2) needing help with routine needs, (3) history of 10 chronic diseases, (4) presence of 19 health conditions in the past 12 months, and (5) Kessler 6-Item (K6) Psychological Distress Scale to measure non-specific psychological distress in the past month.ResultsAmong 4933 adult MVM users and 16 670 adult non-users, MVM users self-reported 30% better overall health than non-users (adjusted OR 1.31; 95% CI 1.17 to 1.46; false discovery rate adjusted p<0.001). There were no differences between MVM users and non-users in history of 10 chronic diseases, number of present health conditions, severity of current psychological distress on the K6 Scale and rates of needing help with daily activities. No effect modification was observed after stratification by sex, education, and race.ConclusionsMVM users self-reported better overall health despite no apparent differences in clinically measurable health outcomes. These results suggest that widespread use of multivitamins in adults may be a result of individuals’ positive expectation that multivitamin use leads to better health outcomes or a self-selection bias in which MVM users intrinsically harbour more positive views regarding their health.

scholarly journals Age-friendly city: future perspectives for the Brazilian cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-298
Author(s):  
Patricia de Oliveira Lopes ◽  
Simone Rezende da Silva ◽  
Tathianni Cristini da Silva ◽  
Yara Dadalti Fragoso ◽  
Angelina Zanesco
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Population ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
World Health ◽  
World Population ◽  
The World ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Health Organization

ABSTRACT The world population is aging fast and not all cities are prepared to cope with the needs of the elderly people. Cities need to develop strategies for senior citizens including the aspects of health, nutrition, consumer protection, housing, transportation, environment, social welfare, income, employment, safety, and education. The World Health Organization (WHO) created a program dedicated to older adults called the age-friendly city. This program is about creating the environment and opportunities that enable older people to be and do what they value throughout their lives. Most of the elderly population lives in urban spaces, and aging represents a challenge as well as opportunities to the cities all over the world. Recently, only 16 Brazilian cities have received the seal of international certification by meeting the requirements stipulated by the WHO. In the State of Sao Paulo, only two cities have been qualified for this seal. Therefore, the aims of this article are (a) to provide a brief history of this important initiative taken by the WHO and (b) to urge the decision-makers of Brazilian municipalities to develop effective initiatives for their cities to be prepared for this demographic modification.

scholarly journals Putting Citizens in Front of the Dilemma Voting VS Health Protection: The Biggest Challenge to Avoid by the Albanian Authority in the 2021 Parliamentary Election

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (20) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Irena Toshkallari
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Parliamentary Election ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
The Face ◽  
Voting System ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right ◽  
Voting Mechanisms

In a relatively new and fragile democracy like Albania, with only 30 years of life in this post-communist period, the COVID-19 Pandemic placed the authorities in the face of even more difficult challenges in holding free and fair elections that are uncontested and legitimate. Finding a balance between elections that meet the criteria of being democratic and protecting the lives of citizens is one of the chief objectives for Albanian authorities. This is likened to be the case of many other countries that had elections during the COVID19 period. Although COVID-19 virus is not selective as to whom it will infect, some specific groups such as the elderly people with underlying health conditions tend to manifest more severe symptoms. Countries are responsible for adapting the voting system to ensure public safety during the pandemic by implementing a diverse range of alternative voting mechanisms. Policymakers in the design process of measures have to take into consideration these vulnerable groups and also the individuals who show symptoms on the voting day due to SARS, CoV-2, or they may be hospitalized or be quarantined on the voting day. This paper focuses on analyzing the measures that Albanian authorities have envisaged to ensure the right to vote for these specific groups. After evaluating the decisions and instructions of the responsible authorities for the organization and administration of elections in Albania, it can be concluded that based on the subject of this research paper, no specific measures was undertaken for any of the groups mentioned above to ensure a safe voting process. The lack of this can probably lead to exclusive and not inclusive elections.

Herpes simplex virus esophagitis—clinical challenges in the elderly

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. e240956
Author(s):  
Sara Fernandes Custódio ◽  
Catarina Félix ◽  
Fátima Cruz ◽  
Manuela Zita Veiga
Keyword(s):  
Herpes Simplex Virus ◽  
Herpes Simplex ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Past ◽  
Systemic Corticosteroids ◽  
Intravenous Acyclovir ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ionic Changes ◽  
Simplex Virus ◽  
High Degree

A 77-year-old woman presented with a 2-week history of malaise, prostration, anorexia, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhoea. She had been taking systemic corticosteroids for the past year. During hospitalisation, renal insufficiency, ionic changes and liver function abnormalities were detected and corrected. However, the patient developed total dysphagia. UGE revealed multiple shallow ulcers below the cricopharyngeal level and in the distal oesophagus, with normal-appearing intervening mucosa. Histological examination allowed the diagnosis of herpes simplex virus esophagitis. Treatment with intravenous acyclovir was instituted for 14 days. In the elderly, herpetic esophagitis may present with non-specific complains, such as prostration or anorexia. In the reported case, dysphagia was only detected as a late symptom, addressing the importance of maintaining a high degree of suspicion for the diagnosis of herpes simplex virus esophagitis.

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