Coronary Artery Disease Heart Disease Heart disease can take many forms. ... -http://www.heartpoint.com Stages in Coronary Artery Disease Development You may have heard the term lesion before. ... Some other treatments include cholesterol watching What is cholesterol? ... If you already have coronary artery disease, your doctor will probably want you to lower your LDL level by at least 30 to 35% through diet, exercise and, possibly, medicines. ... If you can reduce your LDL level to less than 130 and increase your HDL level to at least 50, you're on the right track. - http://www.c...

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I had no idea what it was; I didn't know the difference between anthrax and baby powder. I didn't know where it came from, was it curable, how did you get it, was it contagious, can I prevent getting anthrax, did it all look alike, and was there only one type. ... What is anthrax and can the effects it has on the human body be prevented. ... You might be wondering what this has to do with anything, well it really helped me further know how anthrax looks. ... I know what it looks like, the symptoms of anthrax, and where it comes from. ...

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Asthma is a reversible obstructive lung disease, caused by an increased reaction of the airways to various stimuli. ... Asthma can be a life-threatening disease if not properly managed. ... Children with reactive airway disease, recurrent bronchitis or wheezy bronchitis probably have asthma. ... First, it is important that you and your child understand what control means. ... Your physician may recommend that you see a lung or an asthma/allergy specialist to help him with this evaluation. ...

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stands for Sexually Transmitted Disease. STDs used to be called venereal diseases. ... The government cannot keep track of all those diseases, but it does keep track of what it considers the most dangerous infectious diseases. ... When you look at the most frequently reported infectious diseases in the United States, 87 percent are sexually transmitted diseases. ... All of these consequences can be avoided in you have accurate information. ...

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(C.A., P.59, 61,71) What's more over 90 percent of heart disease are caused by one main problem, narrowing of the heart arteries by cholesterol, additionally congestive heart failure causes about 50,000 deaths per year. ... (R.T., P.16) Your body already makes all the cholesterol you need. If you intake saturated fats, cholesterol will build up and can clog up you arteries. ... (C.A., P. 59) Here is what causes heart attacks plaque formation, which allows for an active blockage to build up in an artery. ... One is surgical procedure, I will tell you about a few of them. ...

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(C.A., P.59, 61,71) What's more over 90 percent of heart disease are caused by one main problem, narrowing of the heart arteries by cholesterol, additionally congestive heart failure causes about 50,000 deaths per year. ... (R.T., P.16) Your body already makes all the cholesterol you need. If you intake saturated fats, cholesterol will build up and can clog up you arteries. ... (C.A., P. 59) Here is what causes heart attacks plaque formation, which allows for an active blockage to build up in an artery. ... One is surgical procedure, I will tell you about a few of them. ...

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As a new era dawns upon us many people find themselves asking the question; "What is Alzheimer's Disease?" ... Since the amount of lives this disease affects continues to increase epidemiologists have named Alzheimer's Disease, "The Disease of the Century". ... Alzheimer's Disease is a very costly disease; it is the third most costly disease after heart conditions and cancer. ... When you feel that a family member may have the disease or in need of mental attention you should first see you family physician. ... There are also foundations that you can donate money to Alzheime...

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You exam your body you find a lump on your breast. What is it you ask? ... What is breast cancer you ask? ... There are also many risk factors that people interested in knowing what is necessary about the disease. ... It is a myth that if you have a family history of breast cancer you will get breast cancer. ...

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When in fact "as early as 1979, Haitian women in Miami were dying of what turned out to be AIDS. ... Worse than having to wear one is not having one when you really need it. ... I've had the best sex of my life using a condom (thank you, you know who you are). Sure, it forces us to use a bit more creativity-but isn't that what great sex is all about (Newman 86)?" ... The answer to this question was simply put by a quote from Phil Sudo's article "Teenagers & AIDS: Are You At Risk?"...

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When in fact "as early as 1979, Haitian women in Miami were dying of what turned out to be AIDS. ... Worse than having to wear one is not having one when you really need it. ... I've had the best sex of my life using a condom (thank you, you know who you are). Sure, it forces us to use a bit more creativity-but isn't that what great sex is all about (Newman 86)?" ... The answer to this question was simply put by a quote from Phil Sudo's article "Teenagers & AIDS: Are You At Risk?"...

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This was my motivation for this paper; I wanted to discover what was happening to my grandfather, which changed my life and his life forever. ... It is classified as a chronic disease, meaning you will have it the rest of your life, and is also progressive resulting in symptoms growing worse on an average of ten to twenty years. The disease will become disabling but one will not die because of Parkinson's, rather you will die with the disease. Although we do not know why the disease occurs, we do know what exactly happens and evolves from Parkinson's. ... Parkinson's Di...

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Although you had no plan of doing so you do as your instructed, arriving at the park at 2 a.m. ... You go on with your ever day activities but the voices keep intruding. ... You don't know who or what to believe you"re at odds with reality. Your positive that the visions and voices are real, you don't know who to trust, what is real, and why this is happening to you. ... Whether it brings the voices of heaven or of hell, it causes what must be the worst affliction a conscious being can suffer the inability to tell what is real from what is imaginary. ...

