Category: Inflammation

*EDIT* I wanted to edit my answer in order to give someone with heart failure hope that life is not over for them. My ef dropped to less than 17% at one point and I was given no more than 6 months to live and told I could drop dead any minute. I am happy…

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I will try my best to explain it in layman terms. In medical language, “secondary to” means “as a result of an underlying illness”, so “heart failure secondary to diastolic dysfunction” means “heart failure as a result of diastolic dysfunction” or in other words “diastolic heart failure”. Systole (systolic phase) is the part of the…

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It is pretty much higher than the normal ( but you should have mentioned, whether the ESR – Erythrocyte Sedimention Rate, reading was done at 30mins or 1hr). Anyhow, your ESR values are higher. There 100s of medical reasons behind it, as higher ESR values is just a marker or indicator of some underlying abnormality…

Edema itself generally isn’t life threatening. While most cases of edema are mild, there are some serious medical conditions that can lead to edema as well. Congestive heart failure is the most common cause of serious peripheral edema. It occurs when your heart doesn’t pump enough blood to keep moving through the system. *Cardiovascular health…

*EDIT* I wanted to edit my answer in order to give someone with heart failure hope that life is not over for them. My ef dropped to less than 17% at one point and I was given no more than 6 months to live and told I could drop dead any minute. I am happy…

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Is 30% artery blockage serious? How long can someone live with this health condition?I think you have got some examination (duplex scan, angiography or tomography) that states you have some vessek with 30% of stenosis. The word stenosis means you have something (normally a cholesterol plaque) inside your vessel that is tighten its inner passage…

10 Natural Remedies for 3 Liver Diseases Three Stages of Liver Diseases Let’s first talk about the three stages of liver diseases so that you may contain the issue right at the beginning by curing liver disease at the first stage itself. The three stages of liver diseases are: 1. Fatty Liver 2. Hepatitis (Liver…

Step 1. Stop Supplementing With Vitamin D Depending on what supplements you are taking, this step may include more than just avoiding taking your vitamin D capsules. To give you an example, ​multivitamins often contain vitamin D. The same is true ​for other supplement formulations. Therefore, be sure to check the labels of any of…