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Health issues vary in low-income Imperial County
Imperial Valley Press By ELIZABETH VARIN Staff Writer In Imperial Valley two in every five people are obese, nearly 13000 people have been diagnosed with diabetes and 163 children were hospitalized in 2010 due to asthma. The Valley leads the state with these factors, … |
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Health woes vary by area of the county
San Antonio Express But those same North-Central households are almost four times more likely to contain a child with asthma than those living on the South Side. The 2010 Community Health Assessment was commissioned by the Health Collaborative, a group of local hospitals … |
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National Institutes of Health researchers have shown that women’s cholesterol levels correspond with monthly changes in estrogen levels. This natural variation, they suggest, might indicate a need to take into account the phases of a woman’s monthly cycle before evaluating her cholesterol measures. On average, the total cholesterol level of the women in the study varied 19 percent over the course of the menstrual cycle.
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