Readings of the number of milligrams of cholesterol in the blood, which seem to have value in predicting heart attacks, are becoming as routine as the electrocardiogram, which can show that the heart has suffered a symptomatic attack.

They often develop diabetes, high blood pressure, and are prone to heart attacks.

This is in addition to increases in blood pressure, heart rate and peripheral vascular resistance associated with nicotine which may lead to recurrent angina attacks.

Chronic hyperglycemia ( high blood sugar ) injures the heart, in patients without a history of heart disease or diabetes and is strongly associated with heart attacks and death in subjects with no coronary heart disease or history of heart failure.

In AIHA, the dog's immune system attacks its own red blood cells, leading to severe, life-threatening anemia.

A safer and more permanent and successful way to prevent heart attacks in patients at high risk is to exercise, give up smoking, take " drugs to get blood pressure under control and drive cholesterol levels down to prevent blood clotting ".

depression, anxiety and / or panic attacks, sleeplessness and / or nightmares, shame and guilt, difficulty concentrating, headaches, fatigue or loss of motivation, stomach problems, eating disorders ( weight loss or gain ), alcoholism, feeling betrayed and / or violated, feeling angry or violent towards the perpetrator, feeling powerless or out of control, increased blood pressure, loss of confidence and self esteem, withdrawal and isolation, overall loss of trust in people, traumatic stress, post-traumatic stress disorder ( PTSD ), complex post-traumatic stress disorder, suicidal thoughts or attempts, suicide.

The sight of the Japanese legend covered in his own blood gave several viewers heart attacks, and some reportedly even died.

Benson suffered poor health in the last years of his life from the effects of blood clots in the brain, dementia, strokes, and heart attacks, and was rarely seen publicly in his final years.

Haemoglobin-based blood substitutes may increase the odds of deaths and heart attacks.

During the last years of Kahn's life he became increasingly frail and suffered from arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure and attacks of angina pectoria.

Professional athletes ' hematocrit levels are measured as part of tests for blood doping or erythropoietin ( EPO ) use ; the level of hematocrit in a blood sample is compared with the long-term level for that athlete ( to allow for individual variations in hematocrit level ), and against an absolute permitted maximum ( which is based on maximum expected levels within the population, and the hematocrit level that causes increased risk of blood clots resulting in strokes or heart attacks ).

In a short confrontation, Richie is stabbed in his already wounded hand, and seeing his blood, Santánico attacks him, undergoing a transformation into a horrific vampire.

The blob attacks him and begins sucking his blood.

Vampires are immune to most attacks other than their known weakness and even then are apparently able to heal quickly, especially if they feed or are covered in vampire blood.

Incomplete attacks, with local tenderness and normal blood tests, have been reported.

An acute phase response is present during attacks, with high C-reactive protein levels, an elevated white blood cell count and other markers of inflammation.

High blood pressure, panic attacks, tachycardia ( rapid heart rate ), tremor, sweating and vomiting may occur.

Any man who is half a man would be ready to blow up half the world with dynamite to prevent or avenge attacks upon the honor of his mother in the legitimacy or purity of the blood of his father.

Thrombosis, or thrombotic disease, is the formation of a clot within a blood vessel which interferes with the blood supply to tissues and causes problems such as deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism when it is located in the veins, or heart attacks and strokes when located in the arteries.

The people began a series of attacks on the owners of sugar and coffee plantations.

Windschuttle challenges the idea that mass killings were commonplace, arguing that the colonial settlers of Australia did not commit widespread massacres against Indigenous Australians ; he drastically reduces the figures for the Tasmanian Aboriginal death toll, and writes that Aborigines referred to by both Reynolds and Ryan as resistance figures, included ‘ black bushrangers ’ and others engaged in acts normally regarded as ' criminality '; arguing that the evidence clearly shows that attacks by Aborigines on settlers were almost invariably directed at acquiring goods, such as flour, sugar, tea and tobacco, and that claims by orthodox historians that this was a form of guerrilla warfare against British settlement aren't supported by credible evidence.

In some patients sugar and even melon consumption have also been known to provoke attacks.

In the Atlantic, the West India Company concentrated on wresting from Portugal its grip on the sugar and slave trade, and on opportunistic attacks on the Spanish treasure fleets on their homeward bound voyage.

At this time the CIA received authorization for 13 major operations in Cuba, including attacks on an electric power plant, an oil refinery, and a sugar mill.

Other causes are low blood sugar, hyperventilation, panic attacks, and anaemia.

The infantile form involves multiple organ systems and is primarily characterized by hypoketotic hypoglycemia ( recurring attacks of abnormally low levels of fat breakdown products and blood sugar ) that often results in loss of consciousness and seizure activity.

