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The cervical spine is the top of the spine and consists of seven small vertebrae of the spine. The cervical region is located between the head (an element of great weight) and the thoracic spine (element with a limp) and is responsible for moving and placing the head in the correct position to perform common functions: reading, driving, and so on.

It is estimated that cervical spine move about 600 times an hour, which coupled with a sedentary lifestyle and muscle loss that accompanies it, are causes involved in the origin of cervical degenerative problems and their pain symptoms.

The main cervical pathology are:

Cervical (neck pain caused by wear), brachialgia (sore arm) and cervicobraquialgia (combination of the two previous conditions).

The degenerative disease of the cervical spine can cause local pain in the neck, pain radiating to one or both arms and spinal cord compression more or less severe.
The neck pain may occur alone or accompanied by headache (headache) and dizziness. The symptoms may be caused by the cervical spine or elsewhere. In the latter case, the aggravating acts cervical disorder.

Cardiovascular disease is a common term given to various diseases related to blood vessels around the heart or in your own heart. In general, people often use the terms of cardiovascular disease and heart disease as synonyms, but both refer to different things.

Above all, all cardiovascular diseases in reality to clot or blockage of the arteries. Due to insufficient oxygen supply to the heart that fails to pump properly leading to strokes, heart failure or heart attack. These conditions can be fatal leading to death.

Medical science has made phenomenal progress in the field of cardiology, yet is still considered one of the most dangerous diseases. Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death not only in America but also in most advanced countries. Despite technological improvements, not much could be achieved in reducing the rate of deaths caused by heart failure. Read the rest of this entry »

Infarction of the lower region of the myocardium: dark red, the necrotic area of the wall of the heart muscle. Myocardial infarction (MI is an abbreviation) is a necrosis (cell death) of a portion of heart muscle. In common parlance, we call most often a heart attack. It occurs when one or more coronary arteries become blocked, cells in the myocardium (the muscle forming the heart) irrigated by this (these) artery (s) are then more oxygen, causing their suffering (pain) and may lead to their death (myocardial scar that usually persist). The area “infarcted” does incur more correctly.

The rate of death from acute myocardial infarction has improved from 8.8% to 4.4% in the latest study (2010) since that urgent treatment is performed at the first symptoms. There are 70 to 100 000 deaths from sudden death in adults each year and in total, cardiovascular disease kills 150 000 180 000 persons per year, making it the leading cause of mortality in the country by year.

WHO figure at about one third of those deaths worldwide caused by cardiovascular disease. The reduction factors of cardiovascular risk and improved therapeutic care have however reduced by almost half the deaths from cardiac causes in the U.S. between 1980 and 2000. [2] In this country, roughly one third of deaths are from cardiovascular and one in five deaths was secondary to coronary artery disease. One in eight deaths involving heart failure (2005 data). If more people were trained in first aid, it is estimated that it could increase from 2% to 20% survival for sudden death (in 2004, only about 6% of the French population is made up of gestures first aid )….

Actuary on cardiovascular disease by decreasing homocysteine levels, possibly causing damage to the lining of the arteries and the precursor of thrombus formation

The consumption of greater amounts of foods containing folate and vitamin B-6 reduces the risk of mortality from stroke and heart disease in women and may reduce the risk of heart failure in men, according to a study by the University of Osaka in Japan magazine is published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Explains Hiroyasu Iso, director of the study, the Japanese need a higher dietary intake of folate and vitamin B-6, which could lead to the prevention of heart disease, since dietary intake of vitamin B-6 tends to be generally lower in Japan than in the United States.

The findings on the value of vitamin B are consistent with studies in Europe and North America

The researchers analyzed data from 23 119 35 611 men and women between 40 and 79 who completed food frequency questionnaires as part of a large Japanese study. During an average follow-up 14 years 986 people died of stroke, heart disease and 424 of 2087 because of diseases related to cardiovascular system. Read the rest of this entry »