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This Healthcast will tell you what you need to know to deal with hyperthyroidism, the condition in which the thyroid gland makes too much thyroid hormone. You will learn:
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This Healthcast is about hypothyroidism, the condition of low production of thyroid hormone, a condition that affects more than 20 million Americans and hundreds of millions of others outside the USA. It will tell you:
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“Introduction to the Thyroid” will tell you what you need to know about this important but rarely appreciated gland:
The Body Mass Index or BMI is a number that correlates your weight with your height. It is valuable because a person who is 150 pounds in weight 62 inches tall is overweight, while a person who is 150 pounds in weight and 70 inches tall is normal. To calculate the BMI:
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This healthcast is about the most common disease you know nothing about, the metabolic syndrome. Affecting more than 50 million Americans and 1 and 1/4 billion people worldwide, it:
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This is the fourth healthcast on the topic of prevention of injury, disease and death at all ages. Using information obtained by major studies, the US Preventive Services Task Force has published “The Guide to Clinical Preventive Services”.
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This is the third healthcast on the topic of prevention of injury, disease and death at all ages. Using information obtained by major studies, the US Preventive Services Task Force has published “The Guide to Clinical Preventive Services“.
In this healthcast you will discover:
This is the second of four healthcasts on the prevention of injury, disease and death at various ages. Using information obtained by major studies, the US Preventive Services Task Force has published “The Guide to Clinical Preventive Services“.
In this healthcast you will discover:
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This and the next three healthcasts are about the things you need to know at every age to prevent accidents, disease and death. If you are a parent of a child from birth to age ten, you will find out in this healthcast:
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In this podcast, I provide an overview of diabetes.
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This Healthcast will help you to shed those pounds that are raising your blood sugar, your blood pressure and your health care costs. It tells you all you need to know to become a successful loser.
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In this week’s podcast about the importance of exercise, I answer the following questions:
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In my very first podcast, I discuss what you need to do before the age of 50 to ensure good health later in life.
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Hypothyroidism means your thyroid gland is not making enough thyroid hormone for your body’s needs. Most of the hormone coming out of the thyroid is thyroxine (T4) and a much smaller amount of tri-iodothyronine (T3). The vast majority of patients will do fine given just T4 since the body can convert T4 into T3 to make up for missing T3. You take enough T4 to reduce the thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) level to normal. Changes in the level of T4 you take are checked with blood tests no more often than every 4 weeks.
When you or your doctor takes your blood pressure, two numbers are generated, a larger number, the systolic blood pressure (SBP), and a smaller number, the diastolic blood pressure (DBP), written as SBP/DBP or 120/80, for example. How do you know if yours is too high? The numbers have been clearly defined. These are the various categories that you might fall into. Remember that you should use the higher category to determine your particular level. For example, if you have normal systolic blood pressure but a diastolic blood pressure that puts you at stage 1 high blood pressure (HBP), you are considered to have stage 1 high blood pressure.