{"id":13351,"date":"2006-08-18T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/50-villa-mella-residents-hypertensive\/"},"modified":"2006-08-18T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T01:43:56","slug":"50-villa-mella-residents-hypertensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2006\/08\/18\/50-villa-mella-residents-hypertensive\/","title":{"rendered":"50% Villa Mella residents hypertensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Research has shown that 50% of the residents of Villa Mella (National District) suffer from high blood pressure, according to a report by Diario Libre. Out of 400 people tested, 175 suffered from the condition, whereas 74 have asthma, 40 have diabetes, 24 with rheumatoid arthritis, and 9 have pulmonary tuberculosis. The research was conducted by doctors Keila West, Carmen Betances, Maria Francisco and Gladys Soto from the Dominican-Japanese Medical Education Center, who expressed concern about the results. Villa Mella is well known for the abundance of chicharrones (deep-fried pork rind) in people&#8217;s diets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research has shown that 50% of the residents of Villa Mella (National District) suffer from high blood pressure, according to a report by Diario Libre. Out of 400 people tested, 175 suffered from the condition, whereas 74 have asthma, 40 have diabetes, 24 with rheumatoid arthritis, and 9 have pulmonary tuberculosis. The research was conducted &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2006\/08\/18\/50-villa-mella-residents-hypertensive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[225,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351"}],"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=13351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}