Will marathon running really affect your kidneys?
A Yale study found indicators in runners, but these cleared after 48 hours—and they don’t apply to other intense forms of exercise.
April 11, 2017
A Yale study found indicators in runners, but these cleared after 48 hours—and they don’t apply to other intense forms of exercise.
Over the weekend, I was invited to speak at the Cardio-Connect Asia Pacific Meeting in Hong Kong on why young people, including athletes, die suddenly, without showing any previous symptom related to a heart problem.
Diabetes imposes a heavy physical and socioeconomic burden on the patient, his/her family, and on society. Patients with advanced diabetes may have frequent trips to the hospital emergency room (ER), and may require confinement due to heart failure (HF) symptoms.
I may be biased, but I believe a nation must be generally healthy to become progressive. And a government which puts a premium on public health is better poised for progress. Having said that, though, one should not always depend on the government for one’s health and wellness.
March of each year has been declared Colon Cancer Awareness Month. I have committed to do whatever I can to increase awareness for this killer disease.
You may not be taking “shabu,” cocaine or other substances, but you may unknowingly be a “drug user” or “drug pusher,” too.
I first saw patient Ricardo A. around 25 years ago, when he first discovered he had high blood pressure (BP). He was in his mid-30s then. He did not feel any symptoms, though his BP would reach alarming levels of more than 180/100 mm Hg. And because he had no symptoms, he felt it was not necessary to take the medicines we prescribed. “The medicines made me feel sicker because of the side effects,” he once told me.
Breaking one’s heart may sound like a figurative expression—a favorite phrase in many love songs.
More than a year ago, an elderly patient we’ve been treating for years for high blood pressure and diabetes suddenly fell unconscious in the bathroom.
One of my embarrassing moments as a young doctor at the Manila Doctor’s Hospital decades ago, was when I consulted our ENT (ear, nose and throat) specialist, Dr. Felix Nolasco, for some aching pain in my left ear. After taking a quick look in my ear canal with his otoscope instrument, he asked me, “Are you using cotton-tipped applicators to clean your ears?”
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