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Prevent sudden death

Occasionally, some inherited heart disease may develop as a first symptom, a serious arrhythmia or even sudden death. The sudden death is a dramatic event for both the victims and their relatives. Heart diseases are often behind one of these episodes that are generally recorded in young healthy individuals who had never developed symptoms.

The good news is preventable. Genetic studies diagnose these inherited diseases that cause sudden death. In recent years, genetics has a very important step in preventing it and now can prevent 50% of the cases correspond to the eight types of hereditary heart disease that can cause sudden death in young people. Read the rest of this entry »

Occasionally, some inherited heart disease as the first symptom may be a serious arrhythmia or even sudden death

Heart diseases are, along with cancer, the leading cause of death in Western countries. In some countries, ischemic heart disease is among the most prevalent. In this situation arise certain questions: Can it be prevented? How inheritance is a factor?

What is the risk that a person suffers the same heart disease that his father? This is a question that many people are raised. The difficulty is that often, it is unknown who had suffered heart immediate family. Previously, they were not as accurate diagnoses and information was left in a comment like “he had a heart” or “had the biggest heart.” Read the rest of this entry »

No wonder that many people associate a visit to the dentist with extreme pain, blood, and an annoying buzzing sound that echoes in our ears. However, it is clear that if anyone thinks this is because it never reached the office of a dentist, at least in the last fifty or sixty years.

Oral hygiene is important, and often being relegated in terms of health for unjustified reasons. What people do not realize is the importance of oral health means going beyond the teeth themselves, but also the responsibility of the individual’s overall health.

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