Jeremy Solomon Opticians Of Welwyn Garden City Expands Online To Help A Larger Audience

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2012Jeremy Solomon Opticians is venturing online in order to expand his reach, and help the online community answer their eye care questions, by writing expert articles on all topics. Jeremy aims to be recognised as one of the best independent opticians.

(1888PressRelease) July 11, 2012 - Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire - As part of Jeremy Solomon's new push to become the established best opticians in Welwyn Garden City( http://jeremysolomonopticians.co.uk/ ) and growing its audience further afield Jeremy Solomon Opticians has launched a new website.

Jeremy Solomon is the head optometrist and owner since 1990 and has served 10's of thousands of happy customers during that time. The new website is to a very high standard,which is what you should come to expect about the service products and aftercare, Jeremy says.

The reason for the new investment into a new website and wanting to build new customer relationships online is because of the continued success of the family run business. Since the doors opened 22 years ago, there has been a steady growth in customers up to a point today where Jeremy Solomon saw an opportunity to expand his reputation online and seek further recognition in the eye care community, aiming to become one of the best independent opticians in the UK.

A customer recently left a testimonial which demonstrates the growing geographical area of where people are travelling to visit Jeremy Solomon Opticians -

"I travel far to see Jeremy - that speaks for itself...." R WHEELER (BIGGLESWADE)

Biggleswade is more than 22 miles away from the practice!

What is different about this independent opticians website is that it's more usable and provides more eye care information due to the commitment from Jeremy Solomon to write articles that will help existing customers and visitors, before they even have to physically visit an optician. Furthermore there is a GOC registered optician replying to your questions the very same day via phone and email between 9am and 5:30pm, Monday to Saturday.

Along with the new website has come new services, including Laser eye surgery advice( http://jeremysolomonopticians.co.uk/services/laser-eye-surgery-advice ), where by Jeremy Solomon offers impartial advice and can refer you to an experienced ophthalmologist. Jeremy Solomon also likes to emphasise the special home visiting service for any customers that can't reach him at the practice, or would like the convenience of completing an eye test at home.

There is more good news too; the website is hosting special promotions which will see you save money on things like eye tests in the future for example. As of July the special online offer is free lenses with frames( http://jeremysolomonopticians.co.uk/promotions ).

Any savvy and money conscious existing or new customers should take a visit to the promotions page on JeremySolomonOpticians.co.uk before arriving to the practice.

In the future Jeremy Solomon aims to provide his services to a wider audience, attracting customers from nearby towns such as Hatfield, Enfield, Stevenage, and parts of North London. Furthermore there are ideas of turning the website into an online shop, selling contact lenses, glasses and accessories, from his store, for the convenience of his customers.

About Jeremy Solomon Opticians

Jeremy Solomon Opticians has been delivering eye care to Hertfordshire in the UK for 22 years. The practice is located outside the front entrance of the Howard Centre in Welwyn Garden City. Jeremy Solomon Opticians stands out because of its level of customer service, whilst still being affordable. Jeremy has been published in Hertfordshire life magazine more than several times to inform its readers of the developments of eye care. The new website is called http://JeremySolomonOpticians.co.uk.

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Obesity, larger waist size associated with better outcomes in heart failure patients

ScienceDaily (July 3, 2012) — A slim waist and normal weight are usually associated with better health outcomes, but that's not always the case with heart failure patients, according to a new UCLA study.

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Researchers found that in both men and women with advanced heart failure, obesity -- as indicated by a high body mass index (BMI) -- and a higher waist circumference were factors that put them at significantly less risk for adverse outcomes.

The study findings are published in the July 1 online issue of the American Journal of Cardiology.

Heart failure affects 5.8 million people, including 2.5 million women. Approximately one-half to two-thirds of heart failure patients are overweight or obese.

Women and men are known to have differences in body composition and body-fat distribution, and this study is one of the first to specifically assess the impact of BMI and waist circumference on women and compare it with men.

The findings also offer further insight into an observed phenomenon in chronic heart failure known as the "obesity paradox": Obesity is a known risk factor for developing heart disease and heart failure, but once heart failure has manifested, being overweight may provide some protective benefits.

"The study provides us with more insight about how both genders of heart failure patients may be impacted by the obesity paradox," said senior author Dr. Tamara Horwich, an assistant professor of cardiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. "Heart failure may prove to be one of the few health conditions where extra weight may prove to be protective."

For the study, researchers analyzed data on advanced heart failure patients treated at UCLA Medical Center from 1983 to 2011. The team assessed 2,718 patients who had their BMI measured at the beginning of heart failure treatment and 469 patients who had their waist circumference measured at the beginning of treatment.

