Sentences with phrase «disrupt normal heart»

Electricity can disrupt the normal heart beat resulting in an arrhythmia (abnormal heart rhythm) which may cause your dog to collapse, or may even cause cardiac arrest (when the heart stops beating).

They suggest that acute stress may directly disrupt normal heart rhythms and prompt the production of chemicals involved in inflammation.

Muscle damage following a heart attack may disrupt normal heart conduction, resulting in a condition known as cardiac dyssynchrony.

Other potential causes include heart disease that cuts off the blood supply to or from the heart and disrupts normal heart function, and cancer of a chest organ.

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Nevertheless, the researchers suggest that maternal ill health during pregnancy might compromise fetal health by disrupting normal physiological processes, potentially leaving the developing baby vulnerable to subsequent heart disease.

Night time shift work disrupts the normal sleep - wake cycle and our internal circadian (24 - hour) rhythms, and has been associated with significant health problems, such as a higher risk of heart disease and cancer.

In case of a genetic mutation, the normal functioning of the mitochondria is disrupted and it results in a variety of problems, including diabetes, muscular dystrophy, deafness, dementia and heart disease.

«When you boost your heart rate like this, you disrupt your metabolic pathways in such a way that they're scrambling to return to normal long after the workout has ended.»

But the opposite problem, excess potassium, is EXTREMELY dangerous and can easily kill you by disrupting your heart's normal rhythm.

In some diseases, such as dilated cardiomyopathy in Doberman Pinschers or ARVC in boxers, cardiac muscle cells are replaced by fibrous (scar) tissue, fat, or fibro - fatty tissue, which creates an ideal environment to disrupt the normal electrical stimulation of the heart and cause arrhythmias particularly ventricular tachycardia.