Blood & Blood Vessel (Vascular) Disorders

The basic types of blood vessels are arteries, veins, capillaries and lymphatics. Their main goal is to keep blood flowing to all of your vital organs. Here, you can discuss topics related to blood disorders (anemia, blood cholesterol, hemochromatosis, hemophilia, polycythemia vera, sepsis, sickle cell disease, thalassemia, thrombosis) and blood vessel disorders (arteriosclerosis and atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, aneurysm, vasculitis, venous thrombosis, varicose veins, lymphedema).

Blocked artery from spleen to liver

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Family member is 57 year old male. Quit smoking 10 years ago after smoking for 45 years. Pain in hands like arthritis, pain in his side where the liver is, Gall Badder has been removed (15+ years ago) and he had pancreatitis 8 years ago. Rheumatic fever as a child and had a mild heart attack 2...

by Guest over a year ago

Study Finds Energy Drinks Induce High Blood Pressure

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Small study found that people who drink energy drinks have greater risk of increased blood pressure and heart rate than people who don’t. Researchers found that just two cans of energy drink may increase blood pressure in just four hours. Although increased blood pressure didn’t reach...

by Lori2592 over a year ago

Winter Time Is Related With Risk Of High Blood Pressure

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Study which lasted for about 5 years found that high blood pressure seems to be more difficult to control in winter time than it is in the summer. The reason for that lies in fact that people mostly gain weight in the winter months and lose it in the summer. Also, summer is more likely to be part of...

by Laylah over a year ago

High Blood Pressure Affects Children Too

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American children are widely becoming fatter. Along with increase in obesity comes high blood pressure that unfortunately goes undiagnosed in 74% of the cases. Not properly diagnosed hypertension in childhood may eventually lead to organ failure and other health problems, like coronary artery...

by Jane232591 over a year ago

Comments and reviews on article "Cold hands and feet: The sign of iron deficiency?"

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Users comments and reviews on article Cold hands and feet: The sign of iron deficiency? by MariAnne

by Guest over a year ago

Oestrogen Therapy Shows Reduced Coronary Artery Calcification

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A few years WHI study showed that menopausal women who received a standard dose of oral conjugated estrogens had less coronary artery calcification, a marker of plaque in the arteries, in comparison to women taking placebo. Coronary artery calcification is a predictor of possible future...

by Jenny3481 over a year ago

Postural orthostasis tachycardia syndrome

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Hi I am a 27 year old female and was diagonised with postural orthostasis tachycardia syndrome about 2 years ago but didn't suffer any symptoms for well over a year. In the last 2 weeks I have been near fainting, extremely tired have pretty bad headaches and my eyes hurt I have not been able to...

by jeno11 over a year ago

blood clot after a migraine

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I had a migraine that started one day and proceeded to get worse as the day went on. It continued thru the night into the next two days. Believe me when I say it got worse. I had to take suppositories to be able to take a narcotic to stop the pain and be able to hold water down. It took 5 pills...

by Guest over a year ago

During the past 2 days I feel cold no matter how hot it is.

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I work nights and sleep during the day. I live in an aparment that does not have airconditioning. Over the past 2 days I have been feeling cold even though it is hot out. I am wearing to layers of thick clothing, but my skin is still cold and I feel cold.

by anhtran719 over a year ago

anemia, heat palpatations, constipation??

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my mom has been in and out of the hospital since right before christmas. she first had these feelings that her heart was holding its breath and it was skipping beats. she had many ekgs and all they told her was it was stress to avoid caffene. she has and she has been on medicine and it has not...

by my poor mom over a year ago