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The PANS Research Club is an academic organization dedicated to promoting the research interests of students.

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Happy New Month.🎊

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like maintaining a healthy weight, working out frequently, abstaining from tobacco use and excessive alcohol intake, and scheduling routine checkups.

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Millions of people are affected by cancer every year, making it a widespread concern. By joining forces, we have the power to create a world where cancer is no longer a danger to our lives.

Let's also resolve to adopt a lifestyle that can lower the risk of having cancer,

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Happy New Month.🎊

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Happy New Year!🎉

Wishing us a productive and wonderful year!

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The build-up can trigger an inflammatory reaction and a persistent tickly sensation in the chest and throat. In some people, this can lead to severe, hacking coughs.

Lisinopril should not be taken without a prescription from a doctor or a licensed pharmacist.

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Let us learn together today!

What do you know about antihypertensives?

Let's look at Lisinopril today.

Lisinopril

Lisinopril is an Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor. ACE inhibitors reduce blood pressure by relaxing your blood vessels.

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The most common side effect of ACEI class of antihypertensive e.g Lisinopril, is dry cough

Angiotensin II breaks down a substance called bradykinin.1 When angiotensin II is blocked, bradykinin can begin to build up in the airways.

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against HIV and it also does not protect against other STDs

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Let's learn a little about the HIV pill. What do you know about it?

PrEP means Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, and it's the use of anti-HIV medication that keeps HIV negative people from becoming infected. As a prophylactic, this medication can only be used to prevent HIV infection

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and cannot be used to treat it. According to research, PrEP reduces the risk of getting HIV from sex by about 99% and it reduces the risk of getting HIV from injection drug use by at least 74%. Note that PrEP is less effective when not taken as prescribed and it is only effective

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4. Reduce your intake of red meat, fizzy drinks, sweets, and sodium.

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Do you know that hypertension can also be reduced through dietary means and not only through pharmacotherapy?

Let's DASH through this!

DASH stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (high blood pressure). The diet is simple:

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1. Increase your intake of low-fat dairy meals, fruits, and vegetables.

2. Reduce your consumption of foods that are high in saturated fat, cholesterol, and trans fats.

3. Consume more whole grains, fish, poultry, and nuts.

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Meet Arowosegbe Zaynab @TheBlueZayn. She's the General Secretary of the club. She's in charge of all paperwork and correspondence.

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Meet Okafor Francis. He's the Head of Partnership and Fundraising. He's in charge of generation of funds and fostering partnership with like-minded research association.

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hearsay. Remember that anyone can post anything online, so exercise caution when accepting information as fact. This is why research is a structured and systematic process to enable you to separate hearsay from fact

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RESEARCH IS NOT GOOGLING!

While Googling is simply the art of understanding how to search and discover what you're looking for online, research is an organized inquiry process that involves gathering data, validating it, analyzing it, and drawing a conclusion to find a solution

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to a problem or an answer to a question. Use Google for research, not simply to search; to be able to accomplish this, you must be intensely curious, analytically focused, and biased in favor of validating your discoveries so that you may produce objective facts rather than