Heart disease, arteriosclerotic

AD Alzheimer s disease right ear (auris dextra) ASHD Arteriosclerotic heart disease... 

Occupational exposure of New York City tunnel officers to excess levels of CO was associated with a 35% excess risk of arteriosclerotic heart disease mortality. The excess risk was thought to be due to repeated, short-term peak exposures on the order of 400 ppm and appeared to be reversible on cessation of exposure. 

Case 2. On July 14, 1995, an 82-year-old woman was found dead in her two-story home. A neighbor reported that the decedent had had no health complaints the previous evening. Family members reported that the decedent had used a fan but kept all doors and windows closed because of safety concerns the wall thermostat registered greater than 90 °F (32.2 °C) on the day before death. The immediate cause of death was listed by MCMEO as arteriosclerotic heart disease, with elevated environmental temperature as an important contributing factor. 

Indications Liver/kidney yin deficiency, liver yang ascendancy, qi and blood counterflow and chaos. Wind stroke, convulsions, epilepsy, cerebrovascular accident, aphasia, apraxia, renal hypertension, essential hypertension, hypertensive encephalopathy, cerebral arteriosclerosis, arteriosclerotic heart disease, hyperthyroidism, premenstrual tension, postpartum fever with spasms and convulsions, and glaucoma... 

For arteriosclerotic heart disease, add Radix Rubrus Paeoniae Lactiflorae (Chi Shao) and Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae (Dan Shen). 

Atenolol is indicated in arteriosclerotic heart disease with angina pectoris, hypertension, cardiac arrhythmias and myocardial infarction in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, dissecting aneurysm of the aorta, pheochro-mocytoma, and in prevention of migraine headaches. 

Farquhar, JW, Smith, RE and Dempsey, ME (1956) The effect of beta-sitosterol on the serum lipids of young men with arteriosclerotic heart disease. Circulation, 14, 77-82. 

Liebow, I. M., Hellerstein, H. K., and Miller, M. Arteriosclerotic heart disease in diabetes mellitus. 

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