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The goals of heart attack treatment are to return blood flow to your heart muscle, bring back a regular heartbeat, and give your heart time to recover.

The development of “clot busters” called thrombolytic agents (streptokinase, urokinase, tissue plasminogen activator) has increased survival rates for heart attack patients when these medicines are given as soon as possible after an attack. The term thrombolysis means to break up a clot, and that is exactly what these medicines do. In some cases, these medicines can break up a clot within minutes. To work best, they must be given as soon as possible after a heart attack. Read the rest of this entry »

Kawasaki disease is a disease that affects children. It is also known as Kawasaki syndrome or mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome. Kawasaki disease leads to swelling (inflammation) of the body’s tissues. Doctors do not know what causes Kawasaki disease, but if it is not treated, it can lead to inflammation of the heart and the coronary arteries. This inflammation can lead to long-term heart problems such as blood clots, aneurysms, or a heart attack.

Kawasaki disease most often affects the coronary arteries, usually by weakening their walls. If an artery’s wall is weakened, the pressure of blood passing through it forces the artery to bulge outward, forming what you might think of as a thin-skinned blister. This is called an aneurysm. If a blood clot forms in the aneurysm, it can block the artery, leading to a heart attack. In rare cases, the aneurysm may burst.

Kawasaki disease may also cause inflammation of the heart muscle (called myocarditis) or the sac surrounding the heart (called pericarditis). It can also lead to abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias).

For most children, the heart problems go away after 5 or 6 weeks, and there is no lasting damage. In some children, the coronary arteries are damaged forever.

According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), more than 23 million Americans have diabetes and nearly a quarter of them are unaware they have the disease. Many believe that diabetes affects only older people, but in 2007 was diagnosed in 1.6 million new cases of diabetes in people over 20 years. Diabetes is a major cardiovascular risk factors. Moreover, two thirds of diabetics die of some form of heart disease or blood vessel.

What is diabetes?

Diabetes mellitus is a condition in which the body can not produce or respond properly to the hormone insulin. The body needs insulin to convert glucose ( “blood sugar) into energy. Diabetes does not allow the body properly use the energy of food consumed. Where there is no such energy transfer, the cells are damaged. As the cells can not absorb glucose, increases the amount of glucose in the blood. When blood contains too much glucose, it is said that there are “hyperglycemia” (ie, a high blood sugar) or diabetes.

If you’re like most Americans, you plan for your future. When you accept a job, you examine the pension plan of the company. When buying a home, consider its location and condition so that your investment is secure. Today, more and more Americans are protecting their most important asset, namely health. Do you?

Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States. A stroke can be devastating for those affected and their families, robbing them of their independence. It is the most common cause of disability in adults. Each year over 500,000 Americans have a stroke and about 145,000 die from causes related to it. The officers of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS, by its initials in English) have committed to reducing that burden through biomedical research.

According to a study published in the journal Cancer Researchla exposure to sunlight may reduce the risk of prostate cancer.

The study was based on analysis of data provided by three cancer centers, determining that sunlight reduced the risk of prostate cancer by half compared with men who avoided sunbathing.

Esther John, of the Cancer Center of Northern California, said “believe that sunlight helps to reduce prostate cancer because the body manufactures the active form of vitamin D through sunlight.

In turn, the researchers cautioned that the danger must be confronted with prolonged sunbathing because it involves increasing the possibility of skin cancer, especially melanoma.

If future studies confirm that there is reduced risk of prostate cancer in relation to sun exposure, increasing vitamin D intake in the diet and nutritional supplements could be a sure way to get adequate levels of the vitamin.

Several types of medications used to treat high cholesterol levels. Your doctor will decide which medicine is right for you. The doctor may prescribe more than one of these drugs at a time because combinations of these drugs may be more effective.

- Statins (also called HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors) slow down the body’s production of cholesterol. These drugs also remove cholesterol buildup from your arteries are blood vessels.

- Resins (also called sequestrants bile acid) help lower your LDL cholesterol level. Read the rest of this entry »

Cholesterol is one of the most common ailments in recent times in terms of cardiovascular disease. The high triglyceride levels may impact very badly on your health, damaging your arteries and causing complications. For this reason, use medicinal plants to combat high cholesterol might be an interesting idea.

Some of the herbs are effective against cholesterol, for example, linden (or lime) and the cauda equina, two plants are easily available at any herb shop and you can consume in simple teas. They have sedative effects, vasodilators and especially the tail of mind can contribute to the regeneration pressure to contain silicon. Read the rest of this entry »

Anemia
What is anemia?
Anemia is a common blood disorder that occurs when red blood cells is below normal or when the blood hemoglobin concentration is low.

* Hemoglobin – blood element whose function is to distribute oxygen from the lungs to body tissues.

* Hematocrit – the measurement of the percentage of red blood cells are in a specific volume of blood.

Often, anemia is a symptom of a disease rather than a disease itself, and usually develops due to the presence of one of these factors: Read the rest of this entry »

In the prevention of osteoporosis plays a very important educational measures in order to enhance dietary and physical culture to the people. The most important points to note in this culture are the increased intake of calcium, reducing the consumption of toxic and regular moderate exercise.

Food:

-Calcium.
It is primarily found in milk and dairy products.
The recommended daily intake is 1 gram during the growth phase until reaching the peak bone mass. Postmenopausal women should eat 1.5 grams a day. Read the rest of this entry »

Although it must be a constant concern (maintaining low body fat percentage), becomes more concern with the approach of summer. While the focus should be on health, in most cases is in the physical appearance.

Well, regardless of the purpose you have, these are important data as follows:

- Body fat is an energy reserve, as such, must be reduced from the use of this energy within the body cells (mitochondria).
- To be used by the cells, body fat is drawn from all regions of the body, not localized.

- It is important to balance calorie intake with caloric expenditure

- The exercise uses more fat that is the long duration and low intensity, since the consumption of fat in muscle cells increases as reserves are depleted of glycogen in these cells.

- The estimated time of exercise (long term) is about 30 minutes, bearing in mind that after three hours of exercise (walking) fat consumption reaches 90% of the energy used. Read the rest of this entry »