1. Body mass index : Information
A good way to determine if your weight is healthy for your height is to calculate your body mass index (BMI). Being overweight puts strain on your heart and can lead to serious health problems. These problems include:
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Scenario : Ellen is a 48 year old professional woman who lives and works in Hartford, Connecticut. She has four adult children and two grandchildren. She also has two aging parents who live nearby and who, though they have been active all their li...
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3. Anatomy of the aorta
The aorta stems from the heart, arches upward, and then extends down behind the heart and through the chest (thorax) and the abdomen areas. The aorta then branches out and becomes the iliac arteries, which provide blood to the pelvis and legs.
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4. Aneurysms of the Descending Thoracic and Thoracoabdominal Aorta
Aneurysms of the Descending Thoracic and Thoracoabdominal Aorta Publication Date: 3-Sep-2003 Last Modified: 18-Jul-2008
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5. Podcast Transcription - Aneurysms: Descending Thoracic Aorta
Dr. Morris: Welcome to an MUSC Health Podcast. Hi, I'm Dr. Pam Morris, and I'm here today with Dr. John Ikonomidis, and we're talking today about aneurysm of the ascending aorta. How common is this problem, Dr. Ikonomidis?
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The Zebrafish Gene Collection (ZGC) is an NIH initiative that supports the production of cDNA libraries, clones and sequences to provide a complete set of full-length (open reading frame) sequences and cDNA clones of expressed genes for zebrafish....
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The Xenopus Gene Collection (XGC) is an NIH initiative that supports the production of cDNA libraries, clones and 5'/3' sequences to provide a set of full-length (open reading frame) sequences and cDNA clones of expressed genes for Xenopus laevis ...
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9. The Descending Aorta - Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body - Yahoo! Education
The descending aorta is divided into two portions, the thoracic and abdominal, in correspondence with the two great cavities of the trunk in which it is situated
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10. Rheumatology Image Bank : Takayasu's Arteritis: Aneurysmal Dilatation, Ascending and Descending Aorta
In an 18-year-old Caucasian woman with chest and back pain, a plain radiograph showed a tortuous aorta. This sagittal view of a gadolinium enhanced magnetic resonance arteriogram of the aorta demonstrates a fusiform aneurysmal dilatation of the as...
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