Are blocked carotid arteries really dangerous? Yes of course if it’s not treated well. This disease will have impact of significantly risk of stroke, brain damage and suddenly death.

Stroke alone have killed most people in the world like heart disease. The older people have the higher risk of the stroke and a leading cause of elderly disability.

There are some symptoms of blocked carotid arteries such as:

1. Early symptom is mini stroke that caused by insufficient oxygenated blood to the brain. It’s important to doing regular medical check-up to help detect deterioration of carotid arteries function.

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COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) is the illness that becomes dangerous worldwide in the nowadays.

There are two kinds of COPD suffered by the people such as Bronchitis and Emphysema. Both of them attack respiratory tract.

These diseases can damage your lung and airways with feeling of difficult to catch the breathing. Chronic Bronchitis can occur if the bronchial tubes are inflamed or the airways clogged by the mucus or inflammation. Meanwhile Emphysema occurs in the lungs when the small air sacs are destroyed or cannot absorb air.

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Gall bladder is the small organ that located down of the liver which holding the bile to remove water and also to decrease the pH less than 7. The contour of this organ is like pear about 8 cm in diameter. Gall bladder can construct base on the fat digestion.

Gall stones is also called Cholelithiasis that caused by cholesterol build-up with addition of calcium bilirubate. It’s vulnerable attacked due to inflammation process.

The problems of gallbladder are not only from stone but also from other diseases like:

- Cholecystitis : The inflammatory process within the gall bladder or bile duct

- Gall bladder can suffer from diseases because of fairly dry inside due to an age, diabetes, pregnancy stage, pancreatitis/pancreas problems, chirrocis, obesity factor and hormonal contraception.

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DVT is also known as Deep Vein Thrombosis and usually attacking on the legs of the people. This condition happen because the blood clot (Thrombus) on the 1 or more veins within the lower extremities.

Actually this disease is dangerous if not treated properly because it can cause very painful in your legs and sometimes makes clot without symptoms.

Common Causes of Deep Vein Thrombosis:

1. If you sit down in one position for long time. This can occur if you do traveling by your car, plane or train.

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Neck spine is part of your back spine. The power of neck spine is more weakness compare with another spines like Thoracal, Lumbal, Sacral and Coccygeus spines, so you must be careful about the risk of fracture or abnormality.

For your notice that neck vertebre containing 7 bones which stabilized by ligaments and muscles function for moving. Neck is so fragile or easily broken if you do not treat it properly.

There are some causes of back pain :

1. Trauma or injury that attacking your neck area

Trauma is commonly caused by car or motor accident, sport or working accidents and playing ground or equipment for children. Damage that happens can occur on disc joint, ligaments, and nerve system or muscles parts. The injury of neck can accelerate for your head on forward or backward.

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Scoliosis becomes trouble for your life if disturbing you on working and daily activities. There is one method to manage your scoliosis by measuring its degree.

If you are taking Chest x-ray, please tell to your Doctor or Radiologist to measure the spines’ degree. It’s to be your medical record for your future if you will control again.

Chest radiograph should be changed to bony structure first before measuring by Radiologist. 10 Degree or less is classified as Mild Scoliosis. 10-20 Degree is classified as Moderate Scoliosis and more than 20 degree is classified as Severe Scoliosis.

If you feel more painful for several years latter, it’s a sign that Scoliosis becomes more trouble for your life.

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Prostate hypertrophy is a common abnormality for men who have age above 40 because of their prostatic gland was enlarged. But some men with their age below 40 also got prostatic enlargement.

This organ is located within pelvic minor region or pelvic cavity which bordered by the levator ani inferior muscle and pelvic brim superiorly.

The normal prostate is like doughnut-shaped that lie in the inferior of the bladder. This organ is an accessory male sex which emits a milky secretion that enhances sperm motility.

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You should know earlier that osteoporosis is really dangerous for your health and activities. Why? Yes, because the bad sides of osteoporosis will influence your daily activities, job, exercise, performance and so on. So, save your Bone from Osteoporosis now!

Actually, osteoporosis is commonly happen for elderly people in the world but can attack you earlier if you do not care and treat it properly. Osteoporosis is a weakening and thinning of your bone in deterioration process. This skeleton becomes fragile or likely to fracture.

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Many of you often feel chest pain, but there is happening recurrent. Sometimes, muscles or mild colic attacks in the chest region. That’s OK, but if the symptom appears many times and severe pain, please be careful about that. Chest pain is a warning in early step!

Actually, discomfort within your chest should be observed because maybe there is something wrong that threathen your life. Proper handling of this matter can save your life. Significant painful must be checked as soon as possible to know what actually happen.

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Currently, we often find the people suffered high cholesterol level if tested in the Medical Laboratory. Cholesterol function is important for your body to make metabolism process working properly if there is in normal range level. If it’s too much cholesterol can lead any problem for your health.

For your information, cholesterol can be found within the blood cells and actually, we need cholesterol for producing the membranes of body’s cells and the other body functions like hormones balancing. The bad sides of high cholesterol level are narrowing the arteries and also restricting the blood flow.

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Osteoarthritis or Rheumatism is actually a common disease for older people. Many of them have never been accident or trauma before and feel painful, stiffness or rough in their joints on the knees, ankle, back spine, neck area and so on. This is a degenerative joint disease because of aging factor. This abnormality is not a dangerous for some people but it will influence their daily activities. Treat it properly is better to anticipate the disease getting worse.

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There are 4 kinds of Hepatitis. Those are Hepatitis A, B, C and E. This disease is caused by the inflammation in the liver. The common causes of Hepatitis such as toxins, virus, bacterial infection, some drugs, excessive of alcohol use and dangerous drinks and other diseases.

Many ways why most of causes enter into the body via the bowel from contaminated food or water, contacted with infected people or transmitted by uncooked fruit, vegetables, ice or others.

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