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07-02-2011, 10:56 PM | #1 | |||
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i am having problems with my heart, been in the ER, but the doctors here
do not know much, as they think PD is all in our minds? i will hopefully not drop dead before i can get to KC, doctors, sometimes my heart will speed up to 170 beats per minute, and stay that way for several minutes, then i take a sinemet and it slows down... but it must be looked at soon, both my brother and my late father had pace makers... my grandpa and uncles and grandma on fathers sde drop dead from heart attacks.... parkinsons disease and heart problems - i was told go hand in glove? is pd a heart prob or what? anyone? http://pdcaregiver.org/PD_Affects_Heart.html http://www.ninds.nih.gov/news_and_ev...son_090400.htm Loss of norepinephrine-producing nerves throughout the heart was found in the nine Parkinson's patients who also had orthostatic hypotension. However, most of the Parkinson's disease patients without orthostatic hypotension also had evidence of decreased sympathetic nerve terminals in the heart. The sympathetic nervous system controls blood pressure, pulse rate, perspiration, and many other automatic responses to stress. Since norepinephrine and dopamine are part of the same family of chemicals, called catecholamines, the new finding suggests that whatever causes the loss of dopamine-producing nerve terminals in the brain also causes the loss of sympathetic nerve terminals in the heart. The number of sympathetic nerve terminals was normal in patients with multiple system atrophy (MSA), a disorder which often resembles Parkinson's disease and is characterized by severe orthostatic hypotension. Checking for loss of sympathetic nerve terminals in the heart might therefore help physicians distinguish between Parkinson's disease and multiple system atrophy.
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with much love, lou_lou . . by . , on Flickr pd documentary - part 2 and 3 . . Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these. |
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07-02-2011, 11:08 PM | #2 | |||
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Parkinson's Drug Linked To Heart Disease Risk Factor
ScienceDaily (Feb. 21, 2003) — DALLAS - Feb. 19, 2003 – A drug used for the last 40 years to treat Parkinson's disease increases blood levels of an amino acid that could put patients at increased risk for heart disease, according to researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. The conclusions should not prevent people from using levodopa, he said. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0220081521.htm we need B`12 shots and folic acid - sounds lkemy PD started with hypoglycemia
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with much love, lou_lou . . by . , on Flickr pd documentary - part 2 and 3 . . Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these. |
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