Heart disease

extent of the physical examination as well as the level of detail in your doctor's questions depend on how high your blood pressure is in addition to whether you have other risk factors for heart disease. High blood pressure can harm your blood vessels, heart as well as kidneys. This damage can cause a heart attack, stroke or other health problems. Your blood pressure reading is based on two measurements so-called systolic (the top number) as well as diastolic (the bottom number) written as a…

diagnosis, SLE is considered a chronic disease with relatively lower mortality rates[90]. SLE symptoms usually present during the first years of obtaining the disease, but can progress quite slowly and be mistaken for other diseases[24][29]. The severity of SLE ranges from benign and can rapid progress to possibly fatal [25]. Fortunately, many patients can manage SLE with medication and live a normal life span [62]. There are several valid systems that measure SLE disease activity and symptom…

as it moves throughout the body. I chose to write about this disease because numerous members of my family suffer from hypertension, or high blood pressure, and it is especially interesting to me because of the fact that hypertension itself does not display symptoms, however the comorbidity of the disease is what should truly grab people’s attention. Hypertension is known to cause various other illnesses such as diabetes, kidney or heart failure, aneurysms, strokes and vision problems. Ecology…

Sometimes when we ingest certain substances, we can stimulate foci (nodes that pace the heart at a certain speed) in the heart which can give us the feeling of “skipping a beat.” The feeling of “skipping a beat” is actually another beat that follows the original beat quickly which gives us that feeling. A lot of factors can stimulate other foci such as atrial and junctional in our heart. These factors, according to Dr. Dubin, includes adrenaline (epinephrine) released by adrenal glands,…

Congestive Heart Failure The heart is fundamentally a blood pump. It pumps blood from the right side of the heart to the lungs to pick up oxygen. The oxygenated blood returns to the left side of the heart. The left side of the heart then pumps blood into the circulatory system of blood vessels that carry blood throughout the body. Heart failure is an illness in which the pumping action of the heart becomes less and less powerful. When this happens, blood does not move efficiently through the…

Occurring mostly in males, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is an X-linked disorder that includes progressive muscle weakening caused by an insufficient gene for the production of a protein in the muscles called dystrophin. (Lucas-Heron, 1995) It affects about one in 3600-6000 live male births, making it the most common form of muscular dystrophy. Symptoms are most often noticeable by the time patients reach the age of three to five. The affected males will lose their ability to walk by eight to…

Some of the deadly consequences of malnutrition are electrolyte imbalance, muscle loss, immunity and blood flow issues, and heart problems. Once the body reaches the point of malnutrition it goes into what is known as starvation mode. When a body lacks the nutrients it needs it will take from itself. When the human body has an electrolyte imbalance caused by starvation there…

Primary diagnosis: Erdheim-Chester disease. Secondary diagnosis: Other diseases of the circulatory system. The claimant was a 51-year-old woman. Alleged disability: “erdheim-chester disease, sjorgen’s syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes insipidus, pituitary glands, high blood pressure.” She reported pain and fatigue. Because of the rare complications from her illnesses caused many complication s, therefore, she had medical follow-up visits in another town every 28 days. For every…

perfusion? a) Heart Rate b) Contractility c) High blood pressure d) Platelet aggregation and thrombosis Answer: D Answer Rationale: A. (Incorrect) Heart rate and coronary perfusion is not correlated. An increase or decrease in heart rate along does not necessarily impact the coronary perfusion. In most cases, it is the vasodilation and vasoconstriction in either health or platelet aggregated vessels that impact coronary perfusion. B. (Incorrect) Any change in the contractility of the heart…

blood pressure are better for preventing some complications of high blood pressure. In kidney disease this is particularly true. Really low blood pressures seem to protect the kidney from further damage in many diseases. A normal blood pressure was 120/80, but in recent years the Red Cross has brought it down to 110/70. Now we all should know that a normal blood pressure is 110/70.…