People with severe psoriasis nearly twice at risk for diabetes

ScienceDaily (Oct. 15, 2012) ? An analysis of 27 studies linking psoriasis in 314,000 individuals with diabetes has found strong correlation between the scaly skin rash and the blood sugar disorder that predisposes patients to heart disease, say UC Davis researchers who led the review.

The findings appear in the Archives of Dermatology.

"Our investigation found a clear association between psoriasis and diabetes," said April Armstrong, assistant professor of dermatology at UC Davis and principal investigator of the study. "Patients with psoriasis and their physicians need to be aware of the increased risk of developing diabetes so that patients can be screened regularly and benefit from early treatment."

Psoriasis is a common skin problem that tends to run in families. It causes a raised red, flaky and sometimes itchy rash, often on the elbows and knees, although it can appear anywhere. It is believed to be an autoimmune disease, in which the body regards its own skin as foreign and mounts an inflammatory response.

Armstrong and her colleagues combined data from 27 observational studies of patients with psoriasis, in what is known as a meta-analysis. Five of the studies assessed the incidence of diabetes -- that is, how many patients with psoriasis developed diabetes during the course of a study, which ranged from 10 to 22 years. The other studies assessed the prevalence of diabetes -- how many patients already had diabetes at the outset of a study. Altogether, the studies evaluated more than 314,000 people with psoriasis and compared them to 3.7 million individuals (controls) without the disease.

Some of the studies classified patients by disease severity. The aggregate data for these studies showed that patients with mild psoriasis are over 1.5 times more likely to have diabetes than the general population while those with severe disease are nearly twice as likely. Among studies that assessed incidence, patients with psoriasis had a 27 percent increased risk of developing diabetes compared with the general population.

All but one study analyzing incidence found a link between psoriasis and diabetes. These studies included patient data from outpatient clinics, insurance claims and hospitals. Diabetes rates were similar in patients despite ethnicity or country where the study was conducted.

"The large sample size and consistent association between psoriasis and diabetes make these study findings very strong and suggest an underlying physiological link between the two diseases," said Armstrong, who directs the Dermatology Clinical Research Unit at UC Davis and the teledermatology program.

While additional research is need to understand how the two diseases are associated, Armstrong believes altered immune pathways may make psoriasis patients more susceptible to developing diabetes.

"There is evidence that fat cells in psoriasis patients may not function normally," she said. "These cells secrete inflammatory substances known as cytokines that increase insulin resistance in the liver and muscle and initiate destruction of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas."

Additional research will also clarify other potential limiting factors in the current study. For example, the study's authors noted that epidemiological or observational studies can be susceptible to confounding factors, such as concurrent medications used to treat psoriasis that may modulate the risk of developing diabetes.

Armstrong's study adds to a growing body of research that shows psoriasis is not just skin deep. "We know patients with psoriasis and hypertension tend to require more aggressive therapy to bring their blood pressure under control," said Armstrong. "We also know that psoriasis patients have higher rates of heart attacks, strokes and cardiovascular-related deaths than the general population. Primary-care physicians need to be aware of these underlying predispositions to disease to provide the best care to their patients."

Armstrong and her colleagues plan to examine endothelial cells -- cells that line blood vessels -- to better understand the underlying physiological basis of psoriasis. They also are collaborating with other research institutions to develop a network to share clinical data on patients with psoriasis.

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1. April W. Armstrong, Caitlin T. Harskamp, Ehrin J. Armstrong. Psoriasis and the Risk of Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Arch Dermatol., 2012 DOI: 10.1001/2013.jamadermatol.406

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How To Communicate If The Government Obliterates The Internet ...

SCENARIO

Your government is displeased with the communication going on in your location and pulls the plug on your internet access, most likely by telling the major ISPs to turn off service.

This is what happened in Egypt Jan. 25, 2012 prompted by citizen protests, with sources estimating that the Egyptian government cut off approximately 88 percent of the country?s internet access. What do you do without internet? Step 1: Stop crying in the corner. Then start taking steps to reconnect with your network. Here?s a list of things you can do to keep the communication flowing.

PREVENTIVE MEASURES

MAKE YOUR NETWORK TANGIBLE

Print out your contact list, so your phone numbers aren?t stuck in the cloud. Some mail services like Gmail allow you to export your online contact list in formats that are more conducive to paper, such as CSV or Vcard, and offer step-by-step guides on how to do this.

BROADCAST ON THE RADIO

CB Radio:Short for ?Citizens Band? radio, these two-way radios allow communication over short distances on 40 channels. You can pick one up for about $20 to $50 at Radio Shack, and no license is required to operate it.

