Sunday, July 24, 2011

Beware of Thick Blood at Young Age

Sources: Kompas.com

For those of you who experience frequent migraines, never considered a trivial complaint. It may be that the headaches that you feel is an early symptom of the syndrome gore.

Clot syndrome is a set of symptoms that arise due to excessive blood viscosity. As a result of the blood is too thick, the flow of blood throughout the body to be not smooth. Supply of oxygen to body cells was inhibited. Migraine is one of the symptoms because the supply of oxygen to the brain hiccup.

"In the world of medicine, gore is not new, but not many people know or alert with gore. In fact, many victims of stroke or heart attack caused by a clot, "said Dr. Aru W Sudoyo, hematology-oncology specialist (consultant) Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia.

The blood becomes thick due to the lack of fluid or blood platelets (substances that play a role in blood clotting) so easily attached to one another. When a person has high cholesterol or smoking habits, blood was flowing thick increasingly difficult.

Cholesterol on the walls of blood vessels to constrict the blood vessel cross section. The cigarette smoke will damage the lining of the inner walls of blood vessels (endothelial).

This also activate endothelial blood-clotting system. If the endothelium is damaged, platelets will be easily attached to one another. Constraints in the blood vessels is known as thrombosis.

Thrombosis can occur in all blood vessels. Therefore, the impact depends on the blood vessels is inhibited. If thrombosis occurs in the vessels of the brain, a stroke will occur. Meanwhile, in the coronary arteries causing a heart attack.

Young women

Now more and more young people, ie those aged 18-45 years, suffering from blood viscosity. It was known as the patient perform a series of blood tests. "Unhealthy lifestyles and high stress triggers blood coagulation," said Dr. Aru.

Sheryl (35) is one of the people who have thick blood. Prior to exposure to a mild stroke a year ago, Sheryl admitted frequent migraines. When migraine recurrence, sometimes he felt his eyes spinning so sick. "To get rid of migraines, I often take the medicine a headache," he said.

When I wake up, Sheryl whole body felt sore. Later also began to frequent ringing in his ears. "I am somewhat late because of a new check to the doctor after a stroke," Sheryl said that since a year ago diligently take blood-thinning medication.

On a small number of patients with gore, the cause is genetic (inherited). Therefore, they are at risk of thrombosis at a young age. Those who have a genetic gore must take anticoagulant medication (antipenggumpalan) lifetime. "Thankfully, these abnormalities are found only in a minority of the human population," said Dr. Aru.

Unfortunately, in Indonesia there are no data on the number of patients who experienced an early age gore. Aru said, almost every day there are always new patients are diagnosed in the gore and Medistra RSCM hematology clinic, where he practiced.

Patients usually present with complaints of headache, migraine, view spinning (vertigo), ringing in the ears (sometimes sudden deafness), and impaired vision. According to Aru, it's all a symptom of vascular disorders that cause is one of the gore.

Gore is not the case only occurs in men but also women. The entry of women into the workplace allegedly related to the growing number of women affected by clot syndrome.

"Women's work load so that they are more vulnerable to stress," said Aru. In Indonesia an estimated total population of productive age between 18 and 45 as many as 97.60 million people. Of that number as much as 50.54 percent are women.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Office employees more taxable Risk Blood Clots

Employees of the Office of Risk Got More Blood Clots
4-2007

Research carried out Professor Richard Beasley of the Medical Research Institute in Wellington found that a third of hospital patients who had deep vein thrombosis (DVT) were office workers who spent time at the computer.


A total of 34 percent of the 62 samples that had a blood clot is a person who for a long time to work by sitting in a chair, while 21 percent of patients had recently traveled long distances by plane, newspaper published by the New Zealand Herald.

DVT is the formation of blood clots in the veins, most commonly in the legs.

Clots can travel to the heart, lungs or brain, causing chest pain, shortness of breath or even death from heart attack or stroke.

The condition is commonly called economy class syndrome because of passenger aircraft to travel long distances, but not free to relax their limbs are most at risk.

The study found that clots occurred in 10 percent of passengers who have a high risk.

Beasley said some office workers who experience lumps, sitting for 14 hours a day.

Some of them even every three to four hours of not getting out of chairs, he said.

The problem is most prevalent in the information technology industry as well as a telephone service center, he said.

Sources: Gatra

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Who needs to know about Hypertension

Hypertension or high blood pressure is a common disease in our society. This situation occurs when the blood pressure on major arteries in the body is too high. Hypertension is increasingly common in the elderly. ........

The body's normal blood pressure is 120/80 (systolic pressure of 120 mmHg and diastolic pressure of 80 mmHg). However, the blood pressure does not have a default value. It varies depending on physical activity and emotions.
Hypertension is a disorder that is difficult to know by our own bodies. The only way to know for hypertension is to measure your blood pressure regularly. Known to nine out of ten people suffering from hypertension can not be identified the cause of the disease. Hypertension can actually be derived from parent to child. If one parent affected by hypertension, the tendency of children to suffer from hypertension are greater than those who do not have parents suffering from hypertension.
Complaints that may arise due to hypertension, among others, the pain in the back of the head, nose bleeds, blurred vision, muscle weakness, nausea, vomiting, and so forth.
Based on the cause of hypertension can be classified as follows:
  1. Hipretensi primer, namely hypertension of unknown cause.
  2. Secondary hypertension, ie hypertension caused by disease, drugs, or pregnancy.
Meanwhile, according to WHO classification of hypertension based on diastolic pressure, namely:
  1. Hypertension grade I, ie if the diastolic pressure of 95-109 mmHg.
  2. Hypertension degrees II, that is if the diastolic pressure 110-119 mmHg.
  3. Hypertension III degree, that is if the diastolic pressure over 120 mmHg.
Hypertension could be expected to develop into more serious health problems and can even cause death. Hypertension is often called the silent killer disease because of two things, namely:
  1. Hypertension is difficult to realize someone for hypertension do not have specific symptoms. Mild symptoms such as dizziness, anxiety, nosebleeds, and headaches are rarely directly related to hypertension. Hypertension can be detected by measuring blood pressure regularly.
  2. Hypertensive patients, if not handled properly, will have a great risk to die from cardiovascular complications such as stroke, heart attack, heart failure, and kidney failure.
Treatment of hypertension can be done as follows:
  1. Without drug treatment, among others, with a diet low in salt, cholesterol, and saturated fat; easing emotional stress; quit smoking and alcohol as well as regular physical exercise.
  2. Treatment with antihypertensive drugs. There are many types of antihypertensive drugs currently available. For proper selection of antihypertensive drugs, you should immediately contact a doctor.
With regular treatment and control and avoid the various factors causing hypertension, rates of death from the disease can actually be suppressed.