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What is Dementia? ... Alzheimer's disease is non-discriminatory. ... It does not matter if you are rich or poor, male or female. ... You cannot just go on your own instincts and place the person in a care facility. ... When you visit, ask the staff what makes the unit special. ...

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Now what would you think? ... You take your child to the doctor your wrong. ... What are the symptoms? ... Schizophrenia is an odd diseases, although a very broad and complicated this is a brief summary of schizophrenia, a treatable but incurable diseases. ... Unfortunately I was not able to go into the wide depth of this disease but with this report you are now able to understand what "split mind" is and what effects this disease has on the patients. ...

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What is lupus? ... What are the symptoms of lupus? ... A patient with lupus should eat a healthy diet, get lots of rest, do plenty of approved exercise, avoid the sun if you are sun-sensitive, adjust your work schedule to be as stress-free as possible, and try to avoid allergic attacks if you have allergies (Wallace 1995). ... In order to live with it most effectively, you should know the ways it can affect you as well as what you can do to better deal with it. ... The disease is lupus, which, simply put, is what happens to the body when it becomes allergic to itself (Lahita 1998). ...

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Even if you happen to be afraid of guns, as I mentioned there are also many types of fishing you can try too. ... Chronic Wasting Disease is a disease that had begun to attack the deer population. According to http://www.cwd-info.org/index.php/fuseaction/about.main "Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a transmissible neurological disease of deer and elk that produces small lesions in brains of infected animals. ... If you are not aware of what is going on with the animals you are hunting you have no business hunting in the first place. ... It controls population, gives you great opportunities...

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With genetic testing, parents would be able to find out to a certain degree and to a certain detection rate, what their chances of a disabled child or child with a disease would be. ... So, through your own morals you may elicit that by discarding the diseased fetuses you are essentially killing them. ... What if a woman had an abortion and then was unable to become pregnant at a later time? ... A future just like you and me. ... No matter if you are disabled or not you are still your own unique individual and that's what makes our world so diverse and how it is today. ...

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In this case, the appellant was prescribing pills to patients with HIV to aid them with suicide, as they knew it was a painful disease, and did not want to go through the pain and agony of living with the disease. ... However, if you take the realist law point of view, acknowledging that the personal background and experiences of a judge are critical in forming a judge's world view and that your experiences mold you. ... What is the purpose of the law? ... Legal realists look at the law (any given law) with a critical eye and ask "what is really going on here - what are the consequences ...

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CONTRACEPTION What is contraception? ... This keeps you from becoming pregnant by transferring hormones to your body through your skin. ... STD's are sexually transmitted diseases and infections. There are many sexually transmitted infections and diseases. Many of these infections and diseases are deadly. ...

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Imagine receiving an expiration date on your life... being told that you only have two more years to live knowing that your fate is set, and there is not any way to go back. That is what it is like to be diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). ... There is not a cure for either of these diseases. ... Devoted scientists began researching what causes this disease that's leaving people immobile and helpless, and realized that most cases are sporadic. ... Since it has been discovered that brain trauma and concussions are now what is causin...

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Every where you go you hear people saying, you see things that say sex is bad, sex is good, don't have sex. ... Physical appearance is what initially attracts you to that person. ... With all the diseases going around today people know the consequences and still would rather not practice safe sex. ... People know that this disease kills and that there's no cure. People think that AIDS is just a homosexual disease but the majority of the people who have it are heterosexual. ...

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Eighty percent of that -- $16 billion -- paid for care for smoking-related disease and disabilities. ... What happens to your body when you give up smoking 20 minutes after giving up Your blood pressure and your pulse rate return to normal. ... What does this mean Bad circulation causes numerous problems, ranging from persistently cold feet, slow skin healing, Raynaud's disease and 5 peripheral vascular disease (PVT) which can even lead to limb amputation. ... What this means Each year, tobacco smoking accounts for around 26,000 deaths from coronary heart disease in the UK - appro...

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Tobacco smokers have 10 times the lung cancer of nonsmokers, twice the heart disease, and are three times more likely to die of heart disease if they develop it. ... What I'm wondering in why haven't we used marijuana for paper all along? ... So what are they supposed to do, starve? ... Multiple sclerosis is the disease in which the body's immune system attacks the nerve cells. Marijuana can stop the spasms from occurring and can prevent the disease from getting worse. ...

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Most can be prevented but a few are irreversible if you change your lifestyle and health such as alcohol, athletic training, being overweight or underweight, health problems, poor diet, sexually transmitted diseases, stress and smoking tobacco but one cannot be reversed no matter how many lotions and botox you try, age. (Infertility) Age is an important factor in infertility because the longer you want to have a child the less chances you have of staying pregnant. ... The fallopian tubes could be damaged as a result from pelvic inflammatory disease and endometriosis. ... The origin of endomet...

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What happens when people age? ... It takes the cells in an elderly individual between fourteen and twenty one days to create antibodies, this accounts for the elderly more likely to suffer infectious diseases and the diseases being a lot more severe (Dube, 1993). ... The importance of exercise and what it does to the body Exercise is the closest thing to a magic bullet in modern medicine. ... Exercise decreases heart disease and high blood pressure through strengthening the heart muscle. ... The less you do the worse you feel but with exercise this can change (Marshall, 1993). ...

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