Using standardized measures, the researchers identified men or women as having a high BMI if they were greater or equal to 25 kg/m² -- this included both overweight patients (25 to 29.9 kg/m²) and obese patients (30 kg/m² or greater).

For men, a high waist circumference was considered 40 inches (102 cm) or greater, and for women, 37 inches (88 cm) or greater. This assessment also included patients who were either overweight or obese.

At the two-year follow-up, researchers used statistical analysis and found that in men, a high waist circumference and high BMI were associated with event-free survival from adverse outcomes like death, the need for a heart transplant, or the need for ventricular assist device placement.

Women with a higher BMI also had better outcomes than their normal-weight counterparts, and women with a high waist circumference also trended toward improved outcomes.

Both men and women with a normal BMI and waist circumference were at a substantially higher risk for these adverse outcomes. In fact, a normal BMI was associated with significantly worse outcomes -- a 34 percent higher risk in men and a 38 percent higher risk in women -- than a high BMI.

Normal waist circumference was also associated with an increased risk of adverse outcomes in both genders, with men's risk doubling and women's risk tripling.

"We knew that obesity might provide a protective benefit for heart failure patients, but we didn't know whether this obesity paradox applied specifically to women with heart failure, as well as men -- and it does," Horwich said.

BMI measurement has been used for years as a surrogate measure of body fat. Since it measures all mass -- including lean muscle, which weighs more than fat -- the measurement may not be specific for total body fat. Waist circumference is a newer addition that may provide a more direct connection to body fat, since it measures the fat accumulated around the belly.

"The study also demonstrates how BMI and waist circumference can be used together to provide a more accurate measure of fat in the body to help determine obesity and assess risk," said the study's first author, Adrienne L. Clark, a resident in the department of medicine at the Geffen School of Medicine.

According to Horwich, no one knows exactly why the obesity paradox exists for heart failure patients, but there are several possible explanations.

Being underweight is traditionally associated with a poorer prognosis in heart failure patients. Obesity may be at the other end of the spectrum, and patients may thereby benefit from increased muscle mass, as well as metabolic reserves in the form of fatty tissue. In addition, increased levels of serum lipoproteins that are associated with increased body fat may play an anti-inflammatory role, neutralizing circulating toxins and inflammation-related proteins.

Obese patients also present at an earlier stage of heart failure due to increased symptoms and functional impairment caused by excess body weight, so they may be getting help sooner, which also could improve outcomes, the researchers said.

The next steps in research will include larger studies with longer follow-up times, as well as a closer look at the physiology behind the obesity paradox.

The study was funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health (grant 1K23HL085097).

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Excess maternal weight before and during pregnancy can result in larger babies

ScienceDaily (May 22, 2012) — Excess weight in pregnant women, both before pregnancy and gained during pregnancy, is the main predictor of whether mothers will have larger than average babies, which can result in increased risk of cesarean section or trauma during delivery, states a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

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Women with diabetes in pregnancy or gestational diabetes are at increased risk of having a large-for-gestational-age baby. Called macrosomia, it is defined as an infant whose weight is above the 90th percentile of Canadian fetal growth curves, or more than 4 kg. Current clinical practice focuses on managing glucose levels in women with these conditions to reduce the risk of having larger babies. Recent studies have shown a link between maternal glucose levels in women without gestational diabetes and the risk of having a larger baby.

Proposed new criteria suggest lowering the glucose levels for diagnosing gestational diabetes to help identify women who might be at risk of having a large-for-gestational-age baby.

To determine the effects of a variety of maternal factors such as obesity, glucose levels and lipid levels on infant birth weight, researchers from Mount Sinai Hospital, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), University of Toronto, and St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, conducted a study with 472 women -- 368 with normal glucose tolerance and 104 with impaired glucose tolerance.

They found that excess weight before pregnancy and the amount of weight gain during pregnancy were the strongest metabolic predictors of whether a woman would have a large-for-gestational-age baby. Elevated glucose levels had a relatively modest impact as did lipid levels.

"Gestational impaired glucose tolerance was not a significant independent predictor of having a large-for-gestational-age infant," writes Dr. Ravi Retnakaran, Mount Sinai Hospital, with coauthors. "Similarly, none of the lipid measures was independently associated with birth weight or large-for-gestational-age infant. These data suggest that maternal weight and its associated circulating factors have a greater impact on infant birth weight than do mild glucose intolerance and lipid levels in women without gestational diabetes."

"In the context of the current obesity epidemic, these data support the importance of targeting healthy body weight in young women as a strategy for reducing the risk of excessive fetal growth and infant macrosomia," conclude the authors. "Furthermore, these findings suggest that, in the care of overweight or obese women in pregnancy, closer monitoring of weight gain during pregnancy may be warranted."

In a related commentary, Dr. Edmond Ryan, University of Alberta, writes, "Recently proposed criteria

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