Sentences with phrase «of damage to our arteries»

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Ultimately, we learned that, when Sarah's head snapped back in her fall, the whiplash caused a tear (dissection) of her vertebral artery, which cut off the blood to her brain, causing her to go into cardiac arrest and resulting in irreversible brain damage.

The main artery at the back of his neck was damaged during the birth which caused a fatal brain haemorrhage, probably due to the nursing staff wanting me to deliver before the night shift came on duty and their intervention caused the injury to the neck area.

It's understandable that after decades of heavy use, the BQE needs repairs — but we have to make sure that while we're repairing this artery, we aren't damaging our neighborhoods in the process,» Senator Brian Kavanagh said.

Betty McBride, director of policy at the British Heart Foundation (BHF), added: «Exposure to second - hand smoke by non-smokers for just half an hour is enough to damage the lining of the heart's arteries and increase the risk of a heart attack.

Such antibodies, when attached to DNA in complexes, get lodged in the walls of arteries and in tissues to cause inflammation that damages blood vessels, skin, joints and the kidneys as part of the most severe type of lupus, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).

An autopsy can trace the path of a bullet through a body, or reveal microscopic damage to blood vessels in the brain, or identify a lethal clog in an artery.

«We wanted to focus on arteries because that's where most of the damage is caused in coronary diseases,» said George Truskey, the R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Vinik Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke.

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.

A heart attack occurs when blood flow to an area of the heart is blocked by a narrowed or completely obstructed coronary artery, resulting in damage of heart muscle.

By contrast, environments that imitate the inside of a uterus continue delivering oxygen to the fetus via the umbilical cord, or directly into the arteries, which could avoid the lung damage.

The thinking was that medication given during the delay might allow the residual blood clots to diminish, reducing the risk of a displaced clot damaging the small branches of the artery.

If clinicians fail to reopen occluded coronary arteries after a heart attack within an appropriate time frame, the heart muscle is permanently damaged because of the long - term interrupted oxygen supply.

This leads to too much of the hormone PTH being released which is likely to lead to a greater risk of calcium and phosphate from the bone damaging the arteries.

The damage is often caused by constriction of the arteries supplying blood, and hence oxygen and glucose, to the brain.

The adverse effects of epinephrine appeared to be unaffected by the use of post-resuscitation medical treatments, such as techniques to cool the body to reduce tissue damage or interventions to restore the flow of blood through blocked arteries.

If we understand the special features of insulin resistance in endothelial cells, we may be able to find more effective treatments against artery damage and cardiovascular disease in people with diabetes.»

After five weeks of treatment, mice with advanced artherosclerosis demonstrated significant repair to damaged arteries as well as stabilization of plaque.

The objective is to prevent progression of the coronary artery blockages, thus preventing heart attacks and further damage to the heart muscle.

With the loss of the cushioning effect provided by free - moving collagen in the blood vessels, the force of the surge of blood that is driven into the arteries by the pumping action of the heart is carried directly to organs like the kidneys and the brain, damaging to the structures that filter our blood and that connect the functional regions of our brain, and putting us at risk of a stroke.

«In atherosclerosis, macrophages try to fix damage to the artery by cleaning up the area, but they get overwhelmed by the inflammatory nature of the plaques,» said senior author Babak Razani, an assistant professor of medicine at WUSM.

Following five weeks of treatment with the nanomedicines, damage to the arteries was significantly repaired and plaque was stabilized.

Theorists envision creating machines that will be able to travel through the circulatory system, cleaning the arteries as they go; sending out troops to track down and destroy cancer cells and tumors; or repairing injured tissue at the site of the wound, even to the point of replacing missing limbs or damaged organs.

«Yes, the artery gets blocked, but the extent of damage is usually not quite to the same degree,» explained Bove, who is emeritus professor of cardiology at Temple University Medical Center in Philadelphia.

The real role of cholesterol is to actually act as a healing agent and protect the arteries from the damage that happens mostly from inflammation.

Plus, there's new and exciting medical evidence that damage to arteries resulting in plaque and blockage is due to deficient vitamin C intake, combined with a genetic excess of a cholesterol subparticle called lipoprotein (a).

Glyphosate also causes the oxidation of harmful LDL cholesterol, leading to arterial damage that contributes to coronary artery disease.

If the blood vessels leading to the penis are damaged in any way, often due to atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), dilation becomes a problem.