Ham radio:To converse over these radios, also known as ?amateur radios,? you have to obtain an operator?s license from the FCC. Luckily, other Wired How-To contributors have already explained exactly what you need to do to get one and use it like a pro. However, if the President declares a State of Emergency, use of the radio could be extremely restricted or prohibited.

GMRS:The General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) is a licensed land-mobile FM UHF radio service in the United States available for short-distance two-way communication. It is intended for use by an adult individual who possesses a valid GMRS license, as well as his or her immediate family members? They are more expensive than the walkie-talkies typically found in discount electronics stores, but are higher quality.

Family Radio Service:The Family Radio Service (FRS) is an improved walkie-talkie radio system authorized in the United States since 1996. This personal radio service uses channelized frequencies in the ultra high frequency (UHF) band. It does not suffer the interference effects found on citizens? band (CB) at 27 MHz, or the 49 MHz band also used by cordless phones, toys, and baby monitors.

Micro-broadcasting:Micro-broadcasting is the process of broadcasting a message to a relatively small audience. This is not to be confused with low-power broadcasting. In radio terms, it is the use of low-power transmitters to broadcast a radio signal over the space of a neighborhood or small town. Similarly to pirate radio, micro-broadcasters generally operate without a license from the local regulation body, but sacrifice range in favor of using legal power limits.

Packet Radio Back to the ?90s:?There do exist shortwave packet-radio modems. These are also excruciatingly slow, but may get your e-mail out. Like ham radio above it requires a ham radio license because they operate on ham radio frequencies.

TELEPHONE:

Set up a phone tree:According to the American Association of University Women, a phone tree is ?a prearranged, pyramid-shaped system for activating a group of people by telephone? that can ?spread a brief message quickly and efficiently to a large number of people.? Dig out that contact list you printed out to spread the message down your pyramid of contacts.

Enable Twitter via SMS:Though the thought of unleashing the Twitter fire hose in your text message inbox may seem horrifying, it would be better than not being able to connect to the outside world at all. The Twitter website has full instructions on how to redirect tweets to your phone.

Call to Tweet:?A small team of engineers from Twitter, Google and SayNow, a company Google acquired recently, made this idea a reality. It?s already live and anyone can tweet by simply leaving a voicemail on one of these international phone numbers (+16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855) and the service will instantly tweet the message using the hashtag #egypt. No Internet connection is required. People can listen to the messages by dialing the same phone numbers or going to the Twitter account, speak2tweet.

FAX:

If you need to quickly send and receive documents with lengthy or complex instructions, phone conversations may result in misunderstandings, and delivering the doc by foot would take forever. Brush the dust off that bulky old machine, establish a connection by phone first with the recipient to make sure his machine is hooked up, then fax away.

You may not need a fax machine to send or receive faxes if your computer has a dial-up fax application.

NON-VIRTUAL BULLETIN BOARD

Sometimes we get so wrapped up in the virtual world that we forget about resources available in the real world. Physical bulletin boards have been used for centuries to disseminate information and don?t require electricity to function. If you are fortunate enough to be getting information from some other source why not share it with your friends and neighbors with your own bulletin board? Cork, magnetic and marker bulletin boards are as close as your nearest dime store and can be mounted just about anywhere. And if push comes to shove you can easily make your own with scrap wood lying around the house.

Getting back online ? While it might be relatively easy for a government to cut connections by leveraging the major ISPs, there are some places they wouldn?t get to so readily, like privately-owned networks and independent ISPs.

FIND THE PRIVATELY RUN ISPs

In densely populated areas, especially in central business districts and city suburbs there are multiple home WiFi networks overlapping each other, some secure, some not. If there is no internet, open up your WiFi by removing password protection: If enough people do this it?s feasible to create a totally private WiFi service outside government control covering the CBD, and you can use applications that run Bonjour (iChat on Mac for example) to communicate with others on the open network and send and receive documents. **needs more clarification

If you are a private ISP, it?s your time to shine. Consider allowing open access to your Wi-Fi routers to facilitate communication of people around you until the grid is back online.

RETURN TO DIAL-UP

According to an article in the BBC about old tech?s role in the Egyptian protests, ?Dial-up modems are one of the most popular routes for Egyptians to get back online. Long lists of international numbers that connect to dial-up modems are circulating in Egypt thanks to net activists We Re-Build, Telecomix and others.?

Dial-up can be slow. Often, there is a lightweight mobile version of a site that you can load from your desktop browser quickly despite the limitations of dial-up. Examples: mobile.twitter.com, m.facebook.com, m.gmail.com.

AD-HOC NETWORKING

Most wireless routers, PCs, laptops, and even some ultramobile devices like cellphones have the ability to become part of an ?ad hoc? network, where different ?nodes? (all of the devices on the network) share the responsibility of transmitting data with one another. These networks can become quite large, and are often very easy to set up. If used properly by a tech-savvy person, such networks can be used to host temporary websites and chat rooms. There are many internet tutorials on the internet for ad hoc networking, so feel free to Google some.

