Thursday, October 28, 2010

sodium cause heart disease, diabetes, etc

How do foods high in fat/sugar/sodium cause heart disease, diabetes, etc?

Diabetes - 4 Answers
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Lipids deposit onto the inside of your arteries, restricting blood flow.
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The fat and sodium cause an increase in blood pressure which causes your heart to work harder which leads to heart disease. If this is for school or something you may want to google search for the anatomy and physiology of these conditions
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they put on the weight.
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diabetes can easily be caused by weight gain, fats and sugars, and then heart disease is caused by the heart over working to pump blood though the body, which can easily happen by eating lots of salts, fats and sugars

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Sunday, October 24, 2010

What physicians help to diagnose, treat and correct congenital heart defects or congenital heart disease

What physicians help to diagnose, treat and correct congenital heart defects or congenital heart disease?

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A cardiologist. There are different types of cardiologists, there are those that deal with the structure of the heart and those that deal with the electrical impulses that "power" the heart but any doctor dealing with something having to do with the heart is a cardiologist.
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A pediatric cardiologist and / or a pediatric cardio-thoracic surgeon. The field of pediatric cardiology was essentially created by Helen Taussig of Johns Hopkins. Dr. Taussig was partially deaf due to a childhood infection. She therefore went to McGilll in Canada as they had the largest store of pathological specimens of congential heart lesions. She returned to Baltimore with the idea that congenital heart lesions were a matter of faulty 'plumbing'. Dr. Taussig approached Hopkins surgeon Alfred Blalock with the notion that Tetrology of Fallot or so-called blue baby syndrome could be surgically repaired. In the 1940s heart surgery on adults was a novelty and there had been no attempt at performing surgery on the heart of a child. Dr. Blalock suggested that Dr. Taussig work with laboratory assistant Vivien Thomas. Dr. Taussig and Mr. Thomas experimented on animals for many months. These 2 then convinced Dr. Blalock to attempt such a surgical procedure the likes of which had quite literally never been done before. On November 29, 1944 with Denton Cooley as an Intern and surgical assistant Taussig and Thomas told Dr. Blalock step by painful step what to connect where. The Blalock-Taussig shunt worked! and this surgical procedure made the front page of every newspaper in the world within 24 hours. Thus not only did Dr. Taussig create pediatric cardioglogy she is largely responsible for the field of pediatric cardio-thoracic surgeons that was to follow. I had the honor of meeting Dr. Taussig and Dr. Cooley in Houston decades ago. I have been in the building at Hopkins named for Dr. Blalock but I never had the pleasure of his acquaintance. If I may be of further assistance please let me know. I wish you the very best of health and in all things may God bless. JR

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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Do you think Diabetes is a greater epidemic than heart disease

Do you think Diabetes is a greater epidemic than heart disease?
i'm aware they're related but not entirely the same. What do you think?
Diabetes - 3 Answers
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with the obesity problem in the states yes i do..more kids are now found to have diabetes earlier then ever before..people need to teach their kids how to eat halthy or they are condeming them to die
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Firstly, neither disease is an epidemic...communicable to others. Of the two disease entities, Heart disease is more of a concern as it is more difficult to manage. Diabetes on the other hand is becoming more manageable virtually daily with both injectable and oral medications. The pancreas produces insulin( the cause of diabetes is an imbalance in the amount of insulin produced) but has no direct relation to cardic pathology. Heart Disease has many forms and can range from poor cardiac output to a myocardial infarction so the term is vague. Most patients with diabetes mellitus can have a fairly normal life span, but a cardiac disease can have ominous overtones.
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Diabetes is the third leading cause of death in America today.
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^ Yes, diabetes seems to be on the rise, it seems more adults and children are getting diabetes, especially type 2. There was a time when type 2 was seen in adults and if children had diabetes they most likely had type 1, unfortunately way to many children now have type 2 and some people have type 3 which is a combination of 1 and 2, I read an article about type 3 about a year ago, sorry I don't remember which medical publication I saw it in. There can be so many compilations when you have diabetes, heart disease is only one of them

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