Sentences with phrase «cause damage to the heart»

The danger about strep throat is that if it is not treated it could lead to rheumatic fever, which in turn can cause damage to the heart valves.

Many breast cancer therapies cause damage to the heart.

Over time, ischemia weakens and causes damage to the heart and can lead to heart failure.

Without it, the body's cells starve and blood sugar levels spike, causing damage to the heart, eyes, kidneys, and nerves.

, and make it even more unhealthy, causing damage to your heart, neurological problems, and other health woes.

Heartworm Prevention For Cats And Dogs Heartworms cause damage to the heart and lungs and are life threatening to both cats and dogs and are spread by mosquitos.

The adult worms that live in the heart and pulmonary arteries are the worms that cause the damage to the heart and lungs.

Bacteria and plaque can progress into bleeding gums, tooth loss, and can even cause damage to the heart and other internal organs.

The spread of infection through the blood can cause damage to the heart, kidneys and liver.

A yearly heartworm blood test is necessary to make sure that your pet is not infected before starting the prevention tabs.This preventative medicine can cause a systemic inflammatory cascade and cause damage to the heart and lungs if given to a pet which is infected with the parasite.

Combined with poor dental hygiene, bacteria in the mouth can get into your dog's bloodstream, causing damage to the heart, liver, and kidneys.

Not only will this cause damage to the heart itself, but as a direct result of the poor blood flow, all organs will be detrimentally affected, most notably the lungs.

Serious cases can result in acute renal failure and cause damage to the heart or central nervous system.

Although this spring seems to be having some difficulty kicking into any warming trend, heartworm disease is very serious and can cause damage to the heart tissue and even death; don't take any chances by delaying prevention.

The bacteria that is present with dental disease circulates through the blood stream and can cause damage to the heart, kidneys and liver.

This fatal disease is spread through infected mosquitoes and causes damage to the heart and lungs.

Continued exposure to excess thyroid hormones can cause damage to the heart and, in some cases, death, the agency says.

Mister Goyes also accused the WWF for its complicit silence in lieu of the fumigation of coca fields in Colombia which has caused damage to the heart of life for communities and irreparable damage to the native forests.

Not exact matches

When fully blocked, damage is caused to the heart and death occurs.

«The heart of the issue is, if you borrow from a family member, there's risk because it can cause damage to the personal relationship, depending on how that loan is handled and the expectations from the borrower and the lender,» says Katherine Dean.

The oxidative damage caused to normal cells by free radicals has been linked to chronic conditions like cancer, heart disease, and degenerative diseases related to aging.

Declining the medication caused the doctors to raise concerns over my life expectancy, quality of life and the possibility of causing further damage to my heart, although they could not confirm that the medication would, in fact, actually improve my health.

This practice is used by doctors to detect complications like low oxygen and heart issues that can cause brain damage, seizures and even death in babies.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that occurs when the immune system attacks the body instead of defending it, causing inflammation that often results in serious damage to bones, joints and tendons, and can also affect internal organs like the heart, eyes and lungs.

There are an estimated seven million people in the UK living with prediabetes1 and recent research has shown the condition may already be causing long - term damage to the body, especially the heart and circulatory system3.

But the No. 1 cause of death in people who are starving is heart failure due to extreme tissue and organ damage.

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Once inside, they could begin to repair the damage caused by a heart attack.

«We already have clear ways to explore the damage high blood pressure can cause to the kidneys, eyes, and heart.

Nitric Oxide protects the heart from damage caused by ischemia, or blocked blood flow to heart tissue.

By the time she was 55, she had suffered three more heart attacks, and despite 13 stents to prop open her arteries, the damage has caused her left ventricle to balloon in size.

As long ago as the 1950s, scientists discovered that many diseases — including heart disease, strokes, cancer, diabetes, cataracts, arthritis and neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's — were linked to damage caused by highly destructive chemicals called free radicals.

There is a lot of work still to do, and many potential pitfalls before it could be applied to human patients, but in principle almost any illness caused by damaged or ageing tissue — heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's and dozens of others — could be fixed this way.

A STEMI (ST segment elevation myocardial infarction) heart attack happens when an artery is completely blocked by the blood clot, which causes damage to virtually all of the heart muscle supplied by that artery.

«What we are learning today is that suPAR in a general way is to kidneys what cholesterol is to the heart, a substance that can cause damage if levels rise too high, or a substance that can likely make many forms of kidney disease worse,» Reiser says.

Exposure to the endocrine - disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) during pregnancy can cause oxidative damage that may put the baby at risk of developing diabetes or heart disease later in life, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's journal Endocrinology.

«Our findings uncover the direct coupling of these two important pathways and raise the prospect of therapeutic manipulation of the UPR to lessen the damage caused by heart attack and stroke,» said Dr. Joseph A. Hill, Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Biology, and senior author of the study published in the March 13 issue of Cell.

Most of the time when the heart is injured, these beneficial immune cells are supplanted by immune cells from the bone marrow, which are spurred to converge in the heart and cause inflammation that leads to further damage.

«Anti-HIV medicines can cause damage to fetal hearts, research shows.»

Most importantly, these studies show that treatment with vitamin D3 can significantly restore the damage to the cardiovascular system caused by several diseases, including hypertension, atherosclerosis, and diabetes, while also reducing the risk of heart attack.

«Heart, liver disease linked to shutdown of body's antioxidant: Scientists identify a protein causing damage and serious illness.»

Whether caused by an undetected birth defect or by a heart attack (myocardial infarction), when a heart sustains damage, it can be difficult to repair.

According to cardiologist Stefanie Dimmler at the University of Frankfurt in Germany, degraded telomeres might cause heart disease by impeding the ability of cells from the bone marrow to repair damaged parts of the arterial walls.

Since the honeycomb is flexible and stretches like heart tissue, the patch should be able to be integrated without causing additional damage.

Public health officials have warned that breathing even small amounts of secondhand smoke can cause heart damage to healthy nonsmoking adults and may trigger heart attacks in those who are already at risk.

Anthracycline drugs, such as doxorubicin, are known to cause heart failure because they cause changes in the DNA structure of the heart muscle cells, leading to irreversible cardiac damage.

Several immune cell types then return to the heart to cause further inflammation, damage and remodeling.

A TROPICAL disease that can fatally damage the heart may take hold in the human body by causing important immune system cells to commit suicide, according to a Brazilian research team.

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Diabetes triples the risk of heart disease, doubles the risk of depression, causes kidney disease in one - third of patients, and results in advanced retinopathy — bleeding in the retina that damages vision — in up to 30 percent of cases.