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Cardiovascular diseases
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES Cardiovascular disease is a general diagnostic category consisting of several separate diseases of the heart and circulatory system. Cardiovascular diseases have been the major health problem and the leading cause of death in the United States for several decades. Despite... Read more |
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agranulocytosis
agranulocytosis , disease in which the production of granulated white blood cells by the bone marrow is impaired. Although the disease may occur spontaneously it is usually induced by exposure to antithyroid drugs, sulfonamides, phenothiazines, chemotherapy, and radiation therapies. Granulocytes... Read more |
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SARS
SARS or severe acute respiratory syndrome, communicable viral disease that can progress to a potentially fatal pneumonia. The first symptoms of SARS are usually a high fever, headache and body aches, sore throat, and mild respiratory symptoms; diarrhea may occur. A dry cough and shortness of... Read more |
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Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate
Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate Definition The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), or sedimentation rate (sed rate), is a measure of the settling of red blood cells in a tube of blood during one hour. The rate is an indication of inflammation and increases in many diseases. Purpose ESR is... Read more |
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Legionnaires disease
Legionnaire's disease , infectious, sometimes fatal, disease characterized by high fever, dry cough, lung congestion, and subsequent pneumonia . Major organs, such as the heart, may be damaged as the disease progresses. The disease struck over 180 people attending an American Legion convention in... Read more |
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Prevention
PREVENTION The term "prevention" encompasses the philosophy, credo, programs, and practices that aim to defer or eliminate diseases, disability, and other forms of human suffering. Additional discussions of disease prevention, the stages of prevention (primary, secondary, and tertiary) and the... Read more |
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Hemorrhagic Fevers and Diseases
Hemorrhagic Fevers and Diseases ¦ BRIAN D. HOYLE Hemorrhagic diseases are caused by infection with viruses or bacteria. As the name implies, a hallmark of a hemorrhagic disease is copious bleeding. The onset of a hemorrhagic fever or disease can lead to relatively mild... Read more |
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lupus
lupus , noninfectious chronic disease in which antibodies in an individual's immune system attack the body's own substances. In lupus, medically known as lupus erythematosus, antibodies are produced against the individual's own cells, causing tissue inflammation and cell damage. Because the vascular... Read more |
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ESR
ESR (erythrocyte sedimentation rate) n. the rate at which red blood cells (erythrocytes) settle out of suspension in blood plasma, measured under standardized conditions. The ESR increases in rheumatic diseases, chronic infections, and malignant disease, and thus provides a valuable screening test... Read more |
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Histoplasmosis
Histoplasmosis Definition Histoplasmosis is an infectious disease caused by inhaling the microscopic spores of the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum. The disease exists in three forms. Acute or primary histoplasmosis causes flulike symptoms. Most people who are infected recover without medical... Read more |
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In-hospital case fatality rates for acute myocardial infarction in Romania
...hospital case-fatality rates in an unselected...mortality rate was 12...consisted of 2893 women and 6293...had higher rates of hypertension...percutaneous coronary interventions...death was greater for ... |
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Women and cardiovascular disease
...Cardiovascular disease is responsible...deaths among women aged 50 and...numbers or rates, and are...cause among women. This figure...numbers, not rates, and therefore...the case-fatality rate of ... |
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Stress Myocardial Perfusion SPECT in Women: Is It the Cornerstone of the...
...with the greatest risk in men...predictive in women than in men...prognosis in women compared...confers a greater risk in women than in men...associated with coronary disease in ... |
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Our views: Getting healthier in West Virginia; Slowly, cardiovascular deaths...
...highest fatality rate from cardiovascular...disease and coronary heart disease. The association...There is no great big secret...cardiovascular disease or coronary heart ... |
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Health figures mask the truth; RecordView.(Features)
...cent, while coronary heart disease fatalities fell almost...000-plus fatalities. Half a...suffer coronary heart disease...UK, our rates are well...killer and the greatest single ... |
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Scotland has highest rate for heart deaths
...dying from coronary heart disease...above the UK rate. In 1997, the CHD death rate in Scotland...241 men and women per 100...s lowest rate. The findings...reduction in CHD fatalities. Between...increased ... |
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Endothelial function and urine albumin levels among asymptomatic...
...cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk...CVD case fatality rates than NHW...finding of a greater hospitalized...infarction rate - in the...reported lower coronary heart disease (CHD) fatality ... |
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Heart Disease, Stroke Deaths Down
...because of greater awareness...Centers for Disease Control and...However, heart disease and stroke...decline in fatality due to cardiovascular diseases in the United...States. Death rates from coronary and ... |
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...Texas. The disease causes mucus...levels. FEMME FATALITIES Smoking poses greater risk to the coronary health of women than it does...found that women who smoked...thinness in women usually equals...your ... |
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SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON HEART DISEASE
...of heart disease in women and one of...myth that coronary heart disease...the death rate and improve...percent of all fatalities. Half of...attack are greater and if they...bias against ... |
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