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Why is heart disease a male problem?
Although the mortality rate for cardiovascular events or conditions has dropped significantly in the past 20 years, heart disease is still the first cause of death in men in the UK.

Overall, men are more likely than women to develop heart disease, and in the UK, 1 in 7 men and 1 in 11 women will die from disease of the heart arteries.

Various reasons are thought to be the causes of increased Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) numbers in men.

Men tend to have more challenging jobs and cope with stress differently compared to women. They tend to pay less attention to follow a healthy diet, smoke more, take more alcohol and be more overweight than women, and could be less aware of their own symptoms and wellbeing.

Medical risk factors
There are four main risk factors that can expose you to higher chances of having strokes and other cardiac events:

High blood pressure
This is the leading risk factor for heart and circulatory disease in the UK. Around 28% of UK adults have it, and around 50% of heart attacks and strokes are associated with high blood pressure. Importantly, up to 5 million adults in the UK are thought to be undiagnosed.

Diabetes
This is a common condition that increases the risks for cardiovascular conditions. Diabetes results in damage to the inner linings of blood vessels and adults with diabetes are 2-3 times more likely to develop cardiovascular disease, and nearly twice as likely to die from heart attack or stroke than those without diabetes. Over half a million adults in the UK are thought to suffer from undiagnosed diabetes.

High cholesterol
Cholesterol is a lipid, a fatty substance that is present in your blood vessels. There are two types of cholesterol, LDL and HDL. High LDL levels can be dangerous because cholesterol deposits in your arteries. “Bad cholesterol” represents a strong risk factor for cardiovascular disease and almost half of UK adults are thought to be living with cholesterol levels above the national guidelines total cholesterol (5mmmo/L).

Lifestyle risk factors
Modifiable risk factors such as cigarette smoking, physical inactivity and poor diet contribute significantly to the risk of cardiovascular disease. At least one in seven adults smoke cigarettes, and up to 20.000 deaths from cardiovascular causes in the UK can be attributed to smoking. Similarly, increasing physical activity is felt to reduce the risk of developing cardiovascular disease by as much as 35%. More than one third of UK adults do not achieve recommended levels of physical activity (150 minutes each week), and only around one quarter consume the recommended minimum five portions of fruit and vegetables per day.

How to reduce lifestyle-related risks for heart disease
Addressing lifestyle factors is the most important, yet often most difficult, step.

To protect your heart health, you can start by introducing these small changes in your life:

Seek help with smoking cessation
Adopt diets low in saturated fats and avoiding highly-processed food
Increase your physical exercise
Lose weight
Taking these steps can have a hugely beneficial impact on some of the medical risk factors discussed earlier. Weight loss, smoking cessation and favourable diets all have a positive effect on blood pressure, cholesterol levels and also blood sugar levels.

CVD may not manifest until very late in its course. It is important not to ignore symptoms of chest pain and worsening breathlessness (especially on effort). Ultimately, the focus should be on preventing problems and addressing risk factors.

Source: New Victoria Hospital, UK

BEDC na scam now, nor be today!!

Since the days of NEPA, PHCN, that their head office for Akpakpava is notorious for Extortion and intimidation.

leo22:
If being a simp provides peace and a healthy home for me then I reject being a macho who lacks mutual love and respect.

But do you know those shouting 'SIMP' here are the weakest? Na dem dey cry for babe matter pass

Not just weak, many are actually less than 25 years of age, still living on mama's food and struggling to find their footing in life!

Many of them don't even understand the basis of marriage as friendship, commitment and partnership in progress!

They're kids still being fed by their parents, jumping upandan to scream simp here and call women derogatory names!

Many of the married grown-ups they tag simp here they can't stand up to them in real life. But these days, every kid has access to cheap data and android phone. I believe it's a phase they'll outgrow!

Enjoy the rest of your day!

leo22:
Oga, you are responsible for her recent behavior, you created her to be this way because of your Insecurities! what business do you have with her phone? Why do us men think that 'controlling' your woman makes you a man? Treat her with trust and respect and that phone will loose the locks.
I have been married for 15 years and I do not touch my wife's phone, never! It is not my property and there's nothing I am searching for there. And guess what? Your woman is allowed to have male friends because she is as human as you are and you cannot provide complete fulfilment that she desires, who you be? God?
Women are social beings and they are more faithful than us men in relationships but it is low self esteem, insecure and low IQ men that turns them into what they become. Love your girl, become her best friend, allow her explore who she is, support her dreams and you will have success, good home and peace.

If you like argue all you want, me I an enjoying my home because I and my wife live our lives without anyone trying to manipulate each other.

They will soon come and tag you simp!

Many of them are allergic to common sense.

