Mindanao Daily Set B (March 6, 2017)

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Younger employees urged to watch their health EDITOR: CHENG ORDOñEZ

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March 6, 2017

DAVAO DEL NORTE Youthful employees were told to watchtheir lifestyle as heart patients are becoming younger and younger. Dr. Kathleen Rose B. Mata, a Cardiothoracic Surgery Consultant at the Philippine Heart Institute in the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) bared during the Provincial Monthly Convocationthat people who are having heart problems are now becoming

younger. “More specifically for coronary artery disease, it is actually before a ‘disease of the old. But nowadays, the patients are getting younger. We have already patients as young as 40years old having heart attacks,” Mata said, citing that the heart condition is the most common type of acquired classification. This disease blocks the blood vessels causing decreased blood flow to the See urged, page A7

ComVal iRice finalist in pro-poor innovation awards NABUNTURAN, Compostela Valley - After being awarded as one of the 7 finalists during the first Benita and Catalino Yap Foundation (BCYF) innovation awards on February 20, 2017 in Malacañang Palace, President Rodrigo Duterte hands over a check worth PHP192.5 million to Southern Philippines Medical Center Metro Manila, Comval Gov. (SPMC) chief, Dr. Leopoldo Vega, at the Tactical Operations Group (TOG) 11 in Sasa, Davao City on Friday (March Jayvee Tyron Uy is now officially a member of the 3, 2017). The amount was the first tranche of the PHP385 million needed to improve the facilities of the SPMC. Photo by Rene Lumawag/Presidential Photo/PNA Innovators Society for Asia.

Wonderful experience awaits DAVRAA athletes MATI CITY, Davao Oriental - The thousands of delegates and visiting spectators of Southern Mindanao’s biggest sports event to be held in the City of Mati on March 19 to 24 will not only be regaled with “excellence in sports” as the host province, Davao Oriental, will also be showcasing its wondrous and unique ecotourism destinations during the event in a bid to position the province as the new premiere ecotourism destination in Mindanao. See awaits, page A7

Out of 104 nominations, Compostela Valley province secured the second place in Government Service Category positioning rice fortification as their main innovation with Bayanihan para sa Kalusugan- Kusina ng Kalinga (BPSK-KnK) as their central program to combat malnutrition in See awards, page A7

Davao hospital launches new Fibroscan touch in Mindanao By Antonio L. Colina IV of MindaNews

DAVAO CIT Y -- The Davao Doctors Hospital has strengthened its position as the premiere hospital here after it unveiled on Friday the latest P9million Fibroscan touch, the first and only one of its kind in Mindanao, that will revolutionize the “diagnosis and management” of liver disease.

Dr. Marilyn Arguillas, head of the Clinical Head of Endoscopy Unit and Liver Center at the DDH, said in a press conference that the new medical equipment is capable of assessing the severity of liver cirrhosis, which develops after chronic liver scarring or fibrosis in medical parlance, and the amount of fat in the liver. “Our Fibroscan can detect fatty liver, can detect if

the scarring starts to develop on the way to cirrhosis. The journey starts from fatty liver disease, or chronic hepatitis B or C, or from alcoholic liver disease. That journey takes you to the road of cirrhosis,” she said. The hospital also launched in 2012 a similar but older Fibroscan but lacked the capability of determining the amount of liver fat, she said.

Arguillas said the new Fibroscan is equipped with a Controlled Attenuation Parameter, a tool for “noninvasive assessment and accumulation of fat in the liver.” Unlike the invasive biopsy with a 0.001 percent risk of patient mortality, she said the examination could be repeated to monitor the patient’s liver without side effects.

The fatty liver, which develops with sedentary lifestyle, is classified into two types – alcoholic fatty liver and non-alcoholic fatty liver. The non-alcoholic fatty liver, she said, is now more common with the growing popularity of fast-food chains. She said non-alcoholic fatty liver is common among See launches, page A7

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