What is the prostate?
The prostate is a male sex gland located below the bladder near the rectum, and traversed by the urethra (urine drainage). It comes in sexuality, especially in the formation of sperm.
What are the symptoms of prostate cancer?
The prostate cancer develops at the periphery of the gland. He remains silent for a long time. The appearance of signs often reflects an advanced stage of disease. (more…)
Alzheimer’s disease is similar to a terrible epidemic. Its frequency increases with age. There is thus one in ten reached after sixty-five. However, attitudes and simple natural remedies could help diminish the risk of delay of several years its occurrence or to stop or even an improvement when it is still at the beginning …
The cardiovascular risk in primary
The first is, undoubtedly, the suppression of cardiovascular risk factors. For anything that is harmful to the heart is also bad for the brain. (more…)
Malignant tumor formed by the uncontrolled proliferation of abnormal cells that invade surrounding structures and tends to produce secondary tumors at bay. A tumor located in the stomach may result from an ulcer in Helicobacter pylori.
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Rhythm disorders have multiple causes, some are mild, others more serious. Everyone can benefit from effective treatments.
What is “arrhythmia”?
The heart beats with electrical impulses at a steady rate. At rest, the normal rate is 60 to 90-100 beats per minute.
The electric current that drives comes in an area of the heart – the sinus node, at the right atrium – which plays the role of power. It then goes through the two atria (right and left) and causes contraction, which causes the blood from the atria to the ventricles. He then came into the area at the junction between the atria and ventricles, the atrio-ventricular node, where it is dispatched to the two ventricles, causing a contraction is homogeneous and powerful than the blood so the heart and circulates throughout the body.
For various reasons, this beautiful mechanics can become misaligned. The rhythm of the heartbeat becomes irregular and / or inadequate: this is called an arrhythmia or an arrhythmia.
These disorders can be punctual (they are then called paroxysmal) or permanent. (more…)
It is a malignant tumor that is to say, tumors formed by the uncontrolled proliferation of abnormal cells that invade surrounding structures and which tend to produce secondary tumors remotely (metastasis). Generally, it ‘s act by performing macroscopic adenocarcinoma most often ulcerative lesions infiltrating or vegetating.
The colon is a terminal portion of the digestive tract, large diameter (hence its name from the large intestine) which ensures the continuity of the digestive tract between the intestine and the anus through the rectum. It forms a framework that surrounds the abdominal cavity and small bowel loops. Its length is 1m to 1.50m and its size decreases the cecum (8cm) to the rectum (4 cm). (more…)
Migraine is a disease that affects approximately 12% of the population is nearly 7 million people. It especially affects women. It is characterized by recurrent attacks of severe headaches, the frequency and duration can vary from person to person.
Migraine is caused by increased sensitivity of the nervous centers in the brain to precipitating factors such as psychological (stress, anxiety, etc..), Hormonal (menstruation, oral contraceptives), sensory (light, noise), food, climate, or environmental. (more…)
What is asthma?
Asthma is an inflammatory disease. This disease is linked to inflammation of the bronchi face many substances that contaminate the air we breathe. The inflamed airways can then react quickly by tightening so exaggerated in all kinds of attacks (allergens, stress, cold air).
How to recognize the crisis?
Faced with a crisis, the doctor will discuss asthma because of the whistling breathing. The crisis manifests itself most often:
A deep venous thrombosis or phlebitis is an accident that could have a serious complication: pulmonary embolism. These 2 diseases together are called venous thromboembolic disease.
What is DVT?
This obstruction of a deep vein by a blood clot or thrombus.
His training is not a coincidence but a consequence of the 3 following phenomena:
The breast cancer is the type most common cancer among women. During his life, one in nine women is likely to have cancer of the breast. Several factors play a role in the development of this cancer: family history, hormones, aging, etc.. Moreover, scientists have long suspected the lifestyle of being a major risk factor.
However, they could not identify precisely what components of lifestyle is the most influential.
For many years it was thought that a high intake of fat was one of those components that contribute most to risk of breast cancer. Now we believe instead that fat intake may play a role, but it is not the only factor, nor the most important. However, recent research indicates that a diet low in fat reduces the risk of recurrence of breast cancer.
Moreover, it appears that risk factors vary according to the hormonal changes experienced by women (premenopausal or menopausal). (more…)
What you should know about COPD?
The chronic pulmonary obstructive, or COPD, is a serious disease. In 90% of cases it affects smokers.
What is the pulmonary chronic obstructive?
It is a disease of the lungs and bronchi (bronchial pneumonia), Permanent (“Chronic”) during which the bronchial diameter decreases ( “obstructive”) which causes breathing difficulties, first effort, then permanent and increasingly important.
This disease has long been called “chronic bronchitis” until the doctors a few years ago, prefer the more accurate term “chronic pulmonary obstructive”.
What causes the chronic pulmonary obstructive?
In at least 90% of cases it is caused by tobacco. The risk increases with the number of cigarettes smoked and especially with the number of years of smoking.
Increasingly attacked by the nicotine and tar, the walls thicken and bronchial mucous glands, inflamed secratent excess mucus.
Consequence of these two phenomenons: the caliber of bronchial narrowing and air goes wrong in the lungs. (more…)