Archive for October, 2007

Young adults are using cholesterol drugs due to their unhealthy lifestyle. The unhealthy lifestyle includes smoking, drinking alcohol, and being sedentary. Being sedentary makes you obese. The workplace environment makes you sedentary.

As now-a-days, everyone works in front of computers, there is no physical work done by the body. During break hours, almost everyone takes junk and fast foods. These junk foods lead to obesity. Obesity is the risk factor of high blood pressure.

High cholesterol can result from diet with saturated fats, lack of exercise, being overweight, and drinking more than the recommended alcohol.

High cholesterol levels are associated with heart disease. High cholesterol causes blood vessels to become narrow with fatty deposits called plaques. This can result in strokes, heart attacks and blood vessel problems.

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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is common in pregnant women than any other group.

Pregnant women diagnosed with multiple sclerosis are often confused and have doubts about the effects of the disease on their child.

Effects of multiple sclerosis on fertility:

Your ability to become pregnant is not affected by the disease.

There is no evidence that the disease impairs fertility or leads to increased number of stillbirths, spontaneous abortions and congenital malformations.

Effects of multiple sclerosis on pregnancy:

According to the studies, MS is on average less active during pregnancy. Pregnancy appears to have a protective effect on women with MS and relapses occur less frequently. MS exacerbations are reduced during pregnancy, especially in the second and third trimesters. Women with MS need no special care during labor and delivery and no special management is needed.

Women with MS who are considering pregnancy need to be aware of certain drugs that are used to treat MS and should be avoided during pregnancy and breastfeeding. These drugs can cause birth defects as they pass into the fetus through blood or into the infant through breast milk.

High blood pressure is a precursor to heart attack.

If blood pressure is not detected or controlled, it can lead to heart failure, kidney failure, premature death or stroke.

While high blood pressure is a serious health problem, there are things to prevent and control blood pressure.

Tips To Lower Blood Pressure:

Exercise to lower blood pressure:

Exercise helps to improve health in many ways, including reducing the risk of high blood pressure.

1. Whether a person is having hypertension or not, regular exercise helps to prevent heart attack and stroke by preventing or lowering high blood pressure.
2. Being overweight or obese is another high blood pressure cause. Becoming regularly active and reducing the calories can help to lose weight.
3. Cholesterol levels increases with saturated fat. Due to the increase in cholesterol levels, arteries get narrowed and increases heart attack and stroke risk. LDL (low density lipoprotein) cholesterol narrows the arteries and blocks them while HDL (high density lipoprotein) removes LDL cholesterol from arteries. Regular physical exercise increases the amount of HDL cholesterol in the body.
4. Physical activity can reduce blood pressure within first ten weeks and also lowers systolic blood pressure.

Though breast cancer is less common than women, it is possible to develop breast cancer in men.

Both men and women have breast tissue.

Until puberty, girls and boys have a small amount of breast tissue with few ducts under the nipple and areola.

After the girl reaching puberty, her ovaries producing hormones cause breast ducts to grow.

Lobules form at the end of the ducts and the amount of stroma increases. But in men, hormones which are made by testicles prevent in further growth of breast tissue.

As you have less amount of breast tissue than women, it is easier to detect breast lumps and other abnormalities in you than women. As everyone thinks that breast cancer can occur only in women, you often ignore the early symptoms of breast cancer. You become embarrassed with breast lumps and delay to make an appointment with the doctor.

Common abnormality seen in men:

The common abnormality seen in men is a non-cancerous condition called gynecomastia. It is the condition with increase in the amount of breast tissue. The condition is most common in boys of teenage and it is related to hormone balance changes during adolescence.

Today is world psoriasis day and it is specially dedicated to people with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. Its primary purpose is to act as a focus for people that is, patients, doctors, nurses and general public.

More and more individuals, experts and patients are involving over time around the world.World psoriasis day is presented by international federation of psoriasis associations (IFPA), an international organization whose membership is made up of psoriasis organizations.

The aim of world psoriasis day includes:

• Raising awareness about psoriasis with communication and activities, explaining that psoriasis is a non-contagious skin disease that can affect anyone and people with psoriasis are no really different from others
• This day aims to encourage health care decision makers like government and physicians to allow psoriasis sufferers access to all the most appropriate therapies
• Delivering information and knowledge about the disorder to the people who are affected by the disease as well as to the general public
• To build unity among the community of psoriasis for providing platform from which voices of patient around the world can speak as one and be heard by important decision makers

Psoriasis is a skin condition characterized by red, thick scaly plaques that itch and cause bleeding sometimes with discomfort and emotional stress for patients.

