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The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Treatments Of Heart Disease.
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The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Treatments Of Heart Disease. Every year in the United Kingdom 270,000 people suffer heart attacks; along with this 2.1 million people suffer angina and other classic symptoms of heart disease (source 6). In this piece I am going to discus and in some cases challenge the modern technological, pharmaceutical and ethical issues related to heart disease. The overwhelming cause of heart disease is atherosclerosis: the build up of lipid plaques (atheromas) in the coronary arteries; this in turn causes arteriosclerosis which is a thickening and hardening of the arteries and a decrease in elasticity (saurce1). Plaques have a protruding rough surface and so platelets stick to them and rupture. They then release growth hormones that cause the plaque to increase in size or release clotting factors that also cause the blockage to increase in size. Once this reaches a limit ischaemia sets in. This condition, in this...
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