Sentences with phrase «causes narrowing of the blood vessels»

The nicotine in cigarettes causes narrowing of the blood vessels in the outermost layers of your skin.

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Such clots, in turn, can break off and get stuck in the narrow blood vessels of the brain, causing a stroke.

Because people take a lot of it - and often take it with other drugs such as ketamine - it can also cause blood vessels to narrow and bring on a cardiac arrest.»

Oxidative stress, inflammation and insulin resistance affect the inner linings of blood vessels, and are associated with the development of atherosclerosis, the disease process that underlies heart disease and causes the arteries to become narrowed.

This is the part of the autonomic nervous system responsible for the «fight - or - flight» response when stressed — causing heart rate and breathing to go up, blood vessels to narrow and muscles to tense up.

When this happens, cholesterol can be deposited in blood vessel walls, causing a narrowing of the lumen (inside) of vessels, which can inhibit the supply of blood to the heart or other organs and tissues of the body.

In that way, homocysteine is similar to cholesterol because prolonged, elevated levels of it gradually damage the inner linings of blood vessels, causing atherosclerotic plaque and narrowing of the arteries.

Atherosclerosis is caused by oxidized lipids that overwhelm the cells sent to clean them up when they irritate blood vessel walls; the fatty deposits that narrow blood vessels are made up of lipids and dead cells.

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM)-- poor pumping ability of the heart, Pulmonic Stenosis (PS)-- formation of tissues in the pulmonic valve which cause narrowing the pulmonary artery and Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA)-- the failure of the closing of a blood vessel called ductus arteriosus just after the birth.

Spinal or brain tumours, intervertebral disc disease («slipped disc»), lumbo - sacral stenosis (narrowing of the spinal canal), and fibrocartilaginous embolic myelopathy (a piece of disc material plugs a blood vessel causing spinal cord damage) can all lead to hind end paresis or paralysis.