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A new research has found that long term use of marijuana can increase the probability of an individual of developing the most aggressive Testicular cancer in his body. The intake of Marijuana can increase 70 percent risk of cancer.
The risk is basically to those individuals who are in a regular habit of using this Marijuana or to those who starts using this at early ages or in adolescence. Most of the individuals have this risk at the ages of 20s or 30s.
Some studies reveal that cancer is caused when Marijuana is correlated with the use of alcohol and habit of smoking. But till now it has been proved that Marijuana can independently cause cancer.
Obesity can cuts down the life span of an obese person, a new study suggested. Moderated obesity means almost 50 to 60 pounds above then the ideal body mass index can shorten three to four years of life and the most American middle-age men having the extra 150 pounds than their ideal weight which can shorten life span by ten years.
Thought this level is not as much common as smoking as smoking is also known to reduce the life span by ten years, so both reasons are equally dangerous.
For the study, Whitlock the lead researcher analyzed the data of 894,576 people with 25 BMI. According to the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, people are considered overweight when they have a BMI over 25 and 29.9 and obese after crossing BMI 30 and more.
heart diseases, ideal weight, obesity, overweight, renal failure, Smoking, stroke, various cancers
West Virginia and Kentucky, where smoking is a tradition, have the highest death rate due to smoking and 
related illnesses, new federal study has founded.
Ten states have been identified, which have the highest average annual smoking death rates these include Indiana, Missouri, Nevada, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Oklahoma.
Utah and Hawaii were at the bottom, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.
The death rate because of smoking related health problem was 371 and 344 out of 100,000 adults aged above 35, in Kentucky and West Virginia, respectively.
That number was nearly one-and-a-half times higher than the figure provided by the official media i.e. 263 per 100,000. This figure was nearly three folds to than the death rates in Utah, which are 138 per 100,000.
The researchers compile results by calculating the death certificates from 2000 to 2004, focusing on lung cancer and other 18 diseases, which are known to cause by smoking.
Almost 75 percent patients hospitalized for cardiac arrest showed normal cholesterol levels, far away from
the risk of cardiovascular trouble, a nationwide study reported.
The finding indicate towards the need to change the current threshold value of the cholesterol level, said study author Dr. Gregg C. Fonarow
“The LDL cholesterol level at which people have heart attacks shouldn’t be considered as normal,” Fonarow said. Yardstick
LDL cholesterol, in other words “bad” cholesterol, accumulates to form plaques that ultimately block arteries. Values evaluated by U.S. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute are 130 milligrams per deciliter for healthy people and 70 milligram per deciliter for those who have high risk factors such as obesity, smoking and hypertension and diabetes.
But the collected data of 137,000 cardiac arrest patients, from 2000 to 2006, showed that, about three-quarter had bad cholesterol level below 130 at the time of hospitalization, while 17.6 percent had LDL levels below 70.
cardiovascular trouble, Diabetes, exercise, heart attacks, hypertension, ldl cholesterol, obesity, Smoking
