Articles, tagged with "myocardial infarction", page 7
08th August 2009
Senior vitamins are a hot topic in the nutritionals market and will become even more so as our population ages. Older adults, like many other Americans are known to have inadequate intake of many vitamins and minerals. Common statistics show that 9 out o...
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Author:
Anthony Antolics
03rd August 2009
Heart plays an important role in the body. Heart is an organ which is responsible for supplying the body with oxygenated blood. The heart lies in the left side of the chest cavity between the lungs. The heart secures its oxygen supply through the set of c...
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Author:
Bryan Len
23rd July 2009
How long does it take to lower cholesterol? That is a question that seems to plague almost anyone who suffers from high cholesterol. If you're suffering from high cholesterol, lowering your cholesterol level can never be fast enough; whether you're seekin...
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Author:
jerry
12th July 2009
Understanding the cardiovascular system is like traveling through the wires of a supercomputer. The path of the blood vessels is directing the blood to the lungs for oxygen loading, and then back to the heart to drop it off. It is imperative, as an indivi...
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Author:
Lisa Simmons
12th July 2009
Emergency Medicine opportunities are abundant. Emergency Medicine is the field of medicine caring for acutely ill or injured patients. This care takes place in a hospital emergency room but may also be part of emergency medical services that render aid an...
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Author:
Lisa Simmons
28th June 2009
This question haunts just about everyone who drinks, men and women included. Not many of them know how or why they get this "beer belly", so lets indulge ourselves and figure this one out.
The how and the why.
The reason most of us have the "beer be...
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Author:
Bgriswold
19th June 2009
A heart attack is known as a myocardial infarction. This occurs when the heart muscle is damaged or not receiving enough oxygen. Many cardiac related problems occur due to blockages in the arteries that carry blood to the heart purified from different par...
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Author:
ali
18th June 2009
It is a known fact that fish is better than meat. And this is so, because of fish oil. This supplement is taken from the tissue of oily fish and it is highly recommended for people who want to have a healthy diet because it has omega-3 fatty acids. So if ...
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Author:
Diana Ketchen
16th June 2009
Overview
Acute Coronary Syndrome or ACS is a catch all term used to describe a set of symptoms consistent with acute myocardial ischemia when the symptoms are not pathognomonic. Myocardial ischemia is a condition in which insufficient blood flow is rea...
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Author:
Vital Ethics
10th June 2009
Recent studies suggest that living in a city with major air pollution can have detrimental consequences on cardiovascular disease. Many hospital admissions are the result of the fine particulate matter present in the air, causing decreased blood flow, whi...
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Author:
Clivir Team
06th June 2009
It has already been established that more people die from heart attacks than any other condition known to man. More women than men die from it, and more blacks than whites are diagnosed with it. But these are just facts of the number of incidence of hea...
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Author:
Clivir Team
06th June 2009
A study of 515 women who had an acute heart attack (MI, Myocardial Infarction), reported symptoms that were not your typical heart symptoms. The most commonly reported symptoms were unusual fatigue, sleep disturbances, shortness of breath, indigestion, an...
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Author:
Clivir Team
06th June 2009
The primary organ of the cardiovascular system is the heart, and is the muscle that continually pumps blood to the rest of the body. The heart's blood supply comes by way of the coronary arteries, carrying the oxygen and nutrients required for it to funct...
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Author:
Clivir Team
04th June 2009
Healthy people who want to prevent heart attacks also find support at the Y. Motivated, often, by the illness or sudden death of a close friend or relative, they sign up for rigorous stress testing and blood tests to determine the health of their hearts a...
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Author:
petersonbran
18th May 2009
Most people are literally eating poison every day without giving it a second thought. Eating this substance can make you fat and even small amounts (2% of total energy intake) are consistently linked to coronary heart disease. The research also confirms ...
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Author:
Tom Venuto