He diagnosed an enlarged prostate, which he said happens to many men as they age. He explained the prostate is wrapped around the urethra, the tube that carries urine from the body, and when the prostate grows
High blood pressure is more common in older people. At age 45, more men have hypertension than women. By age 65, this is reversed and more women are affected. People with diabetes have a greater risk of hypertension than those without diabetes. Having a close family member with high blood ...
In (Lindow et al., 2022), the heart age was calculated separately for men and women, and it was shown that the sets of important features in the two sexes are very similar and include, in particular, length of P wave, QT interval, and heart rate. More modern and advanced methods ...
For the research, scientists in China investigated whether frequent naps could be a potential causal risk factor for high blood pressure and/or stroke. It is the first study to investigate whether frequent napping was associated with high blood pressure and ischemic stroke using both obs...
blood in the urine How to Control High Blood Pressure? Hypertension is often called ‘a silent killer’ because it does not show any symptoms unless the heart or other vital organs see some significant damage. Most people are not aware of this medical condition since they do not observe the...
Anti-Xga, the sex-linked blood antigen, is an antibody more common in women than in men. It is specific for the Xga antigen, in recognition of its X-linked pattern of inheritance. Table 15.9 gives phenotype frequencies in Caucasian males and females. The antibody is relatively uncommon and ...
Chronic diarrhea can lead to dehydration, particularly if individuals feel ill and are not eating or drinking enough fluids. It is important to maintain an adequate fluid intake. The simplest way to judge whether intake is adequate is to look at the volume and color of urine each the day. ...
Hypertension is diagnosed when consistent readings are over 140/90. Pre-hypertension might be diagnosed when the top readings are between 120/80 and 139/89. Early symptoms of hypertension are: fatigue, confusion, shortness of breath, blood in the urine, blood spots in the eyes, facial flushing...
Remarkably, male rats were more susceptible to mtDNA damage induced by ROS60. In contrast to our higher mtDNA content in boys, population based studies in adults reported lower peripheral blood mtDNA content in men compared with women61,62. Baseline sex-related differences in mtDNA content might ...
Overnight plasma profiles of melatonin and certain adenohypophyseal hormones in men. J Clin Endo-crinol Metab 1978;47:566–571. Article CAS Google Scholar Weinberg U, D’Eletto RD, Weitzman ED, Erlich S, Hollander CS. Circulating melatonin in man: episodic secretion throughout the light-dark...