Starting the Garden with Transplants

In the spring and fall, carefully prepared trays of young vegetable plants grace garden centers everywhere, signaling the start of garden season. Many times, the varieties available in retail centers are not the best-tasting or best-adapted varieties for our area. Starting your own vegetable transplants is fun and easy. This publication provides considerations and best practices for selecting the best crops to transplant and how to prepare transplants for home and community gardens in Florida. Original version: Stephens, James M. (1994) Starting the Garden with Transplants. Fact Sheet HS-507, April 1994. Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Gainesville, FL

Florida H2OSAV Insights: Home Water Use in Osceola County

This fact sheet provides current, basic information about residential water use in Osceola County, Florida. Written by Nick Taylor, Kaitlin Robb Price, Bradley Spatz, Parker Johnson, and Pierce Jones, and published by the UF/IFAS Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, November 2021.

Korea hypertension fact sheet 2021: analysis of nationwide population-based data with special focus on hypertension in women

Background The Korean Society of Hypertension has published the Korea Hypertension Fact Sheet 2021 to provide an overview of the magnitude and management status of hypertension and their recent trends. Methods The Fact Sheets were based on the analyses of Korean adults aged 20 years or older of the 1998–2019 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and the 2002–2019 National Health Insurance Big Data. Results Currently, the population average of systolic/diastolic blood pressure was 119/76 mmHg in Korean adults aged 20 years or older showing little change in the recent decade. It is estimated that 28% of the adult population aged 20 or older (33% of adults aged 30 or older) have hypertension. The estimated number of people with hypertension was 6.30 million for men and 5.77 million for women, and 1.96 million for men and 2.99 million for women among the population aged 65 or older. The number of people diagnosed with hypertension increased from 3.0 million in 2002 to 10.1 million in 2019. During the same period, the number of people using antihypertensive medication increased from 2.5 million to 9.5 million, and the number of people adherent to treatment increased from 0.6 million to 6.9 million. Among antihypertensive prescriptions, 40.6% of the patients received monotherapy, 43.4% received dual therapy, and 16.0% received triple or more therapy. The most commonly prescribed antihypertensive medication was angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB), followed by calcium channel blockers (CCB) and diuretics. In young women, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEi), ARB and CCB are less frequently prescribed than in men, but 59.5% of hypertensive women aged 20–39 are prescribed ACEi or ARBs. Hypertensive disorders during pregnancy have been increasing over the past 10 years. In 2019, 5.4% of women who gave birth were diagnosed with chronic hypertension and 3.1% with pregnancy-induced hypertension. Conclusions To achieve further improvement in management of hypertension, we need to encourage awareness and treatment in young adults. It is required to develop tailored prevention and management strategies that are appropriate for and inclusive of various demographics.

World Stroke Organization (WSO): Global Stroke Fact Sheet 2022

Stroke remains the second-leading cause of death and the third-leading cause of death and disability combined (as expressed by disability-adjusted life-years lost – DALYs) in the world. The estimated global cost of stroke is over US$721 billion (0.66% of the global GDP). From 1990 to 2019, the burden (in terms of the absolute number of cases) increased substantially (70.0% increase in incident strokes, 43.0% deaths from stroke, 102.0% prevalent strokes, and 143.0% DALYs), with the bulk of the global stroke burden (86.0% of deaths and 89.0% of DALYs) residing in lower-income and lower-middle-income countries (LMIC). This World Stroke Organisation (WSO) Global Stroke Fact Sheet 2022 provides the most updated information that can be used to inform communication with all internal and external stakeholders; all statistics have been reviewed and approved for use by the WSO Executive Committee as well as leaders from the Global Burden of Disease research group.

PENGARUH INFLASI, UKURAN, DAN UMUR TERHADAP KINERJA REKSA DANA SAHAM DI INDONESIA

Perkembangan investasi di pasar modal sudah berkembang mengikuti perubahan industri terutama berinvestasi pada reksa dana saham. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh variabel inflasi, ukuran reksa dana saham, dan umur reksa dana saham terhadap variabel kinerja reksa dana saham. Pengumpulan sampel menggunakan teknik purposive sampling untuk reksa dana saham yang terdaftar di Otoritas Jasa Keuangan periode 2010-2019. Berdasarkan kriteria sampling, diperoleh sampel sebanyak 37 reksa dana saham. Data sampel dianalisis dengan menggunakan analisis regresi linier berganda. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian disimpulkan bahwa inflasi berpengaruh signifikan terhadap kinerja reksa dana. Ukuran reksa dana dan umur reksa dana tidak mempengaruhi kinerja reksa dana saham. Melihat dari hasil penelitian tersebut maka manajer investasi sebagai pihak yang dipercaya oleh para investor dalam mengelola dana investasinya perlu memperhatikan inflasi dalam mengelola aset secara tepat. Sebagai investor perlu memperhatikan kebijakan investasi dalam fund fact sheet, prospectus, dan strategi masing-masing reksa dana saham yang ingin diinvestasikan agar dapat mengambil keputusan yang tepat.

Fact Sheet: Mayaro Virus

Mayaro virus (MAYV) can be spread from mosquitoes to humans. The geographic distribution of Mayaro virus is expanding from South and Central America into the Caribbean Islands, which means that, under the right conditions, this virus could one day become important to Florida. This publication is intended to serve as a fact sheet communicating information about MAYV to researchers and stakeholders in mosquito control and public health professions and to the general public.