Over time, these white blood cells, known as foam cells, begin to invade the linings of arteries, causing further arterial damage and obstructing blood flow.

More inflammation leads to damage to the lining of the arteries, veins, and cells.

• Kidney failure • Peripheral vascular disease, hardening and narrowing of the arteries (atherosclerosis) that supply blood to the arms, legs, and other parts of the body • Retinopathy, or damage to the tiny blood vessels that supply blood to the light - sensitive lining of the back of the eye • Stroke

Homocysteine is a toxic component of blood that damages arteries and makes them more susceptible to atherosclerosis.

Philip Day, in his book health wars, describes heart disease as a «slow motion scurvy» caused by nutritional deficiencies of the 2 amino acids above + vitamin C — which cause damage to the arteries, which is then repaired by cholesterol (which then builds up eventually blocking arteries)(I'm pretty sure it was lysine and proline — you'd have to check).

There is an LDL that's small, dense, and prone to damaging arteries, it's called VLDL, and our body makes that in response to high amounts of carbohydrates in the diet.

Oxidative damage to the... blood vessels causes arterio - and atherosclerosis (hardening of the arterioles and arteries) leading to heart disease and stroke; brain causes Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease; eyes causes cataracts and macular degeneration; skin causes wrinkles, sagging and «age spots»; connective tissue causes faulty collagen and elastin formation, possibly leading to tendonitis / osis, and other musculoskeletal complications and injuries; etc..

Our brain needs TONS of cholesterol to function; our sex hormones are made from cholesterol, Vitamin D is made from cholesterol, bile is made from cholesterol; every time the body has an injury (say, a damaged artery from Insulin or toxic chemicals), the liver sends cholesterol to the site to Heal and Seal the damage.

High Blood Sugar and High Insulin do a lot of damage to every area of the body: your brain, your organs, your hormones, your extremities, your eyes, your arteries.

Like firefighters at a fire, cholesterol is present at the scene of the crime, but it is not the perpetrator — rather, it is a protective antioxidant element that repairs damage to arteries.

One of the mechanisms through which homocysteine is thought to exert its effects is damaging the arteries, which allows the build up of fatty deposits, narrowing the blood vessels.

It damages the lining of the heart and arteries contributing to heart disease, strokes, migraines, and several other diseases related to the heart and brain.

Anything floating in blood stream will be removed with this diet as excess glucose from carbs is the cause of this and grains is the cause of lining gut damage which also allows bacteria and such to enter the blood stream this diet actually reverses nearly every problem like this also high fat helps body better absorb your vitamin and minerals resulting in more antioxidants and better functioning organs that have a key role in keeping arteries and such clean

This toxic level of glucose is like tar in the bloodstream clogging arteries, binding with proteins to form damaging AGEs (Advanced Glycated End - products) and causing inflammation.

It causes redness, pain and swelling and can damage the inner lining of arteries and cause clots to break off from arteries and block the flow of blood.

When damaged, fats and cholesterol form toxic derivatives that, if left unchecked, can damage the structures of which they are a part and, in the case of cholesterol, contribute to the formation of atherosclerosis, a form of coronary artery disease.

Other studies have shown that eating strawberries helps to lower homocysteine levels, an amino acid in the blood associated with damaging the inner lining of arteries.

Actually, quite the opposite... they reduce the incidence of injury and damage to arteries!!

With meat, milk, butter and ice cream, the calorie - heavy U.S. diet is 40 % fat, and most of that is saturated fat — the insidious kind... that increases blood cholesterol, damages arteries, and leads to coronary disease.»

The patient example here used to discredit the virtues of the plant based intervention approach would have likely showed massive endothelial damage from the decades of high animal protein and artery injuring foods, in fact the plant based intervention at the late stage of his chronic illness may have actually improved blood work and perhaps added some time to this patients life although it is not mentioned here.

Homocysteine levels rise with age, and increasing levels can lead to a damaging chain reaction of effects — research has revealed that elevated homocysteine levels can disrupt delicate arterial linings, increase inflammation and oxidative stress, decrease blood flow to the heart and brain and set the stage for atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease.

According to Dr. Linus Pauling (the «father of Vitamin C)(and twice awarded the Nobel Prize) declared that daily intakes of this vitamin aid anti-cancer activity and assist in repairing damaged arteries and removing arterial plaque (atherosclerosis).

They may bump into the walls of your arteries which causes damage, which research suggests, could lead to inflammation.