Urinary tract symptoms are frequently lacking in the elderly. The presentations may be vague with incontinence, a change in mental status, or fatigue as the only symptoms, while some present to a health care provider with sepsis, an infection of the blood, as the first symptoms.
This year, more than 300,000 Americans will die from illnesses related to overweight and obesity. Obesity contributes to the number-one cause of death in our nation: heart disease. Excess weight has also led to an increase in the number of people suffering from Type 2 diabetes.
1 More than 140,000 people die each year from stroke in the United States. 2  Stroke is the leading cause of serious, long-term disability in the United States. 3  Each year, approximately 795,000 people suffer a stroke. 4  About 600,000 of these are first attacks, and 185,000 are recurrent attacks. Stroke accounted for about one of every 17 deaths in the United States in 2006. 2  Stroke mortality for 2005 was 137,000. 3  From 1995â2005, the stroke death rate fell ~30 percent and the actual number of stroke deaths declined ~14 percent.