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Thyroid Disease in Women – Symptoms, and Treatments

Thyroid disease affect approximately 27 million people in the United States.  More women than men are commonly found to suffer from thyroid symptoms.  It is estimated that 4 out of 100 women have some type of autoimmune thyroid disease. A thyroid that is underproducing thyroid hormone is termed hypothyroidism.  It is characterized by insufficient levels of the primary thyroid hormones thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3).  Thyroxine is transformed into it's active form of...

Thyroid Disease in Women – Symptoms, Treatments and Causes

Thyroid disease affect approximately 27 million people in the United States.  More women than men are commonly found to suffer from thyroid symptoms.  It is estimated that 4 out of 100 women have some type of autoimmune thyroid disease. A thyroid that is underproducing thyroid hormone is termed hypothyroidism.  It is characterized by insufficient levels of the primary thyroid hormones thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3).  Thyroxine is transformed into it's active form of...

Heart Disease In Women Is The Number One Killer

According to recent studies, it's found that more than 8 million American women are currently living with some form of heart related disease.and it is the leading cause of death of American women. Prevention is the key to staying healthy. Heart disease in women can be diagnosed and treated but once a woman finds out that she has the disease, it may already be too late. It is very common that the first symptom is due to a stroke or heart attack. Woman that have engaged in several...

Thyroid Disease And Pregnancy

Thyroid disease affects different aspects of pregnancy and postpartum health for the mother and the newborn child. There have been varied and contradicting practices with regards to thyroid disease and pregnancy. As a result a group of endocrinologists came together to publish a journal containing clinical guidelines for the management of thyroid problems during pregnancy and during the postpartum period. The creation of this group came about over a two-year period and their findings were...

Heart Disease In Women Needs More Detection

Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women and their doctors often underestimate the risk, because they think it's something more likely to strike men. Women aren't getting nearly the same kind of preventative care that more receive; only 36 percent of open heart surgery and 33 percent of angioplasty are performed on women. The new guidelines are intended to right the historical gender inequity in treating heart disease, which kills 500,000 women in United States each year and millions more...

Notoriously Sweet: The Aspartame Story of Deception and Disease

Deeply disturbing is the only way one can describe the numerous reports of ill health exppressed by individuals consuming an artificial sweetener called aspartame. For years now I sincerely believed it was only a matter of time before asparatame in its many forms would be removed from the market but after years of use and thousands upon thousands of horror stories from very sick consumers, aspartame is now being used in more products than ever before. By way of this article I would...

Alzheimer’s Disease: A History, Plus Memory Testing Methods

Alzheimer's disease describes a condition named after its discoverer, Alois Alzheimer. In 1907 he wrote a textbook study of a woman of 51 who had died of dementia, and whose brain he had subjected to microscopic analysis. The examination showed changes Alzheimer had never witnessed before. Parts of the brain showed tangling and other parts showed clumping of brain matter. Later research showed more "younger" people who had died of dementia who displayed the same brain abnormalities. This came...

Graves’ Disease Detailed Information

Graves' disease is an autoimmune disease characterized by a metabolic imbalance resulting from overproduction of thyroid hormones (thyrotoxicosis). Graves' disease is rarely life-threatening. Graves' disease is more common in women and usually starts after age 20. Graves' disease can have a result on various parts of the body such as the nervous system, eyes, skin, hair/nails, lungs, digestive system, muscles/bones and reproductive system. Graves’s disease is the most familiar cause of...

How Gum Disease Can Threaten your Health

Gingival bleeding and halitosis is often the first sign of poor oral hygiene that may eventually lead to further periodontal problems."A good way to prevent periodontal disease and tooth decay is through at-home oral hygiene care and routine dental visits. How gum disease can threaten your health. Since July of 1998, evidence has continued to mount to support these links. While more research needs to be done to say definitively that people with periodontal disease are at higher risk...

The Truth About Alzheimer’s Disease

The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer's disease. This degenerative brain disorder destroys a person's ability to function. People with Alzheimer's slowly lose their ability to reason, learn, communicate and function. Often there are changes such as anxiety, hallucination, agitation, in behavior and personality. Usually it affects both men and women in their 60's but also affects people that are in their 40's. Completely dependant on their caregivers in advanced stages of Alzheimer's...