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What are the symptoms of ischemia?
Poor eating habits and poor lifestyle choices can lead to lead to cardiac ischemia. Preventable disease, if you are attentive to a range of symptoms and / or signs that may occur. This note brindaré you about what they are.
The ischemia is a disease characterized by reduced blood flow to the heart. This results in less oxygenation of the tissue. This reduction in blood flow caused by the formation of plaque that clogs the artery.
The ischemia can be prevented if one is alert to the symptoms and / or signs that may occur.
What are the symptoms of ischemia?
- Tightness in the chest.
- Feeling of lack of oxygen.
- Fatigue.
- Pain in lower arms.
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Cholesterol
Cholesterol is the main sterol in the human body and precursor of all other steroids body. It is part of cell membranes, lipoproteins, bile acids and steroid hormones.
Cholesterol is an important constituent of gallstones, but its main pathological function, is for the production of atherosclerosis of vital arteries, causing heart disease, stroke and peripheral vascular disease.
The origin of cholesterol in the body has two sources, external and produced by the body itself. Because the body can produce its own cholesterol, the possibility exists that people do not consume cholesterol, elevated blood levels have to have a metabolic genetic disorder, leading to this elevation. These disorders are more common than believed and are the leading cause of atheroma and vascular diseases, including acute myocardial infarction. Hence the importance of identifying early as high cholesterol levels in patients.
Animal-derived foods are rich in cholesterol, especially eggs, dairy and meats. Most of this is in esterified form. The body absorbs about half of the cholesterol content in the diet. Plant sterols are poorly absorbed by the body. Read the rest of this entry »
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Anti-smoking
The new measures are in addition to an increase in taxes paid on cigarettes in Uruguay, which urged months ago to a very important product pricing and the establishment of a series of restrictions on smoking in public places.
Fernandez Galeano now said that from March next year, boxes of cigarettes and tobacco will be incorporated with clear legends that will occupy an important space for more than half of the container posts to quit smoking.
Also be stressed that a series of bans mandatory for the consumption of snuff in shops, restaurants, bars and other locations with public.
Fernández Galeano, in a press briefing Government House, after the ministerial agreements with the incumbent president, Rodolfo Nin Novoa, stressed that Uruguay permanently incorporate various kinds of communication in the boxes of cigarettes.
Concerning the content of the messages that have the boxes of cigarettes, said differences with previous campaigns, trying to remove the alarm among groups of smokers. Read the rest of this entry »