Sentences with phrase «attack on the blood vessels»

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A study based on medical records from more than a quarter million adult patients found that African - American patients with connective tissue diseases such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis were twice as likely as white patients to suffer from narrowed or atherosclerotic blood vessels, which increase the risk of a heart attack, stroke or death.

February 4, 2016 Connective tissue disease increases risk for cardiovascular problems A study based on medical records from more than a quarter million adult patients found that African - American patients with connective tissue diseases such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis were twice as likely as white patients to suffer from narrowed or atherosclerotic blood vessels, which increase the risk of a heart attack, stroke or death.

These have an anti-inflammatory effect on blood vessel cells and have been shown to decrease the risk of heart attack.

There, he is purchased by the beautiful niece (de Havilland's Arabella) of a vicious plantation owner (Lionel Atwill's Col. Bishop), but during an attack on the colony by a Spanish armada, Blood takes to the ocean aboard a stolen army vessel.

Fly strike, with its red, crusty, bleeding lesions on the tips of a dog's ears can look just like mange, scratching from allergies, vasculitis — swollen, inflamed blood vessels — or erythematosis, an autoimmune disorder where the animal's immune system attacks normal, healthy tissue.

According to the American Association for Critical Illness Insurance, the national organization that tracks data on strokesm heart attacks and cancer, an ischemic stroke is caused by a blockage in a blood vessel.