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Soknown:
So each morning, we will resume at the dockside, fuel the boat on alternate days, pick food from the Kitchen. Mr. A**a, an itsekiri was the lead cook. We had to discuss this with him at some point. He was giving us Nigerians, the same food meant for the Captain, that was a good thing, right? But when we collected Lasagne in the morning to keep in the fridge, the Captain can eat the Lasagne in the cold form but to us, it was a big punishment. So we spoke with him to be giving us gaari and Okro with different road-blocks in it, Fried rice, Jollof and Chicken. Enough of eating cold continental dishes. In his defense, he did not want to discriminate against the Nigerians, He felt we should be treated equally. He understood our plight and change the menu for us. We will set sail in the morning, doing about 2 knots on the creek until we were outside the Channel, after the channel, the Captain will announce, Full ahead. There was a mystery to me that has not been resolved, outside of the Lagos Channel there were two distinct colors on the water, the dirty-looking light blue sea of the harbor and the deep blue sea, lying side by side yet not mixing. I asked the Captain, I remembered that he said what caused the delineation was the level of salinity in the deep blue seawater and the overdiluted land water mixed with the creek. I hope geologists, water scientists, and mariners can explain this to me.
I was very close to one of the Captains, I could call him my friend because we kept in touch for many years after the project. Captain St****n was a very good man. Unlike his back-back Captain Ch****ph who was a jerk( pardon my French), we were always at loggerhead in the same boat, he felt he was the boss, so he could do anything, I wasn’t having it. The Cabin has no smoking signs everywhere, instead of going outside to smoke, he will sit at the wheel and start to smoke where you have three non-smokers. I never wasted time in confronting him. You may own the boat but comm’on this is my country. I reported him to two Snepco officials but they were not keen on correcting him because of fish, Yes Fish. We do get fish and prawns from Fish trawlers from different countries, Angola, Togo, Benin, Cape Verde, Sao Tome, and Principe. It was free for all out there, I kept wondering why were these people in our territorial waters. What is the work of our Navy? These Trawlers and sometimes canoes might have been on the sea for weeks, so they always need a fresh supply of water and cigarette. So we usually exchanged cigarettes for their swathing catches.
The sea was really calm in the first two months, I mean, April and May but from the end of May, Heavy rain started and the sea became more turbulent. Sweeping and high rolling tides and waves started. Waves that will be higher than a ship. Most times we will run from our location if a mighty wave was coming towards us or the heave became higher. We have all the safety gear and life-saving equipment on board but they will be useless, if the boat capsized. The Thuraya phone was very handy in those difficult days to call out to family members, of course, we were not telling them, we were facing challenges but just talking to them and hearing their voices usually bring some sunshine to our otherwise grim environment, Deep, dark roaring sea and a dark, overcast 'tearing' sky, oh I forgot the cold. I remembered one incident, it was one of those grim days, it started raining from Lagos channel, so the sea was rough, the boat was slamming and banging the waves as we sped at about 15knots/hr to our location. We arrived late to the location, thankfully the weather was so bad that the birds could not take off from LOS and Snake island. The ambience was very dark, rain was hammering us, the waves were rolling us from window to window, port to starboard. There was a killer wave coming towards us, that we needed to move away quickly but the engine did not start, the Captain and the Seaman dived into the engine room to check what the problem was, I was left at the wheel. The Diver was on the lookout. All of a sudden, a dot appeared on the radar yet I could not see anything outside. Then we heard a loud horn, obviously, an oil tanker changed course because of us, we have drifted to her path. As they passed us, The Captain radioed to check on us. We informed him about our problem but that it was resolved as the engine has fired up and running smoothly. I know you want to ask, Yes, collisions do happen on the sea too, it is rare but it can happen.

Beautiful! Adventurous yet scary, especially for a health care professional who wasn't really trained in a maritime setting! I bet the ER or OR is nothing like the wild rough sea out there!!

I'm following your story back to back.

Kudos!

Mstick:
Majority of you Nigerian men on this forum are shameless and senseless. You just talk anyhow without thinking.

So your friend a Nigerian guy was suffering in Nigeria, a suffering created by your fellow men and he taken abroad by a woman, to a country that's been ruled by men of her own race and is in better shape and you think that's a bragging right? Like you think that's a reason to even bash women?


If African men are sensible as white men will African youths still be relying on fraud and prostitution? Even the ones with small power will abuse it and the he goats still have the stinking mouth to blame women.


That country your so called friend is wasn't it built by your fellow men? That country you're hoping their women come to marry you was it not the men in that country that built it and elevated the standard of living of their women?

Meanwhile you low life idiôts, all you care about is sex, drugs, robbery and cultism.


Whitemen elevated white women, I've seen dirty, stinky, rude and mannerless white women but you will NEVER EVER see a white man creating a thread online bashing her or any other woman but this hopeless, level less, foolish black men will always create threads bashing their women, if they not abusing you in real life they are abusing you online.


You are MAD! Hopefully more Nigerian women begin to think and date outside Nigeria and the black race.

