A Wagener woman is dead and two children are injured following a single-vehicle crash on Camp Rawls Road.
Krisha S. Hobbs, 29, was pronounced dead Friday from blunt force injuries. According to the Aiken County Coroner s Office, Hobbs was traveling west on Camp Rawls Road at a high rate of speed with her two daughters, ages 3 and 8, when the vehicle ran off the left side of the road and struck a tree.
Hobbs and the two girls were not wearing seatbelts. The two girls were transported to the AU Medical Center in serious conditions. Toxicology analysis is pending.
Younger women who should be more protected from cardiovascular disease could instead face a double whammy from obesity and a high-salt diet, research at Augusta University found.
Younger women should benefit from higher levels of estrogen in their bodies, which increases the release of nitric oxide and relaxes blood vessels leading to lower blood pressure, said Dr. Eric Belin de Chantemele, an associate professor of medicine at Medical College of Georgia at AU. But increasingly, younger women are experiencing cardiovascular disease and suffering heart attacks, research shows.
In a 20-year study of heart attack patients from 1995 to 2014, heart attack rates increased for young women but decreased for young men, according to the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Surveillance study. The question is what is overcoming what should be a protective effect and placing them at higher risk, de Chantemele said.
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The Richmond County Coroner s Office is investigating the death of a 3-year-old as suspicious.
According to the coroner s office, the child was transported from her residence on Albermarle Drive to AU Medical Center where she died Wednesday.
The child s body was taken to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for an autopsy.