Heart Valve Disease
by: David Cowley.
The heart is one of the strongest muscles and arguable it is the most important organ in the human body. It is responsible for getting nutrients and oxygen throughout the body by way of the circulatory system. It is divided into two hal...
Heart Valve Disease Information
by: David Cowley.
The heart is one of the strongest muscles in the body and it is divided into two parts. The top part contains the two atrium chambers and the bottom half contains the two ventricle chambers. The atrium's collect blood from outside of th...
Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP) - A Heart Condition
by: kevinp.
Mitral Valve allows blood to flow in one direction from the atrium (upper chamber) to the ventricle (lower chamber). It is one of the four valves separating different chambers of the heart. Mitral valve causes problem if it doesn't open an...
Check Your Chihuahua For Mitral Valve Disease
by: Richard Cussons.
Mitral Valve Disease generally affects small breeds such as Dachshund, Beagle and Chihuahua. What is Mitral Valve Disease? Let us first define what mitral valve is. The heart has four chambers, the upper chamber called atria and the lowe...
Protect Against Heart Disease
by: Lucy MacDonald.
Take a few seconds to close your eyes and imagine that you are putting a slice of lemon into your mouth and chewing on it. Did your mouth water? This is just one example of how the mind can affect the body - simply thinking about somethi...
Never To Late for a Healthy Heart: Preventing Heart Disease
by: Hector Milla.
Heart disease, "the disease of the 19th century and beyond", as some people say. Based on statistics, nearly 13 million people suffer from coronary heart disease in which an approximately 479,000 death toll was recorded each year. Out of...
Gum Disease and Heart Disease: Discovering the Link
by: JoannC.
You probably know that brushing and flossing your teeth can help you prevent bad breath, cavities, and plaque. But, do you know that gum disease may affect your cardiovascular system? Well, that's what most of the recent studies have fou...
How to Prevent a Heart Disease Ischemic Heart
by: keysha.
Ischemic heart disease is a disease characterized by reduced blood supplyto the heart.As you well know the cause of most heart diseases is hardening of the arteries or blocked arteries. Complete occlusion of the blood vessel leads to a he...
Heart Disease - Know About Symptoms and Heart Care
by: Dr John Anne.
Your heart, other than your brain, is the center of many body processes especially that it pumps the river of your life, your blood. When not taken care properly, you may contact or acquire a heart disease that could be a threat to your ...
Feelings About Alzheimer?s Disease
by: William Hammond, J.D..
Being a caregiver is stressful and difficult. It involves contradictory feelings, thoughts and frustrations. When you have to care for a loved one who has Alzheimer’s, you have to be patient, talk with a calm voice and never “talk do...
Steaks which Lower Heart Disease
by Jason Uvios. Eat to live and live to eat are very much complimentary to each other. However, many a times, it is found that food choice deteriorates the health and when it happens, we are in a dreadful state. It is ironical that we want to eat those foo...
Heart Disease And What You Should Know
by: nkthen.
Are you aware that heart disease is one of the most dangerous conditions out there? If you think about it your heart is like the main battery of how you keep your body running. You need to pay close attention to what you are doing to you...
The Cause of Heart Disease
by: David Cowley.
If both of your parents and your grandparents suffered from hear disease then you may think you are also doomed to suffer from heart disease. There is good news, heredity can be a cause of heart disease, it is but one factor among may fa...
Heart Disease and Homocysteine
by: Lee Cummings.
Are you aware that one of the most important indicators of heart disease is homocysteine? -1
A naturally occurring amino acid in your body, homocysteine can cause inflammation and damage to your blood vessels when levels become elevated b...
How To Prevent Heart Disease
by: teahupoo.
Eventually almost everyone will experience the problem of having high cholesterol but having high cholesterol as a result of a bad diet is simply inexcusable. For most of us it is nearly impossible to eat a totally healthy diet all of our ...