In addition to dealing with the symptoms of psoriasis, a new research suggested a link between psoriasis and a serious medical condition.

The medical condition that is associated with psoriasis is heart disease.

Psoriasis is a chronic skin disease which occurs when the immune system attacks the body’s own cells. This results in large, itchy patches on the surface of the skin.

Effects of psoriasis can go skin deep causing inflammation throughout the body. Some of the abnormalities of the immune system that cause psoriasis also influence heart disease. Inflammation is a natural response produced by the body whenever immune system is at work fighting an infection.

As psoriasis causes chronic inflammation, it can adversely affect heart and blood vessels. Immune activity is important for establishing atherosclerosis or blockage of arteries and promoting them to rupture into a heart attack.

People with psoriasis have a tendency to be obese, smoke, have hypertension and other risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Psoriasis patients should visit the physician and screened for cardiovascular risk factors.

A minimally invasive diagnostic medical procedure which is used to asses the interior surfaces of an organ by inserting a tube in to your body is know as endoscopy.

The instrument which is used for endoscopy may have a flexible or rigid tube and it provides an image for photography and visual inspection.

Other than the production of the image for visual inspection and photography, it also enables to take biopsies and retrieval with foreign objects.

The procedure of endoscopy is painless, except in some cases it leads to mild discomfort. Most of the patients tolerate this procedure of endoscopy with topical anesthesia of the oropharynx only. This anesthesia will be given by using lignocaine spray.

There are fewer chances for obtaining complications in endoscopy. Out of 100%, only 5% of operations have the chances to attain complications. In rare situations, the complications which have occurred by this process will be solved by performing open heart surgery.

The endoscope consists of some components such as

• A flexible or rigid tube
• For illuminating the object or organ which is under inspection, a light delivery system is used.

Employees who work at desk can experience carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) at some point in their life.

This is due to the poor posture of your hands. Improper wrist shape is associated with a higher incidence of carpal tunnel syndrome.

This is the most common complaint among computer users. Till now the exact cause of CTS is not determined.

Due to carpal tunnel syndrome, most of the people lose lots of time from their jobs and they are in a lot of pain. The treatment for this condition varies widely.

In order to get relief you need to do some exercises during a short break at your computer.

A 5-7 minutes desk exercise is very beneficial and gives relief from your chronic pain.

By doing the exercise you can reverse most of the common symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome.

The exercise not only helps in relieving carpal tunnel syndrome, but also beneficial for back pain, neck pain, computer vision syndrome, headaches, and shoulder pain.

Carpal tunnel syndrome linked to some medical conditions:

Carpal tunnel syndrome is not only the symptom of poor posture, but also due to certain medical conditions. Those conditions include: rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, thyroid conditions, and menopause.

Stress can reduce the libido and destroys sexual relationship. Reduced interest in sex can be due to increased psychological stress and decreased sexual drive is a common complaint in people who have stressful jobs and long work hours.

If you are obsessed with thoughts about the stresses of the day, you cannot think about love and tenderness. In the work place, you are prevented to express anger or anxiety on others. After coming home, you show your frustration on family members.

You will try to put the stress and strains of the everyday life on bed and it leads to reduced interest in sex. Stress from job, marriage, financial issues, family members, health problems and other issues can decrease the sexual drive. It is hard for you to feel desire for sex when you are thinking about bills and other issues on the bed.

Women are at lower risk of recurrence of cancer whose breast cancer is detected by mammography compared to those who discover a tumor by other means.

Women who are detected with cancerous tumors outside of the mammography, usually manual breast exam had a ninety percent of chance of recurrence of cancer elsewhere in their bodies.

Breast cancers are mostly detected by mammography screening and the procedure is becoming more common and the tumors found are often smaller.

The choice of breast cancer treatment, whether to skip the treatment depends on the age and severity of the cancer. So, correct diagnosis is essential to find the size of the tumor and mammography helps in finding the size.

Should all women in their 40s screen for breast cancer routinely?

There are many benefits to screening mammography, but the decision should be based on the conversation between a patient and the physician. Screening mammography in women in their 40s provided a reduction in breast cancer mortality, but with any regular screening, there will be potential harms.

There are few guidelines from which women can go for screening: individual assessment of risk of breast cancer and informing women ages 40 to 49 of the benefits and harms of mammography.