Of course you know what a heart attack is, but there’s another heart related event that you may be less familiar with – a condition called coronary arterial spasm. A person experiencing a coronary artery spasm can have many of the same symptoms as a person having a heart attack ‘” including chest pain, lightheadedness, ...
Doctors have a wide variety of devices available that are used to test just about every part of the body. A carotid doppler ultrasound is one of those many devices. This is a test where a doctor is able to look at the main arteries that feed blood to your brain. You have a left ...
The adage, ‘you are as young as you feel’, is only partially true. The whole truth is you are as young as your arteries, because every other part of your anatomy’s health is directly affected by your arteries’ health. You can ensure or improve the health of your arteries, even reverse poor artery health, and ...
The circulatory system provides the human body with the proper amount of nutrients, water and oxygen, and carries away waste such as carbon dioxide, that the body cells produce. Also, the circulatory system maintains constant body temperature. Anyone that has poor circulation can develop cold feet, and other circulatory related medical problems. Three parts of ...
Has your doctor ever placed the bell of the stethoscope on either side of your neck, asked you to hold your breath – and then listened? Chances are your doctor was listening for a carotid bruit. What is a carotid bruit and what does it mean if you have one? What is a Carotid Bruit? ...
My mother’s death certificate read: “Heart arrest due to atherosclerotic disease.” Arteriosclerosis or atherosclerosis, commonly called “hardening of the arteries”, causes blood vessels to become stiff, narrow, and blocked and leads to heart disease and stroke The narrowing and loss of elasticity of the arteries is caused by both lipid (fat) build-up and multiplication and ...
Coronary artery spasm, also known as variant angina and Prinzmetal’s angina, is a short-term and unexpected health condition where one of the coronary arteries narrows in size. The spasm stops or slows blood flow in the artery which stops oxygen enriched blood from entering into a certain part of heart. Coronary artery spasms occur due ...
If a doctor were to tell you that you had atherosclerosis, or clogged arteries, he might lead you to believe that the only way to clean arteries out is to undergo angioplasty and that there were no natural treatments available. While the diagnosis of atherosclerosis may be correct, the belief that angioplasty is the only ...
SOME FACTS ABOUT HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE It is observedfrequently that patients with higher blood pressure have three times the risk of having a stroke. Many patients experiencing hypertension have no high blood pressure symptoms till they encounter either heart attack or stroke. It is a “silent killer “. Today 25 % of the total population ...