Month: November 2011

Central America need to be focused on combating child malnutrition

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San Salvador, 21 nov (EFE).-Central America need focused its objectives on combating child chronic malnutrition, as it is a “critical” in the region problems, Efe said an expert from the World Food Programme (WFP).

“Central America is in a critical situation with regard to chronic malnutrition because (are) middle-income countries,” said Dorte Ellehammer, representative of the LDCs in this country, in the context of the presentation of the “map of hunger, El Salvador 2011”, it details the proportion of malnutrition in the municipalities.

Therefore, the countries of the region needed “work much more focused” to combat this problem, i.e. who should work directly with the affected population, especially “children under five and pregnant women”, to prevent more infants born with malnutrition, he added.

“There must be clear that it is not an intervention by one month, two months,” noted at the time that emphasized the need to “have national programmes that are really focused and (give) a follow-up to (…)” “to avoid the problem to grow and to finish it”.

Ellehammer noted that Guatemala is the “worst indices of malnutrition” country in the region.

On average in Guatemala 49 per cent of children suffer from malnutrition, while Nicaragua 21% suffers from this disease, in Honduras 29% and El Salvador 19.2%, according to the WFP.

Ellehammer stressed that although El Salvador has a national average of malnutrition relatively less than other countries in the region, that doesn’t mean it’s not “alarming”, because for WFP “no matter what the percentage”, pointed out.

The map revealed that there is many municipalities which exceed the average level of malnutrition in the country and that there are even seven different areas of the country, whose percentage ranges from 38.3% to 48.6%.

262 El Salvador 118 municipalities are within the Group of “medium” malnutrition, 28 in “high” and seven in “very high” malnutrition, and the rest appear in the Group of “low” and “very low”.

“This map is an indicator that if there are problems in those municipalities”, expressed Ellehammer.

Added that “If there is malnutrition among children, it is an indicator that there is hunger in families”, but clarified that there is no famine in the country, but “food insecurity”.

It is estimated that only in the rural area of this Central American country “25% of the population is in a State of food insecurity,” explained the programme officer of WFP in the country, Elbyn Ramirez, during the presentation of the map.

Clarified that the 25% “may have been high up to 40 %”, after the damage caused by the rain storm that affected the country in mid-October and caused 34 dead and thousands homeless. EFE

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AIDS: receded the mortality rate

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The report of the United Nations programme for AIDS (UNAIDS), presented Monday in Berlin, reported major advances in the treatment of the disease. Between 1997 and 2010, cases of infection were reduced by 21 percent, while the number of new infections in children dropped from 550 to 390 thousand cases, and the number of deaths in children under 15 declined between 2005 and 2010 a 20%.

However, in the case of pregnant women, the figure was not encouraging: Although about half of pregnant women with AIDS received antiretroviral drugs to prevent infection of their babies, in 80% of cases the treatment had no good results.

UNAIDS also noted that there was a large growth in the number of persons infected with HIV, but it was clarified that this is not to have grown sick people, but they received better treatment which allowed to reduce the mortality rate. In this way, 34 million people live today, with the virus. In 2001, were 28.6 million.

The director of UNAIDS Michel Sidibe, said that some 2.5 million deaths in poor countries and middle-income since 1995 with the introduction of drugs against AIDS and better access to them. avoided

“We are on the brink of a major milestone in the AIDS response,” he added in reference to progress on treatments for the disease inmunodeficiente.

According to the report, 68 percent of those affected is found in Africa, especially in the southern region of sub-Saharan Africa, which produces 70 percent of new cases of infection with the virus. In Eastern Europe and Central Asia, also saw a significant rise in infections, with 1.5 million cases, concentrated mostly in Russia and Ukraine. In Western and Central Europe, the number reached 840 thousand.

In Latin America, the number of new infections per year, which was in decline since 1996, has stabilized at beginning of Millennium and remains stable since then with 100 thousand patients per year. According to statistics, 400,000 young people between 15-24 years and 55 thousand children under 15 have HIV.

Report highlights Brazil “complete and early” respond to the epidemic, ensuring “the access to services for prevention and treatment of HIV for vulnerable and marginalized persons”.

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Low weight persons have a higher risk in surgery

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CHICAGO, USA (Reuters) – people with a lower than normal weight is a risk of dying a 40 percent higher during the first month after surgery than patients with overweight, according to research released Monday.

The findings suggest that the rate of BMI, or BMI, may be useful to predict which patients suffer a greater risk as they recover from the operation, reported researchers American in Archives of Surgery.

Some previous studies that evaluated the role of BMI in the operation have had mixed results, said George Stukenborg, University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who participated in the study.

“Low BMI patients have increased risk of death 30 days after the operation,” said in an interview telephone Stukenborg

Researchers used data from nearly 190,000 patients who underwent a series of operations in 183 hospitals between 2005 and 2006.

