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How Is Carotid Artery Disease Diagnosed?

Your doctor will diagnose carotid artery disease based on your medical history, a physical exam, and results from one or more tests: ultrasound, angiography, magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), and computed tomography (CT) angiography.

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What Causes Atherosclerosis?

Although the exact cause of atherosclerosis isn't known, studies show that atherosclerosis is a slow, complex disease that may start in childhood. It develops faster as you age.

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What Are the Signs and Symptoms of Atherosclerosis?

Atherosclerosis usually doesn't cause signs and symptoms until it severely narrows or totally blocks a coronary, carotid, peripheral, or renal artery. Many people don't know they have the disease until they have a medical emergency, such as a heart attack or stroke.

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Description of High Blood Pressure

hypertension  prehypertension 

High blood pressure is a common disease in which blood flows through blood vessels (arteries) at higher than normal pressures.

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Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis - Screening and Prevention

There are no screening methods to determine who will or will not develop hypersensitivity pneumonitis and the only prevention is to avoid common environmental sources of substances known to cause this condition.

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Factores de Riesgo de la EPOC

El principal factor de riesgo de la EPOC es el hábito de fumar. Otros factores de riesgo para la EPOC incluyen exposición prolongada a otros irritantes pulmonares, u otras condiciones médicas como la deficiencia de alfa-1-antitripsina (AAT).

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Factores de riesgo para sobrepeso y obesidad

Factores de riesgo para sobrepeso y obesidad incluyen hábitos de estilo de vida poco saludables como la falta de actividad física, conductas de alimentación poco saludables, cantidad insuficiente de sueño, niveles altos de estrés, tener cierta edad, vivir en ambientes poco saludables, tener antecedentes familiares, ser de cierta raza o etnia o ser de un cierto sexo.

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Tratamiento de sobrepeso y obesidad

El tratamiento para el sobrepeso y la obesidad depende de la causa y la gravedad de la afección. Tratamientos posibles para alcanzar un peso saludable incluyen cambios saludables en el estilo de vida, programas de tratamiento de modificación de conducta para adelgazar, medicamentos y posiblemente cirugía.

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Vivir con sobrepeso y obesidad

Si le han diagnosticado sobrepeso y obesidad, es importante que no interrumpa el tratamiento, trate de alcanzar un peso saludable, continúe su programa de modificación de conducta para adelgazar y acuda a controles con su médico para que evalúen su condición and su riesgo de desarrollar complicaciones.

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Holter and Event Monitors

ambulatory EKG  continuous EKG  EKG event monitors 

Holter and event monitors are small, portable electrocardiogram devices that record your heart’s electrical activity for long periods of time while you do your normal activities. These monitors can record how fast your heart is beating, whether the rhythm of your heartbeats is steady or irregular, and the strength and timing of the electrical impulses passing through each part of your heart.

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