HARDENING OF THE ARTERIES

see arteriosclerosis.

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books on: Hardening of the Arteries  - 1302 results

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Over 55: A Handbook on Health
Book by Theodore G. Duncan, Joyce Richman; Franklin Institute Press, 1982
Subjects: Aging, Geriatrics, Gerontology
...infection, and various manifestations of atherosclerosis fatty deposits on arterial walls commonly known as hardening of the arteries .Diagnosis of heart disease aims to answer three questions: What is causing heart damage? How much is the heart...
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The Eye Care Sourcebook
Book by Jay B. Lavine; Contemporary Books, 2001
Subjects: Eye--Care And Hygiene--Popular Works
...in people who have had transient loss of vision in an eye. This transient blindness can sometimes indicate hardening of the arteries and high risk of a stroke. This technique can give us some idea whether any major arteries (including the...
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Chambers's Technical Dictionary
Book by C. F. Tweney, L. E. C. Hughes; Macmillan, 1958
Subjects: Technology--Dictionaries
...mixed with cement concrete for the purpose of hastening hardening.-- Photog. A chemical used...antiquity in evolution. age-hardening Met. . See ageing. ageing Acous. . The diminution of effectiveness of a carbon microphone...
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Sexual Health for Men: The Complete Guide
Book by Richard F. Spark; Perseus Publishing, 2000
Subjects: Hygiene, Sexual, Men--Health And Hygiene, Men--Sexual Behavior, Physical Fitness For Men, Sex (Psychology)--Health Aspects, Sexual Disorders
...discovered that when severe atherosclerosis hardening of the arteries partially blocked some branches of the abdominal...heart are narrowed because of atherosclerosis hardening of the arteries , they cannot provide a sufficient supply of...
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Readings in Biological Science
Book by Irving William Knobloch; Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1948
Subjects: Biology
...The embryo itself at a very early period can hardly be distinguished from that of other members of the vertebrate kingdom. At this period the arteries run in arch-like branches, as if to carry the blood to branchiae which are not present in the...
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journal articles on: Hardening of the Arteries  - 45 results

