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Chest pain is one of the symptoms of heart disease. The pain usually occurs on the left chest. It spreads to shoulders and neck. However, chest pain does not always mark the indication of heart disease. Chest pain can also be caused by pain due to lung or pleural abnormalities, pain and skeletal muscle tissue, pain upper gastrointestinal or psychogenic pain.

Chest pain in general is the feeling of pain or discomfort that interferes in the chest area. Often the pain is originating from organs within the chest cavity which is distributed through the nerves to the chest wall.

Chest pain in heart disease can be a pain coronary and non-coronary pain. Coronary pain caused by a lack of blood supply to the heart muscle, while non-coronary pain due to inflammation of the outer layer of the heart, aortic abnormalities, valve abnormalities, and others. For more convincing if chest pain is heart disease or other necessary checks electrocardiography (ECG), exercise treadmill test with the tool, and others.

Stroke disease is a disorder of brain function due to blood flow to the brain susceptible to interference (reduced). As a result, nutrients and oxygen the brain needs are not met properly. Based on causes there are 2 kinds of stroke, the existence of blockages in blood vessels (thrombus), and the existence of broken blood vessels.

Generally stroke suffered by the parents, because the aging process causes the blood vessels to harden and narrow (arteriosclerosis) and the fat that clog arteries (atherosclerosis). But past cases show an increase of stroke cases that occurred in adolescence and childbearing age (15 – 40 years). In this group, the main cause of stroke is a stress, drug abuse, alcohol, heredity, and unhealthy lifestyle.

In the case of teenage stroke, genetic factors (offspring) are a major cause of stroke. Frequently encountered cases of stroke caused by blood vessels are fragile and easily broken, or the blood system disorders such as hemophilia and thalassemia disease is inherited by the parents of the patient. Whereas if a family member with diabetes (diabetes), hypertension (high blood pressure) or in English is called pulmonary hypertension, and heart disease, stroke may be greater in other family members.

Other causes of stroke are foods with bad cholesterol (Low Density Lipoprotein) are very high. This evil Cholesterol found on junk food or fast food. In addition, the cause of the other stroke is a lazy habit of exercising and moving, a lot of drinking, smoking, use of drugs and addictive substances, resting time is very less, and prolonged stress. Rupture of blood vessels are also often caused by disease high blood pressure (hypertension).

There are many new diseases these days. After several years ago we got swine flu, now there is mad cow disease. This mad cow disease is another incurable disease. This disease is attacking brain and previously infected cattle such as cow and goat. This disease is affecting the cow’s nervous system and causes the cow to act strangely and can make the cow lose its control over its body such as walk.

This disease is very dangerous to human and this disease is infecting human from the way people eat the beef. When people got mad cow disease, he will start to lose its awareness and act strangely. They will gradually lose control of their mental. For some worse cases, human is also able to lose their physical capabilities. Fortunately, there are only fewer people diagnosed to have this type of diseases and all of them have been treated in special way. There is no way to indicate this disease in your body unless you are doing overall body check at the hospital.

To get the information about this mad cow disease, especially if you are living near an animal farm or you often consume beef, you can directly open your internet and search for the information you need.