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known as hardening of the arteries (Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week, 2006). These plaque blockages can be either hard and consol...
is clear that the issue, as Linnet et al state, merits further investigation. Lazarchik and Filler (1997) point out that dental er...
average age of just over seventy years of age in women, almost sixty years old in men. Coronary heart disease strikes women two t...
cholesterol has been believed to be a correlate in heart disease for several decades. In a February 1990 "American Family Physici...
November 1906, Alzheimer described eine eigenartige Erkrankung der Hirnrinde (a peculiar disease of the cerebral cortex) - the cli...
such as Lewy body disease, whereas others are of the opinion that all subtypes are variants of the same standard form of the condi...
one highly vulnerable to contamination by virtue of dust-carrying particles and surface contamination (Colorado Department of Publ...
study relied on the input of professional males such as dentists, veterinarians, optometrists, osteopathic physicians and podiatri...
Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...
a Type A personality, chronic stress, hostility and anger all increase the risk of heart attacks (Harvard Mental Health Letter, Ju...
risk factor, but is of less consequence among those diabetics who pay close attention to their blood sugar levels, test often and ...
Without the neurotransmitter dopamine the striatum dries up. Although there are still plenty of reserves of dopamine in the...
to receptors that are on the surface of nerves (Pressman, 2004). What happens then is that they are transported to the cell body t...
in the general area, but that the population immediately surrounding the church is rather homogeneous. Nearly 29 percent of Coney...
are afraid because ignorant, and perceive the pain and not the benefits; nor do they apprehend that a sick soul is worse than a si...
advertising by big businesses that has contributed in a large part to the decline in the health of the average American citizen. ...
However, as the disease progresses, it may cause a low-grade fever as well as night sweats and fatigue (1996). Also, leukemia may ...
information about breast cancer in women has increased and women generally seem worried about the risk and chance of breast cancer...
and strokes. Heart disease became commonplace. The rate of heart disease increased so sharply between the 1940 and 1967 that the W...
can progress from initial symptoms: "to coma and death as quickly as 12 to 48...
pathogen (National Institutes of Health, 1999). The most concerning infectious agents are those that are both highly contagious ...
heart disease, it is important for health care professionals and the public to be aware of the differences in symptoms and treatme...
epidemic in January 1993 (Center for Disease Control, 1996). By 1996 the outbreak had slowed to only an approximate three hundred...
restriction and that, for the rest of her life, "she would live for herself" (Chopin). With a feeling of freedom unlike anything s...
results in the slow loss of memory, personality, and eventually all cognitive function (Lemonick and Park-Mankato, 2001). Scienti...
peripheral vision and eventual blindness, mental retardation, paralysis, and non-responsiveness (National Tay-Sachs and Allied Dis...
author notes that "On the night that the Aztecs drove Cortez out of Mexico City, in their retreat the Spaniards left behind an inv...
known to manifest various peculiarities or disorders of thinking and behavior. Correctly speaking, however, these are diseases of ...
rest and sleep to the heightened conditions experienced during maximal exercise (Turner, 1994). In other words:...
Although celiac disease cannot be cured, it can be controlled with the elimination of the causative glutens from the diet. Those ...