Apple computers tend to have very accessible ad hoc functionality built in, including a pre-installed chat client (iChat) that will automatically set up an ad hoc ?Rendezvous? chatroom among anybody on the network, without the need for an external service like AIM or Skype. Ad hoc network-hosting functionality is built in to the Wi-Fi menu.

Windows computers have several third-party ad hoc chat applications available (such as Trillian) and setting up an ad hoc Wi-Fi network is almost as simple as on a Mac.

Linux operating systems, of course, have plenty of third-party apps available, and most distros have ad hoc network-creation support built in.

BUILD LARGE BRIDGED WIRELESS NETWORK

Using popular wireless access point devices like a Linksys WRT54G, you can create a huge wireless bridged network ? effectively creating a Local Area Network (LAN), or a private Internet that can be utilized by all users within range using a Wi-Fi enabled device.

You can also link multiple devices together wirelessly, extending the range of your network. Most access points will cover a 100 meter area and if your wireless device is built to support the 802.11n wireless standard, you will get almost a 500 meter coverage area for each access point.

To build a wireless bridge, check out the dd-wrt wiki, and learn how to configure Linksys WRT54G as a wireless client using this Anandtech thread.

NINTENDO DS

A used DS family device can be purchased inexpensively. In addition to wi-fi, the DS supports its own wireless protocols. Using Pictochat, it is possible to chat with nearby DS users without having any DS games. Unfortunately, the range is quite short.

Some games, such as the fourth generation Pokemon games, support mail items. Thus you can send your message under the guise of just playing a game. Mail items can be sent through the Internet if you can get on the net and you and your partner(s) have each other?s friend codes.

The original DS and the DS Lite do support the Opera web browser, but finding the game card and memory pack may be very difficult. Starting with the DSi, Opera is downloadable.

INTRANET

Your computer has the ability to set up your own INTRANET. This was done BEFORE the internet was popularized in two ways: Your computer dialed up other computers and sent them the contents of a message board, or local people people dialed into your computer. A nationwide system can be set up this way with a central location sending to many cities then each city sending out the info locally.

BECOME UNTRACEABLE

If you?re going to post government secrets on your work-around site, you may want to set up an untraceable account. Really, you only need a mail drop, an assumed name, a prepaid credit card you can get at many stores to set up service.

GET SATELLITE ACCESS

You can have very, very slow internet if you have something similar to an Iridium phone, which would allow you to do dial up at 2400 baud, which at least gives you e-mail. This will also work when your government has shut down GSM and telephone access, and will work pretty much anywhere on the planet. If you?re in the right place, get yourself KA-SAT access which is satellite broadband and will not be routed through any internet exchange that certain local governments may monitor or block (unless that government is part of EU or er ? Uncle Sam.

BACK TO BASICS

Make some noise: Have an air horn or other loud instrument handy. It may just come down to being able to alert people in your local geographic area, who would otherwise be unaware of an emergency. You may also want to learn a bit about Morse code and have a cheat sheet available.

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SOURCE:?Before It?s News

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Team Building Activities | Personal Business Ideas

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The number of fun team building activities you can utilize to improve productivity at work are limited only by the imagination. From more simple and traditional games and sport-related activities, to more elaborate adventures drawing inspiration from popular reality tv shows, there are many ways to have fun while learning to work together as a team.

Creative and critical thinking, trust-building, problem solving, conflict resolution, and more are involved in many of these activities that give you and your team a chance to get to know and appreciate one another better as people outside of your typical environment, and help strengthen and revitalize work relationships. Some popular ideas include scavenger hunts, music and rhythm exercises, and other physical activities or games that require people to interact, work together, and have fun. Even a team cooking activity can provide a valuable team building experience. Many approaches to team building incorporate humor as an essential component to helping people lighten up, relax, and explore their potential as a group working together.

Some of the essentials to building an effective team include:
-?? ?helping each individual feel like a valuable member of the team with a unique purpose to fulfill that contributes to a common goal.
-?? ?encouraging open, non-threatening communication
-?? ?overcoming any barriers to group cohesiveness
-?? ?providing safe ways to manage conflict
-?? ?facilitating group interaction

Whether you have a new group of people who need to quickly get to know one another in order to form effective working relationships; renew an atmosphere of enthusiasm in a work environment that has grown stale or unproductive; or tackle some difficult issues such as the need for restructuring, or work on interpersonal conflict, there are many fun and helpful activities that can help accomplish these goals.
Depending on the size of your organization, the seriousness of the issues you need to address, and your current leadership capabilities, you may want to bring in a professional consultant, or order products you can implement on your own. Try browsing some of the latest ideas in fun team building activities online to get inspired and start considering the best approach for your team. Although the right solution will depend on the particulars of your situation, most team building activities are designed to suit a wide variety of groups, and can generally be adjusted to accommodate your needs.

Enjoy getting your group together for some enjoyable time outside of the office, and bring new vitality and cohesiveness to your organization. This investment in your people will have innumerable rewards in improving job satisfaction, reducing employee turnover and the associated expenses, and creating a better work environment for everyone. Why not take advantage of some proven strategies to creating a more effective team, and have a little fun while you?re at it?

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Causes and Symptoms of Sleep Apnea - Fitness After 40

A term which is casually thrown about these days, "sleep apnea" is actually a very serious sleep disorder affecting over 18 million American sleepers. It is a condition in which a person's breathing is continuously interrupted during sleep. Not only is the breathing interrupted many many times, awakening the sleeper each time, but the actual flow of oxygen can be interrupted for as few as 10 seconds to as many as 60 seconds or longer.

In order to resume normal breathing EVERY TIME THIS HAPPENS, the brain has to awaken the individual each time. This cycle of breathing being disrupted and the brain awakening the individual can be repeated hundreds of times during a single sleep period.

Sleep apnea deprives the body of sleep and oxygen. If left untreated the condition only gets worse. High blood pressure can be a result as can other types of cardiovascular disease. Sleep apnea can eventually become so severe that it could endanger your life...both directly and indirectly.

SYMPTOMS OF SLEEP APNEA

The most obvious symptom of sleep apnea is a constant feeling of dullness, tiredness and grogginess throughout the day. Many people with this disorder, who often do not realize they have it, will frequently fall asleep during daytime hours. This makes sense since a person with sleep apnea does not ever really have a chance to fall into a deep sleep.

There are other symptoms associated with sleep apnea. Those associated with sleeping including profuse sweating during sleep, gasping or choking, unusually loud snoring and waking suddenly and/or frequently to catch breath. By the way, if the doctor ever asked, or if the paper you filled out for him or her asked if you had nighttime sweats, sleep apnea was one of the things they were looking for.

If you have sleep apnea, when awake you may experience an inability to focus, concentrate and/or remember facts. Sleep apnea can also cause morning headaches and a sore throat or dry mouth upon awakening. You may notice your attention span getting shorter and your judgment and problem-solving abilities may not be as before. You may also experience mood swings or depression. Impotence and weight gain are also symptoms of sleep apnea.

Quick comment on that last statement: Weight gain can be a cause of impotence and sleep apnea, so a vicious circle can be established.

Those individuals who do have undiagnosed and/or untreated sleep apnea can suffer other consequences including an increased risk of becoming involved in driving-related accidents and a reduced ability to carry out their work-related functions.

The word "apnea" is actually a Greek word meaning "without breath".

In one type of sleep apnea, the muscles found inside the windpipe which are located at the back of the throat soften and as they soften, they relax, causing a blockage inside this airway.

OBSTRUCTED SLEEP APNEA

Because these unnoticed but very important muscles support the tongue, tonsils or uvula, a weakness of the muscles supporting these body parts can also cause the blockage. The blockage prevents an adequate supply of air from entering normally. The most common form of sleep apnea is referred to as OSA or Obstructed Sleep Apnea.

Sleep apnea comes in light cases, really bad cases, and every type inbetween. Sometimes something as simple as exercises for sleep apnea, can do the trick as can weight loss...two of the most common home remedies for sleep apnea.

CENTRAL SLEEP APNEA AND MIXED APNEA

With a far less common form of sleep apnea, Central Sleep Apnea, here is no blockage as in OSA. Instead, for some reason, the individual's brain is not able to send the messages necessary to instruct the appropriate muscles to carry out the breathing processes. When blocked airways (obstructive sleep apnea) and loss of brain control (central sleep apnea) occur simultaneously the resulting form of sleep apnea is called Mixed Apnea.

Several factors are believed responsible for causing sleep apnea. The largest group at risk is males aged 40 or older. As mentioned earlier, being overweight is an aggravating factor, as is smoking, overuse of alcohol and sedative use. An irregular sleep schedule, family history of sleep apnea, nasal congestion, snoring and problems with the tonsils, adenoids, tongue, chin, septum, vocal cords can all contribute to sleep apnea.

The only way to really find out if you have sleep apnea is to have a sleep study done. This is not complicated, and most health insurance plans will cover it. For someone who does have sleep apnea, such a simple test can be a lifesaver. For the test, you just show up, get some monitors attached, and go to sleep. The medical team does the rest. "Rest" Get it?

Okay, bad joke, but, getting treatment for sleep apnea if you do have it can be a real lifesaver.

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