{"id":111310,"date":"2018-04-09T15:54:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T19:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=111310"},"modified":"2018-04-09T15:54:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T19:54:26","slug":"keep-hydrated-even-if-not-thirsty-says-director-cedimat-heart-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/04\/09\/keep-hydrated-even-if-not-thirsty-says-director-cedimat-heart-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep hydrated, even if not thirsty, says director Cedimat heart center"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_112412\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112412\" style=\"width: 228px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-112412\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Cesar-Herrera-Hoy-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-112412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">C\u00e9sar Herrera \/ Hoy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The chief cardiologist at the Cedimat Heart Center recommends all in the Dominican Republic to avoid long sun exposure, exercising from noon to early afternoon, and to drink lots of liquids now that the summer heat seems to have been early in coming.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Hoy, heart specialist C\u00e9sar Herrera, alerted people to continue hydrating themselves, even when they are not thirsty or sweating. He said the heat causes blood pressure to rise. He said diabetics have to take special care at this time of the year. He said the heat accelerates the body\u2019s metabolism, the body burns more energy, eliminates electrolytes faster, namely sodium, potassium and magnesium.<\/p>\n<p>Herrera heads the team at the Cardiovascular del Centro de Diagn\u00f3stico, Medicina Avanzada y Telemedicina (CEDIMAT) in Santo Domingo, the country\u2019s main heart facility.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hoy.com.do\/cardiologo-pide-a-poblacion-hidratarse-y-evitar-el-sol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hoy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>9 April 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chief cardiologist at the Cedimat Heart Center recommends all in the Dominican Republic to avoid long sun exposure, exercising from noon to early afternoon, and to drink lots of liquids now that the summer heat seems to have been early in coming. In an interview with Hoy, heart specialist C\u00e9sar Herrera, alerted people to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/04\/09\/keep-hydrated-even-if-not-thirsty-says-director-cedimat-heart-center\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}