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Margie Parham, MS, RN, MPH/PhDc
Global Health Promotion Education Specialist
Empowering individuals with Health Knowledge
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Research Articles
Men's Health
Page: 1 2 June 27, 2011 If you don’t know what your prostate is or what it does, you’re certainly not alone: most men don’t. But you really should. More than 30 million men suffer from prostate conditions that negatively affect their quality of life.
• Over 50% of men in their 60s and as many as 90% in their 70s or older have symptoms of an enlarged prostate (BPH).
• Each year over 230,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer and about 30,000 will die of it.
• Prostatitis is an issue for men of all ages and affects 35% of men aged 50 and older.
This website offers you a guide to the prostate and various conditions that can affect your health. June 30, 2011 Approximately 20% of the estimated 1.2 million persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the United States at the end of 2008 were not aware of their infection. February 14, 2011 Linking stress and blood pressure challenging
Your body produces a surge of hormones when you're in a stressful situation. These hormones temporarily increase your blood pressure by causing your heart to beat faster and your blood vessels to narrow. September 20, 2013 Superinfection is defined as the reinfection of an individual who already has an established infection with a heterologous HIV strain. September 18, 2010 Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men in the United States, other than skin cancer. This website will help to learn about testing to find prostate cancer early, treating the disease if you’ve already been diagnosed, and getting support on your cancer journey (American Cancer Society, 2010). Page: 1 2
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