In the hierarchy of men AFRICAN MEN are the lowest and this is a FACT.
Ever seen or heard of any first world African country?

They are so low under the mud that's why you see them dragging pant with women. Ever wonder why you don't see them creating a thread comparing themselves with European,Asian or even Latino Men but Nigerian women?

Low class creatures. Don't build your continent keep running abroad to wipe the ass of a woman that was set up by your fellow man.

Intellectually lazy Clowns.

This remains the most factual and truthful post I have ever come across on this forum, particularly when it comes to female gender bashing threads!

God bless you for this! You couldn't have said it any better

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budaatum:
I borrowed to educate.

Lol!

You get time.

Many of them here are simply haters, they do not wish to learn or face reality. Afterall it's easy to just hate women blindly and follow the bandwagon mentality of misogyny rather than accept the fact that people are different either male or female.

There are good people and there are bad people everywhere, regardless of gender!

Enjoy the rest of your day!

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JIREN01:
it's not vitiligo

Yes sir.

That's why I said this 'looks like'

toyosiolamide:
I do understand chief,anything skin messes most medics up.Infact I hate reviewing skin presentations.Rosea is fine,scaly and pinkish,versicolor is hypopigmented.
Good thing about dermatology is, you only need to see it once and you will never miss it when you see it again.

Ah at least, you can still characterize the lesion!

Anything outside O & G, count me out Tnks tho'

hobyner:
Bruh u reminded me of uncle ruckus in The Boondocks

That racist Self hating on blacks!!

Mbanu!

toyosiolamide:
I doubt,looks more like Ptyriasis versicolor,you may want to read more about it.
Pityriasis versicolor is caused by a type of yeast called Malassezia. This yeast is found on the skin of more than 90% of adults, where it normally lives without causing any problems.

But pityriasis versicolor can develop if this yeast starts to multiply more than usual. It's not clear exactly why this happens in some people and not in others.

Factors that may increase risk,include,living in a warm environment,being a teenager or in early 20s,malnourishment or reduced immunity and wearing tight fitted clothings

ketoconazole shampoo might help,you may need to use this for about 3months otherwise see a doctor or preferably a dermatologist.

All the best.

You're right.

Could be pityriasis versicolor, pityriasis rosea or whatever the heck!

Dermatology messes with my brain mehn, it's not my strong forte at all Hated that dept since med school!

TinkTwice:
Im considering a general hospital, if some other natural tips I'd get from here won't work.
Thanks

Vitiligo may not respond to any natural tip!

Save your energy and see a dermatologist asap. You're welcome.

Hathor5:
Nigerian men want to be leaders/heads/captains without accountability.

They destroy the economy, blame in on the youth who is lazy.

They loot the country's resources, it's the white man and neocolonialism.

They cheat. It's the wife's fault.

Side chick kills them, also the wife's fault.

Children hate them, mother turned them against the father.

They rape, it's the victim's clothes.

Moral decay, it's the slay queen they patronize.

Divorce rate, feminism is to blame.

They can't control themselves but it's the female gender that is illogical and emotional.

Spot on

Go and see a dermatologist!.. This looks like vitiligo.

Stop patronizing chemists, patent drug dealers and quacks! Go to a government approved hospital either teaching hospital or general hospital, demand for a dermatologist.

Therein lies the solution you seek.

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donbachi:
Some women are builders and some destroyers.

Na u know ur wife.if she's a builder and manages more than u.i don't see anything bad in it.but,if a destroyer.dont give It a thought.

Like myself.my wife manages me and my funds well.but,dat does not mean weakness.

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Fela comes to mind easily!

Animal in human skin, animal dey put tie oh, animal dey wear agbada etc

Beast of no Nation!

RIP Baba Fela!!

JovialJune:
Imagine Op already concluding that ladies here will be quick to condemn him and his obviously bad thought process, he is already making his in built selfishness a gender thing, I am so glad his own gender is also telling him the truth, even though there will be some to massage his ego, you reek of insecurity and very low esteem, imagine comparing yourself with her siblings as if it's a competition, are you a child? How old are you?

You are a very selfish person, I blame your gf for telling you things about her life and siblings, so because her bro gave her small funds she should cut off from him and the rest of them? You are a bad energy, their bond will always be there even if they have differences or misunderstandings, it is expected of siblings. If she focuses the whole of her attention on you and at the end of the day, you break up with her, who will loose? Will you help her make amends with her siblings that she neglected?

You are a bad energy, I wish she can see this thread and stay the hell away from you.

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pocohantas:
When they are done, they will makeup. She learns to be submissive and he learns to love her. Happily ever after.




Understatement. There are guys on here that even though I don’t agree with all their views, I just have to agree they are sound. But you see that creature you quoted, VERY DULL.

Lol @the bolded!

Only God knows where vermins like these crawl out from!

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