Sentences with phrase «first symptom of heart disease»

But, because our first symptom of heart disease may be our last — sudden cardiac death — it's best not to wait until atherosclerosis progresses that far.

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First, sometimes women do not attribute their symptoms to heart disease because they assume that it's predominantly a disease of men.

Clubbing, or swelling of the fingertips, is one of the first symptoms medical students are taught to look for because it can signal lung cancer, heart disease, or other grave conditions.

Talk about confusing: First, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was hailed as a miracle drug that might not only ease menopause symptoms, such as hot flashes and insomnia, but also reduce the risk of osteoporosis and heart disease.

What people may not know, though, is that, according to the American Heart Association, for the majority of Americans that die of heart disease, their first symptom occurs not years before they die, but literally minutes before theyHeart Association, for the majority of Americans that die of heart disease, their first symptom occurs not years before they die, but literally minutes before theyheart disease, their first symptom occurs not years before they die, but literally minutes before they die.

For what it is worth, I am so very sorry for all your losses and went through this first hand and it was about 2 years from initial symptoms to fulminant disease and it broke my heart after 14 years of my marvelous girl at my side.

Some of the common diseases covered are: • Cancer • First heart attack • Open heart replacement or repair of heart valves • Coma up to a certain severity • Major organ / bone marrow transplant • Motor neuron disease with permanent symptoms • Kidney failure • Stroke resulting in permanent symptoms • Permanent paralysis of limbs • Multiple sclerosis • Major burns • Loss of speech • End stage liver disease • Deafness • End - stage lung disease

First, too few studies were available for separately analyzing depressive symptoms in some kinds of chronic illness, such as renal failure or congenital heart disease.