How To Maintain Healthy Blood Vessels For A Healthy Heart
August 24th, 2010 — Heart Disease
You know them by many names: arteries, veins, and capillaries but what these all have in common is that these are blood vessels that keep you alive by circulating blood throughout your body. Arteries are the blood vessels that carry blood to and from the heart; veins carry deoxygenated blood from the tissues back to the heart which is why veins are usually blue in color; and finally capillaries are the smallest vessels which is part of the microcirculation system. Blood vessels no matter how they Read more [...]
Healthy Heart – Heart Disease Caused by Smoking
February 15th, 2009 — coronary heart disease, Heart Disease, Quit Smoking
The heart disease caused by smoking is coronary heart disease. Read more [...]
Healthy Heart – Atherosclerosis – Symptoms, Causes, prevention and Treatment
February 21st, 2008 — Arteriosclerotic, heart attack
Atherosclerosis gives thickening and hardening of the blood vessels leading blood out to the body, and will thus reduce or stop blood flow to important tissue. Here is a survey of the mechanisms of this lifestyle disease, prevention measures and treatments. Read more [...]
