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  • Thumbnail for Hypertension
    known as high blood pressure, is a long-term medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is persistently elevated. High blood pressure usually...
    126 KB (13,276 words) - 00:40, 25 June 2024
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    (SCD), also simply called sickle cell, is a group of hemoglobin-related blood disorders typically inherited. The most common type is known as sickle cell...
    141 KB (15,198 words) - 19:26, 10 July 2024
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    Blood pressure (BP) is the pressure of circulating blood against the walls of blood vessels. Most of this pressure results from the heart pumping blood...
    85 KB (9,165 words) - 20:24, 27 May 2024
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    Sepsis (redirect from Blood poisoning)
    or blood flow. The presence of low blood pressure, high blood lactate, or low urine output may suggest poor blood flow. Septic shock is low blood pressure...
    123 KB (13,405 words) - 16:38, 22 July 2024
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    condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and hemorrhagic...
    184 KB (20,394 words) - 15:54, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Blood–brain barrier
    The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a highly selective semipermeable border of endothelial cells that regulates the transfer of solutes and chemicals between...
    33 KB (3,721 words) - 15:09, 4 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Myocardial infarction
    myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops in one of the coronary arteries of the heart, causing...
    130 KB (13,860 words) - 03:40, 21 July 2024
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    Culicidae)". Journal of Medical Entomology. 37 (5): 726–731. doi:10.1603/0022-2585-37.5.726. PMID 11004785. Lehane, M. J. (9 June 2005). The Biology of Blood-Sucking...
    90 KB (9,090 words) - 11:12, 21 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Atherosclerosis
    different cell types, and driven by elevated levels of cholesterol in the blood. These lesions may lead to narrowing of the arterial walls due to buildup...
    100 KB (11,153 words) - 19:49, 23 July 2024
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    Anemia (redirect from Tired blood)
    English) is a blood disorder in which the blood has a reduced ability to carry oxygen. This can be due to a lower than normal number of red blood cells, a...
    86 KB (8,802 words) - 19:16, 16 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pulmonary embolism
    up blood. Symptoms of a blood clot in the leg may also be present, such as a red, warm, swollen, and painful leg. Signs of a PE include low blood oxygen...
    86 KB (9,696 words) - 03:38, 21 July 2024
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    Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is any disease involving the heart or blood vessels. CVDs constitute a class of diseases that includes: coronary artery diseases...
    136 KB (14,462 words) - 07:44, 20 June 2024
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    reappraisal of the blood glucose homeostat which comprehensively explains the type 2 diabetes mellitus-syndrome X complex". The Journal of Physiology. 549...
    121 KB (13,799 words) - 06:42, 1 July 2024
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    K (June 2011). "The Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cell". The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology. 43 (6): 839–842. doi:10...
    245 KB (24,897 words) - 04:24, 24 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Blood type
    A blood type (also known as a blood group) is a classification of blood, based on the presence and absence of antibodies and inherited antigenic substances...
    58 KB (6,451 words) - 08:29, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Neutrophil
    type of white blood cell. More specifically, they form the most abundant type of granulocytes and make up 40% to 70% of all white blood cells in humans...
    53 KB (5,672 words) - 23:32, 14 July 2024
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    Journal (2010). "Scientific opinion on the substantiation of health claims related to plant sterols and plant stanols and maintenance of normal blood...
    80 KB (8,530 words) - 14:24, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dengue fever
    shock syndrome) with bleeding, low levels of blood platelets, blood plasma leakage, and dangerously low blood pressure. Dengue virus has four confirmed serotypes;...
    69 KB (6,298 words) - 10:47, 19 July 2024
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    Platelet (redirect from Blood platelet)
    κύτος (kútos) 'cell') are a blood component whose function (along with the coagulation factors) is to react to bleeding from blood vessel injury by clumping...
    70 KB (8,414 words) - 23:19, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coronary artery disease
    myocardial ischemia, or simply heart disease, involves the reduction of blood flow to the cardiac muscle due to build-up of atherosclerotic plaque in...
    105 KB (10,679 words) - 11:24, 14 July 2024
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