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THURSDAY, July 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Obesity, depression, high blood pressure, asthma: These are just a few of the chronic health conditions that are now affecting almost 40 million Americans between the ages 18 and 34, new federal data shows.Overall, the 2019 data found that more than half of young adults (nearly 54%) now deal with at least one chronic health issue. Almost one in every four (22%) have two or more of these conditions, according to a team of researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “The most prevalent conditions were obesity (25.5%), depression (21.3%), and high blood pressure (10.7%),” said a team led by Kathleen Watson, of the CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.High cholesterol levels...

THURSDAY, July 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Efforts to end the global HIV epidemic have slowed as money and attention go toward fighting COVID-19, new report shows."This is an alarm to the world to say that COVID-19 has blown the AIDS response significantly off track," Matthew Kavanaugh, deputy executive director of UNAIDS, said of the findings.Among the concerns are that HIV testing has slowed or stopped in places dealing with COVID surges. HIV infections have climbed in parts of Asia and the Pacific, where they had been falling.A global decline in new infections is leveling off instead of dropping as it had been for years, endangering the United Nations' goal of fewer than 370,000 new HIV infections by 2025. Last year there were still 1.5 million. About 650,000 people died last year...

THURSDAY, July 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A growing number of younger American adults are dying of heart failure, with Black Americans being the hardest-hit, a new study finds.Heart failure is a chronic condition in which the heart muscle cannot pump blood as well as it should, leading to symptoms like fatigue, breathlessness and swelling in the legs. The condition is treatable, but it can prove deadly if it progresses to a severe stage.While heart failure is usually diagnosed in older people, it can strike young adults — particularly if they have risk factors like obesity and diabetes.In the new study, researchers found that heart failure deaths among Americans younger than 45 have been on the rise since 2012. That was after years of remaining stable or, at times, dipping.There...

THURSDAY, July 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Some 27 million people worldwide could suffer long-lasting damage to their sense of smell or taste following COVID-19 infection, and women are particularly vulnerable, a new study reports.“Our findings are likely to be of substantial relevance to general doctors and otolaryngologists in the counseling of patients with smell and taste disorders post-COVID-19,” according to the researchers, led by Song Tar Toh, from the department of otorhinolaryngology-head and neck surgery at Singapore General Hospital.The findings were published online July 27 in the BMJ.Changes in smell or taste is common in COVID-19 patients, with as many as half, on average, reporting these symptoms. While most patients are expected to recover their sense of smell or...