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The Consequences of Childhood Overweight and Obesity
Journal article by Stephen R. Daniels; The Future of Children, Vol. 16, 2006
Subjects: Childhood obesity--Research, Childhood obesity--Risk factors, Children--Food and nutrition, Children--Health aspects, Obesity in children--Research, Obesity in children--Risk factors
...pressure, early symptoms of hardening of the arteries, type 2 diabetes, nonalcoholic...disease processes, such as hardening of the arteries, once thought to be predominantly...cardiovascular disease is hardening of the arteries, or atherosclerosis, which...
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Impairments of Memory and Learning in Older Adults Exposed to Polychlorinated Biphenyls Via Consumption of Great Lakes Fish
Journal article by Susan L. Schantz, Donna M. Gasior, Elena Polverejan, Robert J. Mccaffrey, Anne M. Sweeney, Harold E.B. Humphrey, Joseph C. Gardiner; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 109, 2001
...hardening of the arteries...hardening of the arteries...referent < 36.3) hardening of the arteries...
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In the Thick of Air Pollution: Particles May Contribute to Atherosclerosis
Journal article by Bob Weinhold; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 113, 2005
Subjects: Air pollution, Atherosclerosis, Medical research, Medicine, Experimental
...already participating in two clinical trials investigating other aspects of atherosclerosis, or thickening and hardening of the arteries. The selected participants were generally healthy people over 40 who showed some signs of increased risk of cardiovascular...
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Ozone: Good, Bad, or Indifferent?
Journal article by Bob Weinhold; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 114, 2006
Subjects: Air pollution, Atherosclerosis
...contribute to atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries. Whether the ozone involved comes...response on and increase the stickiness of the interior arterial walls, and contribute...ozone), says William Pryor, director of the Biodynamics Institute at Louisiana...
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The Contribution of Conceptual Change Texts Accompanied by Concept Mapping to Students' Understanding of the Human Circulatory System
Journal article by Semra Sungur, Ceren Tekkaya, Omer Geban; School Science and Mathematics, Vol. 101, 2001
Subjects: Cardiovascular system--Study and teaching, Errors, Popular--Analysis, Popular errors--Analysis, Science education--Analysis, Sciences education--Analysis
...arterial wall were not stretchable, the arterial pressure would be higher, which is the case in atherosclerosis ("hardening" of the arteries). Accordingly, arteries do not maintain high blood pressure. Finally, it was explained that elasticity helps...
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Hard Truths about Hardening of the Arteries
Magazine article by Peter Libby; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 136, September 2007
Subjects: Arteries--Health aspects, Arteries--Physiological aspects, Atherosclerosis--Care and treatment, Atherosclerosis--Risk factors, Heart attack--Causes of, Hypertension--Causes of
Hard Truths about Hardening of the Arteries. by Peter Libby...ATHEROSCLEROSIS, commonly called hardening of the arteries, causes heart attacks and...When perturbed, though, arteries can be the sites of development of fatty buildups...
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How "Good" Cholesterol Protects Arteries
Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 130, February 2002
Subjects: Arteries--Protection and preservation, Blood cholesterol--Physiological aspects, Cholesterol, HDL--Physiological aspects, HDL cholesterol lipoproteins--Physiological aspects, High density lipoproteins--Physiological aspects, University of Texas (Dallas) Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas, Texas)--Research
...could lead to new strategies to prevent or treat vascular diseases such as atherosclerosis, commonly known as hardening of the arteries. "What we have found is that HDL is a robust stimulator of nitric oxide production in endothelial cells, which...
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Leg Pain May Signal Clogged Arteries
Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 123, October 1994
Subjects: Leg--Diseases, Pain--Causes of, Peripheral vascular diseases--Care and treatment
...supply to the legs caused by hardening or clogging of the arteries in the lower body, warns John...improve circulation in the arteries. Those without serious complications...not to give up exercise at the first sign of discomfort, but people should...
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"Sleeve" Keeps Blockages at Bay
Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 126, February 1998
Subjects: Atherosclerosis--Prevention
...Stanford University Medical Center. Atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries. is arguably the most serious health problem in...This study shows that the mechanical functions of the arteries and the physical forces on them are just as important...
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For Some, New Drug May Reduce Walking Pain
Magazine article; FDA Consumer, Vol. 33, May 1999
Subjects: Leg--Care and treatment, Pain--Drug therapy, Pletal (Medication)--Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Food and Drug Administration--Laws, regulations and rules
...to atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, a new drug treatment is...activities. Clinical studies of Pletal did not identify...toxicity. However, because the drug is related to phosphodiestrase...function. Further study of the Pletal/Plavix combination...
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The Mission of the Twelve
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, September 11, 2007
...Why do some followers of the Lord let their prayer life dry up and atrophy? What happens to bring about hardening of the spiritual arteries? Here are some of the problems with prayer in our times. "A serious problem is created by electronics. The...
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Being Too Fat Makes You Thick; Tests Find Evidence of the 'Homer Effect'
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), October 16, 2006
Subjects: Obesity--Analysis
...brain. She explained: "Since obesity is a widely known cardiovascular risk factor, due to the hardening of blood vessels, the same could happen with arteries in the brain." A separate paper, also published in the journal of the American Academy of...
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The Fat in My Arteries Was as Thick as Cottage Cheese - So the Surgeon Scraped Them Clean; ME AND MY OPERATION CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 6, 2007
Subjects: Anticholesteremic agents
...hypercholesterolaemia, tends to run in families - my grandmother had a stroke when she was just 42 and my dad died of hardening of the arteries when he was 65. I was a smoker for years, which put me more at risk. Two years ago, I started to notice shooting...
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My Cure for Blocked Arteries - a Pounds 300 Wire
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), February 21, 1999
...which affects the leg arteries of male smokers. Diabetics are particularly vulnerable to narrowing, hardening and blockage of the arteries and patients with advanced peripheral vascular disease can develop gangrene. Michael Rees, professor...
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When Hearts Beat Too Rapidly; Chest Implants and Treatments Cut Number of Fatalities
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 27, 2003
...in about 4 million people in the United States. In fact, hardening of arteries, which is associated with certain...heart attack, high cholesterol or hardening of the arteries should take one aspirin a day...
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encyclopedia articles on: Hardening of the Arteries  - 5 results

 
 
1.
Hardening of the Arteries
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HARDENING OF THE ARTERIES see arteriosclerosis . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Senility
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...muscle strength, changes in the lens and muscles of the eye, brittleness of bone and stiffness of the joints, and hardening of the arteries ( arteriosclerosis ) are among the physical changes associated with old age. The mental changes associated with...
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Saturated Fat
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...makes it a solid, the process is also called hardening. A correlation has been found between the consumption of solid fats in food and cholesterol levels...plaques that may lead to blockage of the arteries, i.e., atherosclerosis. Dietary guidelines...
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Fats and Oils
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...chemical industry. This process, sometimes called hardening, involves hydrogenation of the unsaturated fatty-acid portion of the oil molecule...level of cholesterol, which is deposited in the arteries. See oils ; petroleum...
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Arteriosclerosis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...accumulates calcium and produces hard plaques, thus hardening the walls of the vessels. As the vessel walls thicken, the passageways...to the affected region. Constriction of the coronary arteries may affect the heart (see coronary artery disease...


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