Sunday, March 31, 2019
Heart Disease Prevention - What Is Cardiac Asthma?
It may not be right to assume that a person who have symptoms like wheezing, chest tightness, cough, shortness of breath is having asthma. Instead, they may have cardiac asthma. So what is cardiac asthma?
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Monday, March 25, 2019
Heart Disease Prevention - How To Deal With Heart Failure To Live Longer?
Heart failure is a serious diagnosis, but it does not mean that the heart has stopped working. Heart failure occurs when the heart is unable to pump enough blood throughout the body. This will cause congestion in the body’s tissues, which will ultimately lead to swelling in the ankles, legs or stomach. Fluid can also be built up in the lungs that can cause trouble breathing. Find out more at:
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Labels: heart attack, heart disease, heart failure
Monday, March 11, 2019
Does Elevated Cardiac Biomarker Indicate Heart Disease Risk?
For many years, enzyme test measuring CK and CK-MB had been used to diagnose heart attacks. Recently, these tests have been replaced by measuring another protein called troponin. It a complex of regulatory proteins, which includes troponin T (TnT) and troponin I (TnI), and it is a reliable indicator that heart cell damage has occurred. Click the following link to find out more:
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Labels: cardiac biomarker, creatine kinase, heart attack, myocardial infarct, troponin
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