“Total hip replacement surgery, sometimes called total hip arthroplasty, is considered one of the most reliable surgeries ever developed. As many as 96% of patients who have had elective total hip replacement surgery say they would make the same choice again.”
Arthritis-Health (www.arthritis-health.com)
“Hip replacement surgery is a procedure in which a doctor surgically removes a painful hip joint with arthritis and replaces it with an artificial joint often made from metal and plastic components. It usually is done when all other treatment options have failed to provide adequate pain relief.”
Web M.D.
“A healthy diet is one of the best weapons you have to fight cardiovascular disease. The food you eat (and the amount) can affect other controllable risk factors: cholesterol, blood pressure, diabetes and overweight. Choose nutrient-rich foods — which have vitamins, minerals, fiber and other nutrients but are lower in calories — over nutrient-poor foods.”
American Heart Association
“Malnutrition results from a poor diet or a lack of food. It happens when the intake of nutrients or energy is too high, too low, or poorly balanced. Undernutrition can lead to delayed growth or wasting, while a diet that provides too much food, but not necessarily balanced, leads to obesity.”
Medical News Today
“Recent studies suggest that the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease are in a diabetic state, partly due to the decrease in or insensitivity to insulin. There are many similarities in the brains of people with diabetes and the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease; however, diabetes only remains a risk factor.”
Alzheimer Society Canada
“However, reevaluation of the older literature revealed that impairments in cerebral glucose utilization and energy metabolism represent very early abnormalities that precede or accompany the initial stages of cognitive impairment12–14 and led us to the concept that impaired insulin signaling has an important role in the pathogenesis of AD and the proposal that AD represents “type 3 diabetes.”
PMC U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institute of Health (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
“Sepsis has been named as the most expensive in-patient cost in American hospitals in 2014 averaging more than $18,000 per hospital stay. With over 1.5 million sepsis hospital stays in 2014 per year, that works out to costs of $27 billion each year.”
SEPSIS ALLIANCE (www.sepsis.org)
“Platelets are needed for clotting of the blood. In patients with ITP, a person’s own immune system creates antibodies that mark healthy platelets as “foreign substances” and then mistakenly attack and destroy them. As an autoimmune disease that results in the destruction of platelets, patients with ITP have a tendency to bleed or bruise.”
ITP Foundation (www.itpfoundation.org)
“After examining Bob Probert’s brain tissue, researchers said they found … the first contemporary hockey player to show C.T.E. after death. 1″
“NFL players suffered more concussions in 2017 than in each of the previous five years, according to data released by the league. There were 281 reported concussions that season, including head injuries suffered in preseason games and practices. That is the highest number in the past six years and an increase of 15.6% over the five-year average.2”
1-CNN 2-USA Today
1NY Times
“As part of brain injury research effort, the NFL announced in 2013 its plan to invest $60 million to improve mTBI diagnosis.36 To make the game of football safer, it is important that the NFL continue to strive for concussion management, including prevention and treatment strategies.”