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Goals of Today's Talk. Recognize that your health is your responsibility (Racism and Bias maybe present)Encourage you to get a Family Physician Encourage you to improve your health literacy . Our Stats. Our life span is shorterWe live sickerWe have more heart disease and strokeWe have mor
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1. John Hamilton BellBarbershop Talk
2. Goals of Todays Talk Recognize that your health is your responsibility (Racism and Bias maybe present)
Encourage you to get a Family Physician
Encourage you to improve your health literacy
3. Our Stats Our life span is shorter
We live sicker
We have more heart disease and stroke
We have more cancer (Prostate, Colon)
We make up more than half of inmate population
4. Will Black Men Health Issues Improve If Barack Obama become President?
5. Health Issues of Black Males Violence
HIV/AIDS
Heart Disease
Diabetes
Cancer (Smoking)
6. Blood pressure greater than 140/ 90 mm
Cholesterol (LDL) greater than 100mg/dl and HDL less than 40mg/dl
Fasting blood sugar greater than 110mg
Prostate specific antigen greater than 4ng
Waist size greater than 40 inches for men
Know Your Numbers
7. Take medicine daily.
Tell your physician if change in erection
Dont stop meds on your own because it effects your nature
Know what is normal for your medical condition
8. Diabetes in African Americans More than 2.8 million African American have diabetes (sugar)
Diabetes contributed to more 25,000 deaths per year
Diabetes causes shorter life span
9. Diabetes (sugar) Education (think Prevention)
Monitor
Diet
Exercise
Medication (s)
10. Cholesterol Medications They decrease your risk for heart disease
They are most often stop by the patient
They must be taken daily
11. Cause unknown
Most common cancer in African American males
Second most common cause of death in men of all ages
Black Men must make a personal decision to get screen
Prostate Cancer InAfrican American Men
12. Prostate Cancer InAfrican American Men In most cases, no symptoms of illness
Annual Prostate exam at age 40 (maybe sooner)
*Prostatic specific Antigen (PSA) and Digital Rectal Exam (DRE)
13. Prostate Cancer
14. Possible Symptoms of Prostate Cancer Difficulty starting urination
Stopping and starting
Frequent urination during day and night
A sudden urge to go
Blood in the urine
Pain when you urinate
15. Prostate Cancer
16. Treatment Options Surgery - remove the cancer (Radical prostatectomy)
Radiation therapy - kill the cancer cells from outside the body or with internal radiation (Brachytherapy)
Hormone therapy - drug treatment blocks testosterone
Robot surgery
17. Consider This Information Understand your prostate biopsy
Get a second (and third or fourth) opinion
Choose the right treatment
Deal with erectile dysfunction
Seek extra help if needed
Understand the role of diet
Consider complementary techniques
18. Colorectal Cancer More than 90% occur in people over 50
Third most common cancer in men and women
Usually no symptoms
19. Erectile Dysfunction
20. Causes of Erectile Dysfunction (ED) Diabetes a major cause of ED
High Bad Cholesterol (LdL)
Bad control is directly related to not being able to get it up
Once it gone that is it
Diabetes and smoking a big no, no
21. Erectile Dysfunction (ED) In African American Males Inability to achieve and maintain erection sufficient to complete satisfactory intercourse
2 to 30 million men in the U.S. have ED
52% of men between 40-70 yrs have some degree of ED
Diabetes, Hypertension, Bp medication, smoking, alcohol, other drugs, stress, poor relations
22. Relationship Between Heart Disease and ED Decreased blood flow in heart vessel causes heart attacks.
Decreased blood flow in the penis causes ED.
Risk factors are the same for both heart disease and ED.
*ED is an early sign of heart disease.
23. What is the reason?
24. What is the reason?
25. Erectile Dysfunction (ED) Best Treated if:
Diabetes under control
Blood pressure under control
Waistline in check
Do not smoke
Drink alcohol in moderation
Exercise on a regular basis
Decrease stress in your life
26. How to Improve Your Love Life: The Role of Fitness Exercise works like Viagra
Exercise slows down ageing process
Improves mental awareness
Prolong activities of daily living
Improves survival if one has a heart attack
Decrease risk of developing cancer
28. Thaddeus John Bell, MD Belltj@comcast.net
www.closingthegapinhealthcare.com
ICYOU.com (Thaddeus J Bell)
3951 West Montegue Ave., North Charleston, South Carolina
843 552 1574 office
29. Conclusion Knowing is not enough. We must apply.
Willing is not enough. We must do.
-Goethe