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Gout Diagnosis

Gout is caused by a build up of sodium urate crystals in and around joints due to an increased uric acid level in the blood.

14 Jul 2009

Gout describes a type of arthritis that is characterized by the formation of sodium urate crystals in and around joints. The condition is the most common form of inflammatory arthritis, affecting around 1.5 percent of people in the UK.

14 Jul 2009

Stages of Gout

Gout is a form of arthritis caused by the accumulation of sodium urate crystals in the joints. In the UK, gout affects around 1 in 45 individuals, the majority of which are older people. Men are affected by the condition more often than women. This is because estrogen increases the renal excretion of uric acid.

14 Jul 2009

Gout: an Overview

Gout is a form of arthritis that causes inflammation and severe pain in joints.

14 Jul 2009

Preventing and Managing Atherosclerosis

The main treatment for atherosclerosis is lifestyle changes which along with ongoing medical care, can help a person live a healthier life.

14 Jul 2009

Treatments for Atherosclerosis

The treatment of Atherosclerosis aims to relieve symptoms and reduce the risk factors in an effort to slow, stop, or reverse the build-up of plaque. Treatment will include lowering the risk of blood clots forming, widening or bypassing clogged arteries and preventing diseases related to atherosclerosis, along with lifestyle changes.

14 Jul 2009

Surgeries and Procedures for Atherosclerosis

Surgeries and procedures for atherosclerosis include Angioplasty, Stent placement, Coronary Artery Bypass surgery, Carotid artery surgery and Atherectomy. Such procedures may involve the use of medical devices such as stent and drug-eluting stent or a cardiac angioplasty or atherectomy device.

14 Jul 2009

Diagnosing Atherosclerosis

Doctors have an arsenal of diagnostic tests and tools they can access to confirm the presence of Atherosclerosis - these include an angiogram (Arteriogram), cholesterol tests, a chest x-ray, a CT (computed tomography) scan, Duplex scanning, an echocardiogram, an electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG), an exercise stress test (cardiac stress test), an intravascular ultrasound, an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scan, a PET (positron emission tomography) scan and a pharmacologic stress test.

14 Jul 2009

Risk Factors for Atherosclerosis

Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death in the United States and while the exact cause of atherosclerosis remains unknown, certain traits, conditions, or habits may raise a person's chance of developing it.

14 Jul 2009

Atherosclerosis

Atherosclerosis, (ath-er-o-skler-O-sis) comes from the Greek words athero - meaning gruel or paste and sclerosis meaning hardness - and is a hardening of the arteries - it is the most common cause of heart disease.

14 Jul 2009

Who Gets Ovarian Cancer?

All women are at risk for ovarian cancer, but older women are more likely to get the disease than younger women. About 90 percent of women who get ovarian cancer are older than 40, with the greatest number being age 55 or older.

14 Jul 2009

Ovarian Cancer Treatment

Your doctor can describe your treatment choices and the expected results. Most women have surgery and chemotherapy. Rarely, radiation therapy is used.

14 Jul 2009

Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis, Prevention

Prevention

14 Jul 2009

Ovarian Cancer Symptoms

Ovarian cancer often causes signs and symptoms. See your doctor, nurse, or other health care professional if you have any of these signs every day for two weeks or longer and they are not normal for you, especially if they get worse:

14 Jul 2009

Ovarian Cancer

Ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer deaths among U.S. women and has the highest mortality of any of the gynecologic cancers. The lifetime risk of dying from ovarian cancer is 1.1%. According to the U.S. Cancer Statistics: 2004 Incidence and Mortality report, 20,095 women in the U.S. learned they had ovarian cancer in 2004. About 6,600 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the UK each year, around 1,500 in Australia and 2,300 in Canada. The death rate for this disease has not changed much in the last 50 years.

14 Jul 2009

What are the Ovaries?

The ovaries are a pair of organs in the female reproductive system that produce eggs and female hormones.

14 Jul 2009

Obesity, What Can be Done?

Overweight and obesity, as well as their related chronic diseases, are largely preventable and at an individual level, people can achieve energy balance and a healthy weight by limiting energy intake from total fats and shifting fat consumption away from saturated fats to unsaturated fats - increasing their consumption of fruit and vegetables, as well as legumes, whole grains and nuts - limiting their intake of sugars and increasing physical activity.

14 Jul 2009

Causes of Obesity and Overweight

The basic cause of obesity and overweight is an energy imbalance between calories consumed and calories expended and maintaining your current body weight indicates you are in caloric balance and to gain or lose weight, will need the balance scale to tip in one direction or another to achieve a goal.

14 Jul 2009

What is Obesity?

Obesity and overweight have in the last decade become a global problem - according to the World Health Organization (WHO) back in 2005 approximately 1.6 billion adults over the of age 15+ were overweight, at least 400 million adults were obese and at least 20 million children under the age of 5 years were overweight.

14 Jul 2009