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.
Four million suffer from angina. 435,000 American women have heart attacks annually; 83,000 are under age 65; 35,000 are under 55. The average: 70.4. 42% of women who have heart attacks die within 1 year, compared to 24% of men. Under age 50, women s heart attacks are twice as likely as men s to be fatal. 267,000 women die each year from heart attacks, which kill six times as many women as breast cancer. Another 31, 837 women die each year of congestive heart failure, representing 62.6% of all heart failure deaths.