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You’re in your 30s! Find out what steps you can take to be healthier with this checklist from the Office on Women’s Health.

You’re in your 20s! Find out what steps you can take to be healthier with this checklist from the Office on Women’s Health.

The NIEHS and NTP director shared updates on NIEHS scientific advances and answered questions about topics such as BPA and climate change.

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is a procedure to treat aortic stenosis, a type of heart valve disease. TAVR replaces a faulty aortic valve with an aortic valve made from animal tissue. The procedure does not require open-heart surgery.

If you have an aortic aneurysm, it is important to follow your treatment plan and get ongoing medical care. Your doctor may recommend steps to prevent complications such as rupture or dissection.

Treatment for your aortic aneurysm will depend on its cause, its size and location, and the factors that put you at risk. Small aortic aneurysms may be managed with healthy lifestyle changes or medicine. The goal is to slow the growth of the aneurysm and lower the chance of rupture or dissection.

To diagnose an aortic aneurysm, your doctor will do a physical exam and an imaging test to confirm a screening test. An abdominal aortic aneurysm is diagnosed when your abdominal aorta is three centimeters or greater in diameter. The normal diameter of the thoracic aorta depends on your age, your sex, and which part of the thoracic aorta is measured.

An aortic aneurysm may not cause any signs or symptoms until the aneurysm ruptures or dissects. The types of symptoms that occur before a rupture will depend on the location of the aneurysm and whether it has become large enough to affect other parts of your body. An aneurysm that ruptures or dissects is life-threatening.

If you have known risk factors for developing an aortic aneurysm, your doctor may recommend screening. To screen for an aortic aneurysm, your doctor may recommend an imaging study to look at and measure the aorta. An aneurysm can develop and grow without any symptoms until it ruptures or dissects—events that are both life-threatening. If the aneurysm is found early, treatment or surgery may slow its growth and prevent rupture or dissection.

You may have an increased risk of developing an aortic aneurysm because of your age, family history, genes, lifestyle habits, medical conditions, or sex.

Aortic aneurysms are caused by a weakening of the aortic wall due to damage or injury. Many health conditions and lifestyle habits can put you at risk for damage to the aortic wall, including high blood pressure and smoking. A bulge may occur where the wall has been damaged and is weakened.

There are two types of aortic aneurysms: thoracic aortic aneurysms and abdominal aortic aneurysms.

La hepatitis es la inflamación del hígado. En los Estados Unidos, la hepatitis viral suele estar provocada por el virus de la hepatitis A, B o C. Los distintos tipos de hepatitis se propagan de diferentes maneras, inclusive a través de las relaciones sexuales, compartir agujas o ingerir alimentos sucios. A veces, la hepatitis viral desaparece por sí sola. En otros casos, el virus es crónico y puede provocar problemas de salud graves. La vacunación puede prevenir las hepatitis A y B, pero no C. Existen medicamentos para tratar y a veces curar la hepatitis B y C.

A menudo, las infecciones de las vías urinarias (UTI, por sus siglas en inglés) son provocadas por bacterias (gérmenes) que se introducen en la vejiga, que forma parte de las vías urinarias. A las UTI también se las denomina "infecciones de vejiga". Las UTI son comunes, especialmente en las mujeres.

La incontinencia urinaria es la pérdida de control de la vejiga. Los dos tipos más comunes de incontinencia urinaria que afectan a las mujeres son la incontinencia de esfuerzo y la incontinencia de urgencia, que también se conoce como vejiga hiperactiva. La incontinencia afecta al doble de mujeres que hombres. Esto puede deberse a que el embarazo, el parto y la menopausia podrían aumentar las probabilidades de incontinencia urinaria. La incontinencia urinaria no es una parte normal del envejecimiento y se puede tratar.