Atherosclerosis

Hepatocellular Carcinoma Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is also known as malignant hepatoma. It is the most common type of liver carcinoma. What Are The Risk Factors? The major risk factors include cirrhosis and underlying liver diseases. Cirrhosis may be caused by alcohol abuse, Hepatitis B/C virus infection, autoimmune liver diseases, chronic liver inflammation, and hemochromatosis. Some of the underlying liver diseases, which commonly manifests into HCC are: Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) infection…

People need cholesterol in their body for hormones, vitamin d and other things that help you digest your food. Cholesterol goes through your body in small groups. They are made of fat and and proteins. LDL is a bad cholesterol and HDL is good because it carries cholesterol throughout your body. LDL is considered bad because it causes buildup of cholesterol in your arteries. Steroids are considered good and bad because doctors give you steroids for medical conditions. They are also bad because…

Different application of MRI can be used such as Flair, which is as normal MRI imaging, but this is where you take scans of the brain and the computer can take away any fluid present in the image, so what you are left with in the image is just brain tissue, which will let you see lesions, or origins of a hemorrhage. The diagnostics of hyper acute infarction and ischaemia is mainly done by diffusion –weighted imaging (DWI). DWI is sensitive to diffusion of water molecules within tissue. The…

Blood clots are a major epidemic and killer in America each and every year. Every year the deaths in blood clots range anywhere from 100,000 and 180,000. Blood clots are known as the silent killer. As the only way to determine if you have them is if you are aware of the symptoms that come with them or get tested. If one were to take the maximum deaths of the range aforementioned, 180,000, and do the math it comes out to twenty deaths a day. Blood clots can affect people in many different ways…

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Over 60% of the cardiovascular deaths are due to ischemic heart disease (IHD) and acute myocardial infarction (AMI) (cdc wonder ref). Systemic hypertension is one of the leading risk factors worldwide for IHD and AMI (GBD). Hypertension affects over 75 million people in the United States and the prevalence is increasing worldwide. Heart attack statistics showed that 69% of patients who present with their first myocardial…

Cardiovascular disease (cvd) was one of the major issues throughout the world causing a lot of deaths and disability. In 2013 42% people in China died because of this. High blood pressure was leading to it which eventually started with salt consumption. In China, the salt intake was greater than double the amount approved by World Health Organization (WHO). Bringing down salt intake in china is extremely hard because it all starts with salt added into the food made at home. School-based…

Community Assessment Project Hypertension Mary Stallings Fayetteville State University Introduction Hypertension, most commonly known as high blood pressure, is a serious cardiovascular disease that affects about 1 of 3 U.S. adults—or about 75 million people. ("High Blood Pressure (Hypertension) Information | cdc.gov," 2018). High blood pressure is a common condition in which the long-term force of the blood against your artery walls of the heart is high enough that it may eventually…

Doctors currently know why people can die from a broken heart. Rob Stein from The Washington Post reported that researchers have revealed that trauma “Can unleash a flood of stress hormones that can stun the heart causing sudden life threatening heart spasms in otherwise healthy people” (Study Suggests You Can Die of a Broken Heart 1). Rob Stein proclaims that stress hormones can alarm the heart, putting people’s lives at risk. According to Stein, the rush of stress hormones to the heart is…

Familial Hypercholesterolemia is a genetic disorder, which means that it is a disorder that is carried on from someone's biological paternal and/or maternal link, that causes low-density lipoprotein to increase. Lipoprotein – abbreviated LDL – is known as the bad cholesterol that increases the risk of heart disease and stroke. Taken from its roots, it means that it is a genetically active disorder that leads to the elevated levels of cholesterol in the human body. This disorder affects about 1…

Perfusion is a vital component to our everyday living. The definition of perfusion is the process of the body delivering blood to a capillary bed in its biological tissue (Merriam-Webster, 2015). This process helps our blood that caries oxygen get to our vital organs in the body, such as, the brain, lungs, and to our extremities. When our perfusion is compromised however, our blood cannot complete its task and get the oxygen to the parts of our body that need it. If the body does not have a key…