Health & Fitness > Respiratory Diseases How tuberculosis is spread

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Tuberculosis is more a disease of the third world.It is more common in the areas where there is poverty , overcrowding , and bad hygiene.Actually it is caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis which is a bacterium.It usually affects the lungs and the most common route of spread is dropplet infection i.e when the person who's sput... More..

Health & Fitness > Heart Disease & Heart Attack Causes of heart failure

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Heart failure is the inability of the heart to maintain oxygenation of the body tissues due to pump failure.It means that the heart can not effectively pump all the blood returning to it so that the blood is either pooled in lungs (in case of left sided heart failure) or in the peripheries (in case of right sided heart failur... More..

Health & Fitness > Digestive Diseases Gallstones

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Gall stones are of 3 types1.Pure cholestrol stones-forming 10% of gall stones.2.Mixed stones- composed of cholestrol , bile pigments and calcium accounting for 90% of gall stones.3.Pigment stones.Risk factors for cholestrol stones include:1.female gender2.obesity3.exogenous estrogens4.increasing age(mostly above 40)5.diabetes... More..

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