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Hypertension – What is it?
Almost everyone knows that high blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is bad for you. But what is high blood pressure and what do the various measures of blood pressure when taken? Blood pressure is a measure of strength to pump blood through the arteries (large blood vessels.) The beating of your heart, usually [...]
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Cholesterol – How to Have a Healthy Heart
Cholesterol is a useful and essential for the body to produce vitamin D and plays a role in hormone production. It is secreted by the liver in small quantities and absorbed the rest of the cholesterol it needs in the diet through animal sources. But like many things, too much is bad for you [...]
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Smoking can cause high blood pressure – What You Need to Know
Arteries are blood vessels that carry blood from the heart to the rest of your body. Hypertension occurs when blood can not pass through these arteries to a normal rhythm. Regarding smoking, the nicotine content of cigarettes or tobacco causes arteries narrow.
Blood flow is unable to pass through, while the increasing pressure [...]
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How is heartworm to your dog?
Parasite
Heartworms are parasites (Dirofilaria immitis) that is spread through mosquito bites, a host. The main hosts are wired for dogs, but sometimes wired can infect other animals, like cats, coyotes, foxes, wolves and other animals.
Although some infected dogs do not develop the disease, and heart worm larvae to be the [...]
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An 'introduction to comics Valvulotome for the treatment of mitral stenosis
The blood circulates through the four chambers of the heart before being sent back into your body. Delivered in the right atrium (upper chamber), Lower and superior vena cava. Moves from the right atrium to right ventricle (lower house) through the tricuspid valve. From there the blood circulates through the pulmonary valve in pulmonary [...]
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Two common forms of congenital heart disease in puppies
CHD in puppies can take many forms but the most common forms usually involves the shape of the heart valves or mitral stenosis or a defect of the heart chambers themselves. Two of the most common diseases observed are ductus arteriosus and tetralogy of Fallot.
ductus arteriosus is a permanent connection between the [...]
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Exercise of pulmonary hypertension
When the voltage increases in pulmonary artery, pulmonary vein or pulmonary capillaries, is called pulmonary hypertension. High blood pressure or hypertension is a medical condition of the body when blood pressure is still high. The main symptoms of pulmonary hypertension is shortness of breath, dizziness, weakness, fatigue and cough. Angina pectoris, peripheral edema (swelling [...]
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