Stay Healthy heart? This trick
HEART is an amazing machine in the body due to damage in this organ can lead to lives lost. Maintain a healthy heart from working properly is something that can not be compromised.
Caring for heart health as well as preserving your life. Some basic tips can be done starting from the consumed to maintain the intake of regular physical activity into the things that need to be done. Following exposure of Dr John Knight in his book “Family Medical Care”, the basic rule in maintaining cardiovascular health.
Watch your weight
Keep your body weight to height. Overweight or obese makes you vulnerable to various diseases, one of which cardiovascular diseases such as heart disease. In short the people who are heavier body weight may increase risk factors for heart disease and early heart attacks.
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Minimally Invasive Surgery, Cardiac Surgery Fast & Cheap
WITH minimally invasive surgical techniques, cardiac patients will feel minimal pain, faster recovery, shorter hospitalization, and can be business as usual soon.
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is still a kind of disease that becomes an important issue in both developed and developing countries. CHD is the number one cause of death in adult Americans. Each year, 478,000 people died, 1.5 million people experience heart attacks, 407,000 people experience a transition operation and 300,000 people undergo angioplasty.
In Indonesia, also the same. The death rate in Indonesia is very high due to CHD. Based on the results of the National Household Health Survey (SKRTN), in the last 10 years that number tends to increase. In 1991, the death rate from CHD is 16 percent. Then in 2001 the figure jumped to 26.4 percent. Mortality from CHD is estimated to reach 53.5 per 100,000 population in the country.
Currently at least 78 percent of global deaths from heart disease occur in among the poor and medium enterprises, including in our country. Based on the condition that, in a state of the economy slumped, prevention is paramount to reduce cardiovascular disease in 2010.
Moreover, Indonesia is currently facing health problems are complex and diverse. Of course, ranging from classical and modern infections, degenerative diseases, and psychosocial illnesses that make Indonesia is currently facing a name threeple burden diseases. However, there remains the biggest cause of mortality due to CHD is called the silence killer.
One of the new solution in order not to increase the burden of CHD patients is minimally invasive cardiac surgery. This operation allows the doctor to operate without opening the chest cavity of the patient and only a small incision.
The advantage of this type of surgery is very minimal pain after surgery, faster recovery, shorter hospitalization, and patients can be business as usual soon. In terms of cost, the overall operation with this technique is also less expensive compared with conventional cardiac surgery.
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Irregular Heartbeats No Stroke Risk
BEWARE if you feel the heart beat irregularly and often pounding or shaking. Chances are you suffering from atrial fibrillation, which is a major risk factor for stroke.
In Indonesia, stroke is the leading cause of death for the category of non-communicable diseases and the current number of sufferers continues to rise sharply. While in the world, every six seconds, one person died of a stroke. That is, every year almost 6 million people died of a stroke.
According to Dr. Dr. Yoga Yuniadi SpJP (K) of the Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, one of the risk factors for stroke are largely unknown community in the country is due to atrial fibrillation or atrial fibrillation. This is a heart rhythm disorder most commonly found and is one of the major risk factor for ischemic stroke.
“Individuals who suffer from atrial fibrillation at risk of stroke five-fold compared with the general population. And, atrial fibrillation is a major cause of 15-20 percent overall incidence of stroke, “he said during a media briefing in commemoration of the” World Stroke Day “cooperation PT Bayer Indonesia Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals division danYayasan Stroke Indonesia (Yastroki) at the Hotel Intercontinental, Jakarta , some time ago.
He explained, atrial fibrillation occurs when the auricle or atrial beats irregularly. Under normal circumstances, the heart has some sort of generator and electrical cables so that the generated pulse can be run regularly. However, due to certain conditions, the generator is not working and replaced by small generators located in the auricle. The word Yoga, the number of small generators as a source of active power can reach 350 pieces, which then compete to get into the induction system of the heart chambers.
“This condition causes the heart rate becomes inconsistent, sometimes fast, sometimes slow. This is called atrial fibrillation, “he said.
