disabilities. not making that payment will be devastating to retirees, especially low income seniors who, on average, don t have the resources to withstand the hit. in interviews with more than a dozen americans who receive federal benefits, nearly all said and may delay payment would have immediate repercussions on their ability to pay for housing and groceries. we re say case scenarios, doing without blood pressure medications, returning to work. the prospect of rejoining the labor force after years of being away made the makeshift. current msnbc political analyst claire mccaskill, clara, thanks so much for being with. yes let s get reaction from tonight s news. how significant is this? will we see an end by the end of the week? you know, alicia, this gonna be some needle threading that s gonna have to go on, because even if kevin mccarthy makes a deal, and that s keep in mind most of us don t want the deal that kevin mccarthy is pushing for but this has to be a compromise because
Personalized blood pressure treatment helped some patients to achieve lower blood pressure from one drug rather than another, questioning the current treatment strategy.
this was an interesting study taking place in finland, they sampled or survey 6,000 adults in the largest cities of finland about their access, use and frequenting of how often they went within green and blue spaces and they found those who had the highest frequency of visits to green spaces had lower use of the medications you mentioned, a 30% reduction in the use of blood pressure medications, and a 25% reduction in the use of asthma medications. but maybe more claritin. i thought it was vitamin d meaning sunshine and moving. they can t really tell from the study what exactly the link is. but interesting, it was not good enough to look at green and blue spaces so you couldn t have a few of the hudson river and have this effect. there s something about getting up and going. so there may be a link there both with increased physical
frequented green spaces usedless mental health medications and blood pressure medications by about 30% and a 25% or more decrease in asthma medications. it s hard to know what the cause and effect relationship here is but you can surmise that it has to do in some part by possibly lower stress hormones. sounds like a recipe for success. before we let you go, military veterans as we know, there s an acute crisis when it comes to treatment. this is a huge step forward and so important. we know that 2020 took the lives of 6,000 vets. the 13th leading cause of death second leading cause of death for vets under the age of 45.
summer, that was really the point when things started to look quite different from earlier years. so the first half of last year, in fact, deaths looked quite similar to the levels they had been at pre pandemic in 2019. it was only from june onwards that things started to really spiral, and that so we started to see people wait on trolleys outside a&e in numbers we normally associate with winter. so that s one thing we can see going on. another is the general health of the population and not only after effects of covid infections themselves, but also all those missed doctors appointments and treatments people may not have been totally up to date with after the pandemic. so we ve seen a big fall in blood pressure medications and we can see that many of the excess deaths are in men in their 50s and 60s, and they ve also been caused by heart problems. so we are starting to get a picture of what s wrong here. it to get a picture of what s wrong here. , ., , ., , .,, here. it needs to be a