Documents tagged 'Blood'
Published: 25/07/2008
The first priority in the emergency department is to protect the airway (breathing) and maintain adequate blood pressure. The emergency team will make sure that your airway is open and that you are getting adequate oxygen. Oxygen may be given through tubes into the nose or by face mask.
In...
Published: 25/07/2008
It is believed that improperly unmanaged stress is a major determinant in almost all illness conditions. Does stress also leads to diabetes? Let us investigate.
There are two major types of diabetes: type 1 diabetes mellitus and type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Type 1 diabetes...
Published: 25/07/2008
Detoxification and Toxins
Topics in this articles:
* Detoxification and toxins
* Detox as a state of mind
Detoxification and Toxins
Is it true that we live in a Sea of Toxins? Our world of developing industry bring us also the destroying environment. Many of...
Published: 25/07/2008
Do you have high blood pressure? Do you have low blood pressure? This is an important question for your health and your life. Why? According to the American Heart Association (AHA), about one in three adults in the United States have high blood pressure. And only about 63 percent of...
Published: 25/07/2008
If you have diabetes, elevated glucose levels can damage nerves needed to help pass food along from the stomach through the intestines; the motility disorder called gastroparesis is one of the major complications of the disease.
Gastroparesis causes delayed emptying of food from...
Published: 25/07/2008
Did you know that if you are over the age of 20, you could be part of the 65 million Americans who suffer from high blood pressure? That is about one in three adults in the United States. Why should we be concerned? Each year, high blood pressure, also called hypertension, takes the...
Published: 25/07/2008
If you saw a tiger, youd run for your life. But what if you didnt see it? For those of you with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, heart disease is that unseen tiger. Youre two to four times more likely to develop a heart condition than people without diabetes? Even more shocking, those...
Published: 25/07/2008
A diagnosis of hypertension is made only when a person has at least three separate readings performed one to several weeks apart. While the condition is most common among adults, children can have high blood pressure too, even as infants. In fact, since the early 2000s there has been an...
Published: 25/07/2008
Human Growth Hormone (HGH) is produced by the pituitary gland in the brain. The highest levels of HGH is produced during adolescence but between the ages of 21 and 30 the level of HGH being produced is markedly reduce by as much as 1.4 percent per year. By the age of 40 it can be down...
Published: 25/07/2008
If our heart, arteries and veins are lined with various waste products such as salts and fatty acids, then the volume of blood which can pass is diminished and the ability of these vessels to expand and contract is severely limited. Thus we have conditions such as arteriosclerosis, high...