Due to irregular heart beats, advanced Yoga, atrial fibrillation patients susceptible to blood clots in the atria, especially in the left atrium caused by abnormal blood flow and stagnant. Blood clots can be activated following the blood flow to the brain and cause ischemic stroke.
“A stroke associated with atrial fibrillation are generally more severe, the impact is worse, and longer treatment compared with patients who did not have atrial fibrillation,” he said. To detect an irregular pulse, he said, quite easily. Adult heart will throb generally between 60 to 100 beats per minute.
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Beware Alcohol Can Cause Psoriasis!
various skin diseases can affect anyone, ranging from mild eczema, psoriasis, leprosy until the considered rare and hard to hide. Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) showed that the prevalence of psoriasis is about 1-3 percent of the total population of the Earth.
United States Federation of Health estimates the number of patients with psoriasis in the land of Uncle Sam’s reach five million people today. Meanwhile, British health ministry said that around 1.5 million people carry these chronic diseases. But in Indonesia there is no data on psoriasis patients accurately. This skin disease is not known to the public.
Usually characterized by a skin growth that is faster than the hereditary / descent or genetic.
The disease is gone-arising, can appear in a long time, and could be in remission (a period in which no abnormalities were found on the skin of patients). This disease is not contagious. However, can appear anywhere on the body.
Psoriasis is a chronic skin inflammation, and recurrent. Although not the deadly disease, psoriasis can be serious and dangerous disease if complications occur. If allowed, the disease can cause life-threatening metabolic syndrome. Cholesterol disorders, heart and blood pressure increase is a disease often found in patients with psoriasis. This disease tends more and more widespread and severe. In addition the patient also has a high risk of experiencing coronary heart disease. Therefore, this disease must be handled properly.
Factors Causes and Symptoms
Unlike normal skin changes that usually lasts for 3-4 weeks, psoriasis happens rapidly, which is around 2-4 days. This disease can strike all ages, from children to adults.
Some research shows that one cause of psoriasis is a disorder of the immune system known as autoimmune disease. This means that the immune system or the immune system to attack or damage the body’s own tissues. Being attacked is their own skin cells, so there is psoriasis.
In addition, psoriasis can be initiated by environmental factors. Unhealthy lifestyles, such as excessive alcohol consumption, and high levels of stress can also ignite and aggravate psoriasis.
Symptoms usually a red dot an increasingly broad and covered with white scales in layers. Generally this excess skin layer does not always grow in all parts of the body skin.
Although can occur throughout the body, usually the most frequently found in the head area, so as to resemble dandruff, and areas that are outside of the extensor or curved direction as elbows, knees, and buttocks. Can also occur on the face, palms, soles of the feet and even got hit on the genitals, “the light of this dermatologist.
In addition, psoriasis can also attack the nail. If attacking the nails, you will see small holes or pits nail in one part of the nail. And brittle nails would not like a normal nail.
Diagnosis and Treatment
The diagnosis can be established from the anamnesis, clinical, and histopathological examination. “To know more certainly, can by biopsy or minor surgery to retrieve some of her skin and examined under a microscope,” explained Dr. Susie. Investigations shall be conducted to check whether or not patients suffering from psoriasis skin.
Once again, the skin of psoriasis is not life threatening. But oral medications are not controlled by physicians may cause damage to internal organs. And this is what could endanger the lives of sufferers. This disease can not be eliminated or almost completely cured. But with appropriate treatment and by avoiding the factors originators, the disease can be controlled well enough to get a period of remission and relapse can prolong the distance.
But psoriasis is aimed at reducing the severity and prevent the spread of skin disorders. Selection of treatment depends on the degree of severity, accompanying diseases, and patient expectations. Patients need to be explained about the purpose of treatment of psoriasis and healing a realistic expectation that psoriasis may be a relapse.
Psoriasis treatment is applied gradually, carefully by a physician to determine the type of psoriasis, the vast area affected, and the degree of severity of disease. The goal is to inhibit the growth of excessive skin cell so that the symptoms may be missing or corrupted.
There are several treatment steps which are topical medications or topical medicine directly on the skin.
Can also with ultraviolet radiation therapy and drugs, especially in more severe cases or severe.
