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Posted on April 3, 2008 - Filed Under Heart Disease, health coupons | Leave a Comment
Vascular Inflammation and Obesity
Most people know that being overweight adds to the risk of heart problems. And now there is new research out that helps explain just a little more about why that’s so.
Body fat isn’t just an inert storage depot for unused energy. Aside from increasing blood pressure and high cholesterol, fat also contains hormonal mediators. The more fat, the more mediators.
One type of these mediators, cytokines, cause the inflammation that destabilizes plaque build-up on arterial walls, and if a piece breaks off and causes a blockage, you know what’s next: heart attack!
There are markers that doctors can test… Continue reading
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Vascular Inflammation and Obesity
Most people know that being overweight adds to the risk of heart problems. And now there is new research out that helps explain just a little more about why that’s so.
Body fat isn’t just an inert storage depot for unused energy. Aside from increasing blood pressure and high cholesterol, fat also contains hormonal mediators. The more fat, the more mediators.
One type of these mediators, cytokines, cause the inflammation that destabilizes plaque build-up on arterial walls, and if a piece breaks off and causes a blockage, you know what’s next: heart attack!
There are markers that doctors can test… Continue reading
Read More..>>Heart Disease Cure - You Need to Take Responsiblity For Reversing Heart Disease
Posted on March 5, 2008 - Filed Under Heart Disease | Leave a Comment
The problem with a word like disease is that you tend to think that it is something that is like a germ or a virus that attacks your body. The word “disease” actually comes from the Old French word desaise, which means ‘lack of ease’.
So Heart Disease is not something external that attacks you body - it is the result of YOUR day to day actions over a period of time.
The good news is that if heart disease is caused by you, it can therefore be controlled by you!
Yes in the advanced stages you may also need to take… Continue reading
Read More..>>Symptoms Of Heart Disease - The Masters of Disguise
Posted on March 5, 2008 - Filed Under Heart Disease | Leave a Comment
Statistic after statistic shows that heart disease is on the increase and yet most of us do not recognize the symptoms of heart disease.
The term Heart Disease covers a number of more specific diseases, which affect either the heart itself or the arteries supplying blood to the heart. However the common factor in 99% of heart disease is that it is progressive, and normally only comes to light when it is at an advanced stage or after a heart attack.
So although you may have heart disease and your arteries are becoming more and more blocked day-by-day it will take years… Continue reading
Read More..>>Urgent Hypertension
Posted on March 5, 2008 - Filed Under Heart Disease | Leave a Comment
When a patient has a sustained diastolic blood pressure greater than 120 mm Hg but doesn’t develop complications, he has urgent hypertension. This condition can develop quickly over several days or take as long as several weeks. It can result from noncompliance with the prescribed antihypertensive regimen, stress, or drugs that stimulate the sympathetic nervous system, such as cough and cold preparations and anesthetic agents.
Its Diagnostic Tests
To distinguish urgent hypertension from emergency hypertension, a physician may order electrocardiography (ECG) and various blood, urine, and imaging tests . If your patient has urgent hypertension, the tests will reveal no organ damage… Continue reading
Read More..>>An Overview of Primary Pulmonary Hypertension
Posted on March 4, 2008 - Filed Under Heart Disease | Leave a Comment
Primary Pulmonary Hypertension, or PPH, is a very rare disease that is only diagnosed when an individual has hypertension with no known cause. It has been linked to both fen-phen and Avandia in recent years but has existed for much longer than either of those drugs.
PPH is a disease that results in fewer than 500 new diagnoses each year. Because of this, it is very hard to study the disease and how it develops. Despite this, it is a cause of death in more than 3,000 people per year and 160,000 hospital discharges in 2000 were related to PPH. This… Continue reading
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