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Women, Heart Disease and Stroke
American Heart Association — Heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases are devastating to women, too. In fact, coronary heart disease, which causes heart attack, is the single leading cause of death for American women. Many women believe that cancer is more of a ...More…
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Metabolic Disease & Stroke: MELAS
eMedicine — Overview: Patients with the syndrome of mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and strokelike episodes (MELAS) have strokelike events that are acute in onset, often transient, and occasionally associated with a febrile illness. The ...More…
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Metabolic Disease and Stroke - Propionic Acidemia
eMedicine — Overview: Propionic acidemia is a metabolic disorder in which a defective enzyme, propionyl-coenzyme A (CoA) carboxylase, results in an accumulation of propionic acid. Patients may present with vomiting, dehydration, lethargy, and encephalopathy. ...More…
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Metabolic Disease and Stroke - Fabry Disease
eMedicine — Overview: Fabry disease is an X-linked lysosomal disorder that leads to excessive deposition of neutral glycosphingolipids in the vascular endothelium of several organs in the body and epithelial and smooth muscle cells. Progressive endothelial ...More…
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Metabolic Disease and Stroke - Methylmalonic Acidemia
eMedicine — Overview: Methylmalonic acidemia is a disorder of amino acid metabolism, involving a defect in the conversion of methylmalonyl-coenzyme A (CoA) to succinyl-CoA. Patients with this disorder present with neurologic manifestations, such as seizure, ...More…
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Metabolic Disease & Stroke: Hyperglycemia/Hypoglycemia
eMedicine — Overview: This article primarily addresses effects of hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia in the setting of acute stroke. Preexisting hyperglycemia is found commonly in patients presenting with acute stroke, and hypoglycemia may present with focal ...More…
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An ounce of prevention: heart disease and stroke ...
Amazon.com — Author Dan Lorentz Format HTML Number Of Pages 4 Publication Date 2005-02-01 Release Date 2006-01-30More…
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The Atlas of heart disease and stroke.(HealthWatch): An ...
Amazon.com — Author Erika Reinhardt Format HTML Number Of Pages 8 Publication Date 2005-03-01 Release Date 2005-07-25More…
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Heart disease and stroke still leading killers. ...
Amazon.com — Format HTML Number Of Pages 3 Publication Date 2002-02-01 Release Date 2005-07-29More…
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Reduce Your Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke
All Recipes — Between 1950 and 2000, the death rate from heart disease in the United States plummeted nearly 70 percent, and the death rate from stroke nearly 80 percent. Seems like pretty good news! But this silver lining has a bit of cloud stuffed inside it. ...More…
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Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics2007 Update
Circulation Journal — Published online before print December 28, 2006, doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.179918 Writing Group: Wayne Rosamond, PhD ; Katherine Flegal, PhD* ; Gary Friday, MD, MPH ; Karen Furie, MD ; Alan Go, MD ; Kurt Greenlund, PhD* ; Nancy Haase ; ...More…
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Diabetes - Reduce the Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke
Do It Yourself — Take charge of your health and work toward comprehensive diabetes care that includes managing blood glucose and other cardiovascular risk factors. By checking with your doctor about the ABCs of diabetes, you can help reduce your risk. A is for ...More…