The BMI is calculated by dividing weight in kilograms by height in meters squared. According to the Centers for Disease Control and prevention’s (CDC) of United States, people with a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9 have a normal weight; those with a BMI of 25 to 29.9 are overweight and who have a BMI of 30 or more is obese.

To search for a link between body weight and risk of death, classified patients into five groups: people with one BMI less than 23.1; people with a BMI of less than 26.3; 23.1 people with a BMI of 26.3 to less than 29.7; people with a BMI of 29.7 below 35.3; and people with a BMI of 35.3 or greater.

In total, 2.245 or 1.7 percent of the study participants were killed in the 30 days after the operation.

“We have found that patients in the lowest group had a probability of death 40% higher compared to the range medium,” said Stukenborg, referring to people in the category of overweight with a BMI of 26.3 to 29.7.

Even when the researchers adjusted by the type of operation and other risk factors, those with a BMI under still had one higher risk of dying during the first month after surgery compared with patients in an operation with greater weight.

Stukenborg said that it was not clear the why. The study did not follow recent weight loss, so it could be that people with a lower BMI were more sick from a beginning

Either way, Stukenborg said that doctors should consider the BMI when they plan operations for their patients.

Being overweight or being obese leads to many other risks, raising the chances of heart disease, diabetes, some types of cancer, arthritis and other conditions.

Diseases related to obesity correspond to almost 10 percent of the doctor in United States spending, or an average of 147,000 million (1008.900 million euros) a year.

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Preschool, a good place to learn how to communicate

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Laura Justice, researcher in charge of a study conducted by the State University of Ohio (United States), says that in general the children with language difficulties are located in the same classrooms and “this is not good for the development of the language.” “We have to pay more attention to as arman preschool classes”. Justice emphasizes that the guys with a good capacity to communicate unaffected share space with colleagues that costs them a little more.

Published in the journal Child Development, the research was conducted with 338 boys attending 49 different pre-primary schools. At the beginning of the academic year each small volunteer made a series of tests designed to measure your language skills. These tests were used to check your grammar, vocabulary and ability to talk about what they saw in a book of drawings. Justice repeated these tests to half of the year to check whether they had improved or worsened their ability to communicate.

At the same time, the experts were set if children with language problems were going to a class with colleagues who shared this difficulty, or if they were in a classroom with kids who speak correctly.

Justice observed that children with difficulties in language that extended its school year in classes with companions who shared this problem failed to overcome it. On the contrary, they won many best results which were in classrooms with guys who possessed good language skills.

And those who already had a great capacity to communicate, maintained and improved even if they shared their time by colleagues that they cost a little. According to Justice, separated in different classrooms from preschool children according to their ability to communicate prevents that they receive assistance when they need it.

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People with low weight at greater risk after surgery

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CHICAGO (Reuters) – people with a lower weight to the

normal have a 40 percent higher risk of dying in the

first month after surgery than patients with

overweight, according to research unveiled the

Monday.

The findings suggest that the body mass index, or

IMC, may be useful to predict which patients suffer from a

higher risk while they recover from the surgery, reported

researchers American in Archives of Surgery.

Previous studies that evaluated the role of BMI in the

surgery have had mixed results, said George Stukenborg of

The University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who participated

in the study.

“Low BMI patients have increased risk of death

“”

30 days after the surgery”, said Stukenborg in a

interview phone.

Researchers used data from nearly 190,000 patients

they underwent a series of surgeries in 183 hospitals

between 2005 and 2006.

The BMI is calculated by dividing weight in kilograms by the

height in meters squared. According to the Centers for

the Disease Control and prevention (CDC, for its acronym in

English) of United States, people with a BMI of 18.5 to

24.9 have normal weight; those with a BMI of 25 to 29.9

are overweight and those with a BMI of 30 or more are obese.

To search for a link between body weight and risk

death, classified patients into five groups or

quintiles: people with one BMI less than 23.1; people with a

BMI of 23.1 to less than 26.3; people with a BMI of 26.3 to

less than 29.7; people with a BMI of 29.7 below 35.3; and

people with a BMI of 35.3 or greater.

In total, 2.245 or 1.7 percent of the participants

the study died within 30 days of the surgery.

“We found that patients in the lowest quintile

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were likely to 40 percent more death in

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comparison with middle-ranking”, said Stukenborg,

people in the category of overweight with a BMI of 26.3

to 29.7.

Even when the researchers adjusted by the rate of

surgery and other risk factors, those with a BMI under

they still had one higher risk of dying during the first month

after surgery compared to patients of

surgery with greater weight.

Stukenborg said that it was not clear why. The study not

followed recent weight loss, so it could be due to

that people with lower BMI were more sick from a

start.

Anyway, Stukenborg said that doctors

should consider the BMI when plan surgeries for their

patients.

Being overweight or being obese leads to many others

risks, raising the chances of heart diseases

diabetes, some types of cancer, arthritis, and others

conditions.

Diseases related to obesity correspond to

almost 10 per cent of medical spending on United States, or

an estimated 147,000 million $ a year.

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Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips

Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips