Serious trauma like a gunshot wound can cause massive blood loss. People sustaining such injuries have a 50/50 chance of survival; a coin flip. Now scientists at Tulane University hoped to better those odds by turning to a product you might have in your home; perfume.
As study author Lu Qi, a professor at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine shared, “The quality of social contact appears to be more important for heart health in people with diabetes than the number of engagements.”
“It’s an important piece of work,” said Diego Rose, a nutrition researcher at Tulane University who was not involved in the study.
“We saw more or less a linear, direct relationship between alcohol intake and blood pressure,” said Paul Whelton, MD (Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA).
“It’s an important piece of work,” said Diego Rose, a nutrition researcher at Tulane University who was not involved in the study.
Dr. Paul K. Whelton, a professor at Tulane University and one of the authors of the study, says that one of the main benefits of research like this is that, unlike with a clinical or observational-style study, this analysis could determine what others had already suspected was true: that drinking low levels of alcohol will still raise your blood pressure.
It’s not entirely clear why alcohol would drive up blood pressure, said co-author Dr. Paul Whelton, chair of global public health at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans.
“To our knowledge, our study is the first to test the effectiveness of a community health worker-led intervention on blood pressure control,” said Dr. Jiang He, the lead study author and director of the Translational Science Institute at Tulane University.
"We shouldn’t be surprised that we’re going to have sporadic outbreaks again," said Dr. Thom Eisele, professor and director of the Center for Applied Malaria Research and Evaluation at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
That’s according to a new study from Tulane University researchers looking at the demographics of these events.