Silent killer

It is well accepted that hypertension is a multifactorial disease. Only about 10% of the hypertensive patients have secondary hypertension for which causes, ie, partial coarctation of the renal artery, pheochromacytoma, aldosteronism, hormonal imbalances, etc, are known. The hallmark of hypertension is an abnormally elevated total peripheral resistance. In most patients hypertension produces no serious symptoms particularly in the early phase of the disease. This is why hypertension is called a silent killer. However, prolonged suffering of high arterial blood pressure leads to end organ damage, causing stroke, myocardial infarction, and heart failure, etc. Adequate treatment of hypertension has been proven to decrease the incidence of cardiovascular morbidity and mortaUty and therefore prolong life (176—183). 

Ovarian cancer is denoted the silent killer because of the non-specific signs and symptoms. 

Ovarian cancer often has been denoted as the "silent killer" because of the non-specific signs and symptoms. By the time symptoms become unrelenting and bothersome, patients have advanced stage disease. 

Systemic arterial hypertension ( high blood pressure ) does not typically make the afflicted individual feel unwell however, after many years, it leads to vascular damage and to the secondary complications thereof hence, the designation of hypertension as the silent killer. The ultimate aim of the pharmacological management of hypertension is to prevent these complications and thus to prolong not only life expectancy but also quality of life. 

I must admit that I was intrigued as I flipped through the journal and encountered repeated references to pH — here was something a chemist could really sink his teeth into. Scientists routinely use the pH scale to measure the acidity of a solution, be it blood, wine, or tap water but I never realized that the wrong pH could be killing us. Yet that is exactly what the Vaxa Journal contends. The pH Factor The Real Silent Killer, reads the headline. The solution to longevity is simple pop a Buffer-pH capsule daily and lower your risk of heart disease, stroke, cancer, obesity, multiple sclerosis, and Alzheimer s disease. 

According to the latest report of the American Diabetes Association in 2006, there are at least 20.8 million children and adults in the United States, or 7% of the population, who have diabetes. While an estimated 14.6 million have been diagnosed with diabetes, unfortunately, 6.2 million people (or nearly one-third) are unaware that they have the disease. That is why diabetes is also known as the silent killer. The rapid increase in the number of silent killers has caught the attention of the research world and recently almost double the number of scientists are working in this area compared to the last decade. 

Hypertension is often described as a silent killer because of the lack of symptoms throughout most of the disease course. Patients may feel fine into the advanced stages of hypertension. Rehabilitation spe-... 

Hoel, Donna, and Robert Howard. Hypertension Stalking the Silent Killer. Postgraduate Medicine 101, no. 2 (February 1997). Available at . Accessed April 1, 2002. 

Lead is not the only silent killer among the BCNO elements. Arsenic, antimony, and thallium compounds have all been used as weed and insect killers and rat poisons. These elements can also poison the soil and water, so they are used more carefully and in smaller amounts than they were in the past century. All of these elements have also been used as slow murder weapons. They cause such ordinary problems—such as an upset stomach—that it can be... 

Carbon monoxide is a very dangerous chemical. It is gaseous at room conditions, and it is colorless, odorless, and highly toxic. It is often referred to as the "silent killer."... 

CO has always been a part of the imiverse. However, atmospheric CO has increased over time. When volcanoes erupted, continents collided, and winds embraced the trees sparking fires millions of years ago, all this contributed to the stock of CO. However, when CO first made a significant presence in the air we breathe, humans lived in the open. A very long time must have passed by before humans inhabited caves or built enclosures for protection from the effects of the weather or the tyranny of predators. In the process, however, humankind invited the unwanted guest -carbon monoxide, the silent killer. So where there is smoke, there is not only fire but also CO in terms of human cost, the latter is more dangerous than the former. Yet it must have taken several thousands of years to tame the fire, and over those years CO has claimed many innocent victims who went to sleep after a hearty meal never to wake up. The knowledge of these mysterious events has been unraveled over time. 

Shephard, R.J. (1983). Carbon Monoxide The Silent Killer, pp. 1-200. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield. 

Blood pressure is sort of like the weather. Everyone talks about it, but not enough people do anything about it. It s often called the silent killer because, for the most part, it has no symptoms. Headaches associated with blood pressure are relatively rare. We see hypertension mentioned over and over again as one of the main risk factors for heart attack and stroke. Every time we visit a doctor s office, we get our blood pressure tested. But the sad fact is that while literally millions of men and women have blood pressure levels that put them at risk, most of them don t get their numbers under control. 

For the most part, hypertension is indeed a silent killer with no symptoms to tip you off that something might be wrong. An exception would be someone who experiences a dull headache, typically in the back of the head and usually in the morning. Bear in mind that such headaches are the rare exception rather than the rule. 

Hypertension is termed the silent killer because patients with... 

Weiner ID, Wingo CS. Hyperkalemia A potential silent killer. J Am Soc Nephrol 1998 9 1535-1543. 

Hypertension is termed the silent killer since it is asymptomatic (i.e., without direct characteristic symptoms). Hypertension is a leading cause of death. It is estimated that 20% of... 

In summary, carbon monoxide is a silent killer that occurs in domestic circumstances and is difficult to detect. As weU as causing death, it can have severe long-term side-effects and is particularly damaging to the elderly and to the unborn child. 

The nurse should teach the client about possible signs or symptoms of hypertension, but remember, clients with hypertension are often asymptomatic. Hypertension is the silent killer. ... 

El-Zayadi AR. Hepatic steatosis a benign disease or a silent killer. World J Gastroenterol. 

The deterioration of polymer properties by ESC has been studied for several decades. But the actual mechanism is not certainly established (Hansen 2002). It is believed that in the presence of the stress, the active fluid causes local plasticization that generates crazes and eventually catastrophic cracks. The ultimate result in many cases is brittle fracture, even in normal ductile polymers like polyethylene, ABS, and polycarbonate. Since failure by ESC can be induced by environmental fluids like cleaning agents and lubricants and the mechanical stress can be the residual (molded-in) stresses, it was considered to be a silent killer (Sepe 1999). 

M. Sepe, Stress cracking how to avoid this silent killer (part 1). IMM Magazine, (1999)... 

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