“One exhaled breath can tell about
obesity, heart failure or cancer:
May be taken right in the doctor’s office soon.”
~ Cynthia G. Creel
April 1, 2013
April 1, 2013
My story:
1:30 am driving my car I missed judged and turned just a little wide when I was 21 years old. The red lights appeared behind me and I was pulled over. No matter if your in the right a scary event to me at the time, I don‘t drink, I knew the officer thought I might have from the evidence of driving and time.
I was asked questions and quickly the officer said to “Drive more carefully” and I could go. My life so far has never included a breath test for being drunk.
Have a breath test to help discover something beyond what we are seeing at the site, at the time is ideal to help prevent a tragedy from happening especially if it is inexpensive and quick.
The Past Studies:
In 2006 (3) a study discovery that ordinary dog could be trained to sniff out lung and breast cancer from exhaled breath. With every step that is taken there comes new ideas from past ideas.
The future is bright:
In the near future there could be more to the breath test then taking someone off the roads. New studies show the possibilities of examination and analyzing exhaled breath to foretell everything from
heart disease to obesity to some forms of cancer.
The new frontier of medicine is showing exhaled breath is unique as a finger print and when examined it can tell a hidden story of what is going on in the body. Not the smell, but different gases analyzed indicating a higher chance of having different conditions.
A new study (7) examining almost 800 people tested the new research found hydrogen and methane gases had a connection with obesity.
Another study (11) out of Cleveland finds a single breath test can analysis acute decompensate heart failure (ADHF). One breath can be tested and diagnose heart failure with high accuracy which could be used in the future as part of the point-of care monitoring and screening.
One more study (4) connects the link of what is found in our “Breath print” that could distinguish between “healthy” and “cancerous” breath including the type of cancer regardless of age, gender, life style or other confounding factors. The cancer has a unique pattern picked up in the gases it presents compared to other cancer types. This could all lead to a quick, low cost, simple tool that we currently do not have available.
Into the future:
Currently it is clear we have major difficulties. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (13) reports Obesity is common and increasing affecting every state in the Untied States in 2009 it had jumped 2.4 million over 2 year period of time with an annual estimated medical cost of as high as $147 billion. Another report from the CDC (6) almost 6 million with heart failure contributing to 1 in 9 deaths in 2008, costing the United States $34.4 billion each year. With another CDC report showing the National Institutes of Health, estimating the cost of cancer as $219 billion each year.
Final thoughts:
Around 300 billions being spent on obesity, heart failure and cancers combined it should be a top priority to have a tool to help detect many conditions at the time of being examined so prompt actions could be taken that could save a life.
There are many indicators from our bodies that many be visible like excess weight or invisible like a “breath print”. Being proactive is a part of the True Path of Health that could give a “breath print” to be thankful for.
Remember vote with your money to see the change in companies to support the world you would like to live in.
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Sources:
(1) http://content.onlinejacc.org/article.aspx?articleid=1671100#topLocation breath and heart failure
(2) http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2013/12_0097.htm eletronic record keeping nationally helps
(3) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16484712 dog detect cancer thourhg smell 2006
(4) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2939793/ detection of lung, breast, colorectal and prostate cancer with breath
(5) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/behindtheheadlines/news/2013-03-06-breath-test-could-help-spot-stomach-cancer-early/ breatj test amd stp,acj camcer
(6) http://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/data_statistics/fact_sheets/docs/fs_heart_failure.pdf fact sheet Heart failure
(7) http://jcem.endojournals.org/content/early/2013/03/22/jc.2012-3144.abstract breath test and obesity
(8) http://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fs_atrial_fibrillation.htm atrial fibrillation atrial fibrillation fact sheet
(9) http://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fs_heart_failure.htm heart failure fact sheet and info.
(10) http://www.onlinepcd.com/article/S0033-0620(12)00083-7/abstract
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(12) http://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/data_statistics/fact_sheets/images/fs_atrial_fibrillation.jpg cdc
(13) http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/pdf/2010-08-vitalsigns.pdf
(14) http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/data/state.htm
(15) http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/publications/factsheets/prevention/pdf/cancer.pdf
CDC obesity in the United States.
Heart failure deaths In the United States
CDC cancer rate in the United States
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