what disease is called the silent killer?
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Hypertension: the Silent Killer Disease Hypertension: the Silent Killer Disease. Hypertension is also called high blood pressure. Hypertension is a silent killer because it is deadly and has no early significant symptoms. The danger from hypertension is the extra load on the heart, leading to complications such as hypertensive heart disease. Hypertension can also seriously damage the kidneys.
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Can Lupus Be Treated Naturally? Chlamydia: Signs, Symptoms & Diagnosis. People with chlamydia usually don't know they have it. Chlamydia is often called a silent disease because about 75 percent of women and 50 percent of men infected have no symptoms, according to the National Women's Health Resource Center. If symptoms do occur, they usually appear within one to three weeks of exposure and may be mild.
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- FoxFeed Blog. Could Silent Strokes Cause Parkinsons Disease? A certain kind of Parkinsons disease (PD), called vascular parkinsonism, is thought to be caused by small strokes in the part of the brain associated with the motor symptoms of PD (the basal ganglia).
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Hepatitis C Overview Hepatitis C is a serious liver disease that results from infection with the Hepatitis C virus.Hepatitis C has been called a silent epidemic because most people with Hepatitis C do not know they are infected.epatitis C is usually spread when blood from a person infected with the Hepatitis C virus enters the body of someone who is not infected.
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Mad Cow Disease What the Government Isn't Telling You! The disease in cattle is called Bovine Spongiform Encepholopathy because this form of the disease occurs in cows (therefore, the term bovine), it causes a sponge-like destruction of the brain (therefore, the term spongiform encepholopathy - enceph means brain and pathy means pathology - meaning an abnormality).
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Lyme Disease Lyme Disease. (Borrelia burgdorferi, Borrelia mayonii infections) Lyme disease was first recognized in the United States in 1975 at Lyme, Connecticut. The infection is caused by a bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi, transmitted to humans by a tiny tick named Ixodes scapularis (commonly called the blacklegged or deer tick).
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Wisdom Teeth (Third Molars) Wisdom Teeth Presentation. 1  To provide you with a better understanding of wisdom teeth, we have provided the following multimedia presentation. 2  For a brief narrated overview of the wisdom tooth removal process, please click the image below.
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The Story of Silent Spring Silent Spring took Carson four years to complete. It meticulously described how DDT entered the food chain and accumulated in the fatty tissues of animals, including human beings, and caused cancer and genetic damage.
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- (NewsTarget) Heart disease is the number one killer of both men and women today. It's shocking to learn that this deadly disease threatens our children as well and can even begin in the womb if the mother's diet is insufficient during her pregnancy.
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The Story of Silent Spring DDT, the most powerful pesticide the world had ever known, exposed nature's vulnerability. Unlike most pesticides, whose effectiveness is limited to destroying one or two types of insects, DDT was capable of killing hundreds of different kinds at once.
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How many days are allowed to miss under the FMLA leave program.? The web site says it is up to twelve weeks but it does not say how many days.
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What is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis? In the U.S., amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, is often called Lou Gehrig's disease after the famed baseball player whose struggle with this disease and death in 1941 brought it national attention. ALS is an incurable, progressive degenerative neurological disorder. For reasons that are not understood, the nerve cells of the brain and spinal cord that control voluntary muscle movement gradually deteriorate. As a result, muscles waste away, leading to paralysis and death, usually in two to five years.
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- Another potentially deadly tick-borne disease in cats is haemobartonellosis, also known as feline infectious anemia or feline hemotropic mycoplasmosis. This illness is more common than either cytauxzoonosis or tularemia, and it attacks the red blood cells that carry oxygen throughout a cat’s body.
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Poliomyelitis (Polio) Poliomyelitis, also known as polio or infantile paralysis, is a disease of the central nervous system. Following primary asymptomatic infection of the alimentary tract, fewer than 1% develop paralytic disease. In developing countries, 65–75% of cases occur in children under 3 years of age and 95% in children under 5 years of age. The resulting paralysis is permanent, although some recovery of function is possible.
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ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease. ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) or Lou Gehrig's Disease is considered an “autoimmune disease,” meaning something foreign to the brain is getting into the brain. The immune system recognizes the invader and attacks.
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Two Mystery Illnesses Linked to 12 Child Deaths; 94 Paralysis Cases Since August Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM): a mysterious polio-like neurological disorder that has caused unexplained paralysis in at least 94 U.S. children in 33 states since August 2. When it develops, it usually follows a respiratory infection.
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Another Fatal Brain Disease May Come from the Spread of 'Prion' Proteins The disease is believed to have a long incubation period, of many years, but is ultimately fatal. A rare and fatal brain disorder called multiple system atrophy (MSA) may be caused by a newly discovered prion, a protein similar to the ones that cause mad cow and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), according to a new study.
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- Interesting Medical Articles: 1  Symptoms of the Silent Killer Diseases. 2  Online Diagnosis. 3  Self Diagnosis Pitfalls. 4  Pitfalls of Online Diagnosis. 5  Research Your Symptoms. 6  Diseases & Medical Conditions. 7  Medical Diagnosis. [ 8 Full list of premium articles on symptoms, diseases, and diagnosis]
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Effects of Silent Treatment, and How to Properly Deal With It The silent treatment initiates a feeling of ostracism, which affects the brain in the first place and the brain's anterior cingulate cortex starts detecting it as pain. This pain depends upon the intensity of the person's ignoring. Silent treatment is usually used against the loved ones as it makes the most impact.
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About Lyme Disease Lyme disease is caused by a spirochete—a corkscrew-shaped bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi. Lyme is called “The Great Imitator,” because its symptoms mimic many other diseases. It can affect any organ of the body, including the brain and nervous system, muscles and joints, and the heart.hare. Lyme disease is a bacterial infection primarily transmitted by Ixodes ticks, also known as deer ticks, and on the West Coast, black-legged ticks.
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What Women Should Know About Their Ovaries Ovarian cancer is often called the silent killer because many times there are no symptoms until the disease has progressed to an advanced stage. One-third of American women will get some form of cancer in their lifetime and approximately 1.4 percent of those cases will be cancer involving one or both ovaries.
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Why Doesn't the National League Have Designated Hitters? Like us on Facebook. For years, the primary difference between baseball’s two leagues has been the presence (or absence) of a designated hitter who stands in for the typically offensively-challenged pitcher at the plate.
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"What is Infectious Mononucleosis (""Mono"")?" …commonly known as glandular fever. It is also known as “the kissing disease”, “Pfeiffer’s disease” and “mono”. Symptoms. The vast majority of cases of glandular fever are caused by a virus called the Epstein-Barr virus (or EBV).
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Metabolic Disorders 1 Tay-Sachs disease (TSD): This condition progressively destroys the brain and nervous system, leading to blindness, paralysis and death. 2  Symptoms of the most common type of TSD usually form when the baby is six months old, and patients typically die within a few years.
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5 Life Defining Moments (And Why You Should Care) In fact, I’m sure already have, sometimes it just takes awhile to realize how important these moments are. So here are the five moments that have changed my life more than any other over the last two years, along with some thoughts on why they are relevant to you and your goals.
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10 Warning Signs of Ovarian Cancer Ovarian cancer is known as the “silent killer” because symptoms are often so subtle; they just seem like routine or common annoyances. However, the difference is that they will occur almost every day and not go away.