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HEART DISEASES AND ITS CAUSES

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  Common Heart Diseases Heart attack is usually what strikes when people think of heart diseases. However, there are a number of diseases that affect the heart or blood vessels of a person. Some of them are mentioned below: ·          Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)/Ischaemic heart disease ·          Arrhythmias and Palpitations ·          Inflammatory heart disease ·          Hypertensive heart disease ·          Heart failure ·          Valvular heart disease ·          Rheumatic heart disease Causes of Heart Diseases In order to prevent heart diseases, controlling the various factors that cause heart problems will be essential. The different factors that cause heart diseases are: Factors that cause heart diseases are: ·          Abnormal blood cholesterol (dyslipidemia) ·          High blood pressure (hypertension) ·          Smoking and other forms of tobacco use ·          Diabetes ·          Being overweight or obese ·          Physical inactivity

ADVANCEMENT IN NEUROSURGERY (BRAIN AND SPINE SURGERY)

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  Unnecessary Fears There is a misapprehension in the minds of many people that if an operation is performed on the brain or the spinal cord, the patient will develop some mental problem (cognitive impairment)or memory disturbances (dementia) or speech disturbances (Aphasic) or get paralysed (plegias) or will land in coma etc. Some people often quote examples of their relatives who underwent operations and got disabled in some way or other. This does not mean that the operation should be blamed. It is the presenting state in which the patient approaches the surgeon that decides the outcome of the operation. Most of the time the surgeries on brain and spine are performed order to provide the patient a good quality of life with increase survival rates and one has to remember that few complications are part of any surgery Neurological symptoms ·          Headache with vomiting ·          weakness of limbs i.e. paralysis ·          impaired vision ·          gait disturbances ·          im