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Who Is at Risk for a Heart Attack? Certain risk factors make it more likely that you’ll develop coronary heart disease (CHD) and have a heart attack. You can control many of these risk factors. Risk Factors You Can Control The major risk factors for a...
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Heart CT scans may help emergency room personnel more quickly assess patients with chest pain. Adding computed tomography (CT) scans to standard screening procedures may help emergency room staff more rapidly determine which patients complaining of chest pain are...
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Bronchitis Prevention Bronchitis can be acute or chronic. Acute bronchitis is often referred to as a “chest cold” and may present after the flu or some other upper respiratory illness. In 85-90% of acute bronchitis the cause is viral, therefore the use of prophylactic...
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Shaken Baby Syndrome Until the 1960s, child abuse was not considered a medical problem in the United States, and physician involvement in child abuse cases was limited. In the 1960s, doctors began reporting on clinical signs and radiographic findings of child abuse...
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How Is Sickle Cell Disease Treated? Health Maintenance To Prevent Complications Babies with sickle cell disease (SCD) should be referred to a doctor or provider group that has experience taking care of people with this disease. The doctor might be a hematologist (a...
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Epigenetics and Genetics of Substance Abuse Disorder Why do some people become addicted while others don’t? Family studies that include identical twins, fraternal twins, adoptees, and siblings suggest that as much as half of a person’s risk of becoming addicted...
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