Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring
ABPM helps evaluate blood pressure trends during normal daily activities and sleep for 24 hours
Risk Factors
Excess cholesterol in the blood can cause Stroke and myocardial infarction. It is one of the major risk factors for atherosclerosis, a pathological basis for the stenosis (narrowing) and the obstruction of the arteries (cerebral and coronary above all) through the atherosclerotic plaque that increases inside the vessels until the occlusion of the blood flow in the artery (infarction).
Coronary Bypass Surgery
The purpose of the surgical treatment is to overcome the obstacle constituted by a critical narrowing (stenosis) in one of the coronary arteries through a bridge (bypass) that restores the blood flow over the obstacle, thus favoring the supply of oxygenated blood to the myocardial cells of the coronary area.
Three Risk Factors that Should Frighten You
The article by Toby Cosgrove has highlighted three major diseases that cause death and disability with high cost of human lives and resources for society. The title of the article is ‘Three Diseases That Should Frighten You’ and this is the link:...