Chronic Renal Failure (CRF) : Risk Factors
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Atherosclerosis is a condition in which fatty material collects along the walls of arteries. This fatty material thickens, hardens, and may eventually block the arteries. Atherosclerosis is just one of several types of "arterio"-sclerosis, which is characterized by thickening and hardening of artery walls, but the two terms are often used to mean the same thing.
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Atherosclerosis is the build up of a waxy plaque on the inside of blood vessels. In Greek, athere means gruel , and skleros means hard.
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Atherosclerosis is the build up of plaque on the inside of blood vessels. Atherosclerosis is often called arteriosclerosis, which is a general term for hardening of the arteries.
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Macrovascular disease, or atherosclerosis , is the cause of more than half of all mortality in developed countries and the leading cause of death in the United States. It is a progressive disease of the large- and medium-sized arteries .
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The most common cause of death and disability in the United States is atherosclerosis, popularly known as " hardening of the arteries. " EPIDEMIOLOGY Every year atherosclerosis causes about 500,000 deaths nationally, most of these due to heart attack or stroke.
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Sickle cell anemia is an inherited disease in which the red blood cells, normally disc-shaped, become crescent shaped. As a result, they function abnormally and cause small blood clots. These clots give rise to recurrent painful episodes called "sickle cell pain crises."
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Sickle cell anemia, also called sickle cell disease (SS disease), is an inherited condition caused by having abnormal hemoglobin, the protein that carries oxygen in the blood. People with sickle cell anaemia have sickle hemoglobin (HbS) which is different from the normal hemoglobin (HbA).
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Sickle cell anemia, which is also known as meniscocytosis or sicklemia, is an inherited blood disorder that arises from a gene mutation. As a result, affected hemoglobin molecules have a tendency to stick to one another, forming abnormal strands of hemoglobin within the red blood cells.
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Sickle cell disease describes a group of inherited blood disorders characterized by chronic anemia, painful events, and various complications due to associated tissue and organ damage. The most common and well-known type of sickle cell disease is sickle cell anemia, also called SS disease.
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Sickle cell disease describes a group of inherited blood disorders characterized by chronic anemia, painful events, and various complications due to associated tissue and organ damage. The most common and well-known type of sickle cell disease is sickle cell anemia, also called SS disease.
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An inherited disease characterized by periods of relative health alternating with episodes of severe illness caused when sickle-shaped red blood cells block small blood vessels. Sickle-cell anemia is a genetic disorder that causes the victim ' s red blood cells to become stiff and sickleshaped.
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The sickle cell diseases are a group of disorders that have in common the propensity of the red blood cells to become deformed when oxygen tension in the blood is lowered, causing anemia, occlusion of blood vessels by misshapen cells, and various associated clinical consequences, including death. In sickle cell disease, a mutation of the beta-globin gene results in the substitution of valine for glutamic acid in the sixth amino acid of the chain, producing a hemoglobin, designated hemoglobin S, that has less solubility than does normal hemoglobin A.
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Sickle cell disease describes a group of inherited blood disorders characterized by chronic anemia, painful events, and various complications due to associated tissue and organ damage. The most common and well-known type of sickle cell disease is sickle cell anemia, also called SS disease.
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Sickle cell disease describes a group of inherited blood disorders characterized by chronic anemia, painful events, and various complications due to associated tissue and organ damage. The most common and well-known type of sickle cell disease is sickle cell anemia, also called SS disease.
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Toxins are substances created by plants and animals that are poisonous to humans. Most toxins that cause problems in humans are released by microorganisms, such as bacteria and viruses. Related topics: toxic dilation of the colon toxic epidermal necrolysis toxic hepatitis toxic injury of the kidney toxic megacolon toxic nodular goiter toxic shock syndrome
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