Monthly Archive: June 2020
The symptoms ofarterial blockagediffers depending onwhere the blockage is. Any– like, forexample, if thereis a blockage in theblood supply to the heart,and then people tend to havechest pain, very intense chestpains. Or sometimes it...
Hi, I’m Dr. Scholz. The subject of vitamin D comes up frequentlywhen talking about prostate cancer. Why isthat? Well, probably because men with prostatecancer are often treated with hormonal therapywhich causes accelerated calcium loss...
Hi, I’m Dr. Scholz, let’s talk about prostatecancer. In today’s video we are going to cover theAzure stage of prostate cancer. We always talk about stages of prostate cancerbecause the whole topic of prostate...
Heart disease is a very broad term. I think most people who think of heart diseasethink ofheart attacks or coronary artery disease,and that certainly is the most common formof heart disease. But it’s certainly...
>> BPH is an acronym forBenign Prostatic Hyperplasiaand it’s a very common conditionthat affects virtuallyall men as they get older. It’s an enlargementof the prostate glandthat is not associatedwith cancer, but associatedwith significanturinary symptomsand...
I think most of us know what the heart does in our body. It pumps the blood and in particular it takes in the blood from the rest of the body. That is blue...
What is Blood Pressure?As blood circulatesthrough your body,it exerts pressure againstthe walls of your arteries. That pressure is whatis measured with ablood pressure device. Blood Pressure ismeasured by two numbers. The top number is...
– So we know that coronary artery diseaseis when you get thisbuild up of fatty plaquesin different places inyour coronary circulation,so, for example, I’m drawingin bits of this plaque, right?So bits of this atherosclerotic...
Prostate cancer, usually refers to prostateadenocarcinoma, where adeno- means gland and carcinoma refers to uncontrolled growth ofcells – so prostate cancer is a tumor or growth that originates in the prostate gland. Only males...
We know now the people who have regularsleep are less likely to have coronarydisease and we recommend that peoplesleep at least seven hours ideally eightto nine hours a day. Snoring can be asign that...