After the Normandy landing, resistance operations reached their peak, with numerous attacks considerably hampering the activity of German troops.

Panic attacks usually begin abruptly, may reach a peak within 10 minutes, but may continue for much longer if the sufferer had the attack triggered by a situation from which they are not able to escape.

Republican attacks against Allied and alleged pro-Dutch civilians reached a peak in November and December, with 1, 200 killed in Bandung as the pemuda returned to the offensive.

The attacks resulted in a decline in the number of garment factories, which at its peak employed 30, 000 workers.

During 2009 and January 2010, the NATO fleet in the Gulf of Aden was commanded by the Portuguese Navy, who received the award of " exceptional bravery at sea " from the International Maritime Organization for its successful attacks on pirate activity, conducted by the Corte Real frigate during the peak of pirate activity.

The violence reached its peak in 1976 when the EPRP began to launch attacks on public buildings and assassinate high-ranking Derg officials.

Using the Apache's maneuverability near a mountainous peak, Preston manages to trick Stoller into flying past him ; then attacks and destroys his helicopter.

These works are from the period of peak achievement of Insular art, which lasted from the 7th to the 9th centuries, before the Viking attacks sharply set back cultural life.

Personnel of the 664th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron manned the site during the 1950s and 60s, during the peak of the Cold War, watching for attacks coming over the pole from Russia.

He claimed in his attacks that Woodruff, with scurrilous underhandedness, had deliberately written an ambiguous bid that had so confused the honest members of the legislature that they had awarded him the contract without knowing what they were doing.

Preoccupied with his own defense and his attempts to get Robinson to fight, Pike lessened his attacks on Woodruff, and finally stopped them altogether.

The effect of Chou En-lai's clash with Khrushchev, together with the everlasting attacks on Molotov & Co., has shifted the whole attention of the world, including that of the Soviet people, from the `` epoch-making '' twenty-year program to the present Soviet-Chinese conflict.

By the time the child first attacks the actual problem of reading, he is completely familiar and at ease with all of the elements of words.

During the first taping of the Late Show with David Letterman following the attacks, CBS newsman Dan Rather cried briefly as he quoted the fourth verse.

Between panic attacks, people with panic disorder tend to suffer from anticipated anxiety-a fear of having a panic attack may lead to the development of phobias.

To avoid attacks based on simple algebraic properties, the S-box is constructed by combining the inverse function with an invertible affine transformation.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: the U. S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.

* 1984 – The PKK in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in Şemdinli and Eruh

In contrast, the Danes preferred to choose easy targets, mapping cautious forays designed to avoid risking all their accumulated plunder with high-stake attacks for more.

And although the landowners were obliged to the king to supply these men when called, during the attacks in 878, many of them opportunistically abandoned their king and collaborated with Guthrum.

Nor did his piety prevent him from expropriating strategically sited church lands, especially estates along the border with the Danelaw, and transferring them to royal thegns and officials who could better defend them against Viking attacks.

They may have dealt with the security of his kingdom from the ongoing attacks of the Ibn Mugait brothers.

Over the past 25 years there have been 24 crocodile attacks with 4 fatalities, including the death of American tourist Lauren Failla.

Because the technique has allegedly been used to improve breathing and stamina in general, advocates also claim that athletes, people with asthma, tuberculosis, and panic attacks have also found improvements.

By improving stress-management, the technique can be an adjunct to psychotherapy for people with disabilities, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, panic attacks, stuttering, and chronic pain.

The September 11 attacks presented an unprecedented threat because it involved suicide hijackers who could fly an aircraft and use it to delibrately crash the airplane into buildings for the sole purpose to cause massive casualties with no warning, no demands or negotiations, and no regard for human life.

He was assassinated, probably at the instigation of al-Qaeda, in a suicide bombing on September 9, 2001, just two days before the September 11 attacks that finally caused the US and NATO to intervene in Afghanistan, allying themselves with Massoud's forces.

* portal. telegraph. co. uk ( Article which reports that the Saudi Arabian Airlines pilot named Omari was not involved with the terrorist attacks )

This property can be useful, for instance to test for the presence of humans as with CAPTCHAs, and for computer security to circumvent brute-force attacks.

The limitations of beam-riding guidance ( which was slaved to an optical sight on single seater fighters and a radar with night fighters ) restricted the missile to attacks against targets flying a straight course and made it essentially useless against a maneuvering target.

He attacks the dragon with the help of his thegns or servants, but they do not succeed.

Although the poem begins with Beowulf's arrival, Grendel's attacks have been an ongoing event.

" Bardot's book was also against miscegenation ; made attacks on modern art, which Bardot equated with " shit "; drew similarities between French politicians and weather vanes ; and compared her own beliefs with previous generations who had " given their lives to push out invaders ".