United States: Some people get really annoyed or distracted when they see others fidgeting, like tapping their feet or shaking their legs. This feeling is actually very common, and research shows that about one in three people experience it. It’s called “misokinesia,” which means “hatred of movements.”
Scientists didn’t basically study it much before, but here recently they’ve been actually learning more about it, mainly since it’s connected to another condition which is called “misophonia.” People with misophonia get always upset when they hear repetitive sounds, like someone chewing or tapping a pen.
As reported by the sciencealert.com, using new prevalence data, a team led by CDC researcher Margaret Carroll found that ‘High total cholesterol prevalence declined from 1999-2000 to 2013-2014 and then did not change significantly in the years since.”
However, the ratio of men and women having high total cholesterol was more or less the same with 10.6 percent and 11.9 percent respectively said the researchers.
The new data were obtained from a huge ongoing federal health interview survey of Americans.
Other trends Carroll and his team identified include decline in percentage of adults with unhealthy or low total cholesterol levels over the decades needed for a risky low level of blood HDL “good” cholesterol.
The report revealed that completely eradicating this favorable type of cholesterol from the bloodstream of adults in U.S. was unhealthily low and prevailed between 13.8% from 2021—2023. That has improved from 22.2 percent that the CDC researchers observed in the 2007-2008 fiscal year.
There were some deviations based on gender and age When it came to the amount of cholesterol among them.
For example, rates of total cholesterol peaked in middle age: 16. According to the report 7% of adults aged 40 to 59 years had high total cholesterol but as the population advanced in their 60s and entered into what might be called their ‘Medicare years’ the incidence of high cholesterol reduced to 11.3 percent.
Men with low level of HDL were affected more than the women with the prevalence rates being 21.5% and 6.6% respectively.
That’s not a big surprise, since experts have long known that one of the health benefits of estrogen is a lift in levels of HDL cholesterol.
Conversely, they may not opt to do so before reaching menopausal age, says a Cleveland Clinic specialist.
“When estrogen levels lessen, LDL cholesterol rises and HDL cholesterol lowers,” the clinic blog by cardiologist Dr. Leslie Cho reads. “That can lead to fat and cholesterol plaque formation in every artery that is part of the heart.