Showing posts with label Diseases associated with blood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diseases associated with blood. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

All about leukimia

Leukimia or blood cancer is a diverse group of neoplastic diseases, are not characterized by normal or malignant transformation of blood-forming cells in bone marrow and lymphoid tissues.Normal cells in the bone marrow was replaced by normal or abnormal cells. These abnormal cells out of the marrow and can be found in the peripheral blood or peripheral blood. Hematopoiesis or leukemia cells affect the formation of normal blood cells and immune patients.

The word leukemia means white blood, because the people found a lot of white blood cells before therapy was given. White blood cells are cells that look much younger, for example promielosit. This raised the amount that can disrupt the normal function of other cells.

Leukemia can be classified on the basis of:
Natural history of disease: acute and chronic
Acute leukemia is characterized by a very rapid course of the disease, lethal, and worse. If not treated promptly, the patient may die in a matter of weeks to days. While the course of the disease have chronic leukemia is not so fast that it has a longer life expectancy, up to more than 1 year even reached 5 years.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Danger of Sitting Too Long


Diabetes was not just stalking them with unhealthy lifestyles. The study, written in Dailymail, revealed that women who sit seven hoursor more a day are at higher risk for developing type 2 diabetes

The study involved 505 female office workers who spent timeworking in a sitting position. Each volunteer was asked to undergotests to measure levels of certain chemicals in their blood.

From the results of the large number of studies found that insulinlevels is a blood sugar-regulating hormone in the body. However,insulin levels are raised so as to make the body becomes resistantto the hormone, and that's the beginning of the development of diabetes.

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Getting more about hepatitis

Hepatitis means inflammation of the liver and can be caused by many things. One cause of hepatitis is the most common chronic viral infection. Hepatitis B and hepatitis C is a liver disease caused by hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus
The two viruses together have been reported killed about 1 million people a year worldwide, nearly 500 million people are currently infected with chronic hepatitis B or C, and 1 in 3 people have been exposed to one or both viruses. Unlike hepatitis C, hepatitis B can be prevented by effective vaccination.
Hepatitis B is a liver infection that could potentially life-threatening and is caused by hepatitis B virus (HBV).
This disease is a major health problem worldwide and the most serious type of viral hepatitis, which is about two times more than hepatitis C. Patients who become chronically infected with HBV are at higher risk to experience liver cirrhosis and liver cancer.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

uric acid

The definition of uric acid is a purine metabolic waste substances from the food we eat. It is also a byproduct of the breakdown of cells in the blood.

Purine itself is a substance contained in any food that comes from living bodies. In other words, in the living body of the presence of these purines, and because we eat living things, then move to the purine substances in our body. A variety of vegetables and fruits are also purines. Purine also resulted from the destruction of body cells that occurs normally or because of certain diseases.


Normally, uric acid will be released in the body through the stool (feces) and urine, but because the kidneys are unable to remove uric acid levels have led to increases in the body. Another thing that can increase levels of uric acid is that we consume too many foods high in purines. Further excess uric acid will accumulate in the joints, causing pain or swelling.