Cardiovascular Disorders and Diseases Articles

Metabolic syndrome or syndrome X describes several risk factors leading to cardiovascular disease. Although there are some differences in criteria for this syndrome, patients are often overweight or obese, have...

Tay-Sachs disease is a disorder of nerve cells. This rare but progressive disease affects nerves cells in the spinal cord and the brain, leading to their destruction. In general, statistics...

There are some people who do not know what tachycardia actually is, even though they have heard of it. Tachycardia is a condition when people’s heart rate is somewhat faster...

Heart RateThe following lines will be dedicated to the heart rate, which is expressed with bpm, or the beats per minute, which shows us the number of heartbeats during a...

Patients suffering from heart attack do not have to experience any symptoms whatsoever. Many of them could end up with lethal consequences without any warning sign. These conditions are known...

High blood pressure becomes one of the conditions that affect more and more people every year, and even though the real cause is usually hard to determine in general, the...

Progeria is a rare and progressive genetic disorder that features with rapid aging of the affected individual. The process of aging starts in the child's first two years of life...

Hypertension is a problem that seems to affect more and more people all over the world. The greatest majority of those who now have to deal with this health issue...

A Brief IntroductionWhen under stress and pressured by deadlines, people tend to overdo it on their caffeine intake: tea, coffee, chocolate bars, anything with a strong caffeine kick will do...

Sickle cell anemia is an inherited anemia. It only affects individuals with a specific mutation in the gene that controls production of hemoglobin. In patients suffering from sickle cell anemia...