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Weight Loss and Gallstone Disease

Epidemiologic studies among specific populations have helped to define the risk for gallstone disease among persons losing weight. During follow-up of the Nurses Health Study cohort, the incidence of clinically recognized gallstones was determined after collection of self-reported heights and weights obtained 2 years apart. Compared with women whose weight changed less than 4 kg, women who lost 4 to 10 kg had a 44% increase in the risk for gallstone disease with the weight loss,...

New Method to Identify Heart Disease Risk in Women

Researchers in America say they have developed a more accurate method of predicting if a woman is at risk of heart disease. Current methods to predict heart disease are now over 40 years old and these often failed to identify women who are at risk. The new Reynolds Risk Score considers more than just traditional risk factors such as age, blood pressure, cholesterol level and smoking. It also considers parental history of heart attack before the age of 60, and levels of...

A New Understanding of Heart Disease in Women

It is the new theme of the times that women today are as prone to heart disease as men. This is a far cry from the mainstream belief a couple of decades ago when only men were susceptible to heart diseases. Furthermore, such belief emphasized that as long as women keep themselves fit, they are likely to avoid heart disease. This belief is very much true because a major reason for the susceptibility of women today is due to changes in lifestyle and diet.Why Women are...

Menopause Pain- Is a Disease

Although it may feel like a, menopause is not a disease or disorder - is a natural transition that occurs for all women when they reach a particular age.Menopause is the time in the "midst of life" when a woman stops having her period. It happens when a healthy woman, the ovaries stop releasing eggs - usually a gradual natural process. Per menopause is the period of gradual changes that lead to natural menopause. It commonly affects the hormones, the body and the sensations...

The Deadliest Email List Disease and How to Cure it

Copyright (c) 2008 Quick Turn Marketing International, Ltd. "I rarely encourage clients to sell via one-step, because leads; people who've raised their hands can have so much value worked well over time." - Dan Kennedy. There's an absolute wealth of marketing wisdom in Dan's statement. It's impossible to do justice to all of it in this short space. So lets get into it and give you some important food for thought... You'll decide to either market to a list,...

Alzheimer’s Disease – ‘The Living Death’

Alzheimer's disease or the 'living death' was named after Dr Alois Alzheimer who discovered it in 1907, when he described the amazing effects the disease had on the brain of a 51 year old woman who had apparently died of dementia. When examined under a microscope, her brain showed changes that had never been seen before. While in some parts there was a clumping of brain matter in other parts it was tangled together. When his research discovered the same twisting and...

What Steps Should Be Taken For Detection Of Hidden Cases Of Congenital Heart Disease CHD?

What Steps Should be Taken for Detection of Occult / Hidden Cases of Congenital Heart Disease CHD? Since there are still a large number of occult/hidden/ asymptomatic cases of CHD, especially of the late cyanotic or acyanotic (in which cyanosis does not occur) group, urgent steps are required to be taken for their early detection. Such cases can be detected in various camps, especially in schools/ colonies, etc. However, in many of the late diagnosed cases, as described...

Venereal Disease

Venereal disease can be anything from genital warts to herpes and is also commonly known as VD (venereal disease), STD (sexually transmitted disease), and also STI (sexually transmitted infection). It is also known that most if not all venereal disease problems are contagious. This means that things such as herpes can be passed from one sexual partner to another through vaginal sex, oral sex, or anal sex. More frequently you will also find that a person who has a...

Psoriatic Arthritis Disease Suffers

Rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis are autoimmune diseases in which the body is attacking itself. Septic arthritis is caused by joint infection . Rheumatoid arthritis is generally worse in the morning and associated with stiffness; in the early stages, patients often have no symptoms after a morning shower. In the aged and children, pain might not be the main feature; the aged patient simply moves less, the infantile patient refuses to use the affected...

Alzheimer’s Disease

The popular press does not seem to know how to deal with Alzheimer's disease. They alternately make light of it by using jokes about "senior moments" and make it out to be a dark, terrible secret that traumatizes everyone who comes in contact with a sufferer. The term Alzheimer's disease refers to a condition discovered by Lois Alzheimer, a doctor who practiced in the early 1900s. In 1907 he wrote in medical textbooks about a 51 year old woman who had died of dementia....
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