Conditions and Diseases

Such as cholesterol, diabetes, eye defects and others. Alternative medicine information.

Diabetes

Diabetes mellitus, or simply diabetes, is a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar, either because the pancreas does not produce enough insulin, or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced.

 

Diabetes mellitus - Wikipedia

Introduction to Diabetes - National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Treatments for Diabetes - National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

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Complications of Diabetes - National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial and Follow-up Study - National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Diabetes Overview - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Comorbidity of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic kidney disease - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Gestational diabetes mellitus - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Use of medicines for diabetes - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Heart, stroke and vascular diseases - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Medicines for cardiovascular health - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Diabetes Basics - American Diabetes Association

Diabetes in pregnancy - National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.

Type 1 Diabetes - National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.

Type 2 Diabetes - National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.

Diabetes Products / Diabetes Medications - Canadian Diabetes Association

Introduction to diabetes - Diabetes UK

About Diabetes - Diabetes Australia-NSW

About diabetes - Diabetes New Zealand

About diabetes - International Diabetes Federation

World Diabetes Day Materials - World diabetes day

What is diabetes? - Diabetes Atles (International Diabetes Federation)

Diabetes alternative medicine - National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Complementary and Alternative Medical Therapies for Diabetes - National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (NDIC).

Diabetic Retinopathy - National Eye Institute

Definition, Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus and its Complications - World Health Organisation.

 

Cholesterol

An essential structural component of animal cell membranes that is required to establish proper membrane permeability and fluidity. AS an organic molecule it is a sterol or modified steroid its importance within cells, cholesterol also serves as a precursor for the biosynthesis of steroid hormones, bile acids, and vitamin D. Cholesterol is the principal sterol synthesized by animals; in vertebrates it is formed predominantly in the liver. It is almost completely absent among prokaryotes bacteria, although there are some exceptions such as Mycoplasma, which require cholesterol for growth citation needed.

 

• About Cholesterol - American Heart Association
• Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs - American Heart Association
• Cholesterol - American Stroke Association
• Cholesterol and Stroke - National stroke association
• What Is Cholesterol? - National Heart Lungs and Blood Institute
• Healthy living - H.E.A.R.T UK
• Health Topics
• Cholesterol Wikipedia

Blood pressure high and low

Blood pressure or BP is the pressure exerted by circulating blood upon the walls of blood vessels and is due to the pumping action of the heart. As principal vital sign. During each heartbeat, blood pressure varies between a maximum orsystolic and a minimum ordiastolic pressure. The blood pressure in the circulation is responsible for blood flow from one location to another. The rate of mean blood flow depends on the resistance to flow presented by the blood vessels.

 

High Blood Presure Your heart will beat about 100,000 times today.

If you have high blood pressure. You're not alone, particularly if you don’t have the condition under control. Nearly 65 million Americans have high blood pressure. It is estimated that roughly 70 percent of people with high blood pressure do not have their blood pressure under control.

National guidelines say that for individuals aged 40 to 70 years, as blood pressure numbers rise above normal range, so does your risk of having a heart attack or stroke.

Here is some informative websites that can help.

• High Blood Pressure - American Heart Association
• What Is High Blood Pressure Medicine? - American Heart Association
• High Blood Pressure - American Stroke Association
• What Is High Blood Pressure? - National Heart Lungs and Blood Institute
• What is High Blood Pressure? - Centers for diseases control and prevention
• Blood Pressure Information - Blood Pressure Association
- American Nurses Association
• Blood pressure Wikipedia