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Exercise's Effects on the Heart

Inactivity is one of the four major risk factors for coronary artery disease. However, exercise helps improve heart health in people with many forms of heart disease and can even reverse some risk factors, such as some of the effects of smoking.

Like all muscles, the heart becomes stronger and larger as a result of exercise so it can pump more blood through the body with every beat and sustain its maximum level with less strain. The resting heart rate of those who e...

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Take Me Out of the Steroid Game: Implications for MS and Healthcare

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...care problem. It involves baseball players using anabolic steroids in the name of their... Read more »

Steroids and BG

By Dr. Bill Quick , Health Expert

...glucose (BG) levels. We're not talking about use of anabolic steroids by athletes trying to bulk... Read more »

Can Asthma Medicines Be Used as "Performance Enchancers?"

By Fred Little , Health Expert

...athletes. While most attention is given to the use of anabolic steroids to build strength, there... Read more »

New Asthma Guidelines Finalized

By Kathi MacNaughton , Health Expert

...to note that inhaled steroids are nothing like the anabolic steroids used by some athletes to... Read more »

Hereditary Angioedema

By Dr. Paula J. Busse , Health Expert

...protein or the presence of the protein, which does not work, called C1 esterase inhibitor... Read more »

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Eating Disorders: Risk Factors

...Such individuals are prone to eating disorders and other unhealthy behaviors, including the use of anabolic steroids.Excessive Physical ActivityHighly competitive athletes are often... Read more »

Infertility in Men: Causes

...studied, and many medicines are commonly prescribed without knowing whether they impair fertility. Anabolic steroids (which are often abused by weight lifters and other athletes) deserve special... Read more »

Stroke Risk Factors: Heart Disease and Stroke

...higher risk for stroke from injury to the carotid artery after neck manipulation by a chiropractor.Anabolic Steroids. Steroids used for body-building increase the risk. Read more »

Congestive Heart Failure Risk Factors

...Heart FailureThiamin (a vitamin B) deficiency can lead to reversible cardiomyopathy. Long-term use of anabolic steroids (male hormones used to build muscle mass) increases the risk for heart... Read more »

Osteoarthritis: Diagnosis

...significant regardless of age, educational level, or gender. Only heart disease has a greater impact on work. Five percent of those who leave the work force do so because of osteoarthritis. Unless... Read more »

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