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Naturally Detect and Prevent Heart Disease

How your gums affect your Heart

Dental screening – 5 Journals 2010 Oral health is a window to your cardiovascular health. Baseline Medical partners with dentists to bring stroke and heart disease screenings to their patients. They love the immediate access to this diagnostic medical information.

Grammy Awards Reporter Slurred Speech on Live TV

When help arrives they should take you to the hospital – NOT HOME ! Her mother witnessed her daughter’s episode live on TV and it was Mom who directed her to seek diagnosis and treatment. Way to go Mom!

carotid artery color flow image

Baseline Medical uses Zonare Medical Systems during screenings. High quality resolution and Doppler color flow enhance vascular structures and detail as seen in this typical image. This is flow going through the carotid artery in the neck on its way to the ipsilateral (same) side of face and brain.

Sen. Mark Kirk – R Illinois age 52 has Stroke.

Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk has left the Chicago hospital where he was treated after his stroke last month and has been transferred to a rehabilitation center. Dr. Richard Harvey of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago says a team of experts will spend the next few days assessing the 52-year-old Republican’s condition. They will also design…

Areas of the Brain Deprived of Blood

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Are You At Risk?

There are many positive steps that you can take now to reduce your risk of stroke. The first step is being screened by Baseline Medical. Most of the controllable risk factors for stroke relate to cardiovascular fitness. Because stroke is a form of cardiovascular disease, it makes sense that keeping your heart and blood vessels as healthy as possible will reduce your risk of stroke.

Stroke is a cardiovascular disease. It affects the blood vessels that supply blood to the brain. A stroke occurs when a blood vessel that brings oxygen and nutrients to the brain bursts or is clogged by a blood clot or some other particle. Because of this rupture or blockage, part of the brain doesn’t get the blood and oxygen it needs.