An Increasing
Health Risk
Traumatic CVD
60
1 in 5
The increased percentage higher
lifetime risk of CVD with severe
PTSD or traumatic event.
The number of adults living in the United States with a disability—roughly 53 million U.S. citizens. “We are all at risk of having
a disability at some point in our lifetime,” said CDC Director Tom
Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. “Health professionals and health care systems need to meet the needs of this growing population.”
Source: Sumner JA, Kubzansky LD,
Elkind MSV, et al. Circulation. [Epub
ahead of print]
Source: Courtney-Long EA, Carroll DD, Zhang QC, et al. Weekly. 2015;
64(29);777-783.
Funding Hope
for HIV
$216
Something to
Celebrate
million
The amount awarded by the CDC to community-based organizations to deliver HIV prevention strategies to those at greatest
risk, including people of color, men who have sex with men,
transgender individuals, and people who use injectable drugs.
Source: CDC. News release. July 1, 2015.
91
Better Treatment
for Prostate Cancer?
5
The number of recently established
sub-groups of prostate cancer, according
to findings published in the journal EBioMedicine. Researchers believe this will allow the correct treatment for the correct
cancer, hopefully curbing the predicted
220,000 new cases and 27,540 deaths
from the disease this year.
Source: Medical News Daily. News release.
July 30, 2015.
The number of years since the American Heart Association was established by six doctors “who believed heart disease could be treated,
prevented and even cured–at a time when many people believed
there was no hope against this disease.” This anniversary boasts 9
decades for the largest nonprofit organization of “fighting heart disease and stroke, raising awareness, training people to save lives and
funding more scientific research into these diseases than any entity
outside the federal government.”
Source: AHA. AHA Blog. June 9, 2015.
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