Articles, tagged with "coronary heart disease", page 1
18th January 2012
Cordyceps, a rare mushroom found only in parts of Eastern Asia, is a growing name in the medical community as its legendary benefits are being confirmed by research. Although awareness surrounding high blood pressure (HBP) and its health risks are growing...
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Author:
LisaCWilliams
21st December 2011
If you’re the primary provider of your parent’s elder care, you may not realize they’re not eating a balanced diet. In an eight-year study performed by the centers for Disease Control (CDC) it was found that half of the top chronic conditions in those 6...
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Author:
Satya Narayan
13th December 2011
As per the World Health Organization, as of the year 2008 over 17 million individuals have perished because of cardiovascular related ailments. This remains as the primary major cause for mortality across the world.
There are many associated risk elem...
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Author:
Piazza
01st December 2011
Traditionally there has been a lot of contradictory opinion over whether eating nuts should be encouraged, mainly due to high fat levels. Today however, the nature of the (monounsaturated) fat found in nuts is better understood, and many health authoritie...
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Author:
JakeJ
24th November 2011
You went to the doctor and got the bad news. They took the detailed tests, the Blood Test, Electrocardiogram, a Stress Test, and more. The results that came out were quite undesirable.
You have been diagnosed with coronary heart disease or CHD which is...
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Author:
Sandy Sachs
18th October 2011
Body mass index or BMI is defined as an individual's body weight divided by the square of his or her height. What does it denote? It is a rule of the thumb formula to diagnose the level of your body size. Typically, a figure of 18-25 denotes a normal lev...
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Author:
pj030452
10th October 2011
The dangers of hypoxia on human and clinical manifestations:
1. Brain hypoxia: the brain's response to hypoxia is very obvious. A
normal brain weight accounts for 2% of total body weight, while the
human brain's oxygen consumption accounts for 20...
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Author:
ericzeng
07th October 2011
Natural herbs and ingredients have been used for centuries to cure common ailments such as upset stomach, colds, tooth aches, depression and joint pain.
Research continues to prove the benefits of these ingredients in promoting a health body and mind. W...
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Author:
Eva Walz
22nd August 2011
There is a medical phenomenon called French phenomenon, which refers to the fact that French incidence of coronary heart disease is significantly lower than other countries in Asia and Europe. Therefore, medical workers do a lot of research and find that ...
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Author:
Codeblue
12th August 2011
Cholesterol has a bad press to be sure, but this is because the press does not normally give the full story. It is easier and more frightening to leave a couple of bits out. The fact is that we have to have cholesterol and triglycerides for that matter in...
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Author:
Owen Jones
09th August 2011
High blood pressure can occur in any individual. Many people who have hypertension are a minimum of 35 years old, nonetheless. Its incidence is particularly high in African Americans, obese individuals, middle-aged and elderly people, those who drink he...
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Author:
Reynaldo Knight
31st July 2011
Sometimes we often find ourselves using the whole grain bread without knowing the benefits. There are those who eat the grain bread for the fact that they are hurry, while others eat because it has been brought for the family to eat. However, bakeries in ...
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Author:
wholegrainbread
25th July 2011
Each and every day significant numbers of individuals are afflicted by it. For a great deal of people today, high blood pressure is basically easily remedied. For quite a few others, it is a tough condition to manage. Whilst prescribed medicines can work ...
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Author:
Walter Harper
25th July 2011
High blood pressure is considered a silent killer, because lots of people with this illness have no symptoms. Over time, this improve in blood pressure can damage the blood vessels or important organs. This can lead to strokes, heart disease, or kidney il...
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Author:
Reynaldo Knight
18th July 2011
Based on the American Heart Association (AHA), practically 50,000 Americans died as a result of hypertension in 2002 and high blood pressure was listed as either a primary or contributing cause of death in over 260,000 deaths in the United States inside ...
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Author:
Benito Chapman